The official Ethnic Food thread

[He Man]

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! You wrap all this stuff into dried Lotus or lilly leaf. Tie it, then boil it for a 5 hours.



These are the leafs after they've been washed.


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

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.


and your end result is this triangler shaped thing.



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?

[Grampa]

Ethiopian meat wine.  yummy

[jdubbs32584]

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

[mitt]

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.

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

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

[SacDuc]

Ethiopian meat wine.  yummy

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

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

sac

[Le Pirate]

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


looks disgusting, but is quite tasty 

[Grampa]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

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

sac

yup

[T-byrd]

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!



T

[Triple J]

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

[Ohmic]

Yummm yummm. This thread is making me very hungry. 

My parents do make a really mean goat curry.

[Ash]

i like cheeseburgers

[cyrus buelton]

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

[Mother]

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

[Flipside725]

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 

[ducatiz]

"ethnic food"

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

to me, this is exotic stuff: