Recipe Sharing

[Yousef]

Title pretty much says it on the tin.

I’d love for there to be a thread for people to share and exchange recipes so why not be the change you want to make?

I hope we foster a healthy cuisine community here. Love to hear everyone’s thoughts! I’ll drop my recipes.

Also, I hear Americans and LATAMs really love Arab food like Kabab, Sheesh Tawoog, Shawarma and even biryani (which is both Indian and Arab but has different names everywhere. Biryani is just an umbrella term these days).

This is all very flattering to hear! I’m happy people of other places enjoy our culture! So I’d love to share a lot of local recipes here, some you may not even heard about so stay tuned!

Also inspired by a nice convo I’ve had with @RustySK !

 

[Bjorvy]

Title pretty much says it on the tin.

I’d love for there to be a thread for people to share and exchange recipes so why not be the change you want to make?

I hope we foster a healthy cuisine community here. Love to hear everyone’s thoughts! I’ll drop my recipes.

Also, I hear Americans and LATAMs really love Arab food like Kabab, Sheesh Tawoog, Shawarma and even biryani (which is both Indian and Arab but has different names everywhere. Biryani is just an umbrella term these days).

This is all very flattering to hear! I’m happy people of other places enjoy our culture! So I’d love to share a lot of local recipes here, some you may not even heard about so stay tuned!

Also inspired by a nice convo I’ve had with @RustySK !

Fantastic idea for a thread! I'll make sure to check in here regularly as I love trying new kinds of food, and drop some of my own if I feel creative.

I love all the arabic food I've had. I'm particularly fond of a good falafel, and the famous/infamous kebab pizza is like the single most popular dish of all time here. When I lived in a dorm my palestinian friend also introduced me to genuine bedouin tea, which was, no contest, the best tea I've ever had in my entire life.
Scandinavian food is comparatively more boring and utilitarian (unless prepared really well, but I guess it could be a grass-is-greener situation too and especially if you're not a huge fan of fish/seafood) but I do think that some of the best bread ever comes from here, particularly from the north where I live.

 

[Yousef]

Fantastic idea for a thread! I'll make sure to check in here regularly as I love trying new kinds of food, and drop some of my own if I feel creative.

I love all the arabic food I've had. I'm particularly fond of a good falafel, and the famous/infamous kebab pizza is like the single most popular dish of all time here. When I lived in a dorm my palestinian friend also introduced me to genuine bedouin tea, which was, no contest, the best tea I've ever had in my entire life.
Scandinavian food is comparatively more boring and utilitarian (unless prepared really well, but I guess it could be a grass-is-greener situation too and especially if you're not a huge fan of fish/seafood) but I do think that some of the best bread ever comes from here, particularly from the north where I live.

Haha I love how this thread is already turning into a place to share cultural knowledge. I’m getting slightly sleepy atm so I’ll keep some stuff to a bare minimum but there’s a few tidbits I wanna share.

Kabab pizza is something I’d love to try eventually. It’s a thing that does not exist here at all and is entirely western-made but heard good stuff about it and I like to keep an open mind about stuff! Part of TVs spirit of this thread haha.

Bedoon tea is absolutely stellar (quick note, don’t worry about spelling. Arab foods like hummus having different spellings is a result of Arabic having an untranslatable phonetic structure that’s not fully compatible with western languages). It’s the default tea here. Your Palestinian friend seems like a chill guy. I’ve recently taught myself to recognize Palestinian Arabic and it helped expand my horizons haha.

Scandinavian food Sounds interesting! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Bjorvy]

Kabab pizza is something I’d love to try eventually. It’s a thing that does not exist here at all and is entirely western-made but heard good stuff about it and I like to keep an open mind about stuff!

Yeah, if I remember correctly it came around as a result of arabic immigrants opening up restaurants in the 1980s, and due to this evolving, pizza in general here is actually more a middle-eastern thing rather than specifically italian which is always neat to think about I think.

Scandinavian food Sounds interesting! Thanks for sharing!

Whatever you do, stay away from surströmming!!!
Tiny meatballs (any protein works, beef is the standard) with mashed potatoes, gravy and lingonberry jam is probably the most famous food!

Your Palestinian friend seems like a chill guy.

He was THE living embodiment of "a chill guy" (or IS rather, he's alive and well but we've since moved far away from each other to different cities). Dude was my first real "rival" in fighting games and we used to keep a tally on all our versus matches, in the end it was almost so insanely even tight that whenever he'd win one, I'd win the next and so on.

 

[Stingy Perry]

Shawarma is popular here in the Philippines kinda there’s at least a Shawarma Stall per town

 

[Ian Naxieas]

Ooh, I love food and cooking. :9 I've yet to find any country's cuisine that I've disliked. Too bad that I missed the bus for being one of those YouTubers who travels to every country and eats everything. Sadly, I've lived in the American Midwest since 2000 and the chance of getting authentic food from other cultures is a rarity. It's not impossible though. When I lived in North Dakota there was a phenomenal Greek place that my boyfriend and I frequented. We also found a hole in the wall African place that was amazing, but it sadly closed shortly before we moved. Finally, there were two fantastic Indian places. They introduced me to mango lassi and I could drink that shit forever.

Sadly, most of what you get here is Americanized cultural foods. Don't get me wrong, Tex-Mex has it's place, but I grew up a few hours away from Mexico and have been to Mexico, you can't beat the real shit. I've also been to China and Americanized Chinese food is a disgrace. I've grown to actually hate it. x) It's just so homogenized, everything tastes the fucking same no matter what you get and where you get it. Finally, sushi. I'd love to try legit sushi. Americanized stuff is okay I suppose, but it also has the same problem of everything tasting very similar. Plus you are not going to find high quality fresh seafood in fucking Iowa.

Anyway, don't stop talking about your culture's foods please. I want to know about everything, even if it makes me rage because I cannot have it. I'll eat anything as long as it's safely prepared. Or as long as there isn't a chance of it killing you because someone fucked up. Keep pufferfish away from me for that very reason.

I wish I had some cultural foods or unique recipes of my own to share, but my family was not very traditional. x) There were no traditional recipes passed down, just a bunch of old cookbooks. Lotsa good shit in them though, so I'm not really complaining. The only unique food I remember was cut up vegetables in Jello with mayonnaise on top. The Jello and veggies were actually a good combo, but I skipped on the mayo. Ew. Lefse and lutefisk were popular in Minnesota around the holidays, but I've only tried lefse.

I did think of one dish that is actually North American in origin and not just stolen by us. x) Frybread! It's delicious as hell but has a bit of a dark history because of colonialism. Basically it was a struggle meal made by the indigenous people from the meager rations that the government supplied them when they were forced to relocate. That aside, I've made it many times as a cheap, filling meal. You can put many things on it and have a good time. The featured picture is a frybread taco, which are amazing.

I've gone on more than long enough. I'll drop some recipes and other stuff in here eventually. YOU LOT BETTER TOO. :V