Changes over time, I find. Favourite foods when I was ten were roast potatoes and trifle. I loved scraping the crusty, gravy drenched potato from the bottom of the roasting pot. Trifle – oh dear, what’s not to like? That hint of forbidden sherry in the sponge cake, and cream. Cream was a rarity in those pre-refrigerator days. The front door of our house had a vestibule behind it with another glass door onto a short passage. Between these two doors, the ambient temperature acted as a great larder for days when lots of food was needed and shops were shut.
Favourite food though has morphed. I’ve written before about spinach soup. Soups in general are among my favourites. Then again, I really enjoy starters. Smoked fish and seafood with a hint of tantalising sauce…
Favourite mains would again be fishy, but I like almost anything.
Cheese – yes, please.
Desserts. Well, as I said above, tastes morph. I now prefer starters to desserts when there’s a choice for two courses. If pud comes along, I enjoy old favourites like steamed pudding, anything with a hint of brown sugar or ginger is very acceptable.
Okay, you say, what is your favourite food?
It’s a smoked salmon paté copied out of the Radio Times magazine many years ago. It was created by two gentlemen whose names are lost in the mists. The secret ingredient really raises it above other smoked salmon patés. It’s staying secret.
Visitors enjoy it, too. If you’re around at one of my book launches, it looks like this
It’s Thanksgiving over in North America and lots of other writers have things to say about food in this blog hop. You might start over on Heidi Thomas’s blog, http://heidiwriter.wordpress.com/
and then you could try a few others. Maybe they’ll be more generous in sharing their secret ingredients.
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