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Post by Bartbär on May 22, 2009 7:19:00 GMT 2
mmmm steak... The thing that will always prevent me from even thinking about going without meat. The best meat I have had, so far, which is to say I have had VERY little of all the varieties, is deer meat and buffalo meat. I would love to try every meat out there, but that will remain a dream...
I am actually not that known to recipes or cuisine of any sort. My city is filled with nothing but fast food and horrible restaurants. All the good restaurants I cannot afford. I long for finding myself a nice little place of my own outside of a town, with a nice kitchen so I can learn some cooking. So far the tastiest looking cuisine to me is Polish and German, both of which I have only had little but absolutely love.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2009 10:05:32 GMT 2
I love meat ! Beef, lamb, chicken,fish.....love them all! Pork also but l kand as my health doesn't accept it I forgot the mighty Mushrooms! l adore them too., this food thing is also a neverending topic for me.,. ;D
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Post by Bartbär on May 22, 2009 17:28:48 GMT 2
Mushrooms... mmmm. I haven't had many varieties, but I am lucky that we have an excellent Morel mushroom that grows exclusively around the midwest that is very tasty. The sad part is they only are in bloom for a week or two, and this year I didn't get to go out and hunt for any... Oh well! Next year!
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Post by Heer E. Tik on May 22, 2009 22:34:32 GMT 2
Mushrooms are something I will never tire of eating. Sadly I mostly only know the mushroom kinds/names that grow in Russia/Eastern Europe. I used to go mushroom-picking a lot back when still living there, and immersed myself in their lore and folk uses. Russula mushrooms (in Russian translates as "raw-eaties") were quite common to be found - they come in many colors of caps in watercolor hues, from red to pink to brown to purple, with a gentle sweet-ish smell to them. Click for pic if you want: www.fungi4schools.org/Reprints/Photoset01/Russula_mairei.jpgBut there was such great joy in finding rough boletus (in Russian its name translates as "one who grows under birch tree") or orange-capped boletus ("one who grows under aspen tree"), or - luck of lucks! - cepe, a.k.a. boletus edulis ("white mushroom") - what an aromatic soup can be made from it!... (pics here... birch mushroom- www.treknature.com/gallery/photo190365.htmaspen mushroom- www.treknature.com/gallery/photo29537.htmwhite mushroom- www.amo-nantes.com/Files/boletus_edulis_ou_cepe_de_bordeaux.jpg ) Let's not also forget about slippery jacks: (suillus luteus, or in Russian: "oilies", named after their cap's coating). This pic is a bit large, but the most delicious looking one I could find - you can almost smell the soil and the slightly salty and sweet pungent fungal aroma of it... Honey agaric (who grow on tree stumps in clusters)- This one is great when marinated, perfect for table when you have friends over for a few drinks/shots. Also the milk mushroom ("gruzd"), which also comes in different colors: [/url] Some of these mushrooms are so aromatic that they're best in soups, like the boletus genus... others are great fried, or salted for preservation, or much more. Back in school I remember learning to tell the difference between edible mushrooms and poisonous ones, who like to trick folks into thinking they're edible. Another great lesson was to cut the mushrooms off with a knife when you pick them, don't just pluck them from the ground: then the roots will remain and more mushrooms can soon grow on the same spot. They're a tricky kind - some days they're there, but if you miss your chance you won't find them again... Perhaps it is their rarity and the luck inherent in picking them and their strange ways of "behavior" that contribute to making them a special kind of food. Truly full of energies of the forest. Of the US-available mushrooms, I have tried shiitake, portabellos, and those white mushrooms that we Russians call шампиньоны (agaricus bisporus). Shiitake are unbelievably amazing when fried, and Portabellos make such aromatic soups, but I still prefer the soup from white mushroom, the king of the forest among fungi... I wouldn't be surprised to discover that some of the European mushrooms I was talking about above could also be found in Northern America... though the difference in continents may have led to some variations.
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Post by wolferin on May 22, 2009 23:23:16 GMT 2
No, my mum said it's really a kind of a kiwifruit. She doesn't buy food in any suspicious places... The kiwis are o.k. - are ate of this kind, doubled, and I'm alive. ;D I like kiwis. From the Bulgarian national dishes I like yogurt, which very typical national food, we are eating it almost every day. Salad - "shopska salad" - tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, baked or raw peppers (but it can go without them), salt, oil - olive, sunflower or other kind, lemon juice or vinegar and topped with white cheese. Other favourite dish - baked chicken with potatoes. media.snimka.bg/1944/010143740.jpg
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2009 23:45:57 GMT 2
Hei, we call that ,,bulgarian salad" , Wolferin! But we exclude often various ingredients and add others, so we have lots of salad types here. Now,that is already hot, the salads rule ;D I'm a total freak for white mushrooms! Fried, in sauces, with rice and veggies, in soups...love them! I must put one in my dreams too to leave the forum smiling... ;D
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Post by Mighty Croc on May 23, 2009 7:53:11 GMT 2
Bulgarian salad? I ate that, it's great! It seems that every country has its own salad. I remember the time when we visited Greece, and mum bought a huge canister with olive oil there - so we had to eat the Greek salad every day after that
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2009 18:02:25 GMT 2
He,he, greek salad is also tasty. Olive oil's healthier than sunflower oil, and even tastier l'd say. The last salad l made and friends enjoyed contained: green salad, tomatoes,cucumber, radishes, cheese, chicken, hard boiled eggs...what else?ah,oil &vinegar.. The schnitzels completed the pictures, so...
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Post by Heer E. Tik on May 24, 2009 4:46:53 GMT 2
One thing I can never understand even now is the "american" salad, which contains vegetable pieces so huge that you can only eat one at a time... To me, the art of the salad involves the idea of chopping up vegetables to make the pieces thin and small, because then you can fit more of them on your fork and it's more tasty that way While we're on topic of salads, I'm quite a fanatic for the Russian salad known as "olivye" (from French?..) - big presence at parties and celebrations, and the platter that contains it goes empty within minutes!
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Post by Mighty Croc on May 24, 2009 6:53:42 GMT 2
This title is given to the salad because of Lucien Olivier - he was the chef in the "Hermitage" restaurant, in Moscow, and he was the first to make this salad. "Hermitage" was a restaurant of French cooking, but the olivier salad is the most popular here - it's traditionally considered as a holiday salad.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 11:50:16 GMT 2
I made one of my fave food,both to cook and eat: pancakes with beer &lemon, filled with wild blackberry (Ribus fructicosus) homemade confiture. Oh, and sour cherry confiture in a few. Must eat'em all now! Accompanied by a blakk coffee... ;D
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Post by wolferin on May 24, 2009 14:10:41 GMT 2
While we're on topic of salads, I'm quite a fanatic for the Russian salad known as "olivye" (from French?..) - big presence at parties and celebrations, and the platter that contains it goes empty within minutes! Do you mean this salad? It is made of potatoes, carrots, peas, pickled or fresh cucumbers, ham ( or other sausage) and mayonnaise. Some people add also other products - apple, corn beans, etc. We call it also Russian salad and is also very favourite party meal. Mushrooms I eat only cultivated, because I don't recognize them and I can get poisoned. Pancakes I like very much - with different feeling - marmalade, chocolate, cheese. One very tasty food for barbecue party is "shishche" or "shashlik" - small pieces of meat broached on wooden or metal broach grilled. Between the pieces of meet you can put mushrooms, onion, carrot, pepper, tomato. www.kenar.bg/NR/rdonlyres/623B9407-2D52-4AC2-AA66-204292127D80/0/D06_big.jpg[/img]
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 16:48:46 GMT 2
That looks rather like ,,salade de boeuf"... ps: a few pancakes left. Not even the guests haven't managed to eat'em all. I always kook too much, way tooooo much! As if l have to feed an army.. ;D
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Post by Bartbär on May 24, 2009 17:39:33 GMT 2
To me american "salad" doesn't even exist, and Hjalagh said it perfectly. I have only a handful of times had real salad, and it was thanks to the same person each time. I also enjoy fruit salads of all sorts, although I don't know how well that would technically be considered a salad, but it is the closest we come to it here, unless you make one yourself (I need to do that still!) Walkyrie, as your name implies, grab your golden chariot and come drop those pancakes off at my place. I may be no fallen warrior, but stick around after I fill myself with pancakes and it will seem I have just fought a mighty battle! Those pancakes sound delicious, I love wild berries of any sort, and to put them in pancakes, now that is just the best.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2009 18:00:48 GMT 2
If I'm correct, George B. Shaw used to say that ,,there's no greater love than the love for food" I don't agree, but I know how big my love for food is, and l had to say it ;D Anwend, if you sing good, close your eyes, whisper the word ,,WILD" ten times, open them and search the bluest cloud in the sky and release an arrow towards it...and catch the plate of pankakes, yeah,you're the winner! Seriously now, if any of ya come in Romania, pass by and l'll feed you. that's the only condition.
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