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 […]
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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
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Cook and map my way around the world and this is carrot and Guinness juice punch for Jamaica,I spotted this recipe in an old 70s Penguin Jamaica recipe book last night and thought ‘Oh, that sounds a bit weird,.is that really a ‘thing?”…and it did seem to be a thing… so here it is, made
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Eat and map my way around the world and this jar of pickled cucumber 🥒 is supposed to be for Suriname,…well according to the recipe in a book I have, I Googled a bit and seen some stuff cucumber pickle but am not going to claim it’s pure Surinamese cuisine. Suriname was a Dutch colony
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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
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The culinary journey around the world continues and this time I’m going for the low hanging fruit at the Bierhaus with this dark lager from the Czech Republic. And what a lovely glass! Here is the blurb from the brewery:- ‘Budweiser Budvar Dark is a retro-beer. This is because it has been designed to come
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What have we got here? This is an attempt at ugali, which is common in east Africa…so I’m putting it down for Kenya. I’ve made pretty much the same thing with fufu and mamaliga, the only difference I can see is that it’s a white corn meal. The box I bought was also quite fine
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Tanzania next on cook around the world and this is sukuma wiki, an East African dish with collard greens. I’ve used kale as I’ve never seen collard greens around here. According to Wikipedia:- ‘The literal translation of the phrase ‘sukuma wiki’ is to “push the week” or “stretch the week”. It is a vegetable that
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Turkey, (or as it’s officially now known by Türkiye) next on cook and map my way around the world, though we’re clearly doing an eat around the world thing now and ditching the cooking bit! Honestly? I love kebabs, I know they conjure up images of ropey late night establishments after a night out…but honestly,
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