Food
One randomly chosen cuisine a week, cooked at home with Miriam. Recipes, verdicts and the occasional failure.
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Iceland Cooking
This week, we randomly selected Iceland to try out cooking some recipes from. We didn't really know a lot about Iceland except for the recent parody movie about Eurovision. We didn't really have a lot of expectations before going into their cuisine. But, we were…
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Turkey Cooking
This week, we cooked food from Turkey. I've been to Istanbul before and I loved the city. It was so beautiful and the food was great. Miriam's family were also excited to for this week's country because they love Mediterranean food. This week, we decided…
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Botswana Cooking
We randomly picked Botswana this week. I only knew two things about Botswana before this week. One is that this country is lauded as a success story in Africa for having good institutions. Another one is that the king of Spain went to a hunting…
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Taiwan Cooking
This week, we randomly picked to cook food from Taiwan. We ended up making these three recipes throughout the week: Beef Noodle Soup - the most famous dish from Taiwan. We followed the recipe from Tasty . 8/10. It tasted great. Braised Pork Rice …
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San Marino Cooking
We were lucky to randomly pick this microstate inside Italy for this week. Based on the Wikipedia page, we cooked two dishes: Nidi di rondine - The literal translation is Swallow's Nest. It's a flower-shaped lasagna. Miriam's family loved it. They said it was their…
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Bhutan Cooking
This week, our country was Bhutan. They are known for using the additional metric of Gross National Happiness to guide the country. You can only be happy though if you were born to be in the right race as Bhutan is also known for having…
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Italy Cooking
This week, we randomly selected Italy! I did my master's in Bologna and I had a great time eating pizza, pasta and gelato. In the past, I've only tried cooking pasta dishes like tagliatelle al ragu, pesto and carbonara. We decided to cook dishes I…
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Samoa Cooking
This week, the country we randomly picked was Samoa. I found this website SamoaFood.com listing some recipes from this island nation. Some of the prominent recipes required taro leaves which we didn't know how to source in Barcelona. There was also a dish similar to…
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Sao Tome and Principe Cooking
This week we randomly chose Sao Tome and Principe. The only thing I knew about this country before was that it's the least known country in Africa . People normally confuse that it's from the Caribbean because of its name. We cooked two recipes here…
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Brunei Cooking
This week, the first country we randomly picked was Brunei. After doing research about their cuisine, we found two that we wanted to try. Nasi Katok - fried chicken with sambal and rice. Youtube recipe here . We made our own sambal. It was spicy…
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