What's Your Favorite Nationality of Food

[limr30 3]

Have you tried labna? If not, you need to. It's delicious. Put that on pita with a bit of zaatar. I could eat that right now. With a side of Baroody pickles.

There's a surprising amount of Middle Eastern food that does not incorporate meat. My wife is half Palestinian and her parents/aunts/uncles all immigrated here, so I'm lucky to have some authentic cooks in the family. I've also been spoiled, because they'll make meatless food for me specifically, using the existing recipes that should have meat in them. Wow, it's delicious.

Had to do the translations into Turkish They call it labneh. They'd mix that cheese with oregano (or zaatar - never did know the Turkish word) on pita (pide in Turkish) and the whole thing was called gözleme. Oh, it was fantastic! There were some very good restaurants specifically for gözleme, with women making the pide right out in the open. I'd often get one mixed with spinach as well. A couple of those plus a glass of ayran...yum!

There are some Middle Eastern groceries around here. I think I need to find some labneh.

 

[Gary A.]

I used to travel a lot for work. My work took me to places not on the average tourist maps. When I was working in a foreign country, for one meal a day I'd find a 'Locals Only' type eatery and eat with the indigenous locals. I would always order the longest name of the menu ... then make myself eat it. It was a game I played ... I lost more often than I won.

Despite my American upbringing, I am no longer a picky eater and I truly enjoy a very broad spectrum of flavors and foods.

 

[waday]

Have you tried labna? If not, you need to. It's delicious. Put that on pita with a bit of zaatar. I could eat that right now. With a side of Baroody pickles.

There's a surprising amount of Middle Eastern food that does not incorporate meat. My wife is half Palestinian and her parents/aunts/uncles all immigrated here, so I'm lucky to have some authentic cooks in the family. I've also been spoiled, because they'll make meatless food for me specifically, using the existing recipes that should have meat in them. Wow, it's delicious.

Had to do the translations into Turkish They call it labneh. They'd mix that cheese with oregano (or zaatar - never did know the Turkish word) on pita (pide in Turkish) and the whole thing was called gözleme. Oh, it was fantastic! There were some very good restaurants specifically for gözleme, with women making the pide right out in the open. I'd often get one mixed with spinach as well. A couple of those plus a glass of ayran...yum!

There are some Middle Eastern groceries around here. I think I need to find some labneh.

Seriously.. labna, zaatar, falafel, and sliced tomato on fresh pita. With a side of hummus. I'm drooling.

I love how fresh pita is puffed up like a balloon.

I think I'm gaining weight just reading through this thread, because I want to eat everything.

 

[Gary A.]

I have recently acquired Julia Child's book, "Mastering French Cooking". I told Mary Lou she can select two recipes a week and I'll cook them for her. She has already earmarked many, many pages ...

 

[KmH]

Like most foods, there are regional variations.
My #1 is Mexican food (Sonora & Mexico City), with #2 being Italian (Sicily), and #3 being French (Provence, Alpes, Côte d' Azur).

I too like and often use cilantro when I cook and I eat garlic daily.
With my Mexican food I favor salsa verde, green enchilada sauce, and Tapatio hot sauce.
I use tomatillos (husk tomatoes) quite a bit too.
Our FDA recently lowered it's maximum bacteria level standard and has banned many classic French cheeses like Roquefort, St. Nectaire, Morbier and Tomme de Savoie even though the levels of nontoxigenic bacteria in these cheeses are quite harmless.
The FDA should worry about cheese like Kraft American cheese, which isn’t really cheese at all, and contains dangerous food dyes and 45 grams of fat in just one slice.

I prepare Mexican food for myself probably 5 days a week.
I've gotten a bit lazy and don't make my own tamales anymore. A place in town makes tamales daily and once a month or so I buy a dozen for $10 and throw them in the freezer.

 

[mmaria]

From my experience, no one (who's not from Japan) could easily adapt to Japanese food.

You are probably correct, however my oldest grandson is living in Tokyo this year, and has adapted quite well. He can eat Japanese food all the time, although his American friends over there grew very tired of it right away.

Zachary is not picky about his food, and eats anything put in front of him.

I was there on a professional training for about month and a half. People from my group (European) were all, "oh not what we expected but we can eat that" and that lasted for about two weeks... after that they were "oh, no, can't do this" and they would find a few dishes they can eat and ate those.
I, on the other hand wasn't able to eat their food at first but after some time I started slowly to adapt so I could eat lots of their dishes.

"Oh look, spaghetti with mushrooms,great, we can eat spaghetti"... but oh nooo....

It wasn't unusual to spend money in a restaurant and couldn't eat what they served us.

this was a really nice dinner

this wasn't

but the way they serve the food is great

 

[Designer]

That dinner was pretty to look at, but probably not what I would call "tasty".

 

[limr30 3]

I'd eat the edamame, maybe a few other things on the table. My dislike of certain foods is almost always about texture, not taste, and I'd probably have a hard time with some of that.

What was that last dish that wasn't so nice?

 

[mmaria]

That dinner was pretty to look at, but probably not what I would call "tasty".

the first two pictures, the dinner was really tasty, if you like to eat raw fish and raw... well almost anything

the third picture was one of the courses of a dinner we couldn't eat. They serve 6-7 small dishes, and I could eat 2 or three max..
I don't like tofu f.e. and there were always tofu somewhere

 

[runnah]

That squid looks awesome!

 

[mishele]

That squid looks awesome!

No thank you!!

 

[mmaria]

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What was that last dish that wasn't so nice?

some kind of sea fish, grilled somehow and the skin tasted awful because of the way they grilled it. Underneath of the fish is tofu and that's a tofu soup

I don't like tofu.


The most awful thing I ate is raw jellyfish ..... (among else really because we European simply can't stand some of their tastes)
It's like you eat raw pig's and sheep's fat mixed together! I can still taste it...


that white thing under is the jellyfish...the rest is tuna,salmon and some other creatures we didn't figure out

 

[runnah]

That squid looks awesome!

No thank you!!

Not a fan of tentacles?

 

[limr30 3]

That squid looks awesome!

No thank you!!

Not a fan of tentacles?

So squigglies. I'll eat the cut up smooth body part of the squid, but no squigglies. Blech.

I also don't do bivalves. Blech.

 

[mishele]

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What was that last dish that wasn't so nice?

some kind of sea fish, grilled somehow and the skin tasted awful because of the way they grilled it. Underneath of the fish is tofu and that's a tofu soup

I don't like tofu.


The most awful thing I ate is raw jellyfish ..... (among else really because we European simply can't stand some of their tastes)
It's like you eat raw pig's and sheep's fat mixed together! I can still taste it...


that white thing under is the jellyfish...the rest is tuna,salmon and some other creatures we didn't figure out

Now that's more like it!!! That looks amazing!!!