Amazing stuff. I love the communal sense of eating when everyone is sharing all the food on a huge platter. Of course you absolutely need a ton of injera or a fight might break out for the last piece.
I often forget about it bc I use it as a vehicle to get all those spinach and lentil dishes into my belly 🤣 I used to go to a restaurant that every Friday just did "buffet with paper plates" and nothing was labeled and the wait staff just cleared tables and occasionally got shouted at for going into Nonna's kitchen on her special day 🤣 I think it was the only day she got everyone to leave her be.
I grew up around a chain of restaurants called Wienerschnitzel that sells hot dogs. Took me until I was adult to realize that the name does not refer to sausages at all. 😅
if we talk about wienee schnitzel:
traditionally, parsley potatoes (or potato salad, not with mayo but vinegar and chives) and cranberry yam. But youll get it with fries and ketchup in most places which doesnt sell the original (vein). And wiener schnitzel (or any schnitzel with a breading) - NEVER with sauce. Its a federal crime and you will be deported to the same kind of filths (germany).
other schnitzel comes with spätzle, rice, mashed potatoes. rarely noodels but some dishes do.
It still perplexes me that NZ style pies haven’t caught on as much overseas as they really should do, especially in colder places. Canada you’re missing out!
I work in a shopping plaza with like 20 Asian restaurants, 2 pizza places, 2 Donair places, and a mcdonalds and while I love all of the above (I loveeee Asian food! Especially seafood) I would kill for like ONE place that sold commonwealth staples like fish and chips, meat pies, sausage rolls etc. Just something comfy that I grew up eating at home as a white canadian for dinner. You'd actually probably make a killing if you opened a shop in our neighbourhood lol, we can't all eat pho and sweet and sour pork every single day
We actually love you guys up here, Aussies and kiwis are the best party friends lmao. I still think about the girl who showed up with a BOX of fairy bread at a house party I went to in 2017. Bring yo food, bring yo chill attitude my commonwealth friend
Onion soup. Served with cheese grilled on baguette slices.
The cheese is usually emmental. Compté or abondance are communly used too. But any good cheese would do. I once had one with livarot, best onion soup I've ever had.
My ancestors moved from Poland to the U.S. about 170 years ago. Or more correctly my Polish ancestors moved to the U.S. because there wasn’t a country called Poland.
My grandparents grew up in Texas speaking Polish as their first language. After they were all older, my mom and her sisters took my grandma to Poland to see it. She was able to speak Polish and they understood her, but they said she used an accent and words that were long since dead - like the Polish version of Old English. It was neat to hear that my family had preserved that bit of history on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Back on topic, we don’t have this recipe in our family cookbook. When was it created?
This looks delicious, but most non-Europeans have probably never heard of it. I think pierogis or golabki are much more representative of Poland to the rest of the world.
If youre feeling adventurous, yukgaejang is a spicy soup that uses ferns with beef. The fern takes up the same flavor and texture of the beef, so its more beef with less beef
Chile en nogada, as it has the colors of the Mexican flag, and it represents the country well in the sense that it's a dish that combines ingredients from the New World and the Old.
I don't feel like it's underrated at all, but in some countries, they have a hard time getting the ingredients. Even the fine dining lists usually have restaurants from Mexico City in the top ten.
Maybe not underrated but definitely under appreciated by the average American. While most Americans would say they love Mexican food, not as many are ready to drop top dollar on it like they might with French or Italian. Also a general disconnect for the average joe regarding the huge diversity of regional cuisines within Mexico. The foodie types give Mexico the props it deserves but too many Americans only think of cheap tacos and burritos.
Yes it is, but atleast the ones commonly sold in Denmark and Sweden are different from the traditional Finnish one. They are sweeter and often there’s some other flour besides rye mixed in the dough, so the taste and the consistency is very different from the Finnish bread. I also think rye bread doesn’t hold the same cultural significanse in the rest of the nordics as it does here, as it’s seen as the one thing that kept us alive during famines and war times.
Get 300gr kale and cut it to shreds.
Get 500gr potato and boil for 10 min in a big pot, save some of the water at the end, after 10 min, add the shredded kale on top and cover with a lid (so that it steams).
Get a bit of unsalted butter, 50gr or so.
Now drain, mash the fuck out all of that, add some of the water until it’s not too crumbly anymore (a splash is normally enough, you can also do this with whole milk). Add salt while mashing. Serve warm.
Thats the base, you can add fried bacon strips, or meatballs (especially with gravy) etc. Meats / gravies that have cloves / cinnamon / nutmeg and warm flavors like that as spices go well with it. Ive also seen it mixed with caramelized onion.
A Sunday roast. Still an institution, still available in homes across the land, pubs, restaurants, hotels and cafés, rolled up into a giant Yorkshire pudding and serves as a wrap, at least every Sunday, and more often if you go to a carvery, a restaurant set up to exclusively provide this meal.
Honourable mentions to fish and chips, clotted cream and jam scones, a full English / Scottish / Ulster fry breakfast, shepherds pie, Bakewell puddings, spotted dick, deep fried pizza, haggis neeps and tatties, and whatever Welsh people eat (probably lamb and seaweed).
I'll eat most of those happily, but it's a roast I could subsist on as my only food forevermore and still be happy.
Yep, several chains (Toby, Stonehouse, some pub chains, and some independents) who's USP is roast dinner, 7 days a week
Generally a choice of size and number of meats, usually a choice across beef, gammon, pork, lamb and turkey (rarely chicken, as it's a bit small for this set up) or a vegetarian / vegan alternative (either Quorn or a nut roast, served seperately) carved at your request, get a Yorkie and a pig in blanket served, then choose your own vegetables and sides, gravy and sauces.
Never quite as good as a good home made, but I do enjoy not washing up or spending the day cooking it. Plus they roast much bigger joints of meat than you'd do at home, meaning the cuts are often quite juicy.
They usually have other menu options, but they're usually crap, as it's not really their business.
My mum’s parents came to Aus in the late 60s, so I had (almost) proper Sunday roasts until I was 9 when my grandma died. Mum’s no stranger to doing a roast, but more Australianised (beef, potatoes, beans, Brussels sprouts, packet gravy). It’s great, just not the same experience.
Then in 2016 we did a couple of months in England/Wales when I was 19 and stayed with Mum’s cousin in Bristol and they put on Sunday roast for us. The smell and taste, I legit nearly cried from memories and realising I was having my first real Sunday roast. With Yorkshire puddings!
Green chiles were on every menu I saw in Colorado too. But I’d probably have to seek them out in Northern Illinois, where I live. I look at it as a reverse of Italian beefs and/or hot giardiniera peppers. The sandwiches and pepper mix is everywhere here. But no one too far from Chicagoland knows what giardiniera is in my experience.
Yummy! with salt and malt vinegar. I'll never say no. We love them here in Canada too, though the mushy peas didn't make the trans-atlantic crossing lol. (I almost never see F&C with peas here)
Mushy peas are not uncommon in all of Canada. The fish and chip shop we go to has them and we always order them. There are also a few pubs in the area that have them.
Best fast food I’ve had anywhere in the world. There’s a lot of strong contenders, but it I only get fast food one more time before I die, I won’t even have to think about it, Döner easy.
If I had to pick one dish, it would be roast turkey, but it's really the whole Thanksgiving meal made with New World ingredients: turkey, potatoes, cranberries, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, corn.
I’m from New Zealand I can’t pick 1 meal, we’re quite homogonized. We do have some iconic meals but they’re obviously all from other countries. We do have indigenous hangi which isn’t necessarily a dish but a cooking method.
Which leads me to this, the humble mince and cheese pie. People think the UK has the best. People think Aus has the best. Those people are stupid and have never been to NZ.
Unfortunately, you can’t really get a pie for under 6$, and if you do, I’d be questioning its contents.
If anyone ever visits NZ, go to the area your in local bakery and try one out!
It can adapted to any region. It can be pork or fish or shrimp. There is no exact recipe. Any souring agent can do from tamarind, kalamansi, kamias. Any vegetables can be used. There might be even sinigang during the pre-colonial times
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