I'll see your peanut brittle and raise you a batch of caramels.

Other than sweets? Sesame Chicken, the kind you get at the Chinese restaurants, terribly unhealthy with the fried crunchy breading and sweet sauce.

Annie

Any good restaurant meal...I'd even settle for fried chicken, french fries and slaw....as long as I didn't cook it and it was at a sit down place where a waiter served me!!

A warm, gooey brownie.

A whole pan of them.

I'm with Lindac! Just don't want to choose it, cook it or clean up after. But.......

And Islay, I will add I don't want to pick it up and bring it home in a paper carton. I want to sit down and have it brought to me on a plate! And I want someone to say.."is everything all right?"..."Do you need anything else?"

I'll see your waiter and raise you a fine dining. I can get lovely, top tier restaurant food delivered, though the cutlery is disposable, but fine dining is so likely to be a fiasco that it isn't even worth trying. Probably better on pickup than delivery, but still not worth the price.

Otherwise, what I miss most is Trader Joe's. Not any particular item, but just TJ's items, prices and just popping out to the store.

No wait! I miss even more than that being able to choose from the butcher's case and not have prepacked by the pound. I get very fine meat, but if you want two pounds, you buy two one pound lots, and nothing cut to order.

Tequila.

And roast duck.

Funny - I've been meaning to make chicken pie with some leftover baked chicken breasts and a jar of gravy, but we keep eating more of the chicken every day and now I'm not sure if there's enough left.

Oyster sliders, truffle fries and a beer at the local pub. Really more of an eating establishment than a tavern or bar although they do feature a wide selection of local spirits. But they are currently only doing take-out so no beer or other spirits and the sliders really need to be eaten on the spot.

I can wait :-)

pillog, the butcher's cases at both of my local grocers are still up and functioning and will sell or cut meat to order. In fact I just picked up my cut-to-order 2 rib prime rib roast!

Mostly, I miss the social aspect of dining in or out with friends.

Gardengal, I daresay that the butchers here are still open, but I’m not, and cut to order is no longer available for delivery. :( Whole Foods is offering prime rib cut to order online, but I think that's just for the holidays. That's good, but I sorely miss going to the butcher and just choosing what looks good.

Really good Seafood at a specialty restaurant, and their Blood Orange Martini. I would really love an order of pan-fried Calamari steak with a crab claw appetizer. Oh yah!

Scotch. Sounds really, really, REALLY good. Been too long. One of these years. Islay’s always here to remind me.

Good timing on this topic. Just this morning DH and I were saying it's been too long since we've had the very simple but highly popular red cabbage salad from Clearman's North Woods Inn here. It's just red cabbage but the dressing makes it TDF. I can get major cravings for it. He's picking up some for tonight.

Another thought is prime rib and horseradish, but that's coming next week. :-)

" what haven't you had lately ..."

It would be against Forum rules to talk about that. Yeah social distancing, you know what I mean? :-).

This I can tell you. Before covid, every Friday after work I pick up dinner from a local Portuguese restaurant. Wonderful seafood. They closed.

dcarch

For me, it would be the experience of going to one of our Japanese markets without having to wait in a long line.

I miss going to the salsa bar at a local restaurant. They set out a variety of freshly made salsas and a delicious bean dip served with warm, crispy tortilla chips. Simple but tasty!

We were in the habit of going out to lunch about 3 times/week. I really miss that. We knew the bartenders and wait staff at many places. We had friendly conversations with them and other people eating around us. It's not the food I miss, particularly, but the general camaraderie. It's just not the same getting take-out and bringing it home. We haven't been doing that very much but probably should - to support the restaurants that are still open.

seagrass

Facial expressions, smiles, hand-shakes, hugs, ....from co-workers, friends....get togethers, bbq's, winter parties we always hosted. The conversations with strangers at all day interactions...corner stores, fueling the car, check-outs.

Sushi. Meeting friends traditionally Sunday late afternoon at the sushi bar. I do make spring rolls and similar but nothing like enjoying the expert sushi chefs we know.

Very content though, after a stressful lockdown early April with no deliveries available, but figured that out. Well stocked at home, with no cooking days via charcuterie. No fuss, minimal dishes to wash. Back up simple meals are fine.

Mostly go whole hog with too many pots and pans. I enjoy it. Except for the abundance of dishes to wash. Last night was insane. Good meal but the dishes I thought would be minimal, oops.

Nice to have a social day out or a take home meal. Not had that since last January.

Also nice to not have family pissed off we are not visiting. Still pissed, 😂. 15 years visiting and cooking and doing household chores and paying for all of it...using our rare time off from work, no complaints but really stressed us. My father is pissed this year. We are not visiting for obvious covid reasons. They just miss my spoiling them.

Nice to have the break from that this year.

Complimentry cups of coffee at the grocery stores. I'd help myself to a cup and wander up and down the aisles until the coffee was gone--finding impulse items to purchase as I wandered.