What Is Your Favourite Meal?

I listen to an interesting podcast called Off Menu where they ask celebrities to walk them through what would be their ideal meal. It is an interesting concept that absolutely works really well. They organise their meal like this

Perfect Meal.

• Still or Sparkling Water?
• Do you like bread to start or would you rather something else like popadoms?
• Starter?
• Main Course?
• Desserts?
• Drinks during meal? You can name a few if you wish

Because Hive is very multi cultural it will be interesting for you to copy and paste the above in the comments tell us what your favourite starter , main , dessert would be. Now my old pal Hive account@valued-customer told me a couple of days ago that a Captain on a Russian tugboat gave him raw pork fat and gave him vodka to wash it down which made me vom in my mouth a little bit. I have had a good think about what would be my favourite meal especially the main. For years I have been a fillet steak man. Medium rare with chunky fried and a bearnaise or pepper sauce but due to the rise in the price of beef in Ireland it is only on very special occasions that I would warrant splashing out on the ultinate cut of beef and before you argue with me about ribeye, ribeye is a passing ship and will never knock the big dog off its pedestal. I have been spreading my wings of late with pork fillet , duck, fish, you name it but I still crave a good fillet when I head to the good restaurants. I have a very very boring dessert choice as well but I absolutely love them. Ok before I go into it , I may as well start my list

• Still or sparkling water. When I moved to Germany they only did sparkling so I had a few years on the fizz. But I swiftly went back to still after the work holiday.
• Starter Goats cheese and walnut salad with figs**
• Main Fillet steak (medium rare) with bearnaise or pepper sauce with chunky fries.
• Dessert Panna Cotta
• Drinks Red Wine (no favourite) during and then an Irish Coffee after dessert. Maybe two Irish coffees. They are small.

So you know about my main. The dessert is decided the minute I look at a menu. If a panna cotta is on it then all bets are off. I just love them. Some come with some kind of fruit coulis but I scoop that up and just get rid of it straight away by downing it like a shot.My starter is a strange one because it took me 10 years to like goats cheese again after a friend of mine asked me if I would like to try the chicken and she stuffed my mouth full of goats cheese. The strong taste took me by surprise and I never tried it again until a few years ago and now I love it. Throw in a few walnuts and figs or beetroot and we are sorted.

So all is left is the Irish coffee's. I was at the Open Championship in Portrush and we had 3 Irish coffees and were absolutely steaming leaving the restaurant. Irish coffee's warm you from the inside out. Like a microwave. They do actually warm your soul. But we will leave it at the 1 Irish coffee for this one.

So that is it. What is your favourite meal. Copy and paste the section and comment below.