Food
One randomly chosen cuisine a week, cooked at home with Miriam. Recipes, verdicts and the occasional failure.
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South Africa Cooking
Bobotie - baked minced meat with egg-mixture topping. It reminded me of empanadas / other meat pies. 7/10. Recipe here Milk tart - Self-explanatory. It's a sweet milk concoction. Similar in taste to the arroz con leche without rice. 9/10. Recipe here Bobotie Bobotie (slice)…
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Israel Cooking
We cooked the following dishes: Salat katzutz - Israeli salad or Arabic salar. Very similar to the other salads in the regions I've tasted. 7/10. Recipe here. Shakshuka - eggs in tomatoes. Quite a popular dish in brunch places these days. 8/10. ">Recipe here. Hummus…
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Djibouti Cooking
It's been a while since I last posted but we have been cooking a lot since then. Let's start with Djibouti: Samosas - very similar to the South Asian one but this one comes with a sauce. 7/10. Recipe here Skoudehkaris - lamb rice dish…
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United Arab Emirates Cooking
Chicken shawarma - chicken wrapped with vegetables and yogurt sauce. Tasted even better than the ones you can buy in restaurants. 10/10. Recipe here. Luqaimat - fried balls in syrup. We made a mess here, difficult to make them round. 5/10. Recipe here. Chicken shawarma…
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Switzerland Cooking
Fondue - melted cheese sauce served with vegetables and meat. 9/10. Recipe here. Heidelbeerenwahe - blueberry pie. Our filling became too liquidy. 7/10. Recipe here. Fondue Heidelbeerenwahe
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Peru Cooking
Aji de Gallina - chicken curry Peruvian-style. It was interesting to put bread in curry together with blended spices. 9/10. Recipe here. Ceviche - fish cooked in citrus. In our case, we didn't really want to eat barely cooked fish so we cooked them a…
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France Cooking
Potatoes au Gratin - Potato with tons of cheese. 9/10. Recipe here. Coq au vin - Chicken in wine. The alcohol taste disappears when you cook it long like this. 9/10. Recipe here. Pain perdu - French toast. We originally planned to make a chocolate…
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Morocco Cooking
It's been a while since I uploaded anything. Just have been forgetting to update the site. I've been to Morocco before and I really enjoyed my trip there. In Amsterdam, there is a famous restaurant called Bazar and I used to eat there a lot…
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Chile Cooking
Pastel de Choclo - corn and beef cake. Enjoyed this one, good mixture of sweet and savory. 8/10. Recipe here. Pastel de Jaiba - crab cake. I'm not really used to eating crab so this required a lot of effort but it tasted great. 7/10…
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Sweden Cooking
Köttbullar - Swedish meatballs. Like Ikea, we also added mashed potatoes and raspberry jam (didn't have lingonberry). I made the mistake of added too much flour to the sauce, making it super thick. But, I loved it still. 9/10. Recipe here. Kladdkaka - sticky chocolate…
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