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Default Top 10 Home-Cooked Meals

Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> I note that these aren't the most FREQUENT things I cook, just my FAVORITES.
> And the list is only good for the way I feel right now. If you ask me again
> a week from now, at least five of them will probably be different. So what
> are YOUR top ten favorite meals? [snips]


I was surprised how fast this list went together. No doubt, as you
say, it would be different next week. In no particular order:
-aem

1. Beef with mushrooms, peapods, and oyster sauce. Stirfry.
2. Shrimp with chili-garlic paste. Stirfry.
3. Red-cooked chicken ("loo"), thighs or drumsticks or wings. Picnic
fare.
4. Sichuan eggplant in fish sauce (means spicy sauce for fish, not
made of fish).
5. Rabo encendido--Cuban-style braised oxtails.
6. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob. -- It's the
gravy that makes it.
7. Coq au vin, prepared as Julia taught.
8. Charcoal grilled steak. Usually New York strip. I make do with a
gas grill and wood chips. Twice-baked potato, or French fries.
Creamed spinach or spinach salad.
9. King or silver salmon, grilled, basted with mixture of maple syrup
and soy sauce. Pilaf.
10. Spaghetti with homemade "Italian gravy". Pork shoulder/butt in
long-cooked tomato sauce.

Honorable mention: pork spareribs, marinated overnight in standard
Chinese sauce--soy, rice wine, ginger, garlic, dried red chiles,
pre-cooked in oven at 225°F until near done, then finished on grill
with smoke, basted with soy sauce and melted butter.