Thought I’d ask this because I want to discover more foods from across the world
(Also I shouldn’t have to say this to americans, please state where you are from and state where you are from without acronyms or shortened names because I’ve seen US Defaultism on lemmy and not all of us are going to know your acronyms considering we’re global users)
Pork butt roast and sauerkraut. It’s a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch recipe meant to bring good luck and fortune to the household on New Years. You simply season a pork butt with salt and pepper and put it in the slow cooker with a large container of saurkraut and cook on low til it shreds. Served with mashed potatoes, peas, and pork gravy. Guaranteed to give you a food coma.
For appetizers, I love beet-pickled eggs. It’s essential to pickle them for 24+ hours to ensure the pink fully penetrates the egg white.
Fenek Moqli - Fried Rabbit in Garlic. ( Malta)
Königsberger Klopse are big boiled meatballs served with a white sauce with capers and boiled potatoes. Super delicious.
Whoopie pies are great but I prefer scrapple for breakfast
A few kg of meat, traditionally (in the rhine-area) from horse, nowadays more beef, marinated for 1+ month in a few litres of wine and vinegar, with some vegetables. Slowly cooked so it disintegrates on your fork.
The sauce you get from Sauerbraten is sooooo good, too - goes well with any veggies and/or pasta to eat alongside it.
I’m Belgian so only one answer is allowed
Belgian fries with mayonnaise and Flemish stew
As neighbor Dutchy, I can agree! Delicious.
Weirdly the replies to your comment won’t load on the lemmy instance I’m on, don’t know about other instances
They do seem to load on your instance so I’m thinking it’s some sort of federation issue
Anyways here’s a screenshot for anyone else who can’t see the replies
I pick vol au vent. 😁
Very admirable, it’s a good choice
If you take it with fries, of course 😁
This interaction is basically me at a restaurant
Norwegian, here. Lutefisk is incredible if done right, but it’s easy to fuck up severely. So if someone were to try and cook something based on my recommendation, I’d suggest Fårikål or Pinnekjøtt instead, as they’re both incredibly easy to make and quite tasty.
Now I’m curious to try “good” lutefisk. I grew up hearing about how exceptionally awful it is.
Same. Didn’t try it until I was in my 30’s and it was kinda meh at best… until I tried a well made one later.
The difference between “meh” and “great” is in the quality. The difference between those and “get it away from me” is definitely in the eater.
Visited my norwegian family over the new year, and got to try pinnekjøtt. Very tasty, if a bit annoying to get the meat off of the bones.
In my opinion, that means it’s not done yet. Since it’s mostly a steaming process, you can leave it in as long as you want to. I usually put it on in the morning, and just add a little water in the kettle throughout the day to make sure it does not dry out. Then 20 minutes in the oven before serving.
That way it usually falls off the bone easily.
Yeah, i was slightly overexaggerating c: 90% of the meat fell off easily, but for those last 10% you had to really go caveman for. Luckily me and my family usually clean the bones whilst eating so i didnt stand out.
My ex’s mum would make this at Christmas and it was horrifying.
Bagna cauda, from Piemonte Piedmont north Italy
Delicious in winter, a cream made with a lot of garlic e anchovies, eat warm with vegetables or meat
South London, UK: doner meat and chips. Optional lettuce, onions and burger sauce.
We don’t really have that much locally specific food but oh do I love potica. Estragon or walnut.
Do you mean local like within my own city or regionally/by country?
Countrywide: Hotdogs are the first thing I think of when I think “American food.”
Statewide (California): The sour dough bread bowls at the San Francisco wharf are amazing as fuck.
In my city: The best thing here are taco trucks. There’s even a whole dedicated parking area for a bunch of them to gather downtown called “Grub Hubs.”
There’s not a lot of things I’m envious about when it comes to the US
But good and cheap tacos are one of them
I almost mentioned the sourdough bread bowls because SF is known for their sourdough and those are tasty.
It’s really tourist food though. The local soup is Cioppino but I never see it served in a bread bowl.
Northwest US: smoked salmon with a side of berries. Sockeye with little or no sugar added is the best IMO. The berries should be native varieties if you want to try for authenticity, though the invasive blackberries are really tasty, too.
