What is your food obsession?

[seemunkee]

What food or foods do you obsessively seek out or try to cook the best of?

My major one right now is pizza. I'm trying real hard to cook a perfect pizza and I have a long way to go. Eating a really good one right now and went to the best place in DC for pizza on Saturday.
Others are French fries finally got that one down right thanks to Tony Bourdain.
Beer, that will take a lifetime.
Cheeseburger, so many ways to do it right and wrong.

[IzaSparrow]

1. Guacamole...

and beers that perfectly go with what I'm eating

[_testify_]

2. Cheeseburgers.

I find the most important step in getting them right is making sure they are not too thick. I usually make them about a half-inch thick before cooking. That way they cook evenly and you can actually taste whatever seasonings you used.

[kwassa]

3. Thai food

I used to be obsessed with chicken with chili, garlic, and basil, the hotter, the better. I would try it in many different restaurants.

I have had sub-obsessions with other common Thai dishes, too. Certain curries.

[MissMillie]

4. Almost all of them

I try to think up a lot of different pasta sauces, because pasta rules
really good asian food is a thing to behold
Ribeye steak.... manna from heaven

[Tektonik]

5. food itself

[rug]

6. White Castle

[baby_mouse]

7. Roast chicken!

There are good and bad ways to do roast chicken. Good = made of WIN.

[YankeyMCC]

8. Cashews

Cashew butter, cashews roasted, in salads, crushed as a coating for chicken...

Closely followed by honey...mmmm

[Akoto]

9. Potatotes.

I love, love, love taters of all kinds. :)

[Rambis]

10. Sausages

I just can't get enough

[cloudbase]

11. The perfect pastrami sandwich.

It's not all heaven here in Houston.

[Guava Jelly]

12. Gumbo mainly

I make pretty good Turkey Meatballs

[seemunkee]

14. I love a good gumbo

Its definitely something to aspire to.

[unpossibles]

13. Thai food, sushi, pizza, fajitas, potatoes, pot stickers

you name it.

[Burma Jones]

15. Sushi and Sashimi for going out.......

Cooking at home, I would say BBQ ribs......

[seemunkee]

16. You make the ribs, I'll bring some beer

Do you smoke them? Any place in DC that you like for ribs?

[kwassa]

21. I actually like Famous Daves

not that I am a rib aficianado, I dislike most sweet rib sauces. Very smoky.

There is one at Kentlands.

[Burma Jones]

27. I do smoke the Ribs in a water smoker and Famous Dave's is quite good

Just make sure you order the Ribs "naked" that is, without any sauce. Their dry rub is good and they get a great hickory smoke taste on their ribs.

[Bucky]

25. You, sir, are my clone.

I'm assuming I'm older than you. Only young hip people have as exquisite taste as me.

[AngryAmish]

17. Bread

Specifically baguettes and crusty french and italian bread..

[billyskank]

19. Mine too!

Apparently.

[AngryAmish]

22. have you tried the no-knead recipe?

[Cabcere]

18. Chocolate!

I'm a major chocoholic. :crazy:

Other foods I tend to obsess about:

- Spätzle (I'm not brave enough to try to cook it, lol, but it is delicious. :9)

- Sugar snap peas (probably the only one of my "obsess" foods that is somewhat healthy ;))

- Soft pretzels

...and I'm sure there are about a brazillion others. :crazy: Darn it, now I'm hungry! x( :P

[mikeytherat]

20. A frozen Snickers

mikey_the_rat

[Phoonzang]

23. Melted cheese.

I'd probably eat a rock if it had some nice melted cheddar or asiago on it.

[TommyO]

24. I'll be in DC this coming weekend, where is that best place for pizza?

[seemunkee]

26. Pizza Paradiso in Georgetown

The have a great beer bar in the lower level there too.
My favorites are
1. Pizza Paradiso
2. Two Amys
3. Mia's

[DarkTirade]

28. Sesame chicken.

The one kind of chinese food that I absolutely love... but can't make worth a damn. :)

[driver8]

29. Where do you go for pizza in DC? I used to live there and we used to go to

Luigi's for pizza. There was also a good pizza place in my neighborhood (Capitol Hill) but I have since forgotten the name.

[driver8]

30. Beer?? Is the Brickskellar still open?

I used to love going there and taking friend from out of town. That place used to blow their minds!!

[seemunkee]

32. Yes they are still there.

Plus they have another restaurant called RFD that has been used for some DC/Protest get togethers.
I think the Brickskeller is in the Guinness book for the most beers of any bar in the world

[driver8]

34. I used to love how the beers would come up on the little dumbwaiters.

I did an internship in DC and some friends came down for a college radio convention. I played tour guide for the weekend -- I took them to Adams Morgan for Ethiopian food, we went to the 9:30 Club to see a band, and then went to the Brickskellar.

DC is a great city to be in if you like to eat and drink!!

[Jamastiene]

31. Rib Eye Steaks and delicacy pizzas.

I have this one pizza I cook that involves regular homemade spaghetti sauce, olives, and crescent rolls. It had a different taste than regular pizza, but my family just loves it.

[Auggie]

33. Pizza lovers -- I suggest reading "American Pie" by Peter Reinhart

It has changed my life.

[Westegg]

35. I could eat two pounds of Swedish Fish candy...

...if three pounds weren't available.

I dunno how, but sometime around the age of six, I just got addicted to the things. Decades later, my ardor for them hasn't lessened a bit.