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I'm sure we got every kind of walking race on this forum, so I figured we could post up some ethnic foods that aren't always found in the resturants, and more of a family or cultural food. So, since my parents are getting old, and im getting ready to move on with life, i decided to learn all of my parents recipes.
Ill start with what i learned last saturday.

My family is from china, and we have this little snack. Its like a spanish tamale basically. You can put whatever you want into it, but my family has done it this way for as long as ive eaten it. You use sticky rice, you can buy it and its called glutinous rice. A bean, my parents call it "green bean" but im not sure if its the same green bean as you all know, since its yellow. Pickled/salted chicken eggs. and FAT BACON! ;D You wrap all this stuff into dried Lotus or lilly leaf. Tie it, then boil it for a 5 hours.
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These are the leafs after they've been washed.

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salted egg yolks. (the raw ones have been banned from import due to the recent chinese chemical poisoning of everything, sorry guys! ;D)

heres the best part.... you can buy bacon by the pound unsliced. Each piece is about 1.5inch long x 1/2inch thick. and SUPPER fatty.
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and your end result is this triangler shaped thing.

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As i was opening i kind of ate it. so no pics until later tonight when im ready to eat another one.


So what do you guys have as an ethnic/cultural food?

Ethiopian meat wine.  yummy

Pierogies. We make them from scratch every winter around thanksgiving. We're Polish so kielbasa is a staple as well.

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Great idea for a thread, and that recipe sounds pretty good too.

I will have to do some thinking about this.  I don't have a lot of recipes from my European ancestors, but we do cook a lot of other foods.

I would really like to get some good easy Indian recipes - love the food, but nothing I have ever made turns out close to a restuarant.

mitt

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

ah, good times. I can never remember, is that the same night Grio and I found the G-spot?

sac

my grandma is scotish....she makes headcheese once a year.


looks disgusting, but is quite tasty  [thumbsup]

yup [thumbsup]

My mother is German, Bavarian to be exact and she would make Rouladen und Gloss mit Blaukraut (stuffed beef flank with potato dumplings and red cabbage) every once and while.  Mmm...yummy!

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T

I have a family recipe for Swedish Pancakes...called pleta, not sure if that spelling is correct though.  They're tasty  [thumbsup] ...much better than the so-called swedish pancakes you get from IHOP and the like.

Yummm yummm. This thread is making me very hungry.  :D

My parents do make a really mean goat curry.

i like cheeseburgers

I dig soul food. Fried Chicken and Kool-aide.

grandma makes

Pork and baked beans
Corn bread
BBQ chicken
corn on the cobb
green beans
and
'taters and gravy

compared to the japanese food my mom made every day it was pretty ethnic

I'm really like good indian food...chicken tikka makawhala and saag paneer are my favorite.

also pretty big into mexican, spanish, thai, german, turkish....ok...i'm big into food in general  [laugh]

"ethnic food"

geez.. one man's "ethnic" food is another man's bread and butter.

to me, this is exotic stuff:

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gf is messican, and her mom's cooking is just to DIE for [thumbsup]

My wife is Italian and she inherited a bunch of her grandmother's recipes. Let's just say I've gotten fatter since we were married. Her mother makes this tiramisu that has rendered me unable to even consider ordering it in restaurants since I know full well I will be disappointed.

I'm hungry.

sac

+1.  There's this great restaurant in Carytown, Richmond, VA, -- it used to be in DC, I think, before they moved here -- called Cajun Bangkok.  OMG, the food is so good.  Some Thai dishes, some Cajun dishes, some are a fusion of the two.  Really, really good.  Spectacular flavor combinations.  11:56... time for lunch!

 ;)

OH MAN I LOVE WATERMELON. Cut that sucker up, throw her into a blender, ad some ice cubes and honey. BAMMM sweet sugar filled slushy!!!

too much work

i just cut a plug out of the end, pour in a 5th of vodka and put it in the fridge overnight.

+11tyb [evil]

I'm Russian so the cuisine is sometimes.....different:
Borscht (cold beet soup with at least a table spoon of sour cream mixed in)
Imagine a yellow jello rectangle the size of a shoe box with meat, potatoes, and carrots suspended in it served cold.  Don't know the name of this dish.
Potatoes with lots of fried onions
Cold cuts, usually different types of salami and maybe a cheese
Caviar black and orange
Some type of mushroom salad
Beet salad
Salted fishes (salmon, white fish)
Blintzes (thin pancakes) Put cold cuts, caviar, fish, salad, etc in here
Pickled apples, grapes, watermelon, tomatoes

and my favorite Russian cuisine
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it's called p'tcha

the "jello" is ground up hoof.

i am not kidding.

Yea, that's right the jello is hoof.  Just didn't remember the name, thanks mang  [thumbsup]

I can't stomach that stuff a little too Klingon for me if you know what I mean.

if that's an artful and polite way of saying it smells and tastes like shit, then i agree.

 [laugh] more or less

Since when have Russians preferred Dutch vodka?  [cheeky]

T

What can I say, not a fan of my homelands brands  :-[

But we make some amazing moonshine, so long as no one has mixed in gas or antifreeze to give it some kick  ;)

jewel of russia is really really good...

Hmmmm Polish contributions to cuisine.

Potato Vodka.
Kielbasa.
Perogies.

Peasant food. I hated my grandmothers cooking. Cabbage everything. Yuk.

I eat Italian or Chinese as much as possible.

Hey man, next time I'm up visiting CAM, I'll bring some pierogies nad kielbasa for us. Sound good?

Sounds great! I'll bring the Luksusowa. I have plenty.  [laugh]

Me = 1/4 Mick, 1/4 Limey, 1/4 Dago, 1/4 Frog.

Of my own heritage, I have mixed feelings. Love corned beef, hate cabbage. Love haggis, hate bangers and mash. Love ANYTHING Parmesan, hate manicotti. Love pate', hate cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

As a generalization, I love Asian food. Chinese steamed dumplings. Thai curries. Japanese sushi.

Specifically, Vietnamese Pho. Hands down.

Anything you want, mixed into a soup consisting of your choice of broth along with lots of noodles. The only acceptable medium for tripe. Or tendon.

Personal favorite is the seafood medley. I don't usually like squid, but if its surrounded by fish balls and cellophane noodles, I'll deal. Add some Sriracha, a few mint leaves, and a lime wedge, and I'd probably kill for a bowl.

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I loves me some Hawaiian Pizza.

Does that count?

I didnt know pigs were native to hawaii. that is ham right?

not the FLESH OF TEN MILLION BABIESSSS

Oh yeah, that's ham.

And bacon.

;D

...tastier if it was...

My fiancee father brought this back from the Philippines a few days ago.

Its some sort of Rice, Coconut Dessert. I think there are small pieces of meat in it also. You warm it up and it taste pretty good actually.
I will let you know if I get the runs later  ;D

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neato!  cool use of bamboo.

Okay I found one other thing in the bag of goodies from the Philippines.

Its another dessert wrapped in a roasted Banana Leaf.

It smells like a fine cigar and tastes... well like Coconut and Cane Sugar.

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have you ever had raw sugarcane?  you just slice some off and chew on it.... deelish on a hot day in the desert or tropics     8)

I sure have. It's very Yummy  [thumbsup]

I had some of this stuff in Amsterdam.

Man, ate a LOT of Fritos after

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nice brick

Was that picture taken before you ate it or after  ;D

that would require a very talented anus

i am a man of many skills...   [laugh]
you have no idea.  sugarplums danced, rainbows sang.

ANUS MAN!  ANUS MAN!  Does whatever an ANUS CAN!

i've been called worse..   [evil]

...but BY worse?  ;D

hey settle down now!

[laugh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P7E2_pZOxI

[laugh]

I love Thai & Indian, the hotter the better. Tried Ethiopian last time I was in DC-feh! Wasn't really my thing.
But speaking of Cheeseburgers you poor bastards that haven't been to California have no idea what you're missing at In & Out Burger...makes me want to move back.

There are three Mexican food trucks that sell taco's, burrito's...etc. parked outside of the MVA in Gaithersburg, MD.  The one with no grass in front of it is the best of the three and I have never ever had better Mexican food than the tacos I eat standing on the side of the road!  I can't remember the name on the side of the truck, but my friends and I call it "el trucko"  It's amazing!

There used to be one of those near my old office -- we called it el aspirador de las ratas.  Cheap cheap cheap food, but man, you really wondered..