When I lived in metro Toronto... one of my fave restaurants was a little West Indian Roti shop... would visit there atleast once a week. The rotis were fresh ... my fave was chickpeas w potato... loved it with a bit of hot sauce. I can't seem to get the same taste here in NY. It maybe available in Queens or the Bronx but that is quite a ways from where I live.

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Tamales
Enchiladas

West Coast Latin food. I don't have the funds to try out some spots in NY for these missed dishes and have been really missing them.


In n' Out

polly waffles

This thread is going to tie into the "Hairy Bear" thread. I can feel it.

Mars23 said:

nothing will touch that thread

BREAD

pplrain said:

Queens resturants can def hook you up they have the best West Indian cuisines there.

I stopped eating red meat and pork about 15 years ago- maybe longer.

I still miss bacon... I love the smell of it cooking. (turkey bacon is NOT the same! )
And at a BBQ over the summer, those ribs looked good!

I really really really miss bulgogi. I've been a vegelesbian for over ten years but still drool when I smell the marinade.

chocolate1 said:

I miss having food that I don't have to cook!
Lately all I do is cook, and it's crap, and I hate cooking.
I just hate being in the damn kitchen

prb said:

what is that?


I miss waffles, pancakes, bagels, stuffing...to name a few.

chorizo and eggs

i miss pastel (a brazilian snack), can't find it anywhere here that tastes the same as in rio!

MrsMdiver said:

Please go here for your waffle fix. We SWEAR by this recipe they are SO.DAMN.GOOD.

http://lifehacker.com/516...ecipe-ever

I miss this SO much it hurts...

RenHoek said:

i dont know what that is but take the tomato out and i'll be all over it!

DanceWme said:

It's ground lamb (or more recently, chicken), spit roasted on this big ass stick with lettuce, tomato, onion, and yogurt sauce in a pita style bread. The Greek have something nearly identical called Gyros but this is the Turkish version called Doener Kebab.

(this emoticon truly represents my feelings!)

The big ass stick o' meat...

RenHoek said:

i did think it was a gyro but i wasn't sure.


now i wanna go get one

DanceWme said:

me too...

luckily we have a gyro place here... but Doener is different...

RenHoek said:

i'll mail u one!

RenHoek said:

I guess that would involve a waffle iron. I am not buying another one of those (had one and gave it away before moving over.) if I am the only one in the house eating them. Kitchen too small for unnecessary appliances, right now it is taken over by baby stuff anyways.



I will add to my list of things I have to eat when I go back home to visit.

Oh and I miss gyro's, the Greeks use yummy spices and sauce. Kababs here are not that impressive to me.

I can't eat popcorn anymore and I really miss it.

RenHoek said:

The Turkish word "döner" stems from the Turkish verb "dönmek", i.e. " to spin, to turn, to rotate" and that´s why it´s called "doener" or "döner" , literally "It spins/ it turns/ it rotates".
Kebap is a word for anything that´s grilled, whether it´s red meat, chicken or grilled veggies like eggplants etc. There are many kebap meals.

So, "döner kebap" = " rotating, spinning grilled meat".

That´s why it´s called "gyros" in Greek...because it spins, rotates, much like the blades of a gyrocopter....or any other thing containing the Greek word "gyro".

There is a very similar Arabic meal called "shawerma" but that is just the arabicized version of the Turkish word "cevirme", pronounced "tshewirme", which also means " turn around" ( but not really rotate or spin).

The main difference between gyros and doener is that doener is made either from lamb or veal or beef or chicken (or, unfortunately, in some untrustworthy places, from "mystery meat") and gyros, at least in Germany, is made from pork, though I have also seen pork doener in Holland.

According to German journalist Eberhard Seidel, author of the book "Aufgespießt- Wie der Döner über die Deutschen kam", the original doener was invented by an Ottoman Turkish chef named Hamdi Usta. Traditionally, it used to be served on a plate rather than a pita bread but Turks in Germany in the 1970s were inspired by fast food and came up with the idea to put all the ingredients into the pita, like some kind of hamburger.
Personally, I prefer the way it´s served here in Germany but it´s not that easy to find some high quality doener. But I know where to buy the real deal in any big city in close proximity.

Ren, I still gotta send you the "pilavli böbrek kizartmasi" recipe. If you ever come back to Germany, I want to stuff you with tons of Turkish food over here..or why not take it to the next level and go to Turkey with me, I had a great vacation in October there.


Sen artik bizdensin arkadash.

The Black Sea Restaurant on Snelling Avenue in St.Paul makes some very good döner.
Highly recommended.

MrsMdiver said:

You´re being too kind. The kebaps I ate in London were some of the WORST I have eaten in my entire life. And the dudes selling them were so horrible that I almost ended up in a fight with them. That was somewhere near Finsbury Park. And the "meat" was very greasy and bad.Totally different thing here.

You have to know where to go,otherwise, it´s a very unpleasant experience.

KoolEaze said:

I was trying to be nice because I get accused of ragging on the food here too much. I really cannot stand the kabab's here, like you said, the meat is greasy and bad.

NY/NJ bagels.

Puerto Rican pasteles.

Lumpia


Also, they don't have Sonic here (the closest is 96 miles away), and I hate it. No Braums. For those in OK and TX, they'll know what I mean.

I miss my grandma fixing a pot of pinto beans all day and having her beans and jalapeno cornbread for dinner. I do make my own pot of beans at times for dinner, but it's not like hers.

chocolatehandles said:

Yes.