Every country's culinary delights!

[English assassin]

As the season for it is coming - a typical dish from the Northern parts of Germany:
Grünkohl with Pinkel



Add to that a good beer and some Korn

I just hope that we will manage to get some Pinkel this year to have our annual Grünkohl-dinner with friends (usually we get the stuff from my parents in law but this winter we will not manage to visit them and we haven't found any Pinkel yet in Frankfurt)

Pig, cabbage potatoes and beer is just NEVER wrong.

Since we are allowed to recommend other nations delicacies, I give you Fesenjan http://www.iranmania.com/travel/eati...tfesenjan.asp/

This isn't exactly how my wife makes it (its infinitely better with duck not chicken for a start) but it gives you the idea. Delicious.

[Peasant Phill]

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Quince dessert:


(from a blog)

Are quinces (ayva; Dutch: kweeper) known over there? Five years ago my Dutch friend and his Chinese girlfriend visited. I ordered the dessert in dinner and they had no freaking idea abut the fruit, even after the chef brought one to show them.
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It's actually kweepeer in Dutch. I can't speak for the Dutch but in Belgian the kweepeer is known but not by everybody. It's not part of the home cooking though I believe it used to be (a lot of vegetables and fruit were lost to the traditional cooking over time). It is still used in restaurants and in holiday meals.

[Fragony]

Won't find them in normal supermarkets, more a delicacy thing. It's a hassle to make and the fruit itselve has a nasty odour.

[Mouzafphaerre]

Won't find them in normal supermarkets, more a delicacy thing. It's a hassle to make and the fruit itselve has a nasty odour.

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So sait a Turkish-Dutch colleague. He said it could be found in Turkish greengrocers.
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[Ser Clegane]

I just hope that we will manage to get some Pinkel this year to have our annual Grünkohl-dinner with friends

Just finished our "traditional" Grünkohl-diner. My wife managed to "import" some Pinkel from the coast to Frankfurt via a colleague of her, so we did not have to skip the Grünkohl this year

[Shahed]

Had some Indonesian recently, very standard dish but VERY DElicious Rendang. This is a rich, spicy, (chilli) hot (if you choose), meat dish. The meat is very tender, served with white rice (usually). Goes excellent with Tiger beer...

[InsaneApache]

Sounds good. I might try to make one.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

This isn't from my country, though my mother's family once made something similar at home, though not exactly the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_de_leche

I love Costa Rica.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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So, I won't humble my might in the kitchen, especially with vegetables, particularly the eggplant. My karnıyarık is envied even by mom, my eggplant salad is a living legend and my musakka, Turkish style, stands amongst the renowned.

But last Tuesday I had the chance to taste musakka Greek style the first time. Man, that's a work of art! It's the embodiment of pure delight. It's the best thing Greece has contributed to the world! It outclasses the Iliad and overshadows Aristoteles. It feeds the stomach, pleases the tongue and fills the dreams. It's the wonder of the world.
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[Ronin]

Pasteis de Belem are the best kind of pastries I ever tried in the world...in my humble opinion...

you can find them all over Portugal by the name "Pasteis de Nata" but if you are in Lisbon you must try the original item...called "Pasteis de Belem" in the neighborhood of Belem where there is a small shop that is the only one to have the secret recipe.

Pasteis de Belem on wiki


*getting hungry here*

[Subedei]

Just finished our "traditional" Grünkohl-diner. My wife managed to "import" some Pinkel from the coast to Frankfurt via a colleague of her, so we did not have to skip the Grünkohl this year

So they serve Grünkohl in the Red Pagoda? How come? How do you prepare it?

Guten Appetit!