[OFF TOPIC] Food & Drinks Thread

[phelps 7,805]

  On 4/16/2019 at 8:56 AM, AlFHg said:

Easter is coming, do you eat something in particular? Here in Italy, or better here in Naples, we mostly eat this, among other things:

 

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not even to be mentioned...Colomba all the way...

 

 

that's for what concerns the "dessert" category, of course...

 

other foods...no, I've never followed any particular tradition (except maybe that I always try to avoid meat on Easter Friday)...

[Wumo 3,016]

On the topic of "interesting" dishes/delicacies, has anyone tried "Balut"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)

 

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[hckošice 15,110]

  On 4/16/2019 at 8:58 AM, AlFHg said:

I suppose adding lemon to the water can be an easier solution

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Maybe, but apparently it really smells a lot so it will require porbably a couple more of lemons

 

 

  On 4/16/2019 at 8:56 AM, AlFHg said:

Easter is coming, do you eat something in particular? Here in Italy, or better here in Naples, we mostly eat this, among other things

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Nothing special in terms of food. basically the Sunday morning the whole family sit around the table to break the fast (Especially Friday is the major fast) with a real feast including million different kinds of Ham, saussages (yes we have countless amount of saussages species) + eggs, traditional home made cheese made of eggs and mainly sweet betroot + spicy horseradish + every family bakes million of diferent sweeties and cakes, especially to be served alongside with unstoppable amount of alcohol for the "visitors" of the Easter Monday morning

 

 

https://www.welcometobratislava.eu/traditional-easter-in-slovakia/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bestmen 2,831]

i can't eat all that except the salad , eggs , bread

[hckošice 15,110]

  On 4/16/2019 at 3:25 PM, bestmen said:

i can't eat all that except the salad , eggs , bread

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well, we have also some poultry products accesible before easter and they are quite cheap since nobody buy them

[Quasit 865]

I made my own Thai-style green curry soup today, based on green curry paste.

I added lots of things I like, like onions, garlic, spinach, coconut milk, cashew nuts, coriander and ... English sausages. I love experimenting with different cuisines and ingredients.  

 

Served in a bowl with vermicelli (glass noodles).
 

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[phelps 7,805]

  On 4/19/2019 at 6:35 PM, Quasit said:

I made my own Thai-style green curry soup today, based on green curry paste.

I added lots of things I like, like onions, garlic, spinach, coconut milk, cashew nuts, coriander and ... sausages. I love experimenting with different cuisines and ingredients.  

 

Served in a bowl with vermicelli (glass noodles).
 

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not exactly my kind of cuisine, but it looks interesting...

 

and I like a lot the attitude to try and experiment, personal interpretation of the general principles of a certain cuisine is one of the main characteristics of a good chef...

 

only pastry is a "perfect science", anything else in the kitchen is only about finding the right balance between ingredients and taste...

[phelps 7,805]

however, today is Ester Friday, so here in Italy the tradition is about not eating meat nor anything related to it...

 

so, my lunch was about fresh tuna and a good mixed salad (with many types of vegetables like "travisana" -red leaves salad- fennel, carrots, celery, spring onions, yellow and red pepper, tomato), followed by some fruit (apple) and a slice of "Colomba" (classic Easter sweet for us in Northern Italy...see the picture in my previous post in this thread)...

 

my dinner, instead, was only about a dish of pasta (with the most classic tomato sauce), some dried fruit (nuts, almonds and things like that) and some chocolate pudding...

[Gianlu33 4,734]

I'm not so good in pastry, so usually I avoid it, but sometimes I try to do some dishes

This is a typical dish of the Amalfitanian Cost and we call it Delizia al Limone (in English something like lemon delicious, I'm not sure). It's a small cake of sponge cake (with the add of rum after the cooking) filled with a lemon cream

[hckošice 15,110]

  On 5/2/2019 at 7:11 AM, Gianlu33 said:

I'm not so good in pastry, so usually I avoid it, but sometimes I try to do some dishes

This is a typical dish of the Amalfitanian Cost and we call it Delizia al Limone (in English something like lemon delicious, I'm not sure). It's a small cake of sponge cake (with the add of rum after the cooking) filled with a lemon cream

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+1 for rum cakes