Food
One randomly chosen cuisine a week, cooked at home with Miriam. Recipes, verdicts and the occasional failure.
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Serbia cooking
Last weekend, we cooked food from Serbia. We followed these two recipes: Sarma - meat wrapped in cabbage. I found the fermented cabbage to be too sour / overpowering. 6/10. Recipe here. Palacinke - pancakes / crepes with cheese filling. The pancakes are baked after…
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Panama Cooking
The first country for 2021 was Panama. We cooked two dishes: Sancocho - chicken soup. Good like all chicken soups. 7/10. Recipe here. Sopa Borracha - rum cake. This was perfect for the new year. 8/10. Recipe here. Sancocho Sopa Borracha
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Lebanon Cooking
This week was Lebanon. Miriam's family were excited since they love Arabic food. We cooked the following: Hashweh - Rice with beef with various aromatics like cinammon, raisins and almonds. I liked it a lot. 9/10. Recipe here. Baba Ganoush (or Mutabbal?) - both are…
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Togo Cooking
Last Saturday, we cooked food from Togo. Did not really know what to expect but we were pleasantly surprised. These were the recipes we tried: Grilled chicken - we don't have a grill so we roasted it. What tasted a little different from the typical…
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Montenegro
We cooked Montenegro cuisine this week. The recipes I found were mostly seafood and lamb in milk. I did not find lamb this week in the supermarket so we just decided to cook these dishes: Black risotto - a recipe listed in many blogs about…
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Curacao Cooking
This week's country was Curacao, a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. We cooked the following dishes: Keshi Yena - cheese stuffed with meat. We used edam and gouda. 8/10. Recipe here. Fried fish - we were originally planning to cook okra soup called…
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Cuban food
Cuban plate This week, we cooked food from Cuba. Here are the recipes we followed: Ropa vieja - Translates to old clothes. It is shredded beef. We should have probably cooked our beef more until it has really disintegrated but we were getting hungry already…
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Albania Cooking
This week, we attempted to cook recipes from Albania. We decided on these three dishes: Fergese - cheese with pepper and tomatoes. 8/10. Recipe here Byrek - their streetfood made with filo pastry. We filled it with spinach and cheese. 7/10. Recipe here Shendetlie …
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Madagascar Cooking
We cooked cuisine from Madagascar this weekend. Interesting fact about Madagascar is that like Filipinos, they are Austronesian. This group spread from Taiwan to other parts of South East Asia, Oceania and Madagascar through boats. We share the same language too. Here are the recipes…
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Bahamas Cooking
This week, we tried Bahamas cuisine. Here were the dishes we cooked: Conch fritters - I've not eaten conch before. It's sea snail. We made fritters through this recipe. Miriam's family loved it. For me, it was too rubbery. 6/10. Rice and peas -This was…
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