A feast is being held in your honor, you select the food. What is on the menu? I would go Chinese-

[debm55]

American---egg rolls, hot and sour soup, and sweet and sour pork.and tea. What is on your menu.

[cloudbase]

1. Central Texas style barbecue.

Add a good selection of sides, plenty of tea and, of course, cold beer.

[debm55]

28. cloudbase, moy mouth is watering. That sounds great and I'm sure your guests will love it.

PS Let's go Pens.

[onecaliberal]

2. Tepanyaki. Fried rice, spicy chicken and all of the veggies.

[debm55]

29. Wonderful selection.

[Harker]

3. Vegan Chinese, which I'm presently cooking for my wife and me.

It's been my food of choice for 40 years.

[debm55]

30. I have eaten tofu in Chinese dishes. Love it. Your wife is very lucky to have you.

[Harker]

32. You're very kind to say so.

I'm the lucky one.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Traditional Italian Pizza appetizer with Merlot, Boeuf Bourgignon, green beans, popovers, choice of

tapioca pudding or custard, vanilla espresso, creme puff or Napoleons.

Merci, mes amis.

[debm55]

27. Wonderful, wonderful choices.

[AnnaLee]

5. Hot tamales from the Mississippi Delta. ntp

[debm55]

26. Love tamales. and your guest will too.

[intrepidity]

6. Thai and pho nt

[debm55]

25. Great choices.

[Chainfire]

7. I am thinking some fried eggs, hickory smoked bacon, grits and toast.

[debm55]

24. Wonderful choices Chainfire. We sometimes have breakfast for dinner.

[Effete Snob]

8. Who is attending?

Anyone who shows up for a feast in MY honor should bring their own food.

[debm55]

9. Ha,ha,ha Who is attending the people who are honoring you, friends, family, etc.

You are in charge of the menu-no cost to you. So what what would you select for your guests?

[Effete Snob]

12. Nobody who knows me would come to such a thing

They'd probably think its a trick to serve subpoenas on them.

I thought maybe some court was thinking of sentencing convicts to it or something.

[debm55]

13. You are funny. You can have the host/hostess call out for KFC?

[Effete Snob]

14. Actually, tell you what...

Invite everyone who is related to me, poison the food, and I’ll cut you in for 10% of whatever I inherit.

How’s next week sound?

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Chicken piccata with pappardelle. Crusty bread.

[debm55]

23. Yum, sounds great. I would like to be invited.

[Cartoonist]

11. Italian

The problem with Italian food, is that three days later you're still hungry.

[elleng]

18. LOLOLOL!!!

[Polly Hennessey]

15. Totally prime rib, Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes, horseradish

sauce, green beans, brown sugar carrots, broccoli, mushroom risotto, cream of pumpkin soup.

Dessert: coconut cake and Black Forest cake, custard flavored with rum, ice cream.

Champagne, wine, brandy, Amaretto, coffee.

Now I am full and need a nap.

[debm55]

19. Sounds great, Polly, can you invite me?

[yellowdogintexas]

51. would that be boiled custard for drinking or thick custard as in baked?

When I was growing up, we had boiled custard for drinking, with a teaspoon of "flavoring" (AKA some good KY bourbon). Even my teetotalling old lady relatives had to have that "flavoring" LOL

The boiled custard was in lieu of eggnog by the way. We often had it with coconut cake and ambrosia (made with fresh fruit - grapefruit, tangerines, bananas, more coconut and pineapple (that was canned - I do not think I ever saw a fresh pineapple until I was up in my 20s)

[Solly Mack]

16. ...

Greens (Turnip greens/Mustard greens mixture)
Corn Bread (Not sweet)
Homemade Mac and Cheese
Fried Chicken
Pot. Salad
Slaw
Slice tomatoes
Sliced cucumbers
Dressing
Chicken Gravy
Iced Tea
Peach Cobbler
Vanilla Ice cream

And a wheel barrel to cart me away since I won't be walking on my own after such a meal. Too full to move.

[debm55]

21. Wonderful Solly. The menu has a Southern flair to it. I like.

[Solly Mack]

67. There's a reason for that. (the southern flair)

[yellowdogintexas]

47. As my old Southern relatives would say " That there is a mighty fine spread"

Meat and 5 plus essentials like tomatoes and cucumbers, cornbread (not sweet) sweet tea and peach cobbler. I would skip the ice cream and use whipped cream.

During summers when everyone's gardens were rocking and rolling, tomatoes and cucumbers were on the table at every meal except breakfast. We often had all veg meals: yellow squash, green beans, corn on the cob, greens, cucumber marinated in vinegar, sliced tomatoes, cornbread (not sweet) and sweet tea.

[Solly Mack]

66. Yes. All vegetable dinners straight from the garden were the best!

We made the ice cream homemade. Going from the old hand crank to the electric as time went by.

I still do all vegetable meals and always with tomatoes and cucumbers as a side.

[electric_blue68]

69. While I chose Indian, Greek would probably be 2nd, down home Southern cooking could easily be my 3rd

And luckily living in NYC I've eaten in Harlem a lot of times.

Not since covid and now bc I and my sister's favorite restaurant never put up an outdoor dining area

[elleng]

17. Italian, and Chinese, you choose, deb!

[debm55]

20. Why not have both on the menu??

[elleng]

22. OK!

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Anything That Breathes Water

Especially things with shells.
Your list works for me too, except I'd replace the sweet & sour pork with garlic pork.
My wife wants me to take a shot at hot & sour soup when soup season returns.
She loves my soups.

[debm55]

36. Sweet and sour soup is great. Can be a little spicey. But I love it.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Hence, The "Hot"

From what I can find, it's mostly just red pepper flake.
I'm looking forward to making it, come fall.

[debm55]

40. and tofu.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Firm Tofu!

In the dishes where I use tofu, we both prefer the mouth feel of firmer stuff.
I've used creamier versions, but have decided we're firm tofu people.

[electric_blue68]

68. I was thinking about shredded pork w garlic sauce last week. :D

[nolabear]

33. "Soul food."

Otherwise known as “food” where I grew up. Fried chicken, greens, black eyed peas, corn bread…well now I’m hungry.

[debm55]

35. Yep, that sounds like a great menu for you and your guests.

[yellowdogintexas]

48. LOL yeah, so called "soul food" was just "food" where I grew up too

everybody had gardens and we ate fresh veg all summer

[nolabear]

54. I get hungry just thinking about it.

No sugar in the cornbread either!

[jcgoldie]

34. tacos!

Not even close

[debm55]

37. I have had a taco party. The taco shells, meat ingredients and various toppings were set out on a

table and the guests made their own.

[Prairie_Seagull]

39. Fish, fish and more fish. Ok maybe scallops and tiger prawns.

Anyone who wont eat fish can stay home, and yellow finn bakers with all the fixins. Yea throw in a few veggies of your choosing I wont get to them anyway. I could mention a specific restaurant in Seattle near fisherman's wharf/terminal but I will leave it there.

[debm55]

41. That sounds great, love fish!

[Mr.Bill]

43. A Maryland Crab feed.

I've lived in California since 1961, but I was born in Maryland.

Blue Crabs with Old Bay seasoning steamed with vinegar and beer. White shoe peg corn on the cob, pitchers of ice cold beer on the table. When the juice from the crabs is dripping off your elbows, you know you are doing it right.

[debm55]

53. Sounds great, Mr. Bill

[a kennedy]

44. Oh my, I think I'd love people to bring what they're noted for, ya know like their item

that everyone always says “oh my gosh, I need this recipe”. Deviled eggs, real crab dip, chicken on the grill, any veggies done perfectly, and desserts. Yah, people I know, really know what I love from their kitchens. Yummmmmmm

[debm55]

55. That sounds wonderful, a kennedy.

[yellowdogintexas]

56. this is also known as a community picnic in a small Southern town

We had one every summer and all the ladies brought out their very best for that event. Outdoors at night usually in August. Nights cool down there so it was not that unpleasant.

Or it could be any type of church event: Fellowship Supper, picnic, etc. Those are the best

[Hekate]

45. Shiitake mushrooms the way I had them in a Los Angeles Chinese restaurant long, long ago...

Went with my friends to see a band of Taiko drummers at UCLA, then located this restaurant. (I tried sea cucumber for the heck of it, but won’t bother with that again) Everything else was very good — but the black mushrooms had me in ecstasy. I love good Chinese food and have gotten tired of well-meaning people steering me toward their local sweet’n’sour plus General Tso’s joint.

[debm55]

57. Love General Tso chicken. Sweet but spicey.

[Hekate]

61. My darlin' SIL does too. Come sit with us & you two may have it all.

[electric_blue68]

70. I remember going to Chinatown (Manhattan) as I started to buy, and cook ...

Chinese decades back!

Besides like bok choy, Chinese cabbage which you couldn't get back then outside of there- I remember getting my first dried shitake mushrooms. Yum. Maybe fresh ones late on? Woods ears, too. Lotus root, later, too. The bottled sauces. Later getting roasted meats.
.I had a lot of fun cooking. Yeah, I did have a wok, and a steamer.

My first Chinese friend at her parents house waaaaay back I got to try my first sticky rice in banana leaves her mom made for her for school.
.Then years later I found sticky rice with lotus leaf - which often included...
.
shitake mushrooms. 😄

Probably one of my favorite Chinese meals. I'd usually get 2 at a place that had several branches. If they were out then I'd get other din sum. Love dim sum! Use to go for din sum in Chinatown.

[electric_blue68]

46. Have to join in (too sleepy all Weds)...

Indian for new 2 choices to pick from for guests

2 Appetizers
Chicken Samosas or Tandoori Chicken Wings
Onion Pakoras or Vegetable (mix) Pakoras

Main
Chicken Tikka Masala or Lamb Korna

Bread
Nan or Paratha

dessert is
Jelebi (flour batter sqeezed out of an icing bag into a spiral in hot oil to dry, then dipped in safron laced sugar syrup)

and Chai.... (tea w Indian Spices)

(since I'm the guest of honor I get everything! 😄 And wow do I have a big "take home" bag!)

[yellowdogintexas]

49. I love Indian food and Chicken Tikka Masala is my absolute favorite

second favorite is Aloo Gobi with all those wonderful veggies.

I also love pappadams which are sometimes served as an appetizer. They are an acquired taste but once you decide to like them, you just have to have them!!

I have been to a few Indian restaurants that bring them to the table with a couple of sauces for dipping, just like chips and salsa in a Mexican place.

[electric_blue68]

63. My favorite veggie dishes are onion pajora/bhaji, bhel puri....

chana masala, chana sag.
I like Akoo Gobi, too.
Never had a paneer dish.

I don't think I've ever had Baigan Bharta bc it's always listed as Spicy and i can just about take jalapenos - although since eating a bit more sort of spicy Indian dishes over decades I am now able to take the jalapenos better. I never thought to ask them to tone the heat while keeping the savory. Maybe in the future.

Otoh decades back I went to an area with lots of Indian restaurants, clothing stores, and supermarkets - and got the flour to make chapatis.

Took me time to get used to the "bite" of pappadums, but I like them.

.You should try bhel puri if you've never had it. 👍

[debm55]

58. electric sounds wonderful. I have been looking for a good Indian restaurant around here

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no such luck.

[electric_blue68]

62. Oh drats! 🤞 Maybe one will open up soon. You never know. 👍

[Elessar Zappa]

50. A barbecue.

Ribs, brisket, pulled pork, chicken, sausage, macaroni and cheese, biscuits, potato salad, and a peach cobbler for dessert.

[debm55]

59. That would be great and I am sure all your guests would love it. I would

[yellowdogintexas]

52. Definitely either prime rib or really fine steak

baked potato, green salad, asparagus. Dessert: probably peach or cherry cobbler.
Red wine with the meal; coffee with the dessert.

I do not eat steak often so it would be a real treat!!!

[debm55]

60. That sounds delicious, Both a treat for yourself and your guests.

[Yavin4]

64. BBQ Spare Ribs. Real BBQ, no propane.

Fried chicken
Flank Steak
Potato Salad
Green Beans
Biscuits
Cheesecake

[debm55]

65. Yum. I like the slow cooked ribs.