What's your husband's Food of Love?

[*anj*]

I just mentioned this to Karen in the church potluck thread. I said that my dh's Food of Love is a big old pot of red gravy with meatballs and sausage served over fusilli (the long kind.) If it has brasciole, all the better, but he could easily eat meatballs and sauce maybe 4 nights a week. When he comes home and smells that cooking he gets all smiley and happy and feels like I love him. :p

How about your husbands?

[Mrs. H.]

Fried venison steaks with mashed potatoes and gravy, collard greens, cornbread, and a large salad. Dessert? Carrot cake.

[abbeyej]

Hm... Rack of lamb with mint sauce and fresh English peas with mint?

Or maybe vichyssoise...

Oh, and really good crab -- not something I can make at home.

And fried chicken. :)

Luckily, he doesn't expect his real favorites very often... ;)

[Mom2legomaniacs]

Cookies! And any kind of potatoes. We call him the cookie monster. He really loves cookies!

[RoughCollie]

Yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Cookies. Anything with chocolate, including boxes of candy.

[strider]

Just about anything home cooked and elegant. He is very partial to caesar salad, or just about any green salad on the side.

[Soph the vet]

Steak, so well done it is like a hockey puck.

[Virginia Dawn]

enchiladas and pecan pie

[Lisa in Jax]

If we're talking about a holiday/special occasion meal, his choice would be medium rare filet mignon, asparagus and potatoes. If we're talking an everyday dinner, it's chicken and green beans. For snacks, when I buy "Easy Cheese" and Wheat Thins for him, he beams. ;-)

Lisa

[Tracey in TX]

homemade lasagne (requires particular ingredients)
MR steak, fresh off grill
and his favorite...lemon garlic-basil roasted chicken. My family devours this. He's been out of country, and returns tonight w/ our former exchange student who also loves it...so we'll eat dinner at 10pm with the "fixin's"

give me a bloody rare steak or grilled lamb chop and I'm happy for days :)

[WTMindy]

especially Chile Rellenos, which are a pain to make! :-) He is so happy when he comes in and smells sauted onions and jalepenos.

[Mom2legomaniacs]

especially Chile Rellenos, which are a pain to make! :-) He is so happy when he comes in and smells sauted onions and jalepenos.

Ooohhh, you make those? YUM! Will you make some for me? ;)

[Kay in Cal]

Hmmm... his childhood favorites he mostly cooks for himself when he wants them (meatballs in mushroom gravy, marinated flank steak and noodles-n-eggs). The only real "food of love" that I am solely in charge of is making Cheeseball on special occasions. His mom gave me the recipe when we first got married, but now he likes mine better than hers!

[*anj*]

noodles-n-eggs

Wait.
Stop!
Yet another person???

I had never heard of that when I was growing up. I rented an apartment in college with a bunch of friends and two of them (totally unrelated, didn't grow up in the same area, etc.) had fond memories of eating that. They would cook noodles on purpose, chill them, and then make noodles and eggs. At first I thought it was gross, but I learned to like it. Especially with ketchup. Is this a popular thing, and I'm the weirdo who never heard of it?

[lvbnhome]

He likes for me to make this at home, but loves it when it's from one of his favorite restaurants, as they have a smoker!! :) mmmm:D

[Maria from IN]

Breaded pork chops. Definitely.

Also, tuna casserole...or as we like to call it, "macaroni and cheese with tuna and peas (and carrots and onions)" we kinda like to rhyme around here.

He also loves no-bake cookies--I can't believe no one has mentioned that yet, given how much we talk about them!

But the pork chops he'll do anything for--including assemble a treadmill, replace a faucet, and put new brake shoes on my car...and he's not even my husband yet!

:D

[Lorna]

Steak and kidney pudding. It is an English thing. It is a suet pudding with meat and gravy inside. :eek:

[percytruffle]

That would be me in an apron;) Hehe.

[Danestress]

With a good bottle of red wine:)

[ereks mom]

He's really a fan of just about everything I cook, and always appreciative and complimentary. But these make him feel particularly loved. ;)

[Mamagistra]

Chili sashimi tuna (basically, precious raw tuna in Sriracha and soy)...

Or a fat reuben sandwich...

And butterscotch pie. ;)

[StephanieZ]

nt

[Wendi]

He'd eat that every day if he could.

Wendi

[Kay in Cal]

I think Noodles and Eggs is weird... I didn't even know other families ate it!

I know in his case it dates back to his grandmother (of German descent, I believe). She would use leftover pasta, cook it with scrambled eggs in bacon grease. My dh makes this artery-clogging treat rarely--and garnishes it with strips of bacon. His dad would make it for family breakfast on weekends, and now it's his speciality.

Of course, he'll make a ovo-only version without the bacon, and uses vegetarian bacon in my serving. He claims it tastes OK, but not nearly as good.

[Jean in Newcastle]

chocolate peanut butter pie.

[Just a Jen in Mississippi]

Chocolate gravy and biscuits. He begs for it! I think this is a Southern thing!;) It's almost like a thin chocolate pudding on biscuits. Yum! But we rarely have it so that we can fit into our clothes!

[*anj*]

I think Noodles and Eggs is weird... I didn't even know other families ate it!

I know in his case it dates back to his grandmother (of German descent, I believe).


I don't know either. One of my roomies was Chinese and the other was Irish and English. http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Confused/sorry.gif (http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Confused/sorry.gif%5B/IMG%5D)

[cin]

Steak, so well done it is like a hockey puck.

My Uncle always says 'Burn the Bone' :ack2:

[Dana in OR]

Spetzels and pork roast. It is delicious, and we usually only make it around the holidays when we have a lot of guests.

[Jenny in Atl]

Anything spicy!

[nukeswife]

My chocolate chip cookies which he thinks are some secret recipe:w00t:, but they are really just the recipe from the butter flavor crisco can :tongue_smilie:

[Sharon in SC]

Homemade lasagne - you know, the real thing.

[Virginia Dawn]

I think Noodles and Eggs is weird... I didn't even know other families ate it!

I know in his case it dates back to his grandmother (of German descent, I believe). She would use leftover pasta, cook it with scrambled eggs in bacon grease. My dh makes this artery-clogging treat rarely--and garnishes it with strips of bacon. His dad would make it for family breakfast on weekends, and now it's his speciality.

Of course, he'll make a ovo-only version without the bacon, and uses vegetarian bacon in my serving. He claims it tastes OK, but not nearly as good.

The gourmet Italian version of this is spaghetti carbonara.:001_smile:

Same basic ingredients, but somehow the italians make it look and taste like you have to be a great chef to make it.

[Michelle T]

They are very tasty and he usually says this is his favorite meal. DS is not so fond of them though.
Michelle T

[Amy in Orlando]

:nopity:Where is the hanging-head-in-shame smiley when you need it? Dh is the cook in our family, even though I do the bulk of it. I don't think there's a thing in my limited repetoire that makes him all hot and heavy. Not that I'm a terrible cook, I"m just not a very inspired one and I've never found a signature dish.

[gardenschooler]

Take any of these, just save one for me. I would be lying if I said anything I cook gets dh hot and heavy. He's too busy trying to fake liking it! (The dinner, that is).

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[Amy in Orlando]

Take any of these, just save one for me. I would be lying if I said anything I cook gets dh hot and heavy. He's too busy trying to fake liking it! (The dinner, that is).

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Thanks, GS - I'll take them all. I'm glad I'm not alone!

[Jennifer in MI]

Steak, so well done it is like a hockey puck.

LOL! Just the opposite here - steak, so rare, it's still mooing!!!:lol: