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Pt 2, a shucos hotdog for Guatemala. This is basically a hotdog with guacamole and a toasted bun, and I fired the curtido on….also I’ve chorizo on as I couldn’t see hotdog sausages in the supermarket. This is nice as well, the cheap smoke and mirrors guacamole sauce balances the mustard and pickles, chorizo and […]

Pt 1 of a cook around the world double whammy 1-2, this is an attempt at curtido for El Salvador It’s like a pickled coleslaw, (well I didn’t pickle it too long as I wanted it for lunch). This is a keeper for me, less abrasive than sauerkraut and less cloying than coleslaw…I’ll make this

Honduras next on cook around the world and this is a very rough effort at a baleada (?) It’s mainly a flour tortilla, stuffed with refried beans, cheese and like sour cream… I followed a recipe that used feta and sour cream as you’re not gonna get the real ingredients in Knocknacarra then bunged a

Cook around the world and this is ‘huevos pericos’ for Venezuela,basically scrambled eggs with peppers, onions and tomatoes….the name means ‘parrot eggs’ cause of the bright colours.

Eat around the world…OK, OK, chEAT around the world,but I just noticed this humble packet of chicken noodles was from Singapore and seems to be a genuine food, and I’m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth I’m just going to copy the blurb from their Irish distributors:- ‘The Authentic Taste Of

Denmark next on my project to cook and map my way around the world and these are frikadeller straight from a recipe on the official Denmark website…(and a potato salad ) They are very like köfte but I’ve used pork in it which obviously wouldn’t get in Muslim countries . ‘frikadeller, is a beloved national

Falafel Up in Dublin hoping to knock a few ‘eat around the world’ countries off. There seems to be lots of foods like this that are popular all over the Middle East and Levant. I’m not so fussy about where a food is originally from, if it’s popular in a country that’s good enough for