You DON'T make this at home . .

[Daniel]

One thing I go out for is Japanese Food.. Sushi or Cooked Japanese food I enjoy out.. For selection alone, its not cost effective to make at home..

[suzilightning]

sorry marlene <hangs head in shame>.  how much is a quick trip up to canada these days?  i can be your kitchen helper... for rack of lamb.  i am a good dishwasher...

No problem. It can't be all that expensive can it? Hmmm, maybe I need to look for or start a rack of lamb topic. It's been ages since I've made it.

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i'm doing lamb burgers tomorrow if you can make it......

end of july johnnybird is gone, i'm painting our bedroom and i can grill some lamb.....

[scubadoo97]

Pork since the rest of my family will not touch it. Many Asian dishes even though I make a lot of them at home they sometimes are hard to replicate exactly. There are many more like deep fried foods. I tend not to go out to eat much since I find I usually enjoy the results of my labor more.

[C. sapidus]

Ethiopian food: injera, yedoro wat, zilzil tibs, etc.

Indian breads

Japanese food: sushi, donburi

I will occasionally order a dish at a restaurant if a) I'm considering making it at home, but b) it looks like a lot of work, and c) I have never eaten it before.

[tryska]

masala dosa.

[gini]

Count me as another one that orders fried foods out. Also ice cream - we don't have the machinery, electrical outlets, space, or patience to make it at home. Other than that, really time consuming dishes - braised short ribs or smoked meats for example.

[Lordof7]

Fried foods? Check.

Lamb? Check. (Although lamb is something I REALLY want to make at home, the offerings at the local grocery store are, well, pathetic. I need to find a decent butcher...)

For me, although I love salmon and eat it at home once every week or two, its invariably the fish I get when we go out for seafood. It just tastes so much better when its cooked right, and I haven't figured out how to do it yet. So it kinda counts as "I don't make it at home."

[Sunny Simmons Steincamp]

My arrogant "I can make anything" self tried to make the Koreanized Chinese dish JjajangMyeon (Noodles in Black Bean Sauce) at home Friday night. 

Hee hee. I can relate to this attitude. Generally I can pull it off but I've been consistently stumped by what appeared for all the world to be a straightforward preparation of salmon in a hot pot that is my husband's absolute favorite thing at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant. Try as I might, I'm stumped. I think I might need a clay crock or something. That's one thing I *always* order out, now... still trying to analyze what I'm doing wrong.

Pizza, subs, pitas, naan, french fries -- all those I can make better at home (with an awful lot of trial, error, and just plain practice.) I never buy bread in a store, or pasta (except for tube-type pastas.) But the elusive salmon, along with sushi (no access to sushi-grade seafood,) and, of all things, fried mushrooms (I know, I know...) serve to keep me at least somewhat humbled.

Great. Now I'm craving that salmon...

[pumkin]

Dim sum, curry, chinese. I'm getting hungry already.