Traditional dishes in your country

[olusiat55]

Hi Everyone! 

 

My name is Ola. I come from Poland. In my opinion the best know traditional Polish dish are pierogi. Pierogi are dumplings stuffed with just about anything you can think of - potatoes, meat, onions, cheese. If you haven't eaten them before, you have to try!

 

What's your traditional dish ?

[Kell]

I'm from Northumberland, England. Two local specialities are stotties (a kind of round flat bread) and pease pudding (made with split yellow peas). Both are delish!

 

stottie with ham and pease pudding

[BSchultz19]

Pizza? McDonalds? Living in America is sad.....

 

But as for my heritage, I am Greek. My favorite Greek dish is spanakopita. 

It is filo dough, spinach, and feta cheese. All in layers. Very difficult to make, but so delicious. 

[muggle not]

Pizza? McDonalds? Living in America is sad.....

Shame......The U.S. has probably the best food in the world. IMO only Italy may have better food preparation.

btw, pizza originated in Italy

 

Some good foods that originated in the U.S. are Cornbread, Grits, and Key Lime Pie.

 

Try some jambalaya and gumbo from Louisiana or BBQ from North Carolina or the world's best lobster from Maine. Not even mentioning hard shell crabs from Maryland's Eastern Shore. New England's clam chowder and lobster bisque are unsurpassed for soups.

Edited November 5, 2013 by muggle not

[muggle not]

Hi Everyone! 

 

My name is Ola. I come from Poland. In my opinion the best know traditional Polish dish are pierogi. Pierogi are dumplings stuffed with just about anything you can think of - potatoes, meat, onions, cheese. If you haven't eaten them before, you have to try!

 

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I really like pierogi as well as halupki.

[Kreader]

I grew up in the Caribbean.  We have many dishes that everyone eats even though they were originally from other countries.  Sometimes its hard to say where things really originated.

 

There's pellau, a rice dish with pigeon/gungo peas and meat.  There's a debate whether it originated from Spain/France/India.  There's Callaloo, a sort of spinach like greens cooked with pumpkin, ochroes, pepper and coconut milk.  Sometimes there's smoked meat in it or crab.  It is thought to be of African origin.  Cassava is indigious to the Caribbean, we have it steamed/boiled in soup or as a side dish with stewed meat.  It can be grated to make a sort of flat bread or a cake which is really like a pudding.  We have pastels, originally from south America.  Its cornmeal/polenta with a meat filling.  Its wrapped in banana leaf and boiled/steamed.  They're called hallaca in Venezuela, there they wrap them up in corn leaves.  From India we got rotis (flat bread usually served with a spicey filling), dahl/dal, Polourie (fluffy fried pea dough balls) along with some sweets.  We also have something called doubles, its two fried bits of dough that has spicey chick peas and a sort of salsa/chutney.  Its a popular street food.  From a part of China, we got fried rice, chow mein and pow (pao-tzu, large steamed dumpling with a filiing, usually meat).  There are local wild meats, such as Deer, Iguana, Manicou (Opossum), Tatou (Armadillo),   and Agouti (similar to a Guinnea Pig).

pastelles

Doubles

 

1. Doubles

A pure Trini invention. “Deh best,” says Jesse, have pillowy-light bara bread sandwiching tender curried channa (chickpeas) – not too runny – finished with a spoonful of tamarind or mango and a kick of pepper. And they must be assembled so you get some of each flavor in every bite.

 

Edited November 5, 2013 by Kreader

[Kreader]

My favourite thing to eat growing up was a chow,  Its a spicey fruit salad.  I liked mango chow a lot.  Here's someone making pineapple chow.

 

Magic happens when you mix chunks of fresh fruit with lime juice, hot pepper, salt, garlic, andchadon bene, a first cousin to cilantro.

[Kreader]

Here's one of the roti versions, paratha (buss-up-shot).

5. Curry Goat with Buss-Up-Shut

Scoop up a chunk of tender meat and put aside all preconceptions: This goat’s neither tough nor gamey, and the strips of “buss-up” roti are perfect for capturing every last bit of sauce. Photographer’s note: The shredded roti is said to look like a busted up shirt. The Trini accent is thick like chutney, and if you don’t say buss-up-shut (in the dialect)

[Kreader]

We have some quick home baked/fried breads that we call bakes.  There's usually baking powder or bicarbonate of soda for a raising agent.  Coconut bake has a recipe similar to soda bread except we use coconut milk instead of sour milk.

7. Buljol on a Coconut Bake

Coconut milk and fresh grated coconut in the roast bake provide a subtly sweet counterpoint to the saltfish/tomato/onion/pepper salad inside. Before you ask for extra pepper sauce, remember the name means “burn mouth.”

[Impala1967]

I am from Poland. To be honest, I must say that our traditional dishes are rather caloric but really delicious and I think that they are worth  tasting. I  particularly recommend pierogi, bigos and gołąbki. But my favourite Polish dish  is żurek. It is soup made from fermented rye flour. You can eat it with potatoes or bread, eggs, mushrooms or sausage.There is nothing better for dinner, Polish cuisine is also famous for perfect bread and delicious sausage. If you have never tasted Polish dishes, you must try. Bon apetit

 

 

[muggle not]

golabki is what I call halupki, and yes, I love them. I had some for dinner last night as a matter of fact.

[gardengirl]

I suppose that [as I am from England] typical good English dishes are;  a roast beef dinner, with roast potatoes, veg and Yorkshire pudding [made from batter.] Also, sauage and mash! You can't beat it, as long as you use really good quality sausages, often made with pork and sage , and the mash [creamed potatoes, with butter] this is good served with either garden peas or cooked chopped leeks, or fried sliced onions.Also, the full English breakfast!!! Yum. Cooked sliced bacon [the leaner the better] with small sausages, fried tomatoes, fried mushrooms and fried eggs.If you have room in a pan, also some fried bread slices [i didn't say it was healthy, just delicious.]I am extremely hungry now.

[Talisman]

Of course there is also good old fashioned fish and chips - although it might not be wrapped in newspaper.

[Sakura]

I'm German, but I don't really like most of our traditional dishes. The only thing I can think of is Baumkuchen. Now, that's the best kind of cake, especially popular now, around Christmas.

[geordie9]

I'm from Northumberland, England. Two local specialities are stotties (a kind of round flat bread) and pease pudding (made with split yellow peas). Both are delish!

 

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stottie with ham and pease pudding

 

i love ham & pease pudding stotties

Edited November 12, 2013 by geordie9

[geordie9]

fish & chips

sunday dinner (chicken or beef, mash & veg & yorkshires)

kebab

[Athena]

Isn't kebab Turkish? Or am I mistaken ..

 

There are some traditional Dutch dishes but they're not my favourite good. I'd say rookworst stamppot and particularly hutspot are traditional Dutch dishes, I don't much eat the latter so I'm not 100% sure what goes it in (I can Google it though if you want). I think it's a mashup of potatoes, carrot and.. something but I'm not sure what.

[Kreader]

Yes Kebab is Turkish.  We get a lot of it  plus curries.  Curries as we know it today were really invented for the British by peoples of the Indian asian sub continent.  

[Peacefield]

I agree, Muggle, a lot of great dishes come out of the US!  Practically every state has it's own unique type of food so you can drive all over and try all sorts of new things!

 

I'm not Greek but I also LOVE spanikopita.  I also love the dolmas.  We have a similar dish but we just call them stuffed grape leaves.  I'm in the US but my maternal grandpa was from Lebanon as was my maternal grandma's father.  Needless to say we grew up eating a lot of fatyre, kibbi, tabbouleh, babaghanoush, cabbage rolls and hummus.

 

Here is a photo of a small sampling of food we made for a dinner earlier this year: 

 

[BSchultz19]

Shame......The U.S. has probably the best food in the world. IMO only Italy may have better food preparation.

btw, pizza originated in Italy

 

Some good foods that originated in the U.S. are Cornbread, Grits, and Key Lime Pie.

 

Try some jambalaya and gumbo from Louisiana or BBQ from North Carolina or the world's best lobster from Maine. Not even mentioning hard shell crabs from Maryland's Eastern Shore. New England's clam chowder and lobster bisque are unsurpassed for soups.

I know But not in quite the same way we eat it here in America. lol

 

I do enjoy cornbread, jambalaya, and KC BBQ is really good. Chicago Italian beef is fantastic. Chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy, and other southern dishes are fantastic too. 

 

I wasn't really thinking when I made the first post lol. We do have some great food here. 

[Kreader]

I have family living in Staffordshire.  They have oat cakes eaten with any filling you may wish

 

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oatcake

[poppyshake]

So many people think our cuisine is rubbish but it's not at all .. it's scrummy.

 

Being originally from London ... something we always ate on a Friday is pie, mash and liquor ... my mum and sister would have jellied eels but I was too squeamish to try them. It probably doesn't look very pre-possessing but it tasted yummy. There are still pie and mash shops in London (and some elsewhere) .. I need to go one day and see if it's still as good.

 

Fish and chips obviously is a favourite .. also Toad in the Hole and Shepherds/Cottage Pie but you really can't beat roast beef, yorkshire pudding and all the trimmings  

[Virginia]

Our foods are as varied as our states. I'm from the south and being a Black American we have our Sunday favorites, friend chicken, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, biscuits, tossed salad and iced sweet tea. Now, I'm also in a region where sea food is plentiful so we may throw in the fried fish, or shrimp and grits, fish and grits, hoppin' john (black eyed peas with rice and hamhocks). We also have the "Lowcountry Boil, or Frogmore Stew." Its boiled shrimp, sausage, corn on the cob (cut small)and whole red potatoes, great for outdoor eating!

[Anna Begins]

Our foods are as varied as our states. I'm from the south and being a Black American we have our Sunday favorites, friend chicken, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, biscuits, tossed salad and iced sweet tea. Now, I'm also in a region where sea food is plentiful so we may throw in the fried fish, or shrimp and grits, fish and grits, hoppin' john (black eyed peas with rice and hamhocks). We also have the "Lowcountry Boil, or Frogmore Stew." Its boiled shrimp, sausage, corn on the cob (cut small)and whole red potatoes, great for outdoor eating!

Exactly.  Here in California, we are so close to Mexico, there is a ton of Mexican cuisine.  Margarita's are a big deal  Taco's, Fajita's, Burritos and Corona beer.

I was lucky enough to travel 36 states of the US and it's true- we have some pretty awesome food!  We didn't eat at one chain restaurant and loved every bite.

(BTW Virginia- South Carolina was our favorite state)

Edited May 1, 2014 by Anna Begins

[muggle not]

We vacation every year in Bar Harbor, Maine. Our favorite restaurant is "The Reading Room" at the Bar Harbor Inn and my favorite entrée is the Lobster out of the Shell. The Lobster Bsque and the Clam Chowder are fabulous for the soups.

http://www.barharborinn.com/images/reading_room_dinner_menu_2014.pdf

Edited July 19, 2014 by muggle not