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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2009 14:09:36 GMT
I just looked up the wikipedia article on Argentine cuisine. I think an artery clogged merely from reading it. Give her some typical foods from Québec ~~ make her glad to be back.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 4, 2009 15:13:33 GMT
Artery would clog on that too. Remember, logging wood in frigid weather?
In general, I'm much more inclined to make vaguely Mediterranean food that Québécois food. Several pots of basil on my balconies. Argentines will happily eat Italian food.
Rather scary looking at the size of the meat portions in the many Italian-Argentine dishes shown. A Milanesa like the one shown would feed an entire Italian family.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2009 15:25:34 GMT
Unofficial national slogan: if ya got it, grill it!
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 4, 2009 17:49:21 GMT
I'v already described my somewhat early lunch today under the topic, "Food That's Bad For you"
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Post by tillystar on Jul 4, 2009 19:54:07 GMT
I got a bit carried away today. There is a new West Indian take away opened near by and all week I been thinking of trying it.
I had jerk chicken and rice and peas and Mr Star had Ackee and Saltfish with plain rice. We got some Callaloo (a kind of green leafy vegetable with saltfish) on the side were double greedy and also got a saltfish fritter and some dumplings to share.
I wish I had taken a picture, it was soooooooo good. We will definately eat there again and I will take a photo. The chicken was the best jerk chicken I ever had, it was done on a massive smoker indoors - so was the potato in the side salad and it gave it such a special flavour.
I am full but can't stop thinking about it.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 4, 2009 20:27:48 GMT
Finally I'm just taking a green salad (feuilles de chêne, rocket (arugula, rucola, roquette), that white curly endive and a couple other things as well as balcony-grown basil), feta cheese and artisanal nachos (totopos). I know "artisanal" is one of those overused words, but I mean made by a small family business at the market, not some huge corporation. And obviously some wine, and some fizzy mineral water.
In reference to another thread, I'm now combing through my hair, tangled from riding my bicycle in the wind.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2009 21:10:13 GMT
I so wish I could say, "gosh, I'd love to have that salad Lagatta is eating", but my heart has been given to the West Indian fabulous feast.
The only thing wrong with it is that Tilly has now given me a Harry Belafonte earworm.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 4, 2009 22:25:01 GMT
Oh my oh my ~~ that was good. That was really, really, really good. My supper: swiss chard stir-fried in olive oil with lots of garlic & just the "nose" of a jalapeño + the leftover fava beans quickly reheated with the roasted chicken legs (boned) I bought yesterday + brown rice sauteed before cooking with a little onion & garlic + a killer pico de gallo.
That is something I love -- hot, bland grains with a cool, very piquant sauce spooned over.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 4, 2009 23:40:51 GMT
Looks like it's a steaming mug of consomé de camarón (piquant shrimp broth without the shrimp) and plate that Doña Cuevas brought home for me from a little fiesta marking the end of the kindergarten semester.
It's a lot of Arroz a la Mexicana (Something like a pilaff) and some sliced beef in what appears to be a dark brown mole. That is something I've never seen before: beef in mole. (Outside of "Mole de Olla", which is really a hearty, chile-laced beef and vegetable soup, quite unlike "mole" as we think of it.)
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 5, 2009 1:04:53 GMT
Even though it is the 4th of July,I decided to put a pork roast on the rotisserie. I have a killer bbq sauce, complete with Jack Daniels, so that is what we are having. Going to grill a bunch of veggies. Dessert is a fresh strawberry pie.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 5, 2009 9:37:40 GMT
I am invited to a friend's house for dinner tonight. She restricts herself to a very sparse diet mostly of stir-frys, salads or baked potatos. However tonight soup will be on the menu. Just soup.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2009 9:47:58 GMT
And you still call that a dinner invitation?
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Post by lagatta on Jul 5, 2009 11:41:40 GMT
Unless it is one of those wonderful "soupes de poisson" - bouillabaise being but one example of their wonders.
spindrift, does your friend have an eating disorder? If she is trying to watch her weight there are lots of other healthful, tasty things she could eat.
bixa and tilly, there is a Caribbean butcher's just opposite the market (I can't be more specific as there are Haitian people but also people from one of the English-speaking islands, the old BWI) and they were doing jerk chicken legs, tasty and not really any more expensive than buying and grilling the chicken at home. But they weren't doing them yesterday: I hope they didn't get a summons for not having proper ventilation equipment. I want more of that chicken.
After the hurricane destroyed so much of the tiny island nation of Grenada, we organised a supper to raise money for people there; a Grenadian friend made a spectacular island feast along with family members (their food is much like that of nearby Trinidad) and I painted a watercolour of destruction and renewal of the spice trees - we made laser prints of the painting as a poster for everyone who took part and donated money.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2009 14:52:38 GMT
Tonight's main item will be rollmops. I guess I should boil a few potatoes as well.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 5, 2009 15:25:38 GMT
We'll be eating a lot of vegetables today, some of which I bought Friday at a new, (mostly) organic specialty produce mercado in Pátzcuaro. Friday was its first day, and it will be open only on Fridays for the foreseeable future. Assorted produce from specialty vegetable mercado From a previous purchase elsewhere, I have potatoes and berros or watercress; I'll make Cream of Potato and Watercress soup. I got some great purple tipped turnips at the new mercado, which I'll braise with bacon and onion and a dash of vinegar, as I sampled some at the mercado and it was great. I'd bought two pitahayas, of which we've so far tried one. It's refreshing and light, and nice to look at, although the flavor isn't very strong. Pitahaya flesh Note the huge Italian Lemon in the first photo. Yellow lemons are SO hard to find in our part of Mexico, and this one exceeds expectations. I haven't figured out what I might make with it, although a pie comes to mind. Haven't had a good Lemon Meringue Pie in a long time. (Had some at the Randolph Diner in Randolph, NJ, in May, but it was only just fair.) Besides the very nice looking turnip greens, I got some lacinato, or Italian Kale, which I may cook separately in order to try it apart from the turnip greens. We also have some already cooked brown beans, a wedge of cornbread, English Muffins that I made two days ago and froze, and other things. More than enough.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 5, 2009 15:39:58 GMT
Not food related, but I must comment:
What an odd coincidence, LaGatta ~~ I am reading a novel that begins with an incident in that very hurricane.
What a lovely thing you all did for a place that generally is ignored.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 5, 2009 20:08:48 GMT
In the end, we made the Crema de Papas y Berros, but set it aside for another day.
The Braised Turnip Greens and Turnips were outstanding; possibly the best Turnip Greens we'd ever had. I cooked the greens in bacon fat and bacon, with onion. Later, I added one Granny Smith apple, unpeeled and cut small. Seasonings, besides S&P were beef stock (from Bovril concentrate paste), cider vinegar, sugar. Really really good.
With that we had freshly baked Southern Style Buttermilk Cornbread, using meal from Nora Mill, Helen GA. Also some brown beans with garlic, epazote and chile piquín.
We also tasted the Italian Black Kale (lacinato), There wasn't more than a half a cup for each of us after it was sauteed in olive oil with garlic, salt and a few drops of actual, real, yellow lemon juice. It was also very nice.
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Post by tillystar on Jul 6, 2009 18:55:52 GMT
We are having Spaghetti with garlic and chilli prawns. Literally just the garlic and chilli flakes cooke din the olive oil, prawns added and cooked through and poured over spaghetti.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 19:00:02 GMT
That sounds really good. Don't forget the chopped cilantro (or anything else green) on top.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 6, 2009 19:23:46 GMT
we are slowly adjusting to no tzatziki with our meals.
yesterday, we had a late lunch of a concoction of tomato, courgettes and mushroom (and herbs/spices) on top of a slice of toasted onion bread, the lot covered by an egg sunnyside up.
it was very nice and just what we needed. tonight was spaghetti pesto to finish the pesto (since we don't have a freezer).
I don't remember what we had last week. not greek food. ah well...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 19:24:58 GMT
What, no tzatziki? How is that possible?
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 6, 2009 19:30:03 GMT
hihi! one gets used to these things...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 19:33:21 GMT
I understand. In my distant past (French version), it would have been absolutely impossible to end a meal without cheese. That is no longer punishable by death in France.
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Post by tillystar on Jul 6, 2009 19:52:35 GMT
I more or less lived on Tzatziki and bread for 6 months once, just reading the word makes me feel scared.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 6, 2009 20:36:51 GMT
I wasn't hungry tonight and so I didn't force myself to eat.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2009 23:49:16 GMT
Hmmmm. I was going to make yet another Asian-y salad with the smoked fish I have. Then I read Tilly's post.
Whole-wheat pasta, lots & lots of garlic & hot red chile in olive oil, the fish, and I'll probably work the pico de gallo in somehow.
Thanks!
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Post by lagatta on Jul 7, 2009 0:40:52 GMT
Not much, bit more than spindrift - I have a sort of mesclun mixed salad, local and organic, from the Jean-Talon market. The stall was closing for 2 days so the young woman there gave me a huge bag for 1$ (Canadian, of course). I'll have to share it with neighbours. And a bit of cheese. I'm not very hungry either, and while I love to cook, doing it just for oneself can get tedious.
I'm happy to see that bixa can get wholegrain pasta in Oaxaca. Of course, al ajillo (do they say that in Mexico, bixa? In Spain it means with loads of garlic).
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2009 1:36:47 GMT
Yes, that term survived the voyage over.
I'm afraid I ate everything you & Spindrift didn't. It was good! I had it with a lettuce & tomato salad just touched with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. That's about my favorite salad when the tomatoes are really nice.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 7, 2009 6:38:48 GMT
DC, are those pink fruit the pitahayas? Are they what's known here as dragon fruit? Is there also the variety with white flesh?
If so I'd agree, their looks are much stronger than their taste.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2009 6:57:09 GMT
I also thought of dragon fruit the moment I saw that photo. Last time I was in Saigon, the hotel would give me a big plate of sliced dragon fruit, papaya, pineapple, banana, etc., along with my pho and tea with milk.
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