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Just for general curiosity what is your Ambrosial foreign food? I could just say Ambrosia in general and I think most would say something domestic, from their region so I decided to make it interesting.
My Ambrosia would be Japchae. It's a Korean dish that features stir-fried Sweet Potato Noodles with beef usually(cept the recipe I use uses dried Shitake mushrooms) and green peppers with a soy sauce that has garlic, sugar and a few other choice items. It is delicious and I wish I was making some right now. My mouth is watering at the thought.
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Thai food
I probably would have said Thai regardless as a nice green curry is my favourite thing followed closely by Pad Thai
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You can't choose your relatives but you can choose your family.
Not sure how you'd define it,
Not sure how you'd define it, but I _really_ like fried potato latkes. fish and chips from a chip wagon in Ottawa is also very popular with me, but it's been a LONG time since I've had the good stuff.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Really good Gumbo.
I'm Canadian and it's not too common here, in the area I'm the only one that makes it. This is seconded by a good Montreal Bagel.
Bailey Summers
Étouffée is more to my liking....
A good shrimp or crawfish étouffée, a little jambalaya, and some good gumbo to go along with it.
Of course there is always boiled crawfish and potatoes too, but you already know my tastes.
Sorry - four years in Nawlins spoiled me.
Dallas
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Cold soba noodles
No doubt on this one, it's one of my absolute favorites. It's tough to find back in the states, but I'm always happy when I do.
Titania
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Kung Pao Chicken
A good spicy, thick version served with steamed rice, egg rolls and fried wontons.
I've made it myself but it is hardly worth it to go to all that trouble. Making the sauce alone is a daylong job.
Runner-up would be grilled linguiça, Portuguese sausage cooked on a barbeque grill, served with coleslaw, garlic bread, and French-style green beans.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Carne Asada, Number Three
I suppose this is international since the origin is in Mexico but it was something I grew up eating since we lived ten miles from the border. In fact, I never saw it offered anywhere outside the Imperial, Coachella, and Mexicali valleys until I was past thirty.
Marinated skirt steak grilled over charcoal, served with refries, rice, tortillas, grilled scallions and pico de gallo. Change it to flank steak, cut it up before pan-frying with peppers and onions and you have the Tex-Mex version, fajitas. According to some friends who lived in Mexico in the fifties and earlier, the original was made with goat or jackrabbit, not beef.
This is a meal that cries out for a good Mexican beer to go with it. :) It's a heavy meal so get hungry before you eat.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I'm pretty varied actually.....
Like Bailey, I'm partial to good Cajun - four years living in Nawlins kind of gave me a real taste for good Cajun - Creole too, although most people don't understand that there is a major difference between the two. I still can't stand Chickory in my coffee though, lol.
I love good German food as well - a good Sauerbraten is outstanding, and yes, I even like sauerkraut. Picked that one up in the military when I spent some time working with NATO. But then again, I grew up between Southern California and Southern Florida, so I love good Mexican, and I'd kill for some good Cuban cooking.
I am very partial to most seafood, and will eat just about anything that's well prepared - well, after serving in some of the shitty areas I had to, I find that I can eat just about anything with enough hot sauce on it.
I do like my food more on the spicy side.
Dallas
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Barbecue
I forgot to mention good barbecue! I have been lucky enough to have had barbecue in all of the really good places - East Tennessee, Memphis, Nashville, North Carolina (both east and west - yes, like Tennessee there is a difference between the different parts of the state), Kansa City, Texas (also different parts of the state there as well), the Gulf Coast, you name it.
If it's barbecue, I'll try it.
So far, my favorite is this little place on the side of a mountain just outside of Bristol, Tennessee........
But I'm still looking!
Dallas
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Red Oak Barbecue, Santa Maria CA
Tri-tip steak, chicken and linguiça sausage grilled over red oak coals, it's a native CA style not similar to anything done elsewhere. Have it with pinquito beans, salsa and a salad!
And Korean barbecue! Mmmm!
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Oh oh --- you got me on my hobbyhorse
I love cooking.
As it happens, I am damned good at it.
To try to choose a favourite is impossible.
The weather, previous meals, sleep patterns and so on all have an affect upon what my taste buds decide to require.
I used to love Indian food, still do, but the spiciness of Thai food is somehow cleaner to my palate nowadays.
I cook to a high standard (seriously) and of course have several French influences.
Gumbo and etouffee were OK in N'Awlinz but not something that I crave over so much I have to have it.
On that criterion, then there is only one foodstuff I MUST have - Marmite.
But tonight I shall be doing a Vietnamese chicken stir fry.
Last night I did Duck Breast with Soy Spring Onions and pickled Shitaki mushrooms
Tomorrow is a bit of a dinner party for 12 people; I shall do a 9-course dinner - so I am cooking today a Chicken Liver Parfait for that dinner party which will be served with a Red Onion chutney. I will also do some Tomato Essence, Figs and Gorgonzola with a honey and red wine vinegar dressing, a pineapple and passion fruit sorbet. Zucchini and Carrot mini bites, salmon and crab cakes, roast beef with mini Yorkshires, veggies and horseradish mousse, and Slut Red Berries for the dessert, with Vin Santo ice cream. If anyone has any space left, then there will be a cheeseboard. All dishes will be home-made (except for the cheese)!
Wine lovers amongst you will drool over the choices I have made.
So if any of you want these recipes, just ask.
A cheese and pickle sandwich is my next target, with a cold beer.
Then I will probably get back to Julina.
TTFN
J.
How well would you take a food challenge?
I want to brook a food challenge with you but I'm afraid you might strangle me for it...
I guess I'm too plebian in my tastes,
but a good cut of Prime Rib trumps everything in the comments here for me. Serve that baby up medium rare with a side of fries and get out of the way of my flying fork and knife, although a really good cut of Prime Rib doesn't really need a knife.
Yeah. I'm a carnivore. I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain so I could graze! LOL!!
Hungrily yours,
Catherine Linda Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
What's foreign?
I imagine it's where you live, a good hamburger and fries would be considered foreign if you lived in Korea and I'm so used to fusion cooking that I don't know where to draw the line. Speaking of New Orleans, my son is a cook at La Petite Grocery and moved there to learn Cajan cooking. He worked in New York city for three years and then out here in the land of restaurants. San Francisco will spoil you and to be honest I really don't have a favorite food, although a nice Osso Buco with lots of bone marrow does make my mouth water, as does roasted marrow bones, and Dungeness Crab, but that's a local food and out of season right now, ah Chippino, or salt and pepper shrimp. Damn, now you've got me started and I'll have to got to dinner at Alembic in the Haight, or I could just reheat the chicken Adobo in the refrigerator and call it a day, Arecee
Well I'm assuming most people
Well I'm assuming most people who frequent the site tend to be from the U.S., England or Canada. In terms of the U.S. when I say International I don't mean BBQ(which is it's own Midwest thing unless you're talking about something like Bulgogi from Korea or another related foreign BBQ), Hamburgers, etc. Those tend to be the average dish. I put it for International with the idea that a lot of different dishes would be mentioned that are atypical, hopefully that might get people wondering and want to cook said dish. If I just "Favorite Food" I imagine a lot of common responses would more likely pop up and a common food.
Heavenly Ambrosia
As someone else mentioned, 'what is foreign' is going to be a key factor in determing the ambrosial foreign food. I'm English, so foods like currys have been anglicised enough to probably count as part of our national dish as much as roast beef. I want to say crispy fried aromatic duck but wikipedia tells me its another British invention soooooooo if that doesn't count... Blue Bell Creameries Ice Cream and their frozen yoghurt. I had some (okay quite a lot actually) during a trip to Texas and it was simply heavenly. :-)
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Did you get to Brenham, or
Did you get to Brenham, or just was in the southeast part of Texas?
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Yup!
Brenham. :-) I spent most of my time in the Houston - San Antonio - Austin - Corpus Christi area.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Living there, I know what
Living there, I know what that means.
It's the same as saying
"I spent my time in Arkansas"
(the area described above is about 400 miles by 240 miles)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
From A European Perspective...
France: a vindaloo from a 'Pakistani' restaurant. It's a lot milder than you'd think. Snails are nice too. You get a Meccano set to open the shells.
Holland: uitsmijter - ham and a fried egg in a bun. Shouldn't work, but it does.
Germany: um...oh yeah, great coffee.
Romania: mamaliga (similar to polenta) served with sour cream, followed by beef stew with sliced cartofi prajiti (fried potatoes). You'll be too full for the rest of the evening to do more than order another bottle of Europe's best-kept secret, Moldavian red.
Italy: breakfast consists of espresso and twiglets. Hard to condemn a country as laid-back as that.
Belgium: anything you eat or drink in this country will be the best thing you've ever tasted. If I'm wrong and there really is a heaven, there'll be a Jupiler sign above the Pearly Gates and a placard advertising les moules.
Hmmm some interesting dishes.
Hmmm some interesting dishes. Intriguing to see that with a lot of European stuff some definite staples even seem to hold here, even with Eastern Europe.
Kind of surprised to hear that about Belgium. I mean I enjoy their chocolates but other then that I always assumed they were a place of trite Bureaucracy.