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So lately I have been on this kick to try and make European foods.

So i can't say why but polish foods really caught my attention and i tried making some pierogi ruskie.

I have no idea how authentic mine are but I followed the recipe and I enjoyed them.




Do you have any experience with any kind of euro foods that might be far and in between in the U.S.??
 
My Wife's Dad is 100% Iraqi. The food they serve at family gatherings ranges from fantastic to WTF is this ???
 
The European food is very versatile, it varies from country to country. I wouldn't call the Russian kitchen as Europe style. A typical Swiss meal is Fondue ( dipping bread in melted cheese), Raclette ( melted cheese and potatoes), Italiens prefer pizza and pasta, Germans like Spätzle ( kind of pasta)
Wurst amd much more.
Try the website www.chefkoch.de, m.bettybossi.ch. They have tons of recipes,
but don't let fool you, we also do burgers, spare rips
Marco
 
Middle Eastern/Lebanese food is delicious...

I used to work near Dearborn where there are alot of Middle Eastern restaurants and bakeries...

If you haven't tried it, you need to... Nothing like a mango smoothie, fresh pita bread dipped in hummus, fatoosh salad, and some shwarma, ghallaba, or a shish tawook sandwich...

I've gotten many people hooked on that food, including my father in law the cardiologist... He said that food is very healthy...
 
Car Nut said:
I like French fries.
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krazykuda said:
If you haven't tried it, you need to... Nothing like a mango smoothie, fresh pita bread dipped in hummus, fatoosh salad, and some shwarma, ghallaba, or a shish tawook sandwich...
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i have come to the conclusion that if a place serves "shwarma" instead of "shoarma" its not gonna be very good
but if you can find one that serves "shoarma" man, you are in for a treat

(rant over)

as for finding authentic european food
ive given up
even if my mom sends me recipes, and i follow them to a T, i wont be right
the meat tastes different (and it is a real pain to find a butcher that sells a good cut of horse, but thats a whole nother story) simply because it is raised different

the wheat here tastes different then back home because of the soil content it grows on

add it all up, you never get something to taste "right"
 
Kern Dog said:
My Wife's Dad is 100% Iraqi. The food they serve at family gatherings ranges from fantastic to WTF is this ???
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When I was in iraq for a few years. It seemed anytime I ate with the locals was rice with raisins in it. Lots of pitted olives, maybe some lamb tossed in with it. The tea we had was pure sugar lol it was good tho.
 
Dartsun said:
When I was in iraq for a few years. It seemed anytime I ate with the locals was rice with raisins in it. Lots of pitted olives, maybe some lamb tossed in with it. The tea we had was pure sugar lol it was good tho.
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I was in Iraq in 2003, before the PX and Burger King showed up.
Anyway, I didn't trust the locals to much. I did see that they ate a lot of rice, lamb, goat, humus, pita like breads as well as dates and nuts.
After the fighting settled and before IED's I saw street vendors selling shawarma, it smelled terrific, but I had trust issues.
Something I did try and thought was pretty good was something called kinafi (sp?).
I have had some good shawarma in Israel, but the best stuff was in the Palestinian areas. Otherwise, when I go to Israel, I go to for the work, not the food.
Germany was a great place for food. Schnitzel is great, the different sausages, fried potato's, man I'm getting hungry thinking about it.
I never cared for the liver or cabbage. Both were pretty common with a meal.
South Korea, lots of Ramen gets ate there. I had dog once, didn't realize it at first. Gotta be careful with some of the street vendors.
When I was in France (18 hours) I had McDonalds.
 
gunbunny said:
I was in Iraq in 2003, before the PX and Burger King showed up.
Anyway, I didn't trust the locals to much. I did see that they ate a lot of rice, lamb, goat, humus, pita like breads as well as dates and nuts.
After the fighting settled and before IED's I saw street vendors selling shawarma, it smelled terrific, but I had trust issues.
Something I did try and thought was pretty good was something called kinafi (sp?).
I have had some good shawarma in Israel, but the best stuff was in the Palestinian areas. Otherwise, when I go to Israel, I go to for the work, not the food.
Germany was a great place for food. Schnitzel is great, the different sausages, fried potato's, man I'm getting hungry thinking about it.
I never cared for the liver or cabbage. Both were pretty common with a meal.
South Korea, lots of Ramen gets ate there. I had dog once, didn't realize it at first. Gotta be careful with some of the street vendors.
When I was in France (18 hours) I had McDonalds.
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Germany is great I was stationed there for a 4 years but was deployed mostly. I was in iraq in may 2003-04 06-07. Back in the early days we were just tired of MREs our SFC (13F) would go in there weird little grocery stores over there while I was on machine gun pulling guard on our soft shelled vehicles. I ate more liver in Iraq of animals I’m not sure what used to have my mom send bbq sauce make it decent. Good ole day lol.
 
Dartsun said:
Germany is great I was stationed there for a 4 years but was deployed mostly. I was in iraq in may 2003-04 06-07. Back in the early days we were just tired of MREs our SFC (13F) would go in there weird little grocery stores over there while I was on machine gun pulling guard on our soft shelled vehicles. I ate more liver in Iraq of animals I’m not sure what used to have my mom send bbq sauce make it decent. Good ole day lol.
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13F? I was a 13B XVIII Airborne Corps 18th Artillery Brigade C 1/321 in Iraq.
I was at Warner barracks in Baumburg in the last 8" Battery in the Army. I spent most of my time in Grafenwöhr though. As a 13F you know the deal. I was sent there Feb 1989, deployed to Desert Storm then back. They promptly deactivated the 8" and it was to the Ft Sill for me.
I had a lot of trust issues with the Iraqi's, I lived next a 155mm gun that they could see and liked to lob mortars at every night. So I ate a lot of MRE's and whatever came in the mermites.
 
that donner kebab got me thinking, there is a little place in scottsdale arizona, called Pitacafe

it has great gyros, and the owners are pretty cool too
 
gunbunny said:
13F? I was a 13B XVIII Airborne Corps 18th Artillery Brigade C 1/321 in Iraq.
I was at Warner barracks in Baumburg in the last 8" Battery in the Army. I spent most of my time in Grafenwöhr though. As a 13F you know the deal. I was sent there Feb 1989, deployed to Desert Storm then back. They promptly deactivated the 8" and it was to the Ft Sill for me.
I had a lot of trust issues with the Iraqi's, I lived next a 155mm gun that they could see and liked to lob mortars at every night. So I ate a lot of MRE's and whatever came in the mermites.
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Oh dang you were real closely stationed, I was out of Giessen Germany HHB 2-3 FA 1BDE 1AD but since 13F I got sent to 2-37 Ar still as an E-1 and stayed an Baghdad most my first tour. I was lucky to work closely with local translators so I did gain trust in some folks there. The gunners palace documentary movie was the guys in my battery in Germany but wasn’t at palace with them.
 
Dartsun said:
Oh dang you were real closely stationed, I was out of Giessen Germany HHB 2-3 FA 1BDE 1AD but since 13F I got sent to 2-37 Ar still as an E-1 and stayed an Baghdad most my first tour. I was lucky to work closely with local translators so I did gain trust in some folks there. The gunners palace documentary movie was the guys in my battery in Germany but wasn’t at palace with them.
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I was south, close to Munich, about 60km from the Czech border. If I got up that way, I would either go to Kassel or Bonn. The wall was up, so Bonn was the place. When I could get there, I would head on up to Amsterdam. That was usually a really good time. I got stories, but I don't want to hijack the thread.
 
gunbunny said:
I was south, close to Munich, about 60km from the Czech border. If I got up that way, I would either go to Kassel or Bonn. The wall was up, so Bonn was the place. When I could get there, I would head on up to Amsterdam. That was usually a really good time. I got stories, but I don't want to hijack the thread.
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i had to go to amsterdam to get my papers
now most of you wont know this, but im a country bumpkin, and on top of that, back in the day, i was a bonafide metal head
i would steer away from amsterdam, any chance i got (in fact, if i never got north of the rivers, id be hust fine)

but like i said, the consulate was in amsterdam so i had no choice but to go there, and without fail, i mean every single time, i would get approached about drugs on the street
and the worst part was, they never asked if i wanted to buy, they always wanted to know if i had something to sell



while you were down there, did you have something called "frikandellen"?
(trying to steer back on topic here)

not even sure what it is, a deepfried sausage of a mixture of meat, pork chicken and horse im sure
especially great when served "special" with mayonaise, onions and "curry" sauce (im sure you know it if you were stationed in Germany)

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that got me thinking
there used to place in town here (it went belly up a decade or so ago) that served "balkenbrij"
you dont wanna know what went in there
pretty much the stuff that was left after you made hot dogs

now that was an acquired taste
 
Try some borscht, made right it's amazing. Had a friend way back in high school was Ukrainian, his mother made phenomenal borscht, piergi, and so many other delicious Ukrainian dishes. Plus his family made some pretty fine moonshine whisky too.
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diymirage said:
i had to go to amsterdam to get my papers
now most of you wont know this, but im a country bumpkin, and on top of that, back in the day, i was a bonafide metal head
i would steer away from amsterdam, any chance i got (in fact, if i never got north of the rivers, id be hust fine)

but like i said, the consulate was in amsterdam so i had no choice but to go there, and without fail, i mean every single time, i would get approached about drugs on the street
and the worst part was, they never asked if i wanted to buy, they always wanted to know if i had something to sell



while you were down there, did you have something called "frikandellen"?
(trying to steer back on topic here)

not even sure what it is, a deepfried sausage of a mixture of meat, pork chicken and horse im sure
especially great when served "special" with mayonaise, onions and "curry" sauce (im sure you know it if you were stationed in Germany)

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that got me thinking
there used to place in town here (it went belly up a decade or so ago) that served "balkenbrij"
you dont wanna know what went in there
pretty much the stuff that was left after you made hot dogs

now that was an acquired taste
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Holy Cow! I remember those! There would be ladies who would ride up to the firing point on their bikes, and would sell those out of a basket.
Yeah, I got approached on the street, but it was never drugs! I wasn't above checking out what was being sold. I was good friends with Billy Boy
 
DILL PICKLE SOUP!! Had it at a Polish restaurant in Grand Forks, Minn. and it was fantastic. If you get it right, it will knock your socks off.
 
SpikeWills69 said:
DILL PICKLE SOUP!! Had it at a Polish restaurant in Grand Forks, Minn. and it was fantastic. If you get it right, it will knock your socks off.
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I used to date a woman whose father made dinner on Christmas Eve,he was from Ukrainia what he went trough from 1935 until 1950 is not printable here, but I learned the hard way not to wolf the perogies down, I know what 9 months pregnant feels.
 
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