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Dalia11

What are some Traditional Foods/desserts from the Country You/Your Family is From?

What are some of the traditional foods/desserts from the country you/your family is from? My mother's side of the family is from Poland. The following are some traditional Polish foods:

Pierogi: Is a dumpling of dough filled with an ingredient such as meat, cheese, vegetables, or fruit.

Golabki: Is cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meat and seasoned rice.

Nalesniki: Are crepes stuffed with sweet or savory fillings.

Makowiee: Is a sweet bread roll that is typically served for christmas and easter.

Pacziki: Deep fried doughnuts that are filedd with fruit and topped with sugar or icing.

Chrusciki: Are light fried pastry cookies that has been shaped intothin twisted ribbons and sprinkled with sugar.

However, I love Italian foods. I could eat pasta every day.

I have friends from Trinidad and Tobago/Jamaica. That is why I like to eat roti and curry chicken. Also, Jerk chicken, oxtails and Jamaican patties. I do not like the food to be too spicy, just a little.

Several of my aunts, uncles and my siblings were born in Brazil. Rice and beans is a staple dish.

Feijoada is a stew of beans with beef and pork.

Pasteis are pasteries with a wide variety of fillings.

Empada are snacks that resemble pot pies. They are filled with a mix of palm hearts, peas, flour, chicken or shrimp.

Bolo de rolo is a honey cake, thin mass wrapped with melted guava.

Pao de mel is a honey cake usually covered with melted chocolate.

Cuscuz branco is a dessert of milled tapioca cooked with coconut milk and sugar.

Bolo de cenoura is carrot cake with chocolate cover made with butter and cocoa.

Thanks for the great vivid posts everybody! Are there any Jewish people on the ORG? If yes, please post some of your favorite foods/desserts.

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Reply #1 posted 11/10/11 9:07am

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Mississippi:

Fried Chicken

Fried Catfish

Fried Pork Chops

Fried Okra

Fried Corn

Anything fried. lol

Mustard, Turnip, or Collard Greens cooked in bacon grease.

String Beans cooked in bacon greese

Fried Cabbage cooked in bacon grease.

Black Eyed Peas cooked in bacon grease.

Anything cooked in bacon grease. lol

Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #2 posted 11/10/11 9:11am

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Both parents are from HONDURAS.

Some typical foods that I love are;

Nacatamales

- Central American tamales use maize flour (instead of the sweeter cornmeal) & are stuffed with savory ingredients (meat, potato, chick peas, etc.) and are wrapped in banana leaves (not corn husks).

Baleadas

- big flour tortillas with beans, cream, cheese, and whatever else you want inside.

Sopa de Caracol

- or Conch soup... the trademark dish of Honduras (thanks to the song)

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Reply #3 posted 11/10/11 9:42am

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West Virginia/Pittsburgh, Pa - pretty much anything Italian, and square flat pizza.

Georgia- The Hot sauce on everything Tradition, Chitterlings or in a georgia accent Chit'lings

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Reply #4 posted 11/10/11 9:57am

Dalia11

PurpleJedi said:

Both parents are from HONDURAS.

Some typical foods that I love are;

Nacatamales

- Central American tamales use maize flour (instead of the sweeter cornmeal) & are stuffed with savory ingredients (meat, potato, chick peas, etc.) and are wrapped in banana leaves (not corn husks).

Baleadas

- big flour tortillas with beans, cream, cheese, and whatever else you want inside.

Sopa de Caracol

- or Conch soup... the trademark dish of Honduras (thanks to the song)

Looks good. What about cakes or pasteries?

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Reply #5 posted 11/10/11 10:04am

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Dalia11 said:

PurpleJedi said:

Both parents are from HONDURAS.

Some typical foods that I love are;

Nacatamales

- Central American tamales use maize flour (instead of the sweeter cornmeal) & are stuffed with savory ingredients (meat, potato, chick peas, etc.) and are wrapped in banana leaves (not corn husks).

Baleadas

- big flour tortillas with beans, cream, cheese, and whatever else you want inside.

Sopa de Caracol

- or Conch soup... the trademark dish of Honduras (thanks to the song)

Looks good. What about cakes or pasteries?

Well...my fav is the SEMITA

It's sort'a like a coffee cake.

The "cake" part is actually somewhat bland but the "crumble" on

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Reply #6 posted 11/10/11 10:08am

Dalia11

I love cakes and pateries. I have to try that.

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Reply #7 posted 11/10/11 10:10am

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PurpleJedi said:

Both parents are from HONDURAS.

Some typical foods that I love are;


This looks like heaven, im a sucker for chowders, stews, and soups.

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Reply #8 posted 11/10/11 10:50am

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At the moment I haven't the faintest idea so I'll roll with this...

What Is a California Burrito?22100331-california-burrito.jpg

There are burritos, and then there are California Burritos. The San Diego staple is not trying to be authentic Mexican cuisine—it's basically meat and potatoes stuffed into a flour tortilla for hungry, sand-crusted surfers. The beast of a thing usually involves carne asada, french fries, a bunch of cheese, salsa fresca and of course guacamole.

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Reply #9 posted 11/10/11 10:57am

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PurpleJedi said:

Dalia11 said:

Looks good. What about cakes or pasteries?

Well...my fav is the SEMITA

It's sort'a like a coffee cake.

The "cake" part is actually somewhat bland but the "crumble" on

thumbs up!

They sell a version of it in the supermarkets & convenience stores and call it a "French Sweetie", and there's Mexican and Salvadoran versions...but IMO you have to get an authentic Honduran one for the real deal.

nod

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formallypickles said:

PurpleJedi said:

Both parents are from HONDURAS.

Some typical foods that I love are;


This looks like heaven, im a sucker for chowders, stews, and soups.

nod

There's coconut milk in it I think...it's really good.

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Reply #11 posted 11/10/11 11:06am

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vainandy said:

Mississippi:

Fried Chicken

Fried Catfish

Fried Pork Chops

Fried Okra

Fried Corn

Anything fried. lol

Mustard, Turnip, or Collard Greens cooked in bacon grease.

String Beans cooked in bacon greese

Fried Cabbage cooked in bacon grease.

Black Eyed Peas cooked in bacon grease.

Anything cooked in bacon grease. lol

drool @ alladat.

I have three containers of bacon grease in my frig/freezer right now.

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Reply #12 posted 11/10/11 11:18am

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Everywhere you go in Wisconsin on a Friday night (year-round - not just during Lent), you can find a fish fry. Here's how you do one properly:

Start with an Old Fashioned cocktail. The kind of booze is up to you. In Wisconsin, a brandy (Korbel) Old Fashioned sweet is the most common. My personal favorite is a Southern Comfort Old Fashioned with club soda (the SoCo is sweet enough with using 7-Up). Some people drink 'em sour, too. (Sweetie likes a brandy Old Fashioned sour.)

The traditional fish fry is fish - cod, walleye, lake perch or bluegills (bluegills are my personal favorite), french fries and cole slaw. Beer batter is standard (blech to breading). Some places do all-you-can eat. Others serve family style (platters of fish and fries, and bowls of slaw to pass). Good beer goes with the fish.

After dinner, more drinks. woot!

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Reply #13 posted 11/10/11 11:19am

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A few favorites...

Aloo Bhindi (Potatoes and Okra)

Yellow dal (lentil curry)

Chana Masala (Chickpea curry)

Saag Paneer (Spinach and cheese curry, I'm vegan so I don't eat Paneer but you can simply replace it with Tofu)

Aloo Phalli (Green Beans and Potato curry)

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Reply #14 posted 11/10/11 11:22am

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Genesia said:

Everywhere you go in Wisconsin on a Friday night (year-round - not just during Lent), you can find a fish fry. Here's how you do one properly:

Start with an Old Fashioned cocktail. The kind of booze is up to you. In Wisconsin, a brandy (Korbel) Old Fashioned sweet is the most common. My personal favorite is a Southern Comfort Old Fashioned with club soda (the SoCo is sweet enough with using 7-Up). Some people drink 'em sour, too. (Sweetie likes a brandy Old Fashioned sour.)

The traditional fish fry is fish - cod, walleye, lake perch or bluegills (bluegills are my personal favorite), french fries and cole slaw. Beer batter is standard (blech to breading). Some places do all-you-can eat. Others serve family style (platters of fish and fries, and bowls of slaw to pass). Good beer goes with the fish.

After dinner, more drinks. woot!

...and after all that alcohol...EVERYTHING tastes amazing!

lol

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Reply #15 posted 11/10/11 11:31am

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Militant said:

A few favorites...

Aloo Bhindi (Potatoes and Okra)

Yellow dal (lentil curry)

Chana Masala (Chickpea curry)

Saag Paneer (Spinach and cheese curry, I'm vegan so I don't eat Paneer but you can simply replace it with Tofu)

Aloo Phalli (Green Beans and Potato curry)

I love indian food

I wanna make those drool

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Reply #16 posted 11/10/11 11:44am

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Dewrede said:

I love indian food

I wanna make those drool

I've taught myself how to make all of them over the past few weeks. I'm quite pleased with myself.

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Reply #17 posted 11/10/11 11:51am

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Militant said:

Dewrede said:

I love indian food

I wanna make those drool

I've taught myself how to make all of them over the past few weeks. I'm quite pleased with myself.

I've only had Indian food once in my life (which is ironic since I work in the middle of Long Island's "little India")...been meaning to try it from a decent sit-down restaurant.

There's an Afghan restaurant nearby (two actually) that I tried once...the white rice was OUT OF THIS WORLD...the seasoned chicken meat kabobs...not so good (didn't like the texture).

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Reply #18 posted 11/10/11 11:53am

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Roast pork or duck with sauerkraut and dumplings drooling

Kolaches, my mom is bringing me some poppyseed ones tommorow!! woot!

Rosettes

Fruit dumplings

Stuffed cabbage

Boiled cabbage

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Reply #19 posted 11/10/11 11:58am

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PurpleJedi said:

Genesia said:

Everywhere you go in Wisconsin on a Friday night (year-round - not just during Lent), you can find a fish fry. Here's how you do one properly:

Start with an Old Fashioned cocktail. The kind of booze is up to you. In Wisconsin, a brandy (Korbel) Old Fashioned sweet is the most common. My personal favorite is a Southern Comfort Old Fashioned with club soda (the SoCo is sweet enough with using 7-Up). Some people drink 'em sour, too. (Sweetie likes a brandy Old Fashioned sour.)

The traditional fish fry is fish - cod, walleye, lake perch or bluegills (bluegills are my personal favorite), french fries and cole slaw. Beer batter is standard (blech to breading). Some places do all-you-can eat. Others serve family style (platters of fish and fries, and bowls of slaw to pass). Good beer goes with the fish.

After dinner, more drinks. woot!

...and after all that alcohol...EVERYTHING tastes amazing!

lol

True. But even without alcohol, a good fish fry is the food of the gods. drool

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Reply #20 posted 11/10/11 12:01pm

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Genesia said:

PurpleJedi said:

...and after all that alcohol...EVERYTHING tastes amazing!

lol

True. But even without alcohol, a good fish fry is the food of the gods. drool

Ohhhh hell yeah!!! drooling

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Reply #21 posted 11/10/11 12:19pm

Shyra

vainandy said:

Mississippi:

Fried Chicken

Fried Catfish

Fried Pork Chops

Fried Okra

Fried Corn

Anything fried. lol

Mustard, Turnip, or Collard Greens cooked in bacon grease.

String Beans cooked in bacon greese

Fried Cabbage cooked in bacon grease.

Black Eyed Peas cooked in bacon grease.

Anything cooked in bacon grease. lol


You forgot the pigs' feet and hoppin john! My mom turned me on to that. She's from Tuskegee.

Oh, and fried green tomatoes. I'll cut a bitch! drooling

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Reply #22 posted 11/10/11 1:30pm

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desserts huh? hmmm

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.

http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo227/caliricans/coquito.jpg

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

dulce de leche (fudge)

pumkin cakes and sweet potato cakes

http://media.cakecentral.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/28662/normal_cakes_028.JPG

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 drooling

http://karmafreecooking.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/guayaba-con-queso-crema.jpg?w=336&h=410

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...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9DYrIby9qQI/TZ_kxYpc9ZI/AAAAAAAAABM/sO2XyqEga48/s1600/leche_flan.jpeg

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

a bit of cinnamon sprinkled on top to finish

http://static.recetasgratis.net/images/recetas/20081206151142.jpg

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Melicoccus_bijugatus.jpg/220px-Melicoccus_bijugatus.jpg

Puerto Rico heart

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

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Reply #23 posted 11/10/11 1:31pm

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Dammit ya'll got me hungry! faint All this food sounds so yummy!

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PurpleJedi

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paintedlady said:

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

http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo227/caliricans/coquito.jpg

The ex makes a mean Coquito for X'mas (spellchecked for ya!).

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 drooling

http://karmafreecooking.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/guayaba-con-queso-crema.jpg?w=336&h=410

I LOVE guava paste with "queso blanco" (semisoft tropical white cheese) on a saltine cracker.

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Melicoccus_bijugatus.jpg/220px-Melicoccus_bijugatus.jpg

Puerto Rico heart

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

I love kenepas!!! In Honduras they're known as "mamones" (probably cause you suck on them).

They sell them here when in season at the local Hispanic supermarket.

...and yeah...nothing like some good old fashioned Café-con-leche, huh? drooling

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PurpleJedi said:

paintedlady said:

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

http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo227/caliricans/coquito.jpg

The ex makes a mean Coquito for X'mas (spellchecked for ya!).

I LOVE guava paste with "queso blanco" (semisoft tropical white cheese) on a saltine cracker.

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Melicoccus_bijugatus.jpg/220px-Melicoccus_bijugatus.jpg

Puerto Rico heart

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

I love kenepas!!! In Honduras they're known as "mamones" (probably cause you suck on them).

They sell them here when in season at the local Hispanic supermarket.

...and yeah...nothing like some good old fashioned Café-con-leche, huh? drooling

duh I can't spell wortha ish!

but yes to it all!!

mamones.... nod

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Wiener Schnitzel mit Erdäpfelsalat

Kaiserschmarren mit Zwetschkenröster

Sacher Torte

Tafelspitz

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Serious said:


Wiener Schnitzel mit Erdäpfelsalat

Kaiserschmarren mit Zwetschkenröster

Sacher Torte

Tafelspitz

Spezi, I sure miss that along with my Sauerbraten and potato dumplings, with that amazing gravy!! There was a bakery in the E-Center, in Kitzingen that made this to die for torte thingy and this flat pretzel bread with some kind of cheese baked on it... THATS IT! Im making a trip back there soon! lol

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Reply #28 posted 11/10/11 3:36pm

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tinaz said:

Spezi, I sure miss that along with my Sauerbraten and potato dumplings, with that amazing gravy!! There was a bakery in the E-Center, in Kitzingen that made this to die for torte thingy and this flat pretzel bread with some kind of cheese baked on it... THATS IT! Im making a trip back there soon! lol

You sure should return overhere some time nod!

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Reply #29 posted 11/10/11 4:45pm

LionsAndTigers

My parents are both from the Dominican Republic.

Sancocho

Pollo guisado

Tostones con salami frito drool disbelief

Locrio de pollo

And you don't go to a Dominican get together without seeing a flan and/or a Dominican cake! no no no! Other deserts are coconetes (kinda like a coconut biscuit), habichuelas con dulce (beans in a sweet cream), and dulce de leche drool

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