Food fantasies and fetishes - what are you craving?

Pancakes from scratch with proper maple syrup. 

My wife learned how to make pancakes and biscuits from scratch while in the US from an Arkansas hillbilly, she orders pancake syrup, molasses and maple syrup off taobao.  Another favorite she has learned to make is sawmill gravy, cooked to perfection in an iron skillet.  The (Chinese) family and friends have tried it and all love it.

All that sounds awesome so...why not hippity-hoppity down to the Recipe Book thread and teach us how to cook these things? I have no idea what it is, but sawmill gravy sounds awesome

All that sounds awesome so...why not hippity-hoppity down to the Recipe Book thread and teach us how to cook these things? I have no idea what it is, but sawmill gravy sounds awesome

Sawmill gravy is where you take the leftover juices from your sausage (she makes her own), bacon or ground beef in your cast iron skillet, heat it up add the same amount of flour, stir it till the flour's cereal flavor is cooked out, add some milk, salt, black pepper and stir it till it's thick and bubbling.  She might add some sausage, ground beef, cut up bacon, sauteed mushrooms, onions and green peppers.

Spoon that over some toast or biscuits and you got a homemade breakfast of SOS ( On a Shingle), a thousand times better than any Uncle Sam ever served in the chow halls.

She also makes salsa with local ingredients and canned tomato sauce which I love to scoop onto tortilla chips.  Now I'm looking for a place in Suzhou that sells avacados for guacamole.

pop-tarts

strawberry

home made salsa. The stuff I can get is Metro is good, but I really need to get off my butt and make my own again.
Roast chicken, done with apples and onions and carrots and mashed potato and gravy on the side. With a decent chardonnay and a fresh salad.
lasagna, rich and meaty.
cheese fondue with good crusty bread. Chocolate fondue to follow.

Pffft, nothing I can't do if I get off my butt

home made salsa. The stuff I can get is Metro is good, but I really need to get off my butt and make my own again.
Roast chicken, done with apples and onions and carrots and mashed potato and gravy on the side. With a decent chardonnay and a fresh salad.
lasagna, rich and meaty.
cheese fondue with good crusty bread. Chocolate fondue to follow.

Pffft, nothing I can't do if I get off my butt

Keep eating that and you'll be all butt

too late, I already am

WAS craving braised lamb shanks....only because I couldn't eat anything harder than a lettuce leaf the last couple of weeks (some dental work done). Hit Guangzhou (and thus the dentist return visit) yesterday, so thoroughly enjoyed said dish at lunchtime! Nom nom!

York Peppermint Patties

too late, I already am

I know, I was just trying to be nice

PIZZA! ... I CONSTANTLY CRAVE A "DECENT" PIZZA! 

Occasionally I come across a pretty good pizza in a Pizza Hut or another restaurant, but in three years of living in China I am greatly unsatisfied and remain so ... I can count the good pizzas I've had here on one hand (and still have three fingers left over)!

I spent a year in Guangxi ... lived in Yangshuo ... HORRIBLE PIZZA!  It's like tomato sauce on a piece of cardboard! West Street is nice ... the mountains are beautiful ... a good PIZZA!? ... apparently it's not possible.

I'm not asking for Chicago style, or New York style ... let alone the "Brooklyn Fold" ... I'm just asking for a DECENT PIZZA for Christ's sake! 

--GA

Hmmm...Great Ape, look around you. Chopsticks..ok...expecting good pizza or pizza in general in a chopsticks culture is just going to lead to disappointment.

I crave Riberhus Cheese...I just do...

I had a reasonably good pizza at a German restaurant on West Street in Yangshou in November, 2011.  No clue if the place is still there or if they changed chefs in the meantime.

Happily, the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong has Papa Johns.

Happily, the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong has Papa Johns.

I guess you don't like real pizza

Quote from: Escaped Lunatic on April 03, 2013, 02:33:18 PM

Happily, the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong has Papa Johns.

I guess you don't like real pizza

It's MUCH closer to real pizza than Pizza Hut.

Of course, I'd be a thousand times happier if Hungry Howies would open branches in China.