Food and Food Culture

Yeah, I don't think Jamaican ingredients are readily available in too many places. When I was in Georgia for a few years, there was probably one or two Jamaican restaurants I've seen

A shame too. I've always wanted to try jerk chicken.

Edited by M84 on Sep 7th 2018 at 4:41:14 PM

Here in NYC it's fairly easy, but it wasn't until relatively recently that you could get decent ackee.

Favourite Breakfast: Porridge with fruit, made with soymilk.

Favourite Lunch: Blanched carrots and asparagus in a soy-based homemade walnut & lemon dressing.

Favourite Dinner: Prawn stir-fry, using chilli peppers and lemon as the flavour base.

Favourite Dessert: Avacado 'sashimi' with juice squeezed from a fresh lemon drizzled over.

Favourite Snack: Bara brith. I only rarely have it, however.

Favourite Afternoon Tea: Moroccan mint tea with lemon drizzle cake. Another rare treat.

Favourite breakfast: cheerios and hot chocolate

Favourite lunch: pancakes with strawberries on top (I eat this for lunch not breakfast)

Favourite supper: Spaghetti with meat sauce

Favourite snack:pistachios

Favourite dessert: chocolate ice cream

Favourite breakfast: Salchicha huachana (sausage from a Peruvian city)

Favourite supper: Spaghetti or Aji de Gallina.

Favourite dessert: Suspiro de limeña

Here in Peru we just eat three foods at day BTW. The breakfest, the supper and the dinner, which is just the leftovers of the supper.

Edited by KazuyaProta on Sep 7th 2018 at 8:29:44 AM

Ooh, lemon drizzle cake. That cake is so good I still remember what it tasted like even though it's been literally months since I ate it.

I like hot chocolate, but it's usually more of an afternoon or evening beverage for me. Mornings are coffee and tea time.

It's weird. I like pancakes and I like strawberries, but not so much when they're together. I generally don't like fruit with pancakes. I guess I'm old-fashioned since I like good old syrup on my pancakes.

That orange sausage does look pretty appetizing.

Aji de Gallina does look good. But then, I really like creamy chicken dishes.

Suspiro de limeña looks really rich. Caramel and liquor meringue? I'm more into chocolate, but I'd definitely eat a helping of that.

Favorite breakfast: Nasi Lemak with fried chicken

Favorite lunch: Any kind of fried meat

Favorite dinner: Wan Tan Mee

Favorite dessert: most type of cakes

Favorite drinks: Coffee flavoured Calpis (prepared by mixing Calpis with canned black coffee)

Favorite snack: Biscuits

Fun fact: I mix non-alcoholic drinks a lot. The craziest mix I've ever made is Blackcurrant juice+black coffee+fresh milk.

Edited by murazrai on Sep 8th 2018 at 8:22:06 PM

I just noticed there's an awful lot of lemon in my favourites list.

I am interested in Northern Europe, mainly because I've always lived in hot places (California and the Mediterranean) and am interested in visiting somewhere colder, and outside of the UK and Norwegian mythology they don't have very much presence in media, especially the Baltics, but their food doesn't look very appealing to me. Too much potato and carrots.

Edited by CookingCat on Sep 8th 2018 at 6:51:05 AM

I'm too indecisive to come up with a favourites food list, especially considering as my breakfast experience tends to be limited to the full English or cereal, and so much of the time that first one's overkill.

But I'm wondering about blenders: how much use would one be? What are they good for? I feel like I semi-regularly find interesting recipes that are hampered by the lack of one, but then... (on a secondary note, Aldi is selling blenders that can crush ice for almost nothing down the road, so the next few days are probably my best chance to get one for a really good price)

Edited by RainehDaze on Sep 8th 2018 at 3:08:50 PM

Will usage definitely varies based on what kinds of foods and drinks you consume, it never hurts to have one, especially if it is on sale. As for what you can use it for aside from the obvious smoothie or milkshake, some people use blenders to blend sauces or to liquify certain foods. You can get creative with it, just be careful.

A food processor is a very useful tool. Especially for making homemade sauces.

I'd consider milkshakes and smoothies to be "extra functions". I'm more interested in what I could do with one for meals aside from, say, pea soup.

I mostly use blenders/food processors for mixing up liquid dough for pancakes, regular cakes when the recipe demands it, and whip up eggs and cream.

Saves you a lot of time and effort.

Purree veggies for going into sauces, blending bouillon into a broth, good for soup stock in general, blending marinades etc. Basically, if you need anything liquified, made very fine, or mixed really well beyond what a mix can do, they work pretty well.

But not to mince meat. Meat processed by a meat grinder still retains some of its texture. If you put meat into a food processor powerful enough it will turn the meat into a sticky homogeneous pulp. If the processor is not powerful enough it will simply break from the strain.

Meat put through a food processor is good for leberkase, though.

Edited by Millership on Sep 8th 2018 at 10:42:24 PM

I work in a hotel restaurant and I remember a few years ago we had an old guy come in for Sunday Lunch and order a lamb roast but ask for it to be blended as he had no teeth. The chefs did it, putting the lamb, roast potatoes,veg, Yorkshire pudding etc. into a blender. It looked terrible but the guy apparently really enjoyed it.

TBF, as you age your sense of taste also fades. That is apparently why some kids hate veggies so much — the bitterness is stronger for them. This is also why they love sweets.

In other words, something like beer becoming an acquired taste may simply be due to your tastebuds dying.

Yeah, I had read that somewhere and tried explaining it to one of the waiters once. He seemed horrified that he may come to like the taste of things he currently hated as he grew older.

Double post but as we were talking about favourites earlier and inspired by the absolutely gorgeous one I had today, what are everyone's favourite flavour of ice cream. Normally I would have said Pistachio or Mint Chocolate Chip but the one I had today was Ginger & Cinnamon and it was beautiful so I would probably say that at the moment.

Chocolate, of course.

My second fave would have to be sea-salt and caramel.

Blue Berry for me.

I only like chocolate ice when it is really dark chocolate, like I once had dark chocolate ice that was so dark it looked like tar and it was really good.

I'd probably go with mint chip.

Yeah, Caramel is a constant in our food.

You should also prove Afro-Peruvian desserts. Is impressive that despite being a 3% of the country, they are practically a basis of our overall culture.

But hey, we also got Chaufa, which is basically our own Asian cousine as one of our stapples. Like, so much that we ignore that some foods are really part of it due to be so overwhelmingly common.

Nothing bad for groups that together don't reach the 5% of the overall population.

Edited by KazuyaProta on Sep 9th 2018 at 4:52:43 AM