Five Top Foods (Friday Five)

vom_marlowe asked about "Five favorite foods!"

Dark chocolate - with or without stuff added to it. I like a smooth texture on the melt, so I'm not all that happy with Black & Green's much-vaunted organic stuff, which seems brittle and grainy to me. Chocolove Ginger, Lake Champlain Peppermint Stick, and Endangered Species (multiple types: Raspberry, Cranberry & Almond, Chocolate Nibs, etc.) are favorites. I like fancy boxed dark chocolates too, like Godiva and Neuhaus.

Sushi - salmon nigiri sushi with a squeeze of lemon, flounder with shiso (perilla) leaf, yellowfin, California roll (with tobiko), and eel and cucumber roll are favorites.

My own matzoh ball soup - made from my mom's recipe.

Broiled Wellfleet scallops with butter, or in a lime-honey mustard-soy marinade - fresh from the bay the same day!

Mixed green salad with garden or farmer's market tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette dressing - I can eat salad for many, many meals in a row without getting tired of it.