50 in 50: What is my favourite food?

2025-05-19 fifty-in-fifty • 249 words
What is my favourite food? Why do I like it? What is my history with it?

Such an easy question, and I really don't have a good answer...

One of my favourite meals to make is a sort of currystew. It basically involves chucking in a lot of veg (potato, sweet potato, onion, leek, swede, beans, lentils, chickpeas, ...) alongside stock, water, and some spices. The spices are not consistent: it's generally a fair bit of chilli and black pepper, but the rest is just whatever I have, generally turmeric, basil, coriander, maybe garam masala, etc.

But I don't actually enjoy the flavour incredibly, it's just a nice meal to make that's easy and sates me well.

In terms of my favourite foods, it would be some kind of dessert. I really like my nan's bread pudding - I tried to make it once and it turned out terribly. I swear she puts some kind of drug in it, it is delicious and incredibly addictive.

I also really like banana bread, that I can make with relative success. Plus, a simple mango, or pineapple, is really good too. Basically, I like sugar. That said, I don't tend to add too much sugar to my banana breads, but they are full of the stuff anyways just because of the bananas.

One more! I am a big fan of both Thai and Indian (as everybody?) and a really good one is appam from Indians: basically, a pancake with coconut milk. Yum.

(Coconut is another favourite of mine, and I have a lot of coconut milk etc.)

I just like food a lot, I think.