How could I have posted about Honduran food without mentioning;

PUPUSAS!!!

If you know any Salvadorans, they'll tell you that Hondurans stole this from them, but whatever. We loves us some pupusas in Honduras (and make 'em better!).

from Wiki;

A pupusa (from Pipil pupusaw) is a traditional Salvadoran dish made of thick, hand-made corn tortilla (made using masa de maíz, a maize flour dough used in Latin American cuisine) that is usually filled with a blend of the following: cheese (queso) (usually a soft cheese called Quesillo found in all Central America), cooked pork meat ground to a paste consistency (called chicharrón, not to be confused with fried pork rind, which is also known as chicharrón in some other countries), refried beans (frijoles refritos), or queso con loroco (loroco is a vine flower bud from Central America). The two most common pupusas are the pupusa de queso (cheese) and more popular pupusa revuelta with mixed ingredients of queso (cheese), frijoles (beans),^[1] and chicharrón. Pupusas are typically served with curtido (lightly fermented cabbage slaw with red chilies and vinegar) and a watery tomato salsa.

Ottensen said:

My ancestral foods from my parents and life in the deep south- SOUL FOOD

Standard dishes include but are not limited to (from top-bottom)

braised greens, mac & cheese, fried chicken, roast hens, candied yams, buttermilk biscuits, dirty rice, braised ox-tails, black-eyed peas, coca-cola ham, sweet potato pie, coconut cake, pecan pie, peach cobbler, and banana pudding

I haven't had Coca-Cola Ham in years! I sure as hell got a taste for some now!

Lisa10 said:

PurpleJedi said:

I had to google that.

I always assumed that they were some type of wet concoction such as Rice Pudding

Basically then it's some sort of biscuit?

Nah. It's basically the same as pancake mix, poured into either a large baking tray or muffin pan and then cooked at a high temperature for 1/2 hour. They're yummy with roast beef, roast potatoes, veggies and thick gravy.

Exactly Lisa10... Yorkshire Puddings are what Sunday Lunch was invented for!

grubs and.....................

roo balls

My Father's side of the family are from Lithuania. I have to look up some of the general foods. I never ate the foods either. It should be similar to Polish cuisine.

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Dalia11 said:

My Father's side of the family are from Lithuania. I have to look up some of the general foods. I never ate the foods either. It should be similar to Polish cuisine.

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My favourite Swedish dish is probably Biff Rydberg:

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It couldn't be simpler; diced tenderloin beef, diced (boiled and fried) potatoes, and an egg yoke to be poured over the meat. Lots of black pepper. Sometimes a side of mustard sauce.

Yum Yum. Food for a man.

retina said:

My favourite Swedish dish is probably Biff Rydberg:

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It couldn't be simpler; diced tenderloin beef, diced (boiled and fried) potatoes, and an egg yoke to be poured over the meat. Lots of black pepper. Sometimes a side of mustard sauce.

Yum Yum. Food for a man.

that looks goooooooooooooooooooooooooood! i'm going to attempt to make this dish. the potatoes look yummy.

free2bfreeda said:

retina said:

My favourite Swedish dish is probably Biff Rydberg:

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It couldn't be simpler; diced tenderloin beef, diced (boiled and fried) potatoes, and an egg yoke to be poured over the meat. Lots of black pepper. Sometimes a side of mustard sauce.

Yum Yum. Food for a man.

that looks goooooooooooooooooooooooooood! i'm going to attempt to make this dish. the potatoes look yummy.

Cool! I bet you'll love it!

As the dish is so simple you almost don't need a recipe but I found one in English for you anyway: http://www.scandinaviafoo...recipe.php (I would skip the vinegar but the separate egg yolk on the meat is important, just make sure it's not straight from the fridge because you don't want it to cool down the meat)

Good luck!

paintedlady said:

desserts huh?

Next to my mom's homemeade pineapple rum, anisette liquor, rum aged figs, raisins, dates, tomarinos.....

there is the classic drink called cocito... we Ricans drink our Rum like some drink water.

anything made with coconut... candies, cakes, pies, cookies, candied coconut fruits....

dulce de leche (fudge)

pumkin cakes and sweet potato cakes

we love to make jams and jellies... most notable is the guava pastes and jams

you can eat the paste with a nice white goat cheese

Jelly(guava) rolls... usually a sponge cake rolled with the jelly topped with a light cream cheese topping or dusted with sugar...

muthafukkin Flan.....its a custard baked with a carmelized sugar...

tembleque... another custard made of sugar, coconut and cornstarch and a bit of vanilla..

a bit of cinnamon sprinkled on top to finish

then there's bread puddings, orange cakes, pineapple everything and mango to the whyzooo...

but when you are done with all the crazy confections...

there are simple and tasty ripe fruits that grow on the small but incredibly diverse island of Pureto Rico...

one favorite of mines is the Spanish Lime or what we call the kenepa... humble and simply wonderful to eat

Puerto Rico

I didn't even talk about the chocolate or coffee...

OMG YUM!!!

My dad's parents were from Armenia, so my grandmother made:

Armenian bread (also called Lavish):

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Armenian bread doesn't have a whole lot of flavor, but seems to taste better when you wet it down. Some of my relatives even put butter on it, but I don't like it that way.

Kufta:

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Kufta is basically a large meatball, stuffed with peppers and onions, and boiled in water. Used to love it when my grandma made these!

Baklava (although I'm not sure if it's just Armenian. I think it's also common in Turkish, Greek, and Lebanese cuisine as well):

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What's weird is, my one aunt calls it "Paklava" instead of "Baklava". I don't know why she calls is that, but she does.

Armenian cookies:

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I couldn't find the exact image of the ones my grandmother used to make, but they looked something like these.

Pilaf:

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Another dish that probably is not just limited to Armenian food. It seems to be pretty common everywhere now. Since my grandmother passed away, one of my aunts makes my grandmother's pilaf, using her recipe. It is so good that it goes fast. My aunt winds up making a whole bunch of it so that everybody can have some.

My mom's side of the family is Irish and Russian, but I don't really have any favorite dishes from either one of those countries. Of course, I like anything that has potatoes in it. I'm not real crazy about beer, though.

psychodelicide said:

Baklava (although I'm not sure if it's just Armenian. I think it's also common in Turkish, Greek, and Lebanese cuisine as well):

[img:$uid]http://images.wikia.com/bakingrecipes/images/9/9e/Baklava.jpg[/img:$uid]

What's weird is, my one aunt calls it "Paklava" instead of "Baklava". I don't know why she calls is that, but she does.

I love Baklava!!!

There are a few greek places around here and some of them make amazing Baklava.

Do Armenians have a version of the Gyro as well?

PurpleJedi said:

psychodelicide said:

Baklava (although I'm not sure if it's just Armenian. I think it's also common in Turkish, Greek, and Lebanese cuisine as well):

[img:$uid]http://images.wikia.com/bakingrecipes/images/9/9e/Baklava.jpg[/img:$uid]

What's weird is, my one aunt calls it "Paklava" instead of "Baklava". I don't know why she calls is that, but she does.

I love Baklava!!!

There are a few greek places around here and some of them make amazing Baklava.

Do Armenians have a version of the Gyro as well?

I love Baklava too; it's good stuff. Not sure if there is an Armenian version of the gyro.

New Zealand

Hotdogs are battered sausages on a stick, usually beef or pork sausage and they are dipped in sauce. American hot dogs exist too, but they are called that.

Fish and Chips - Battered fish fillet served with hot potato chips (French fries), whereas they are a novelty in the states they are cheapest and the most common take away here. Hot dogs and sugarred donuts (The ones with the holes) are usual add ons with these take aways.

Pavlova - Dessert with cream, meringue, egg whites and flour, usually served with fruit sliced on top like Kiwifruit or peach. Disputed ownership with Australians, but really a kiwi dish. Peach Melba is popular here too, but we credit this dessert to the Australians

Lammington, a cake that has a raspberry or chocolate flavoured crust covered with shaved coconut.

Paua Pattie - Cooked paua (Abalone) served like a hamburger

Egg Burger - like a hamburger but always has a fried egg in it (Usually well done, but sometimes runny).

You can see why Kiwis are amongst the fattest people in the world. Our food is also very similar to Australia and many australian staples like damper and billy tea are just as iconic here.

Traditional Maori food

Kumara - Sweet Potato, the only verifiable crop from before European times

Kamokamo - Maori small pumpkins, green and more like small buttercups.

Gourds, Squash - Also common before Europeans, often eaten and empty husks used as storage containers.

Shellfish - Pipis (Like cockles), Paua, Kina (Sea Urchin), Koura - (Lobster/Crayfish), Oysters

Fish and meat, Dog, Rat, Moa (Early before 1600ad), Tuna - eels, various fish and bird species. On occasion human flesh was eaten by some tribes, mostly aftre 1700, but this rare and Maori were not habitual cannibals.

Muttonbirds - fat birds captured and preserved by Maori over lean months, the southern parts of the country were too cold for kumara growing and thus they survived on muttonbirds and fern root until the advent of the potato around 1805.

Pork bones - all these foods onwards gained popularity after 1800 with European settlement.

Damper - Flour bread

Billy Tea - Tea cooked over a fire

Maori Bread - Many forms, Paraoa rewana which is unleavened bread, pioneer which is very hard stuff cooked in a large steel pot or cauldron, and Frybread which is great for clogging arteries bt really tatsy, Bread is always wrapped up in tea towels to keep it fresh and flies off it.

Boil Up - This is the boiling of a cheap cut of meat like Pork or Bacon Brisket with potatos or doughboys (Flour balls) and a green usually watercress or puha (Sow thistle). Boils can use any meat, but generally only pork bones and bacon bones with cheap sausages are used. Boil ups can be left for days and boiled up at need when people are hungry. They are cooked in large pots.

Titotiro - Pig or cow instestines, boiled and eaten, these are a lot like Chitterlings.

Generally only the poor and traditional Maori eat these foods now, but 50 years ago they were common.

Finally the most famous Maori food is the Hangi. This is an earth oven in which a large hole in dug, heated stones are placed in the bottom and prepared meat and vegetables where lowered in flax baskets and covered up with leaves and then the lot was buried for 2 -4 hours, after unveiling the food was juicy and tender.

Today the hangi is still well known and part of the Maori experience, now the food is often put in wire baskets and covered with burlap sacks. Indic\vidual portion are also covered with tin foil, and the meat is usually so tender it falls off the bone when eaten. Food for a hangi includes pork, beef, chicken, fish, eel, potatoes, kumaras, pumpkin and squash. Someties even shellfish are steamed. The hangi is very similar to the Samoan Umu and Hangi like cooking is also practiced in Hawaiii. It is a Polynesian trait.

potato pie

Millard aux cerises (cherry clafoutis)

Adorecream said:

Finally the most famous Maori food is the Hangi. This is an earth oven in which a large hole in dug, heated stones are placed in the bottom and prepared meat and vegetables where lowered in flax baskets and covered up with leaves and then the lot was buried for 2 -4 hours, after unveiling the food was juicy and tender.

Today the hangi is still well known and part of the Maori experience, now the food is often put in wire baskets and covered with burlap sacks. Indic\vidual portion are also covered with tin foil, and the meat is usually so tender it falls off the bone when eaten. Food for a hangi includes pork, beef, chicken, fish, eel, potatoes, kumaras, pumpkin and squash. Someties even shellfish are steamed. The hangi is very similar to the Samoan Umu and Hangi like cooking is also practiced in Hawaiii. It is a Polynesian trait.

I was thinking that it sounded alot like the kālua pit that's made the Hawaiian Luau famous.

MarySharon said:

potato pie

Millard aux cerises (cherry clafoutis)

Both of those look GOOOOOOOD!

PurpleJedi said:

MarySharon said:

potato pie

Millard aux cerises (cherry clafoutis)

Both of those look GOOOOOOOD!

The first one is so great with garlic, creme fraiche and parsley

MarySharon said:

PurpleJedi said:

Both of those look GOOOOOOOD!

The first one is so great with garlic, creme fraiche and parsley

I was going to post something about how good that white creamy sauce looks in the pie...but...

MarySharon said:

potato pie

Millard aux cerises (cherry clafoutis)

Both look delicious, epsecially the cherry clafoutis .

Karelian pasties.

Fishcock.

Lenkki.

Shit.

Proud Egyptian here!!! And I must represent!!!

Falafel!!! Great with hummus, lettuce, tomatoe, and onion in warm pita...

Ful Medames (Egyptian Breakfast beans; this dish dates back to ancient times even...)

Koshari (a beloved Egyptian street food made of rice, lentils, chickpeas and macaroni):

Molokhayyah. it was a similar consistancy to when you cook okra; It's a delicious soup simmered to perfect with garlic, a meat of your choice (my grandma uses turkey meat), onions, and served with a rich tomato salsa and basmati rice. I hope my grandma makes me a big pot of it when I come home for Christmas:

Rice-stuffed quail or pigeon:

Delicious stuffed grapeleaves (with rice, ground meat, onions, parsley, garlic, and spices). Used to make these with my grandma and mom in the summer from grape vines grown in our garden:

Shawerma!!!!!!

Kofta Kebab!!!

Baba Ganoush: roasted eggplant with tahini (sesame paste), garlic, and spices. A wonderful spread that goes great on sandwiches (like a kebab, shawerma or falafel sandwich):

Let's not forget Tahini (chick peas and sesame paste blended with olive oil and spices; great dip and spread for sandwiches):

And of course, delicious rice:

And now, onto desserts:

Basbousa!!!! My grandma makes this on special occasion usually on my birthday or christmas; usually topped with honey, syrup, or nuts:

Malban (a Turkish import; also known Turkish Delight):

Mahalabeya (Egyptian Custard):

Ruz we Laban (Rice and milk baked with dates, sugar, and butter):

Baklava (another Eastern Mediterranean dish):

Konaffeh:

Date filled cookies! Usually made at Christmas time by the Coptics:

And I could go on and on...but this is all making me miss home. That's it...I'm making kebab tomorrow...to tied me over until I can go home.

Ottensen said:

My ancestral foods from my parents and life in the deep south- SOUL FOOD

Standard dishes include but are not limited to (from top-bottom)

braised greens, mac & cheese, fried chicken, roast hens, candied yams, buttermilk biscuits, dirty rice, braised ox-tails, black-eyed peas, coca-cola ham, sweet potato pie, coconut cake, pecan pie, peach cobbler, and banana pudding

From the mid-western region in the US where I was born & raised this was the food on every corner of my neigborhood:

corned beef and pastrami sandwiches

pierogies

Polish Boy Sandwich

rugelach

and peanut brittle

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Thanks for all the great pictures, the foods look really good!