Mmmm. I started each day I was in Paris with two palmiers.

I did grow up with dishes very similar to this kind of meal and let me tell you, that looks like something from my grandmas kitchen table. Well done!

Lunch at my grandparents house was always something like this:

Fresh crusty bread
A meat: smoked ham, sausage, cold cuts, head cheese or pate
Something pickled: Beets, roasted peppers, cucumbers, etc...
A spread: Ajvar, horseradish sauce, apricot or plum preserves (usually spread on the bread)
A cheese: Kashkaval, Feta
Whatever fresh veggies were available for picking in the garden.
A tall glass of Kefir

The possibilities are endless

Looks like I need to stop by a couple delis soon, this gave me a hankerin'!

Not lunch, maybe not even C&V but I ate it late in the morning after a bike ride, so...brunch? Close enough I took some left over garlic rice and paired it with a couple fried eggs for breakfast. I was later told this is a common breakfast in the Philippines, usually accompanied with a sweet sausage link or two....so maybe it's considered classic over in that part of the world. I'll have to find some Filipino sweet sausage now. I'll skip the cheese next time of course, for authenticities sake.

You can improve a lot of things by placing a fried egg on top. Well done!

Now there's an idea ...

Quite true! I take the same approach with hot sauce.

Live close enough to Springfield, IL that we can get Horseshoe Sandwiches (ground Beef patty and fries open faced with cheddar cheese sauce) or railsplitters (same, with hotdog or smoked sausage) at our local diner . Pretty peculiar to Central Illinois, with a subtle variation in Champaign - Urbana. P.S. -One of our former Governors got out of prison and into the Salvation Army halfway-house today. Best of luck, George!

I had a horseshoe sandwich once at Mike's Drive In in West Frankfort, Il. Draft root beer in a frosty mug!

Common tactic as well in Indonesia, nasi goreng telur.. Left over rice fried with spices, some greens and unions, and an egg on top. Great stuff.

Dang, sitting here at home with the stomach flu thinking nothing sounds better than some nasi goreng telur...

Korean Bap dishes must be related. Bibimbap! (not mine)

How'd you like it? Been along time since I was in West Frankfort, though I went to college in Carbondale in the 70s-80s. Used to bike out to Giant City State Park in the Shawnee National Forest. The restaurant in the main building at the visitors center had the best fried chicken in the universe. Bar none.

I've only had stone bibimbop and I sure do love it.

I'm sure it was good at the time, but it wasn't memorable. Less so than the properly served root beer, though, I guess.

The memorable place around there was Ma Hales,
over on the river, at Grand Tower.
Burned down back in the 80's I think.
Last time I was back, in 2000, the suspension bridge for the pipeline
and the other landmarks were still there, no sign of Ma Hales.

I had Bibimbap several times, in Bangkok and Dublin. I liked it very much.

Split pea and hamhock soup with a crusty baguette, some triple cream and a beer. Take that, ol' man winter.

Yeah pea soup! Absolutely my favourite in winter time and luckily the closest thing we have for a national dish.

On the Korean thing: Indonesian and Korean palates differ quite widely... While both are very spicy at times Korean food seems (to me) a little different because there's more salt involved, as well as all kinds of fermented stuff like Kimchi. As a matter of fact, Korean food (and the horrible Korean dramas and pop music, K-pop) is all the rage now in Jakarta and Korean restaurants are everywhere. I visited some with a few Korean guys from my language course and was quite positively amazed by the wonderful Korean seafood. Plus, they enjoy it the right way, with a lot of beer and Soichi (a gin-like substance).
One of the "perks" of Indonesia as a primarily Muslim country is that people spend all the money they would otherwise spend on booze on food, so there's an insane amount of restaurants, eateries, road side stalls etc. for all kinds of wonderful food.

Shrimp and grits

Now that looks like something I would like! I just googled the recipe, and it will soon be on the menu. Thanks, satbuilder!

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/e...ipe/index.html

I used this recipe. You won't be sorry.

Non-fixie, i'd say i've spent many years with an ignorant palate, but you all inspire me here! I was always the picky kid, plain everything. I've broken free from that a bit, but every now and then find myself trying to break my old habits.

After looking over these awesome photos, I felt the need to write and ask my mom for her rice and rivel soup recipe.

Justin, My wife and I went to Quebec and never even tried poutine. We were completely ignorant of it and found out about it later on, what a wasted opportunity!

Thanks! Looks way more exotic than the one I found. And with tripe sausage! I've found I really like Andouillette when I visited Troyes a couple of years ago. It might be a challenge to find all the correct ingredients here, but I'm certainly going to try it.

Edit: just remembered I had made a picture of that particular meal in Troyes:

Van der Zon or Droogh in Leiden can set you up Organic, old fashioned butchers that provide all the meat modern generations find to yuckie, unless ground in a McD patty.

Not really lunch. My "bike pasta", perfect post-ride food. Tomato paste, red wine, garlic, pepper, basil leaves, fresh grana padano. Beer. CX world championships.Untitled by ctjr, on Flickr