I'm dying for wings........crispy, spicy hot wings.

Himself doesn't like them ( I know , what can I say!) so I rarely cook them and the rare time we go out for dinner it tends to lean a bit more to fine dining than pub grub.

It's been months and I'm ready for a mess complete with hand cut fries!!!

Mine has been for white purple-topped turnips. They were sold out by the time I got to the farmers' market last weekend but I bought a whole basket of them this morning. I'm having them scalloped along with carrot slices as a side dish for tonight's dinner, oven-braised with short ribs on Sunday, and in a beef and turnip stew one night next week. That should satisfy my turnip craving until about January.

cracklin crispy duck skin!

dcarch

Pizza with Sicilian style crust, mushrooms and pepperoni. Yum!! So glad I'm not gluten intolerant or dairy intolerant. I think it'll be the end of me if either of those come true.

Yesterday for lunch I just had to have a fried baloney sammich!!! German baloney, fried real crispy, on crappy store-bought bread, mayo and mustard, American cheese and a sprinkling of salt. When I fry it, to keep the bubble from raising up in the middle I cut a slit from the side to the middle and it looks like Pac-Man!! I just had to have it.
I don't eat baloney any other way.

Sweet red peppers and daikon slices. It's been going on for 3 months now. I can't seem to get enough.

Scrapple! Just had some Rappa at our family reunion last weekend. Once a year is enough but i sure wish i brought some home with me.

I'd settle for an appetite? Yay, it's cold season! Thought I'd get an early jump on it. I wish I had an appetite. If I did, I'd like to have some red wine and dark chocolate. And um, something lavish? Scallops and asparagus? Something like that.

I have 2, Chicken and dumplings and grits.
Mary

Grits with shrimp is an interesting concept! I put sugar in my grits ;o)

Rita, that is funny... I had a craving for a fried balogna sammich the other day and I haven't had one since I was a kid... I bought a whole package and made the sammich and haven't touched it since.... it will probably turn into a science experiement on the bottom shelf of the fridge before I pitch it... in a year or so when a cleaning mood strikes.

I'm craving bacon wrapped shrimp.... I took a friend out for his birthday to Abuelo's a few weeks ago and I had the bacon wrapped stuffed shrimp and I can't stop thinking about it... it was so good I was taken aback..... I've even dreamed of it since!

Of course I have a standing craving for tocino, either pork or chicken.... Thank goodness I don't visit the Asian market enough to keep it on hand regularly!

What a fun topic!

Fresh scallops from the coast, any kind of fresh seafood now that I think about it. Lobster would work also.....

In Iowa, without fresh seafood!

spicy green mango and papaya salad with lime, chilli and fried peanuts. A local thai restaurant makes them in summer and I am craving them something bad. DH think it is symptomatic of my annual denial of winter that usually sets in when the daylight savings time kicks in. I guess so, as I went to pick up my kid from school and was shivering in the cold and said to myself "I should pull out the jackets and sweaters and pack away the capris".. and then realized, I have been thinking the same thing for at least 2 weeks now.

Not homemade, but I should never have tasted .... Milano Slices Peppermint.

Good. Grief. Cannot. Have. In. The. House.

Cathy in SWPA

PS Of course reading all these other cravings makes me think "Hmmmmm. I could go for some _____________ too." Fun thread.

Home made dark chocolate cake with choc buttercream frosting-- and a scoop of caramel pecan ice cream-- heck I might even settle for a BIG chocolate half moon cookie !
Who am I kidding ?-- I'm ready to kill for anything hi carb, hi fat made with white flour !

Had my 4 mn A1C done the other day & even tho I've lost some weight it's still hovering at 7.4---grrrrr

Diane

Well, I wasn't craving anything in particular, but now I will need to have grits and poached eggs for breakfast tomorrow.

Shortbread.

Been on a kick since last week when somebody at work had a Panera Bread shortbread cookie in their lunch. Been trying to replicate the recipe ever since. Damn! that was a good shortbread!

Linda

Buttered toast.

Thanks Ruthanna!
A friend had given me a huge bag of turnips & all I could think to do with them was oven roast them.

Just googled a slew of recipes. Going to try venison & turnip stew next week because I've got to make room in the freezer. It's hunting season again.
Betty

Pate, terrines, and mousseline. All the "don't have to chew" stuff. I'm usually the one who likes everything crisp, crunchy, and chewy.
Nancy

Crisp, tart apples, good cheddar and chewy bread. Surprisingly, it's the apples I'm having trouble finding right now. Everything I see seems to be last year's crop.

Well you had me at shrimp and grits. Haven't had them in a few years and now it's all I can think about! That's about it at the moment.

Ha, ha. Me, too. I wasn't craving anything in particular, but now I can't get BBQ shrimp and grits off my mind. And I have no shrimp in the house...

Doucanoe, I have the shortbread one solved. Do Ina Garten's and it's really close to them (actually better!).

-R

Here is a link that might be useful: Ina's recipe

Checked out the book "Home Made Winter" by Yvette van Boven from the library this week. Google it and you will see my current craving. The cover is a photograph of a Cardamom Pear Cake with White Chocolate Glaze. It's made with whole pears pressed into the batter and served with the reduction of the pear poaching liquid. I've been dying to make it, but I'm on a self-imposed sugar free regimen until Thanksgiving.

Just in case the recipe above piques anyone's interest, I'd recommend reading Urban Food Guy's blog with his take on it. Apparently there was some mix up in translating the recipe to U.S. measurements and he discovered the amount of butter should be reduced significantly for best results. When I finally try it out, I plan to use his measurements.

scrambled eggs with fontina cheese and truffle oil between thin bread pressed together.

Senate Bean Soup!!

Ruthanna, I just bought a 50 pound bag of turnips for $3! They sell them here for deer feed, but I eat them.

I also have some good local apples, the last of that $6 half bushel of HoneyCrisp. I'm trying to think of something with turnips and apples...

Cravings? Nope, don't have any, I'm just trying to eat stuff before it spoils.

Annie

Craving xiao long bao, aka soup dumplings.

I've tried making them, never quite got it right. Not plump enough, usually. I may try again in a little while.

Peppermint ice cream is in the stores ! Here I come ! Nothing better than a peppermint ice cream cone on a hot day !

Thanks to you Alexa, I had grits on the brain. We had dinner at a fun new restaurant called, Mess Hall. They featured cheddar grits on the menu. While I didn't realize that I liked grits, these were fantastic!
Lately I"ve also been on a popcorn craving and of course, pumpkin flavored sweets!

Pinto beans cooked with country ham is high on the list right now.
It's the cooler temps...

Deeby, Finally another peppermint ice cream lover. Rarely eat ice cream, but I do have a love of peppermint with big peppermint chunks in it.

Butternut squash, or any other winter squash. I roasted some the other day, along with some potatoes and onions. I made soup from the left overs. I still am thinking of maybe butternut squash risotto, acorn squash roasted with a little butter and brown sugar, or anything else winter squash oriented.

Also, a good pot of beans does sound goodâ¦not to mention those grits everyone is talking about.

Sally

My current food craving is my mom's Cuban Buñuelos.

Deeby, Homemade brand 'Grasshopper Pie' ice cream used to be my favorite treat, until one day, when they disappeared. I can't find it anywhere anymore.

Sol

A fun thread. We eat grits all the time, but I'd give a lot for a Maryland blue crab cake made with all lump meat. Ooooooh.

Maryland crab cakes with pepperocini mayonnaise. So yummy!

My DH has been craving Cal-Mex food, so we've been hitting our fav taqueria a whole lot: shrimp quesadillas, carne asada nachos (lighter than most with queso fresco rather than melted Jack or Cheddar), chile verde plates.

So it was my turn to pick, and since I was tired of Cal-Mex, I chose Eritrean (similar to Ethiopian).

We started with beef samosas, lovely little deep-fried wraps with a super-spicy chile sauce that could blow the top of your head off! Gommen (braised collards), zigne (spicy beef cubes in red gravy), bamiya (stewed sliced okra--yum!), alitcha dinish (potatoes & carrots in turmeric gravy), birsin yemisir wot (stewed red lentils), doro alicha (chicken yellow curry) -- colorful little piles atop freshly-made injera; the spongy, sourdough-like pancake that serves as both bread and flatware.

All of this is "eat with your fingers", fun and messy. With it we had two of their banana-fruit juice smoothies, a popular accompaniment to this cuisine.

Tamales. None in the freezer. I make them around this time every year...

Just had everything oyster, 3-ways, salt cod 3-ways, and crab cakes...

johnliu, i just figured out Xiaolongbao that was recently a mystery to me.

OOoooo. Crab. Ok, I'll second that thought!

Really good bread with nice sweet butter. If I were sentenced to a lifetime of nothing but bread and butter, I'd be fine with that (sort of).

When the weather turns cold I crave Sauerbraten!

A good vegetarian black bean chili with sour cream on the top. Or if trying to be good, plain yogurt. Both great.
Cannot do as H cannot do beans very much.

I've been watching this thread for a while and finally decided to 'fess up...
The last two weeks' craving has been fish taco's. I've had them twice in 10 days!

My constant cravings are:
1. Extra crispy fried chicken wings with some sort of spicy, hot, sweet sauce. Korean style extra crispy are my favs!
2. Cape Cod 40% Reduced Fat Potato Chips (Oxymoron... but I can't keep them in the house because I will eat them!
3. Fabulous artisan bread fresh out of the oven with a local organic unsalted butter
4. A thick juicy medium rare, grass fed beef porterhouse steak (sautéed wild mushroom on the side please)

About once every 2 years I get a sweet craving and it's always for good dark chocolate something other than that I don't crave sweets. Thank goodness!