Thought I’d ask this because I want to discover more foods from across the world
(Also I shouldn’t have to say this to americans, please state where you are from and state where you are from without acronyms or shortened names because I’ve seen US Defaultism on lemmy and not all of us are going to know your acronyms considering we’re global users)
Fenek Moqli - Fried Rabbit in Garlic. ( Malta)
Potage au bonne femme.
Chicken nuggets.
I’m Belgian so only one answer is allowed
Belgian fries with mayonnaise and Flemish stew
Weirdly the replies to your comment won’t load on the lemmy instance I’m on, don’t know about other instances
They do seem to load on your instance so I’m thinking it’s some sort of federation issue
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I pick vol au vent. 😁
Allez, een Américain Frites alsteblief !
Very admirable, it’s a good choice
If you take it with fries, of course 😁
This interaction is basically me at a restaurant
As neighbor Dutchy, I can agree! Delicious.
From Bulgaria, banitsa, it’s a bit difficult to describe, but it’s sorta like layered dough with cheese and eggs, though this description really doesn’t do it justice…
Looks a lot like the moldovian Vertuta. I bet they taste similar.
My wife spent 18 months in Bulgaria. When she talks about the food banitsa invariably comes up as something she desperately misses.
A few kg of meat, traditionally (in the rhine-area) from horse, nowadays more beef, marinated for 1+ month in a few litres of wine and vinegar, with some vegetables. Slowly cooked so it disintegrates on your fork.
The sauce you get from Sauerbraten is sooooo good, too - goes well with any veggies and/or pasta to eat alongside it.
Yep, we always save a lot of sauce for later in the year, as we (my family) only makes it one time a year, for christmas (on the 25th and 26th). With dumplings on the 25th and noodles on the 26th.
Northwest US: smoked salmon with a side of berries. Sockeye with little or no sugar added is the best IMO. The berries should be native varieties if you want to try for authenticity, though the invasive blackberries are really tasty, too.
I’m from France, if I had to select one dish for you to try it would be duck confit with sarladaise potatoes (cooked in duck fat). In terms of calorie density it makes me think of Homer’s “I only eat food in bar form” meme. But so worth it.
Finland: only had it a couple of times 'cause it’s expensive, and takes long and is tedious to make, but loimulohi (fire salmon). It’s salmon nailed to a plank and then heated up by an open fire. Very tasty.
Pretty much any big enough fish can be made like that, but I’ve only had salmon.
I imagine there is something like this in a lot of languages, but it’s always amused me that Bulgogi (Korean BBQ beef/pork) translates literally to “fire meat”
I’m happy to learn Finns have a similar word!
In Japan, we usually trade that for skewers and have them staked in the sand around a fire, rotating them every now and again
here in the PNW (Pacific North West) of North America, we have lots of different kinds of salmon but wood fired salmon on a cedar plank (like a roofing shingle) is food fit for the gods
the natives have done it for ions and it is something you have to try if you like that fire salmon
also natives make salmon candy, which is dried salmon belly, dude its the best jerky ever made
That sounds amazing
From China, boiled dumplings/water dumplings. Preferably stuffed with pork and garlic chives with a little bowl of black vinegar and sesame oil to dip in.
My favorite food of all time. If it was possible to have dumplings every meal and be healthy I 100% would.
I love Chinese food so much. I’ve visited twice, and always make room for food.
My favorite street food is probably sheng jian bao, the pan fried buns with soupy pork filling sealed in.
In terms of a single standalone dish, it’s hard to say. I like noodle dishes, like Taipei style beef noodle soup. Or Wuhan style re gan mian.
And for the type of meal where there’s a lot of dishes on the table to be shared, my favorite dish in that setting is probably Mapo tofu. I did a food tour of Chengdu once and just everything Sichuan is so good, but Mapo tofu is just all my favorite Sichuan things in a single dish.
Singapore here Nasi lemak is to die for Coconut rice with a side of fried fish/chicken,fried egg,deep fried anchovies and peanuts topped with sambal (a sweet chilli paste) Used to eat it for breakfast daily Bring on the heart disease !!
From Almeirim in Portugal, there’s “sopa da pedra”, translates to “soup of the rock”. It has several kinds of meat, beans, potato, and it’s usually eaten with bread (some say even a specific local bread type, but I’m not picky on that). It used to come with a stone in it traditionally, but for higiene reasons restaurants are not allowed to anymore. Some people at home still do it, I believe.
With it there is an old tale:
There was once a poor friar that was traveling. Once it came time to rest, he knocked on someone’s door and asked for their hospitality in exchange for a soup. His hosts let him in and they see the friar pulling an old smooth stone from his pocket and putting it in a pot, along with water.
“Some seasoning would make this soup better… Do you happen to have any chouriço?” [best translation I’ve got is “meat”, or maybe “sausage”] asks the friar. And so his hosts find him some chouriço that they throw in the pan.
“It’s looking great! Now this soup would really improve if we could thicken it up a little. Do you happen to have some potatoes or beans leftover from yesterday?” And some potatoes and beans have indeed been leftover from yesterday. The friar adds it to the soup.
The friar asks for a few more spices, olive oil, and soon there is a delicious smell coming from the pot. What a nice soup!
They eat and once the soup is finished the friar fishes out the stone, washes it and puts it back in his pocket. Tomorrow he’ll knock on someone else’s door along the way ;)
Ha! We have a very similar folk tale in Hungary about a soldier returning from war with a rock, asking an old lady to cook the “stone soup”, asking for more and more legit ingredients.
Out of curiosity, is the soup similar?
Just re-read the tale, it’s actually a bit similar, it has sausages (kolbász, much closer to chorizo than the english type), potatoes and rice.
That’s so interesting! I wonder if some immigrant took it from one country to the other, along with the story
All I could find was that the version I know comes from Székelys of Bukovina. Maybe it’s convergent evolution of resourceful people🤷♂️
chouriço reminds me of “chorizo”
Wonder if there’s some related etymology there
Chorizo is the Spanish variant, our neighbors. Chorizo and chouriço are not quite the same, but similar. AFAIK they have different seasonings.
German here. I don’t know if its reaally local, but mine would be a family dish called “Holzfällerpfanne”, the “lumberjack skillet”. It’s made out of fried potatoes, slices of apple, Champignons, fried onion, fried cabanossi and cheese on top (a lot of it).
So you basically slice all ingredients, fry the raw (and peeled) potatoes for a few minutes, add in the champignons, wait a few more minutes, add the apples next, and after another few minutes add the onions and cabanossi. When everything is slightly browned, spread a good amount of cheese on top, cover the pan with a lid and wait until the cheese is fully melted. Tadaa!
Deciding when to add which ingredient so everything is perfect at the same time is kind of key here, so it may help to fry the onions und cabanossi in a seperate pan to not overdo them.
Google search has gotten really horrible lately - I can’t find an English recipe for this one, or even a clean enough web page to use translate. Lots of random unrelated results though
I tried looking for this but google won’t give me an English recipe for it
There is really not much more to it than I described. The amounts of the ingredients can vary and there isn’t one “right” ratio to follow. Here are some additional tips that might help, though I haven’t made a Holzfällerpfanne in a long time so no guarantee:
- Cut the potatoes thinly (only about a few millimeters), or else they will take forever and won’t be as crispy.
- Use a non-stick pan and a little bit of vegetable oil to prevent especially the potatoes and champignons from sticking.
- For cheese we always used shredded Gouda.
- When prepared right, the dish doesn’t need a lot of seasoning, I usually season it with pepper only, as the cabanossi itself has a lot of salt and the combination of the different ingredients make for a really balanced taste themselves.
- Don’t overthink the timing of when to add which ingredient. Excluding the cabanossi and onion you can’t really overcook neither the potatoes, champignongs nor apples.
I hope this helps! :)
Germany (Rhineland Region) I would go with “Mettbrötchen” even though it’s so plain it’s so unique in its style
Yeah raw pork definitely is quite unique haha
merjimek chorbasy - is a lentil soup, I think it’s originally turkish. nohutli et - lamb stew with chickpeas. yantyq - pie with minced lamb fried in a pan without fat. I’m originally from Crimea, Ukraine.
Stamppot. I’m from the Netherlands and I really love stamppot.
It’s basically boiled veggies (usually a type of kale, but it can also be made with endive or carrots (but then it’s called hutspot) and potatoes mashed together. Add a smoked sausage and some gravy over it. delicious!
But it’s best when it’s winter and it’s really cold outside and when you make it, the windows steam up. Then it’s really gezellig
I’m german, but my families traditional recipe was influenced by my uncle from the netherlands. It is basically uienstamppot with bratwurst and applesauce as a variation on “Himmel un Ääd” and it’s sooooo tasty. I can never eat normal mashed potatoes when uienstamppot is so much better!
Also dutch and I can’t stand the texture of stamppot, and the flavour is pretty meh as well. I’d rather skip dinner than eat stamppot.
Now, zoute haring, that’s a true Dutch delicacy!
