Food for the Soul

[El Presidente]

Your best recent "soul food" discovery?......or maybe just an old favourite you have revisited.

 

I can't get this out of my head.........I have had it on back to back weeks 

 

Taiwanese fried chicken on milk bun. 

 

 

 

[Meesterjojo]

Soul food is what we call southern food, or just food, here.

That's a heart attack on a bun. Yum!

[dominattorney]

Is that also fries cheese? Damn

[Edicion]

Call me crazy but a good minced beef and onion pie, paired with an ale hits the spot every time. This place is called The Globe and pretty much an institution here among locals and expats.

[westg]

Walked across from the cigar lounge on the weekend after the AFL Grand Final. Duck is my soul food .

 

[BrightonCorgi]

Choucroute.  Don't usually have at this time of year, but made one a couple of weeks ago.  Home made smoked bacon and kassler; along with garden thyme; yum.  Almost raclette season!

[Chucko8]

2 hours ago, Edicion said:

Call me crazy but a good minced beef and onion pie, paired with an ale hits the spot every time. This place is called The Globe and pretty much an institution here among locals and expats.

 

Personally I always opt for the steak and kidney pie at the Globe. 

[Fuzz]

5 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Your best recent "soul food" discovery?......or maybe just an old favourite you have revisited.

 

I can't get this out of my head.........I have had it on back to back weeks 

 

Taiwanese fried chicken on milk bun. 

 

 

 

From Happy Boy?

[El Presidente]

28 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

From Happy Boy?

Spot on. Ben recommended it and it is a cracking locale. 

[Puros Y Vino]

Haven't discovered anything new, but I'm always up for a Spaghetti Carbonara. 

[oneizzzz]

Pierogis!

[ReturnFreeRisk]

A simple patty melt burger with butter-toasted rye or pumpernickel bread, good handful of fried onions and melted sharp cheddar just puts me in a different place. My grandma used to take me out for these so there’s those memories behind it too.


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[RichG]

I don't know that I would push it into the spectrum of "soul food", but I will call it recently heartwarming for me. 

I found a multipack of the below noodles that I have on occasion been mixing with various pre-cooked proteins and vegetables for quick and interesting lunches. 

They have been a nice counterpoint to the typical, lazy doldrums of work from home lunches. 

https://shop.momofuku.com/products/momofuku-dried-noodles

 

A recent dish that comes to mind as soul food was repurposed leftovers. Thinly sliced rare ribeye, from giant prime grade tomahawk, sautéed with shredded brussels sprouts and thick cut bacon, topped with caramelized onions and a sunnyside up egg. I have been yearning to recreate this ever since consumption. 

[BrightonCorgi]

Kasha and Varnishkes is a dish that immensely soulful to me.  Reminds me of childhood and family.  Can eat all the time!

Nowadays I make it lamb broth instead of beef.

[El Hoze]

7 hours ago, oneizzzz said:

Pierogis!

oh man…that’s my childhood heart warmer right there. My mother’s Aunt (Ukrainian) used to stand in the kitchen and make pierogies all day like that by the batch. We’d serve them with butter, sour cream, some kind of a bacon back like thing called schwadki (sp?)….I would eat them until I couldn’t stuff another one down. To this day I’ve yet to find a pierogie as good…yet again even a decent pierogie is pretty good to me because of the memories attached. 

[SpecialK]

This was the best meal I've ever had... a few years back we went to Positano and dined at Chez Black... , Spaghetti with fried Zucchini... Still dream about it... 

[Greenhorn2]

Big bowl of pinto beans with onion, green tomato relish or hot chow chow and a slab of cornbread. Poor man's soul food. Or a big old bowl of chicken and dumplings. 

[99call]

Nihari (slow cooked curried mutton or beef with and interesting fennel kick).   Served with a deep stack of chapatis,  topped with fresh green chillis, coriander, ginger and lemon juice. 

Once you've had this,  all other curries just seem pathetic and pointless

 

Slow braised oxtail with suet dumplings......oooof

 

[patrickamory]

Great choices on this thread. I'm a huge fan of meat pies, which are less common in America (chicken pot pie being the usual suspect).

British cold pork pies with plenty of jelly in suet pastry; steak & kidney pie; shepherd's pie... these are some of my favorite things. Love the only Australian meat pie I've had too (at K.O. Pies in East Boston when I was visiting last summer).

[BrightonCorgi]

5 hours ago, 99call said:

Nihari (slow cooked curried mutton or beef with and interesting fennel kick).   Served with a deep stack of chapatis,  topped with fresh green chillis, coriander, ginger and lemon juice.

Nihari is really tasty.  Good one.

[Nino]

Whereever I might be - this is my soul food forever.

A simple potato and egg dish and maybe some onion or chorizo or whatever leftover you may have, readily made and tasty as hell on a fresh baguette bocadillo. Hell, I do it every few weeks myself.

Spanish Tortilla de patata. Best tasted a few hours after cooking it.

Had it even made in Havana which means a lot having a perpetual potato shortage on the island .... 🙂

 

[El Presidente]

7 hours ago, Nino said:

 

 

 

I make a cracker tortilla de patata!

magnificent dish, onion, potato, eggs, salt. 

My fathers however are the best I have tasted anywhere.  12 eggs (for a large one).....can't be runny.....can't be too hard.....just right. 

All the grandkids love it!

 

 

[dobbs]

On 9/29/2021 at 11:23 AM, RichG-LI-NY said:

A recent dish that comes to mind as soul food was repurposed leftovers. Thinly sliced rare ribeye, from giant prime grade tomahawk, sautéed with shredded brussels sprouts and thick cut bacon, topped with caramelized onions and a sunnyside up egg. I have been yearning to recreate this ever since consumption. 

a man after my own heart, that sounds amazing. live your dreams.

On 9/30/2021 at 1:39 PM, 99call said:

Nihari (slow cooked curried mutton or beef with and interesting fennel kick).   Served with a deep stack of chapatis,  topped with fresh green chillis, coriander, ginger and lemon juice. 

Once you've had this,  all other curries just seem pathetic and pointless

i ask for nihari anytime i go to a pakistani restaurant, but only one spot does it truly good. that place uses beef shank and it is so, so good.

for me, food that hits the soul comes from a variety of places. korean beef knee soup, burmese tea leaf salad, chicken and waffles (predictable, but still...), barbacoa (lamb only) and consomme with house made corn tortillas, pescado zarandeado, tacos de tripas, roasted chile salsa (hot!) with barbecue beef and macaroni salad (put salsa on the macaroni salad, seriously!) bun mam, bun bo hue, american breakfast (nothing like it!), oh man i could go on and on...

-dobbs

[westg]

Paid a small fortune at Zaferanos...then a stop by my local bam bam boo a week later...five dishes for the price of one at Zaferanos...And ,10 times better

 

[99call]

2 hours ago, dobbs said:

for me, food that hits the soul comes from a variety of places

Yep strongly agree.  Whilst I understand the term 'Soul Food' mainly refers to deep south American and maybe more precisely Southern Afro-American food, It translates in every culture and cuisine around the world.    Interestingly it often resides in peasant food dishes, but for me peasant food dishes fall into two different categories:

1, Those which are actually wonderful, and deserve all the hype

2, Those which are genuine reflection of how desperate poverty can make people, unpleasant, and only perpetuated through either continued poverty, or sense of nostalgia. (see chicken gizzards).  

There are so many troubles, bad spirts, social media meltdowns in this world, but food is magical, it can often be the key, the olive branch for previously closed minded or insular people finding respect and admiration for one another.  It's reminds us, we are all the same.