Hypothetically speaking, you are on death row, hours away from execution, and you are entitled to one final meal request.
The sky’s the limit on the menu of your personal last supper so don’t hold back. There is no need to sweat the small details like food allergies, excessive calories, and any possible concerns of coming down with gout.
Personally, I would begin with the warm bread salad from Jardiniere (a restaurant in San Francisco). Then I’d move on to a half-dozen Home Maid raviolis with meat sauce. For my entree, while prime rib and veal parmigiana are serious contenders, I would have to go with a grilled chicken burrito from La Cumbre (world’s best taqueria in San Mateo). My beverage of choice would be an ice-cold Dr Pepper in a Coca-Cola glass (just to be difficult). Finally, for dessert, a single scoop of vanilla bean ice cream would be the perfect topper to the perfect meal.
Now that I’ve shared with you my last supper, I’m dying (still on death row) to see your final meal requests. Happy commenting!
*This post was inspired by a family conversation started by my sister-in-law Alia. I hope this oversight isn’t the start of our big fight. 🙂
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on our honeymoon, 19 years ago, in st. barths, fwi, the chef at our little hotel on the beach made up some pasta marinara with fresh pasta and fresh grated cheese… mmmmmmmm! I’d go for a dish of that…
I would go for a nice well done Steak with baked potato and steamed Asparagus and a nice salad.
For dessert I would take a strawberry cheese cake with no ice cream and a cup of decaf coffee.
Cocktail: Jack & soda
Appetizer: antipasti with dry salame, assorted cheeses and pickled veggies
Beverage with meal: China Mist iced tea
Salad: Johnny Garlic’s Bennett Valley Salad (even though it’s no longer on the menu) featuring mixed field greens, goat cheese, sundried tomatoes and candied pecans tossed with apple-basalmic vinaigrette [for those not in-the-know, Johnny Garlic’s is the original Santa Rosa restaurant of now-ubiquitous Food Network gangsta Guy Fieri]
Soup: Cup of minestrone (that’s “mine-strohn” to you, Jas) topped with a small mountain of grated parm from Joe’s of Westlake
Entree: Eggplant parmesan with a side of pesto noodles from Flavor (my favorite Santa Rosa restaurant)
Dessert: Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Bun ice cream
From Fiesta del Mar in Mountain View:
-margarita rocks, no salt
-chicken nachos
-camarones alex, corn tortillas
From Prolific Oven, PA:
-rum chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting
It’s not fancy, but it’s soooo gooood.
-HO
cocktail: mike’s cosmo (his are the only ones i can drink–the rest are merda)
a nice glass of Duckhorn Merlot w dinner….
Dinner wd have to be the typical Thanksgiving meal…. It’s my favorite, November or not… and a carbo load
white turkey meat, creamy mashed potatoes, Italian sausage w sour dough stuffing, sweet potatoes, kernels of corn (to mush into everything else) and a gravy boat full of gravy.
No pumpkin pie for me, though, it’s Oreo Cookie Cheesecake all the way baby! Or Uncle Mike’s banana cream pie…. ya, that’s it.
I would eat anything Mama Khan makes……oh, how I miss her home cooking!
Pea-hag…you stole this question from me!
Heard there’s a website listing last meals…
Wine tasting menu – so a glass with each course – find a sommilier (sp?) to pair the following:
appetizer – anything with cheese
salad – a plethora of different raw veggies w/lettuce and champagne dressing
main course – a chicken dish my mom makes – chicken breasts stuffed with monterey jack cheese covered in an herbed butter in little jelly rolls, egged/breaded and then cooked in a butter wine sauce – to die for. (heh). Parmesan noodles. stir fried veggies. Hot fresh french bread
dessert – spice cake and a really good cup of coffee.
from Duarte’s in Pescadero
Half and Half soup (that’s half artichoke and half anaheim green chile to those who do not know)
Crab Melt
Spinach Salad
(all with a couple of glasses of Tim’s chardonnay pour of the day)
and for dessert: my own homemade carrot cake with butter/cream cheese frosting. It’s that good.
A 1 lb center cut butterfly pork chop (I try to eat Kosher, but it’s a last meal right), with homemade chunky applesauce, red skin mashed potatoes with butter and real cream, homemade mac and cheese, with shell noodles(even tough I’m lactose intolerant), and a big piece of Velvet Black Tie Cake, with 2 big glasses of milk to wash it all down.
Somebody was executed a few months ago and they had the usual article about their last meal (and other famous last meals). So I started polling some folks about what theirs would be. For myself I came up with the following:
I will assume they will let me have booze but if not, I would drink diet cherry coke.
Start with a Belvedere martini up, slightly dirty.
Cheese plate (anything but blue/stilson) with a bottle of sancere.
Ceasar salad from Vito (made at your table Sir?) or a beet and goat cheese salad
crab legs with drawn butter and a bone in filet mignon medium rare served with a port wine mushroom reduction
scalloped or mashed potatoes
artichoke with a mayo dip
Blueberry cheesecake with a dollop of Ben N Jerry’s cherry garcia ice cream and a nice port
Followed by a nice single malt scotch on the rocks. (I wouldn’t need to worry about the headache I would have the next day!)
Appetizer: Baked Brie with apricot preserves and toasted almonds
Salad: Spinach with bacon, red onion and balsamic vinaigrette
Meal: Filet mignon, sautéed mushrooms in butter, mother’s mashed potatoes and roasted asparagus
Dessert: Warm pecan pie with pure, rich vanilla ice cream
And… it would be my last meal because I would explode in the end (after the wafer thin mint).
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
Wow – y’all are making me hungry!
If it was truly my last meal…I’m going with comfort over quality.
Mom’s meatloaf, mashed potatoes and corn
Chocolate milk
then about half dozen creme brulee
and a caramel latte
🙂
Mom’s Spaghetti
My Garlic bread
Julie’s mashed potatoes
Baskin Robins german choc cake ice cream (if they still make it)
and for desert a Roast Beef sandwich from Roma’s
Oops, that was from me not Julie
I sooo would’ve expected the Roma sandwich to be the appetizer, Dan! Way to carbo-load!
Not me…I’ve been thinking all week…and not just because it is Thanksgiving.
For me, I’d want a complete, although simple, Thanksgiving dinner that I did not have to prep, cook or clean up after! Yep, that’d be my dying meal!
…or maybe it could be Al’s gravy…it is to die for!
Al’s peper steak is terrific, too!
I better be a cat with 9 lives so I can have alot of last meals!
Hope your Thanksgiving was a good one, different, but good just the same!
I would mix the grape & the grain because I wouldn’t have to worry about the after effects – that list is very extensive
Definitely have some of my father’s Xmas glogg
Serrano ham wrapped around Spanish east coast melon
Mixed greens salad with goat cheese & delicious dressing by Beatrice Baudriller (Matthieu’s mom)
Fire grilled lamb chops with rosemary & garlic
Chili’s baby back ribs
Grilled asparagus with balsamic vinegar drizzle
Turron – every kind made in Xixona
Marzipan covered flour-less dark chocolate cake with raspberry/cranberry/orange/pineapple filling
Topped off by my Spanish father’s lemon sorbet and my grandfather’s gingersnaps
and some escargot in a wine reduction sauce
Easy:
Appetizer- Steamed mussels
Entree- Steamed Maine lobster, baked potato with oil and salt rubbed on the outside and sour cream, corn on the cob
Drink- Glass of Savignon Blanc
A meal from my childhood! (minus the wine of course)