Food
One randomly chosen cuisine a week, cooked at home with Miriam. Recipes, verdicts and the occasional failure.
70 posts · page 5 of 7
-
Bahrain Cooking
We cooked two dishes from Bahrain: Machboos - rice dish with chicken. Quite similar to the other Arabic rice dishes we've made in the past. 9/10. Recipe here. Om Ali - Egyptian bread pudding topped with nuts. 9/10. Recipe here. Machboos Om ali
Read more → -
Andorra cooking
We cooked food from our neighboring micronation Andorra. Their cuisine was very much similar to Catalonia's. Trinxat - Mashed potato and cabbage with bacon. 8/10. Recipe here Ensalada (de Achicoria) - Chicory salad. But, we were not able to find chicory so we had to…
Read more → -
Colombia Cooking
We cooked food from Colombia last weekend: Empanadas - cornmeal empanadas filled with ground pork and beef. We made the dough too thick, so there was more dough than filling. 7/10. Recipe here Aji - the sauce for the empanadas. Recipe here. Aborrajados - banana…
Read more → -
Syria Cooking
We cooked food from Syria yesterday and Miriam was excited for it given her Arabic background. We cooked the following: Mukloubi bi lahmi - upside-down lamb rice cake. It's not really a cake but the idea was to flip it upside down after cooking it…
Read more → -
Hungary Cooking
We cooked food from Hungary two weeks ago but I forgot to post the photos. Having been to Hungary twice, I was looking forward to this. I especially loved langos which is fried pizza but we did not make it this time. Here were the…
Read more → -
Azerbaijan Cooking
We cooked food from Azerbaijan this weekend. I found the food great! Plov - rice pilaf with chicken and various dried fruits. I really liked the blend between sweet and savory. The only problem was that we overcooked the rice since the instructions were not…
Read more → -
Pakistan Cooking
We cooked food from Pakistan last Saturday. It was our first time to have to throw something. We were making kheer, a rice pudding, but we left the heat too high, burning it. In the end, we just had two dishes. However, we bought from…
Read more → -
Romania Cooking
We cooked food from Romania last Saturday. We liked everything. Mici - meatballs with a lot of spices. Quite similar to other meatball dishes in Arabic countries. 7/10. Recipe here. Zacusca - vegetable spread with eggplants and red bellpeppers. 7/10. Miriam's family loved it but…
Read more → -
Angola Cooking
We cooked two dishes from Angola this week: Muamba de Galinha - chicken stew dish. We needed red palm oil but could not find it this week so we had to just use olive oil. 7/10. Recipe here. Cocada Amarela - coconut pudding. I love…
Read more → -
Kazakhstan Cooking
This week, we cooked food from Kazakhstan. Their national dish was Beshbarmak, which is boiled meat on top of dough. We did not find it too appetizing and we had cooked a lot of boiled meat in the past so we decided to choose two…
Read more →
