Foods from other cultures...

**Jazz** · 10-15-2008, 03:30 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ja. Jewel</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz_Obama</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ja. Jewel</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thai food, Indian food, Some Greek food, Italian food, some Chinese food AND some American food.....best dish I think I ever had was in a Thai restaurant...deep fried whole snapper in a sweet-hot sauce that was to die for! ....also love most Northern Italian fish or chicken with Francese or Marsala sauce. </div></div>

Thai - check, Indian - some, LOve Greek food! , Italian - check, Chinese hmmmm *lol* - check, Mi nuh know wat mi would really call americanfood???

OH Gosh Ja. JEWEL that is my FAVORITE Thai dish - OMG - it is to die for - I forget what the dish is called - but they call it crsipy fish sumting suymting... </div></div>

I forgot to add Mexican food....by some "American food", I mean things like backyard picnic food...bbq chicken on the grill, good, good potato salad, nice, fresh green salad and every once in a while, love a good cheeseburger (on a charcoal grill) with fresh tomato and mayo on a toasted bun.

Also love things like oven roasted veg.with fresh garlic, oven roasted chicken with potatoes, olive oil & rosemary....really don't know the ethnicity of that one!

My recipe for a good potato salad that everyone here seems to love is:

Apx. 3 lbs. potatoes (boiled, but not too too done, quartered & sliced
3 or 4 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1/2 sweet pepper, diced
1/2 onion, diced
1 scallion, sliced (green part too)
1 or 2 stalks celery, diced (I omit this a yard because it's hard to find, but better with it)
lots of black pepper
salt to taste
either fresh or dried dill (a good amount)
A good squeeze of yellow mustard
Mayonnaise, enough to mkae it all hold together.

Enjoy! </div></div>

Thanks Ja Jewel - tell me something do you know of anything that can be substituted for the mayonnaise??? I just cannot acquire a taste for it no matter how i try...

**Shine_Eye_Girl** · 10-15-2008, 03:33 PM

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Thai - learning how to cook
Japanese
Guyanese
Trinidadian
Chinese
Mexican
Spanish
Cuban
Greek
Italian - I can cook

I don't prefer any of them over Jamaican food

**CeaBee** · 10-15-2008, 03:34 PM

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is there a big difference between guyanese and trinidadian?

(just asking doan stone me )

**Shine_Eye_Girl** · 10-15-2008, 03:48 PM

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I don't think there is, but the Guyanese and Trinis do.

**diabolical_Tanya** · 10-15-2008, 04:12 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">is there a big difference between guyanese and trinidadian?

(just asking doan stone me ) </div></div>I think they cook the monkey differently

**Shine_Eye_Girl** · 10-15-2008, 04:12 PM

Re: Foods from other cultures...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">is there a big difference between guyanese and trinidadian?

(just asking doan stone me ) </div></div>I think they cook the monkey differently </div></div>

**Jazz** · 10-15-2008, 04:36 PM

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Boy yuh well diverse inna yuh culinary choices dowe...

**Jazz** · 10-15-2008, 04:37 PM

Re: Foods from other cultures...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">is there a big difference between guyanese and trinidadian?

(just asking doan stone me ) </div></div>I think they cook the monkey differently </div></div>

**Shine_Eye_Girl** · 10-15-2008, 05:22 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz_Obama</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Boy yuh well diverse inna yuh culinary choices dowe... </div></div>

Why thank you.....

**Yvonne N.** · 10-15-2008, 09:16 PM

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My fave from Guyana:

<span style="font-weight: bold">Chow Mein (Guyanese style)</span>

Ingredients
1 lb fine egg noodles
1 lb pork
¼ lb raw ham or ham scraps
2 tbsp shee yow (soya sauce)
1 tsp Chinese spice
2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 eggs
Oil
2 medium onions
½ lb cabbage
1 oz dried mushrooms, cut finely, if desired
20 - 30 bora beans
1 tbsp vetsin
Chopped eschallot

Preparation
Cut the pork and ham into small pieces and season with shee yow, spice, salt and black pepper.
Cut all the vegetables into very small pieces.
Boil the noodles in salted water for 5 - 7 minutes, strain and pour cold water through to loosen the noodles.
Beat the eggs. Make a thin omelette and shred into ¼ inch strips.
Heat the oil and fry the meat until tender. Add all other vegetables and fry for about 5 minutes.
Add the noodles and fry for a further 5 minutes. Add vetsin.
Pile onto a dish, and garnish with stripped omelette

**Yvonne N.** · 10-15-2008, 09:18 PM

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Cook-up Rice (from Guyana)</span>

Ingredients
1 cup parboiled rice
1 lb black eye peas
1 lb chicken
1 onion (chipped)
2 cloves garlic (chipped)
2 tbsp soya sauce
1 coconut
1½ cups of water
6 okras
1 tbsp cooking oil
Salt and hot pepper to taste
1 chicken bullion cube
Thyme
Sprinkle of black-pepper

Preparation
Soak black eye peas overnight.
Grate coconut; add water to grated coconut.
Squeeze grated coconut in the water. Strain the mixture, and pour the white liquid (coconut milk) in cooking pot.
Cut up the chicken and season it with salt, black-pepper and soy sauce.
Fry chicken for about 5 minutes in oil.
Wash rice and add to the pot with coconut milk.
Add soaked black eye peas.
Add fried chicken.
Add bullion cube, thyme, onion, garlic and whole okras.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Cover pot and cook with medium heat for about 40 minutes until rice is soft and liquid is absorbed.
Garnish with chipped shallot blades.

Note: Cook-up rice can also include a variety of other ingredients. These include green leaf vegetables (callaloo), cabbage, salt-beef, beef or any other meat, fish and shrimp. It must be noted, too, that cook-up can be prepared cooked in a pressure cooker for 10 minutes.

**Ja. Jewel** · 10-15-2008, 09:24 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz_Obama</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ja. Jewel</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz_Obama</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Originally posted by Ja. Jewel

Thai food, Indian food, Some Greek food, Italian food, some Chinese food AND some American food.....best dish I think I ever had was in a Thai restaurant...deep fried whole snapper in a sweet-hot sauce that was to die for! ....also love most Northern Italian fish or chicken with Francese or Marsala sauce. </div></div>

Thai - check, Indian - some, LOve Greek food! , Italian - check, Chinese hmmmm *lol* - check, Mi nuh know wat mi would really call americanfood???

OH Gosh Ja. JEWEL that is my FAVORITE Thai dish - OMG - it is to die for - I forget what the dish is called - but they call it crsipy fish sumting suymting... </div></div>

I forgot to add Mexican food....by some "American food", I mean things like backyard picnic food...bbq chicken on the grill, good, good potato salad, nice, fresh green salad and every once in a while, love a good cheeseburger (on a charcoal grill) with fresh tomato and mayo on a toasted bun.

Also love things like oven roasted veg.with fresh garlic, oven roasted chicken with potatoes, olive oil & rosemary....really don't know the ethnicity of that one!

My recipe for a good potato salad that everyone here seems to love is:

Apx. 3 lbs. potatoes (boiled, but not too too done, quartered & sliced
3 or 4 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1/2 sweet pepper, diced
1/2 onion, diced
1 scallion, sliced (green part too)
1 or 2 stalks celery, diced (I omit this a yard because it's hard to find, but better with it)
lots of black pepper
salt to taste
either fresh or dried dill (a good amount)
A good squeeze of yellow mustard
Mayonnaise, enough to mkae it all hold together.

Enjoy! </div></div>

Thanks Ja Jewel - tell me something do you know of anything that can be substituted for the mayonnaise??? I just cannot acquire a taste for it no matter how i try...

The only thing that is remotely like mayo is "miracle whip", but to me tastes sweeter and I don't like it, but some people do............other than that, you could do a German potato salad:

Potatos (red skin are best)...don't over cook
chop some bacon & saute in the baconfat with chopped onion & celery....add a little vinegar & whisk in a little flour to thicken slightly. Add cooked potatoes& salt & pepper to taste. I haven't made it for a long time, but I think that's how ie goh...not the same but nice too!

**Yvonne N.** · 10-15-2008, 09:27 PM

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Roti (Trinidad)

Pelau (Trinidad)

**Stormmey** · 10-16-2008, 07:07 AM

Re: Foods from other cultures...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz_Obama</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Fish in Beer</span>

2lbs fish of your choice (I use snapper)
garlic cloved, minced (to suit your taste)
1/4 cup chopped celery
1 tbsp. chopped parsley
Thyme (to suit your taste)
salt and pepper to taste
2tbsp. lemon juice
1 cup beer or to suit your taste
2 bay leaves

*also me fling in some other type jamaican season........
likkle allspice,likkle teeny bit jerk season (dry one)

Clean fish, (let soak likkle bit in some vinegar and lemon juce
Season with garlic, celery,parsley, thyme salt, hot pepper sauce and lemon juice. Let stand for 15 mins.

Add beer and bay leaves. Cover with foil and bake at 350degreeF for bout 30mins.

*also please remember to remove the fish head nutin wus dan sumaddy invite you to dinner an the head is looking at yu. </div></div>

SACRILEGE!!!!! no self respecting Jamaican would nyam a fish widout de head...

the recipe sounds nice dowe... could I substitute wine for the beer? </div></div>

Yes I know!! when I go to jamaica they mek sure dem tek off the fish head before dem give to me. And they utter the same words you do Jazzie....yu mad dat is the bess part ah di fish. Den wen me mek hup me face hear dem wey yu know yu a farrinna.....brite. The hotel wone kip dem customer so dem tek awf di head before them serve it

I have never tried it with wine, think you could use a dry wine though as long as it is not ultra dry. Yu si how me like yu dat me githup outta me bed lef me man @ 3:00am fe come answer yu poas :halo: ah joak me a go Vancouver tidey so me need an early start even tho I am always the lass one a run chrue airport wid me bag a yell doo oonu no leff me

**Stormmey** · 10-16-2008, 07:15 AM

Re: Foods from other cultures...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz_Obama</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">is there a big difference between guyanese and trinidadian?

(just asking doan stone me ) </div></div>I think they cook the monkey differently </div></div>

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Actually I have heard this before from someone who is a Kittician (from St. Kitts) when we were at University. She says the younger generation do not cook it but her parents and granparents (especially grandparents do)

So when they came up to visit when we were at university and invite me to a home cook Kitician meal guess who suddenly got ill and could not go.....yu crazy

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