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  Whats your favorite dish?

  Hi everyone,

  I simply like food, so its difficult for me to think of a special dish. I like italian pasta of course, It all depends on the sauce and a good parmesan cheese. But, i also like chinese food, middle Eastern, (especially the sweets), the list gets longer. One of the dishes that I haven't tried (yet), is a nice portuguese dish. Any suggestions? Also I would really appreciate a good Apple pie recipe, my last attempt was a disaster. Well I have to go and raid the fridge now, so hope to hear from you soon.

  Bon Apetit, Silvana

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  *~*KeSlEy*~* 

  I love Chicken and Bowties, it is Chicken with Bowtie noodles with tons of parmesan cheese in a kind of creamy sauce and sun dried tomatoes. I also love Tzatziki on grilled pita bread!!

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  philosophefop 

  It is so hard to pick a favorite dish, it really depends on my mood! I usually go for very spicy foods, like 'the hottest green chili in town' from a local restaurant chain on their delicious breakfast burritos, or Szechuan tofu, but I think my new favourite is golabki, a Polish dish of ground meat and rice wrapped in a cabbage leaf. It is savoury and just wonderful.
  Hello Kelsey, (that's my name too!) -do you like other Greek foods? We eat a lot of Greek food at my house because my maternal great-grandfather came from Greece and my mother makes the best tzatziki I've ever had. We need a good spanakopita recipe though, it is always too salty for my tastes!

  Both of you have made me very hungry for Italian food! I love all those rich flavours.
  Let me see if I can locate the apple pie recipe we usually use, Silvana, and I'll get back to you. It's nothing fancy, but I like it because it isn't so sweet that you lose the natural taste of the apples.

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    Earl 

    Interesting how food brings back memories of forgotten days. When I was studying at Wayne State University in Detroit in the hoary past, I once visited a schoolmate's family in nearby Hamtramck, a city largely of Polish auto workers in those days--90% Polish by the 1970 census--where I was introduced to golabki.

    Thanks for reminding me of its savory delights and spelling--and by extension pronounciation--which I have shamelessly abused these many years.

    Looking forward to your apple pie recipe, as apples are natural favorites of the Applebys and transplanted New Hampshiremen. But that's a story for another day . . .

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    philosophefop 

    Hello Earl,
    I am glad to have reminded you of golabki (which I am sure I'm not pronouncing very well); I just ordered it again Saturday...did you eat it with a mushroom sauce or a tomato one?
    I am about to post the apple pie recipe; if you use it, do let me know how you like it!
    You seem like a very interesting person, with a lot of good stories. I hope you will share them with us!

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    Silvana Lowry 

    Hi, Earl and Kelsey!

    Ok Earl and Kelsey what is Golabki? I am very curious now. All I know is that it is a Polish dish, and can be eaten with mushroom sauce or tomato sauce. and it is obviously savory. So, what is it?

    I can't wait to try your apple pie Kelsey, Thank you , thank you. And I would like to hear more of Earl's stories as well. You must have lived a very rich and interesting life.

    All the best, Silvana

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    Earl 

    Golabkis, or as I knew them in Hamtramck, Golumpkis, are rolled cabbage leaves stuffed with ground beef and pork. First boiled, they are pan fried and when I was introduced to them by the Polish family of a fellow student at Detroit's Wayne State University covered with tomato sauce.

    My thanks to you and philosophefop for the kind words, The Traveling Gourmet is aptly named and a special place to share good memories--thanks to folks like you.

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  *~*KeSlEy*~* 

  I love greek food!! My favorites would have to be Tzatziki, Baklava, Loukumathes (sp?) and Gyros. My best friend is half greek and half italian, and her mom makes really good food!

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    Silvana Lowry 

    Hi, I love Baklava! Some (like my family) say it is too sweet, but not for me.

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  Meaghan D 

  Thanks for welcoming me to your group!
  I must agree that Greek food is amazing. Pretty much any Mediterranean cuisine is on my list of faves. I love Tabbouleh, hummus, Moussaka, Souvlaki...mmm. My mouth is starting to water.

  I've also a great appetite for Indian food--especially chicken tikka--and spicy thai dishes. There is a tiny little asian market near my home that sells really fresh green curry and basil so I have tried to make some green curry chicken at home. I don't have the talent to make it as perfectly as a native, but it turned out pretty well!

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  *~*KeSlEy*~* 

  I love Tabbouleh! Souvlaki is pretty good too!

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  Claudia C. 

  am I too italian if i say pasta with home made ragù and maybe some T bone florentine steak? these things are just too good: simple and perfect.
  in a couple of hiurs i'll be in sweden for a little holiday, so i will try some local dishes: i will write here if there is something really good! :)

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    philosophefop 

    Can't say I've ever had Swedish food; please let us know about it and your trip! :)

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    Halie 

    Swedish meatballs, anyone? My friend is Swedish and she makes delicious food!

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  Sabina E 

  My favourite summer dish would have to be Thai Beef Salad, with loads of coriander, sweet-and-sour broth and those lovely marinated thin beef strips on top. Then again, there is Tom Yum soup with prawns (chicken is good too), hot and sweet and sour at the same time. So hard to choose...

  It's winter now in Australia, so for winter I'd say a roast with herb and mustard crust, with roasted vegetables and a nice sauce, something with cognac and cream maybe. Another favourite is slow-cooked lamb shanks with creamy mashed potatoes - actually, I think that will be dinner for tomorrow.

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  Aouda Poe 

  Comingo from Mexico, it's hard to turn your head from your own roots. Mine's nothing fancy but the best flavor combination uo til now.... Chilaquiles!!!! Basically, it's fried tortilla chips (not too hard) with tomato sauce (could be green or red) and bits of chicken. Toppings: sour cream and onnion.
  Delicious!!

  If anyone's interested on the recipe, please email me at mmbrunet@gmail.com
  Because sometimes I'm not aware of the replies of a forum.

  Happy cooking!

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    Silvana Lowry 

    Hi Aouda,

    Can you please include your recipe of Chilaquiles, in the recipe of the week Discussion thread, so we can all share it. Thank you. Silvana

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    €ÇL€Ç†íÇ 

    Oh goodness Im drueling!

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• jo 

  I like a sushi that is not seasoned overly sweet. I like good dim sum at a bustling Chinese Restaurant at
  lunch hour. I love a good Thai green-curry with vegetables and sometimes chicken served over brown rice.
  And now that it's summer in the USA, a beautiful spring-greens salad topped with corn, red bell pepper, onions,
  and cilantro sometimes topped with tender roast chicken with a nice salad dressing. And there is more, but
  gonna end here for now.

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  philosophefop (edited)

  I am sorry for being so late in getting this to you, but here is the apple pie recipe! It comes from Better Homes and Gardens, All-Time Favorite Recipes, 1979.

  6 cups thinly sliced, peeled cooking apples (we always use 7 granny smith/green apples)
  1 tbs lemon juice
  1 c sugar
  2 tbs all-purpose flour
  ½-1 tsp ground cinnamon
  dash ground nutmeg
  1 tbsp butter

  Enough pie-pastry for a double-crust pie.

  Prepare and roll out pastry. Line a 9-inch pie plate with half of the pastry. Trim pastry to edges of pie plate. Sprinkle apples with lemon juice. In mixing bowl combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add sugar mixture to the sliced apples; toss to mix. Fill pastry-lined pie plate with apple mixture; dot with butter. Cut slits in top crust for escape of steam; place pastry atop filling. Seal and flute edge. Sprinkle some sugar atop. To prevent overbrowning, cover edge of pie with foil. Bake at 375° for 25 minutes. Remove foil; bake till crust is golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes more. Cool pie on rack before serving.

  Like I said, it is nothing fancy, but I hope you enjoy it nevertheless!

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  Silvana Lowry 

  Hi Kelsey, here is the Anzac biscuit recipe. Hope you enjoy, Sil

  Ingredients
  1 cup each of plain flour, sugar, rolled oats, and coconut
  4 oz butter
  1 tbls treacle (golden syrup)
  2 tbls boiling water
  1 tsp bicarbonate soda (add a little more water if mixture is too dry)
  Method
  1. Grease biscuit tray and pre-heat oven to 180°C.
  2. Combine dry ingredients.
  3. Melt together butter and golden syrup. Combine water and bicarbonate soda, and add to butter mixture.
  4. Mix butter mixture and dry ingredients.
  5. Drop teaspoons of mixture onto tray, allowing room for spreading.
  6. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden. Allow to cool on tray for a few minutes before transferring to cooling racks.

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    philosophefop 

    Thank you so much, I might just have to make these today!

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    philosophefop 

    Hi Silvana,
    I just finished making a batch of your Anzac biscuits -they are delicious! I can just imagine how happy a soldier would have been to receive a tin of these from his family or sweetheart.
    That's a great recipe and clean-up only took me 10 minutes, compared with the usual half-hour I spend. Thank you so much for sharing it!

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  Silvana Lowry 

  Hi Kelsey, I am so glad that you enjoyed cooking and eating the anzac biscuits, They are one of my husband's favorite biscuits. Or should I call them cookies? At some point I will add the recipes of the Lemingtons and pavlova. Two of Australians favorite desserts. By the way, we have a new veegemite on the market that it is much smoother and apparently tastes great. I have not tried it yet. I sometimes I use a bit of vegemite in my cooking to enhance the flavour. Are you going back to College in September? Can I ask what you what are studying? What sort of career pass do you have for your future? All the best, Silvana

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    philosophefop 

    College starts for me in the end of August. I'm an Art History and French double-major and I plan on going into a career in fine art and film restoration with a side business of fashion design and costuming.

    I never thought about adding Vegemite while cooking, it sounds like a really good idea. (I guess kind of like how we use peanut butter here, but more versatile.) I look forward to trying out your other recipes some time! Thanks again!

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  Halie 

  There are too many to name just one!

  First, blueberry blintzes, with a little sour cream and applesauce; my mouth is watering just thinking about them. Second, cottage pie, the best comfort food ever. Third, Aebleskiver with lingonberries. My Danish grandmother makes these for me when I visit her. Lastly, carne adovada, which is a kind of slow-cooked pork and chile dish that my other grandmother makes for me.

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    philosophefop 

    I've never had Danish food, but it sounds good from your post -I hope you will share some of these recipes with us!

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  Bennnc63 

  I am going to think on this a while. I love food....... Lots of favorites, particularly Italian and German, and just plain ole comfort foods. I will post back later.

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    Sabina E 

    What sort of German food do you like, Ben?

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    Bennnc63 (edited)

    All the wurst, snitzel, and those nice noodles - spitzula (I am sure these are spelled wrong) with that nice rich gravy.

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    Sabina E 

    Ah, spaetzele - I love those, too (childhood memories) and they are impossible to get in Australia! Schnitzel is often on the menu in our house and for the sausages and smallgoods my husband luckily found a German butcher; he's got a nose for these things. Sounds like you've been travelling in Bavaria, somewhere southern Germany at any rate!

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    Bennnc63 

    I was station in Nellingen Germany for a year, but I lived in Pattonville near Ludwigsburg, and therefore traveled through Stuttgart everyday. It was the worst non combat tour of duty I had in 10 years, but the most enjoyable place, we loved living in Germany, visiting the gardens, palaces, and zoos. And of course the people and food were great, come to think of it the beer was not bad either, especially when you got it delivered to your door. We also had a number of friends who married European ladies, and most of them were great cooks. I did not like gravy much until I went to Germany, lol, my how my waist expanded afterwards. I had a simular experience with rice, when I discovered Canton Fried Rice.

    Spaetzele is correct, I have been thinking of trying my hand at those. However I have to watch my starches these days, so have held back. We also have a small market where we can get the sausages and such. For a long time we had a friend that would send us a care package several times a year.

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  Bennnc63 

  I think perhaps it would be Lobster. And that may be because I don't get to eat it as often as I would like. Followed closely by country style steak and gravy. Before I developed colestrol problems, I would fill half the plate with steak the other half with rice, and cover it all with gravy, then repeat the process, finishing with several biscuts with gravy. Perhaps I know why I developed the colestrol problem :( I can no longer eat in that quanity, and I ration myself to once a month.

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    James F 

    For me, definitely lobster. One of the things I miss most about Maine, where I lived before coming West. Also steamed clams, fried clams, clamcakes . . .

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    Halie 

    Fried clams are among my favorite things in the world, food or not. And lobster. I grew up in Connecticut. Clam bakes rule!

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    Bennnc63 

    Much of the seafood comes in tight seconds for, clam, crab, oyster, ship, redsnapper, etc. etc.

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  Earl 

  Lobster is my Mom's favorite. Years ago when Rocky Point Amusement Park was at its height in Rhode Island, we used to enjoy clam dinners, especially, to kick off election campaigns. Later in New Hampshire, it was Jim Beam and maple syrup, but that's another story.

  The Rocky Point family style affairs consisted of New England clam chowder, clam cakes, sweet corn, and watermelon. Other staples from little Rhody included quahogs, Johnny cakes, and--my favorite treat that my mother would bring home so often--fish cakes, prepared to perfection by Leo Boudreau, who used his signature slice of potato between the batter and the fish and always included a baker's dozen to our childhood delight. Of course, as a jicky, on my paternal side, fish and chips was ever present, as was swordfish before the mercury hysteria.

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  Bennnc63 

  Earl, what is quahog, don't think I have heard of that??

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    Earl 

    Thanks for your interest.

    The quahog (pronounced KWA-hog) is what Rhode Islanders call their hard-shelled clams. Their name comes from Rhode Island's earliest natives, the Narragansett Indians

    They are commonly steamed and served with butter sauce, though they may be eaten raw, chlled in their shells. They are sweetest when small, and the smallest ones that can be harvested legally are called "long necks." The next size up, also good eating, are cherrystones. The largest are generally best used in chowder. When I went clamming as a boy, I would carry a steel ring in my pocket, if the clam could not pass through it was legal. . . . Let's leave it at that.

    If you'd like to see a picture, visit http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/factsheets/fsquahog.html.

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    Bennnc63 

    Earl, thanks for the replay and for the history of the dish as well. Also the link. Very intresting.

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  *~*KeSlEy*~* 

  I tried Thai food and Indian food and Sushi this summer and I loved them all I just wish there were good restaurants for them near where i live.

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  ~Diamond-Girl~ 

  I so love Italian foods. My favorite is stuffed shells with tomato sauce, basil and fresh garlic and garlic bread. I also love spicy foods. So if anyone knows of a good spicy dish please let me know.

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  ~Diamond-Girl~ 

  I also love grilled salmon, tuna and red fish with grilled veggies.

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    *~*KeSlEy*~* 

    I love grilled tuna with spicy mustard, delicious.

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    Bennnc63 

    We also eat salmon several times a week. Sometimes we grill it, sometimes I marinate it in a garlic and herb sauce and pan fry it in a couple of tbsp. of EVOO. Also use lemon pepper marinade, or just lemon juice and butter.

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  *~*KeSlEy*~* 

  I just got back from my friends house, I worked the Grrek Festival all weekend with her and I am so full!! My favorite was the Baklava Sundaes, it had vanilla ice cream and baklava and almonds and cherries!! yum.

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  LizzieBoBizzy! 

  My favorite dish has to be Orange chicken, homemade gravy, and Angel Hair Pasta. Mmmmm....

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    Bennnc63 

    Now ya talkin, especially with the homemade gravy..... I think I smell that down here :)

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  Jennifer b 

  My favorite dish is southern style grilled bonless pork ribs slathered in barbque sauce. I usually serve them with grilled corn on the cob, collard greens cooked with chopped bell peppers vidalia onions and a ham bone in stock, and baked potatoes wrapped in foil and cooked on the grill. In the Florida heat is is much more comfortable to cook as much as possible outside.

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  prisha 

  prawns, prawns, prawns. cooked in thick coconut milk. prawns biriyani. prawns dipped in batter and fried.

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  Tyra W 

  Sushi rolls. I'm surprised I could answer that quickly because I love so many foods, but it would have to be fresh sushi rolls. California - basic. Spicey shrimp. Plain, simple good food that makes you feel like you're giving your body a gift.

  Might be easier to say what I don't like. Soups that are not cream based. Liquidy brothy stuff - doesn't make sense - other than French onion - but otherwise.

  I love beef and blue cheese combinations - hamburgers (preferably with a martini), or, better yet, a salad with steak on top and stinky, blue, blue cheese.

  Pasta with white sauze. White chili. Pizza with more white ingredients than tomato based sauces.

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    Halie 

    Oh, I know. Sushi makes you feel so healthy, like you're doing your body good. Plus, it's delicious. I'd like to learn more about Japanese cooking in general, I've heard there's a sort of philosophical methodology that they use to work what you were just talking about into the way food is prepared. Something to do with Shinto and Buddhism, I think.

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