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Post recipès, tips and other food-related stuff here.. If you have some delicious national and cultural meals, do me and potentially other guys a favour and post them here. I love to try out new stuff... Anyway, making dinner tonight which will include:

Pork chops roasted in red wine (El Coto Rojo) which gives the meat a sweet and very delightful taste. If you can't find this specific wine, then get someone to point out a medium sweet one for you. It's great.

Anyway, along with the pork chops, I'll cut potatoes into pieces (boats), drench them in oil and roast them in the oven for about 30 minutes until they're golden brown and crispy. On the top of everything I'll add mushroom-sauce (with or without mushrooms) or barnaisè sauce which is alway a winner.

Quick, simple and delicious.

*Ingredients are highlighted

yum. I suddenly became hungry too bad that I'm a really bad cook. If it's left to me to come up with dinner it's usually just something you throw in the microwave Although I have one speciality, a swedish dish called "Raggmunk", which I made a couple of days back. Its quite similar to pancakes but it's made from potatoes.

You make a mixture out of grated potatoes, eggs, flour, milk and some salt. Chuck it into the frying pan along with some butter and fry it til the mixture hardens into one cake and gets some colour and then serve with bacon and lingonberry jam.

Delicious and easy to make

Anything healthy fellas? I'd like to have a recipe my wife would like too.

Healthy as in vegetables?

Or just a little lighter. Yeah some veggies, maybe some fish, beans...

No meat as in pork, chicken or lamb? All are healthy and protein-rich. I'll pile together a nice WOK-recipè for you then.

it's not healthy fellas but it's good, your taste buds will thank you.
Courtesy of my fiance.

Gumbo

Jar of rue
green onions
chicken sausage or shimp (depending on taste)
rice

takes an hour
and WABAM!!!

hot sauce optional

What's that?

Chips.

Here's a nice recipè.. Fresh and healthy. 2 portions.

Ingredients:

1,5 teaspoon of minced ginger
0,5 red chili cut into pieces
1 clove of pressed garlic
450 grams of Scampi/Shrimps
2,5 tablespoons of Orange Juice
1 tablespoon of soy sauce
1 tablespoon of oil
3 red onions cut in thin circles
0,5 green zucchini (strips)
1 cut red paprika
0,5 cut mango
1 tablespoon of fresh lemon balm

Chop chili and crunch garlic and put it on the scampi or shrimps. Cover it in the orange juice, soy sauce and part of the oil, and but it in the fridge for about 30 minutes. Remember to cover it and also to stir it up once inn a while.

Keep the marinade in a cup and fry the scampi or shrimps for four minutes in a wok/frying pan. Pour the rest of the ingredients in and keep frying for two more minutes. Drench everything in marinade, mango and lemon balm at the very end. Serve this with boiled rice and lime.

Tip: The Scampi or shrimps can be replaced by strips of beef and/or chicken.

You British are crazy. My girlfriend had a nightmarish time when she lived with a family in Hastings. They were fed pizza with chips and crisps for dinner, crisps and chocolate for lunch and peanutbutter/nutella sandwiches for breakfast. Apparently eating vegetables was very unusual.

Peanuts and potatoes are vegetables, no? And presumably there was tomato on the pizza... I really don't see the problem.

Not veggies, legumes.

Erm, I can assure you that crisps and chocolate is not the typical British lunch. Maybe on the south coast.... the people I know down there do have weird eating habits.

People here don't eat enough vegetables, that is very true. HOwever, I don't think we're any worse for that than some other countries I could mention naming no names

Related to the above:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... han-french

all i know is that in less than 4 months in Nottingham i went from looking like this

to this

ENGLAND MADE ME A HAIRY WHITE PERSON

i never ate so badly in my life. the food had all the texture and taste of paper, and every other item was fried.

in all fairness, in my trips to the USA it was even more shocking.

That's nothing compared to your friend with the hole in her face having a spontaneous sex change.

actually he has a case of the moobs, it's the sweater that covers it up in the second pic.

pasta sauce:

1/2 Sausage
1/2 Ground Beef
1 whole garlic
green (or whatever colour) peppers
a few cherry peppers
red onions
tomatoes
tomato paste
tomato sauce or puree
mushrooms
oregano, fresh basil leaves, 1 bay leaf, parsley
red wine
olive oil
(probably forgot some stuff, so add whatever else i forgot, you know what i mean)
Two things. add salt to anything being sauteed because it will draw out moisture and acts like a chemical catalyst of sort, pepper is also necessary. Add more when to taste throughout. Use whatever amounts you need of anything to suite yourself.

sautee the meat and vegetables in olive oil until carmelized. add wine to taste (not too much) until the alcohol burns off. add the herbs, finely chopped, except the bay leaf, leave it whole so you can remove it later. add all the tomato ingredients. cook on medium until everything is broken down suffiently. simmer as long as possible, add water as necessary. Add the water from the boiling pasta when you get that far, it will thicken it and cut it a little. serve with whatever pastas surface area compliments the thickness of the sauce. top liberally with fresh (sic) parm. cheese.

he whole thing should take about 8 hours.

My recipe is similar, but I use red peppers; green peppers colour the sauce a bit brownish, and I like mine very much red. I also use regular onions, about four to five for a four-person dinner.