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Thursday, June 10th 2010, 8:19pm

What is your national dish? How does it look like, what are the main ingredients, is it tasty and are you able to cook it?

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Thursday, June 10th 2010, 8:42pm

I like this topic Idea! :rolleyes:

Here in Egypt, There are so many national dishes
i will pick one of them

It called " Mahshi "

main ingredients are grapes leaves and rise!

And absloutly i can't cook :whistling:

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Thursday, June 10th 2010, 8:58pm

^are those comparable with the Greek 'Dolmadakia'?
Pictures of Dolmadakia

As for the Dutch national dish... I don't really know what's most Dutch, but 'Stamppot' (mashed potatoes mixed with veggies) is quite high in rank as is the 'Snert' (thick soup made of split peas, with lots of meat and kohlrabi) and 'Hollandse Nieuwe' a.k.a. herring.

Of the stamppot, the one with 'boerenkool' (kale) is most famous, often eaten with smoked sausage, baked bacon cubes and/or other meat.
Stamppot Boerenkool

I like the Sauerkraut mash best. Zuurkool stamp

How people think about Snert is mixed... I like it, while quite a lot of people really don't like it. I have to admit that it doesn't look too haute cuisine or so, but it really stuffs well

, especially good on cold winter days after you skated on the ice of one of the frozen canals :thumbsup:

The recipe is different for everyone. My mom and my grandparents all have their own recipes

and I like my mom's version best

I can make the stamppot, but I haven't tried the snert yet to make, though I helped quite often with it, so I can probably do it, but it'll take a couple of times before I can make it well (it has the habit of turning out different every time you make it, so that's a bit tricky

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this is how snert looks like:

and a zoom in version, which makes it look not very fashionable

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Thursday, June 10th 2010, 9:09pm

loool .. i think u r right ( about this dolmadakia

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Alexandria ( My city ) was built by Greece .. so they may make it here!

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Friday, June 11th 2010, 10:28am

Snert! Yummie! But Nike.. you forgot Hutspot!.... Our most famous one!

It's made of onions, carrots and potatoes... I really like it.. though most people seem to be hating it

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Friday, June 11th 2010, 10:29am

oooh.. and yes.. I'm able to make all dishes Nike and I named ;-) My dad used to be a chef.. so I got some cooking lessons. My grandma makes the best 'snert' ever though

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Friday, June 11th 2010, 8:55pm

How could I forget about Hutspot, that is a shame

, though I had it in my mind when I posted the others, guess I had it in mind under the name of the 'stamppot'

Dutch food should be appreciated much more

. Nice to hear that you like snert too

(Because of your (West-)Frisian roots?

Grandma is Frisian, mom originally too, so that could explain... (speaking about dutch sterotyping

)

I never had serious instructions for cooking, but just helped my parents every now and then. And sometimes I try just random things to check if it works out - also a way to learn to cook

@Arianne, as your dad used to be a chef, does he still often cook at home, and does he cook restaurant-ish food? Just wondering

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Saturday, June 12th 2010, 7:47am

I live in Belarus and our national dish is dranik. This dranik with different fillings or without it. potato pancakes served with sour cream. But as fillings add mushrooms.

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Saturday, June 12th 2010, 3:11pm

@ Nike: me rarely cooks at home (he has another profession nowadays).. though sometimes he does

He doesn't really make restaurant-ish food though... too bad.. although he's able too

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Saturday, June 12th 2010, 8:51pm

I think "dranik" looks nice .. wanna try

@ Arianne, carrots and potatoes .. how could it taste? :huh:

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Sunday, June 13th 2010, 8:40am

@ Samir haha.. you have to try it in order to know what it tastes like

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Sunday, June 13th 2010, 11:52am

Hutspot doesn't really have a specific taste, well probably because I'm just used to it

. Some foreigners seem to like it too

Here are some recipes found on the internet, as you can read there, it's not so difficult to make

Hutspot recipe 1
Recipe 2

And some general info: History of hutspot

@Silvio, what's Switzerland's main dish?

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Sunday, June 13th 2010, 12:07pm

We don't really have a main dish... but if you think about famous Swiss dishes, it would be fondue, chocolate and then there are heaps of different local specialities in Switzerland, like capuns in my area. I haven't prepared a lot of traditional dishes because they simple take too much time in my eyes (and I'm also not really into cooking).

In Switzerland we have also a lot food from Italy for example... I'd say that's what I eat most (and love).

Fondue:

Capuns:

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Monday, June 14th 2010, 7:02am

I'm coming over for dinner Silvio!

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Tuesday, June 15th 2010, 10:45pm

Ooh, fondue! Haven't had that for several years :O. If I like it depends a bit on the recipe, if there's wine in it or not. I like the one without wine in it better, because otherwise it has the typical taste that I'm not really fond of

What are capuns made of?

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Thursday, June 17th 2010, 6:39am

Hm... how to explain capuns? It's made out of speatzle dough and you add some meat from my area. I hope this explanation is good enough - I haven't cooked it by myself, so that's more or less what I know.

With wine is better, I'd say too, though back home we usually don't use one. My mother wouldn't do that. haha.

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Thursday, June 17th 2010, 3:30pm

why wouldn't she do that then? :O Just wondering

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Friday, June 18th 2010, 10:06pm

She's not really fond of cooking and it takes quite a while to prepare it. Apart from that it's a meal from the area I live but my mother's originally from another part of Switzerland and therefore she doesn't know how to prepare it. Does this make sense? haha...

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Saturday, June 19th 2010, 2:54pm

@ Silvio: yeah it does make sense!

no worries!

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Saturday, June 19th 2010, 3:46pm

Rösti and also Maluns are also some swiss meals, made out of potatoe. And then we have also Raclette and Pizzoccheri (especially the one from Poschiavo).

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