Food
One randomly chosen cuisine a week, cooked at home with Miriam. Recipes, verdicts and the occasional failure.
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Russia Cooking
The other weekend, we cooked food from Russia: Borscht - beetroot soup originating from Ukraine but common in Russia. Didn't really understand the taste. 3/10. Beef Stroganoff - beef with mushrooms in mustard and sour cream. 8/10. Syrniki - cheese pancakes. We put sour cream…
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Canada Cooking (Fail)
We wanted to do something easy during this week so we made the following. However, they didn't turn out as expected. Poutine - fries with cheese curds and gravy. I couldn't find cheese curds and used cheddar which is probably not the correct substitute. 8/10…
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USA Cooking
We cooked regional dishes from the US: Gumbo - soup with meat and seafood from Louisiana. 7/10. Recipe here. Jambalaya - rice with meat and vegetables. Kind of like paella, but with a different taste. 9/10. Recipe here Peach Cobbler - peach in a batter/bread…
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Greece Cooking
It's been a while since I have uploaded here. We have been cooking but I have just been too lazy to upload them. Anyway, here's the food from Greece: Moussaka - similar to lasagna but with eggplants. 8/10. Gyro - similar to kebab but Greek…
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Jamaica Cooking
Jerk chicken - Chicken grilled with various spices. We used an oven as we did not really have a grill. It reminded me a lot of the roasted chicken we have in the Philippines. 9/10. Recipe here Beef patty - In my country, we have…
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Thailand Cooking
We cooked the following dishes from Thailand. We were already familiar with most of them as Thai food is quite ubiquitous everywhere. The only question though was how authentic were the versions we have tried. Pad Thai - noodles with chicken in our case as…
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United Kingdom Cooking
We cooked the following dishes: Beef Wellington - We made the individual version instead of using a huge slab of meat. It was wonderful. One of the best I've made so far. 10/10. Recipe here. Roasted potatoes - Just something to accompany the beef. Eton…
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Poland Cooking
There is a polish restaurant near where we live and we always come there for their pierogis. Was quite excited to try cooking their food ourselves: Rosol - chicken soup. Nothing different about this, just good chicken soup. 6/10. Recipe here. Pierogi Ruskie - Polish…
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Jordan Cooking
We cooked a lot already some well-known Arabic dishes. This time, we cooked again some of our favorites. And, we were excited to try making the national dish of Jordan, mansaf. Fattoush - Arabic salad. 7/10. Recipe here. Mansaf - Rice with lamb and yogurt…
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Austria Cooking
One of my closest friends is from Austria so was really looking forward to cooking food form there. We cooked the following dishes: Schnitzel - fillet traditionally made with veal. But, this time, we made it with chicken so not very authentic. We also forgot…
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