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What's Your Favorite Ethnic Cuisine ?
Do you ever mess around trying to make dishes from other nations ? I have this theory about why so many of us in our 50s and 60s are foodies. Most of us grew up with 'Murcan corporate food. I sure did. We didn't really do any ethnic dishes in our home. We had no memories of food from the old country, just whatever the corporate culture was pushing at the time. Remember Minute Rice® ? Somehow they had Americans convinced that rice was very hard to cook and you could make perfect rice every time with Minute Rice. Or How about Uncle Ben's Converted Rice®, converted from what ? In truth there are no "American" dishes, or very few anyway. Fried Chicken is probably American, and Barbecue, but everything else came over with immigrants from someplace and then got Americanized. When I started cooking I was soon bored with the standard fare and began to look for alternatives. I've tried Mexican of course, around here Mexican food is not at all exotic and most people who cook, even gabachos, have some Mexican dishes in their repertoires. I've tried cooking German, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and even some Russian dishes. I do some French too, I guess everybody who takes cooking seriously goes through a French phase. Most recently I've been doing some Korean. Chinese is the cheapest by far. If you have an Asian grocery you can find authentic ingredients for next to nothing. Italian is the most expensive. Italians are very picky about their meats and cheeses, denominazione di origine controllata and all that. You can spend well over $100 on a bottle of artisanal balsamic vinegar.
Of course it helps if you can get recipes from native cooks. My next door neighbors are Mexican and they're always giving us leftover beans and stuff when they make a big batch for a party or something. Maria makes the best Mexican rice I've ever had and she's promised to let me watch next time she makes a batch. I learned Phở Bò from a Vietnamese woman, the mother of one of Mrs. Z's third-graders. I learned Rouladen and Blaukraut from my wife's brother's wife who is German. In the absence of a tutor, you have to use a cookbook and a restaurant. The cookbook for the recipe and the restaurant to find out what you're shooting for. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and make the stuff, hoping that it's something close to the real thing. So it is with Chanakhi. I got this one out of Anya Von Bremzen's delightful Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing*. Chanakhi is a Georgian dish, said to have been Stalin's favorite. I've made it before and I plan to make it again for Easter. I usually do lamb for Easter and Chanakhi is a one-pot dish of lamb and vegetables. Lamb chops go in a pot with tomatoes, onions, potatoes and eggplant. I leave out the eggplant, not being a fan of that vegetable. The key to it is the liberal use of an herb mixture: equal parts cilantro, basil and Italian parsley. It perfumes the house like nothing else I've ever made. We don't have a Georgian restaurant in town so I don't know how close I am to the authentic dish, but damn it's good.
So how 'bout it CUA-ers. I know there's a lot of foodies out there. Do you mess around with food from other countries ? Do you have family favorites from the Old Country ?
What's your favorite Ethnic Cuisine ?
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We had a fantastic meet-up that will energize me for months to come. We had 80 of the most intrepid Texans to date. They braved extremely rare ice storms north of Austin. Bridges and major highways into Austin were closed the morning of our event.
The extreme weather was truly a problem but it was nice to see those who were able to show up. And based on the comments of the two diaries below, many attendees were equally energized and empowered.
All and all, it was a great day! Thanks to nomandates and Chrislove for helping to organize.
FTR: I was in Austin at exactly the same time in 2013 for the inaugural Texas Kos State Meet-up. I got a sunburn at the Zilker Park Kite Festival the next day. It was a gorgeous sunny day.
Here's one photo:
TexKos-Messing with Texas with nothing but love for Texans
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Saturday, March 28th
Motor City Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Taqueria Mi Pueblo
7278 Dix • Detroit (Corktown-ish)
ORGANIZER: Send peregrine kate a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. DoReMI
2. mideedah
3. BFSkinner
4. peregrine kate
5.
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Maybees:
ProvokingMeaning
ChemBob
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Latest diary: Michigan/Motor City Kossacks: Weekly Open Thread--Spring Meet-ups!
Saturday, March 28th
Four Corners Kossacks International Diplomatic Outreach Junket
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Irish Embassy Pub
900 Main Ave • Durango
ORGANIZER: Send Thinking Fella a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. Thinking Fella
2. Hero Machine
3. red moon dog
4. ERRN
5. Mr. ERRN
6. Gary Norton
7. nzanne
8. msaztec
9. relleno
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Maybees:
LucyTooners
Mr. LucyTooners
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Latest diary: Four Corners Kossacks Meet-up: International Diplomatic Outreach
Sunday, March 29th
Seattle & Puget Sound Kos Meet-up
TIME: 12:30 PM
LOCATION: Pyramid Alehouse, Brewery and Restaurant
1201 First Ave S • Seattle
Cost: $20.00 for selective menu for a large group
ORGANIZER: Send John Crapper a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. John Crapper
2. John Crapper S.O.
3. Lefty Coaster
4. momomia
5. ratcityreprobate
6. doingbusinessas
7. doingbusinessas' daughter
8. Flamingogrrl
9. MiddleEaarth
10. rvoget
11. LarisaW
12. bleeding blue
13.
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Maybees:
Eagle Keeper
Michael Foster Guest - Plant for the Planet Seattle
ActNowonClimate
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Latest diary: Seattle & Puget Sound Kos - Change is Coming - Meet up Sunday 3/29/15
Saturday, April 18th
San Francisco Kos Welcomes blue jersey mom to Town
Potluck style BBQ
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: kimoconnor's garden
[Address given privately to RSVPs] • San Francisco
ORGANIZER: Send navajo a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. blue jersey mom
2. navajo - [2 bottles of wine]
3. side pocket
4. Mrs. side pocket
5. maggiejean
6. kimoconnor
7. dharmasyd
8. norm
9. remembrance
10. Glen The Plumber
11. TLO
12. Lorikeet
13. dsb
14. FogCityJohn
15. boatsie - [kitcherie]
16. lineatus
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Saturday, April 25th
DAILY KOS CONNECTS KANSAS CITY
Our first regional Daily Kos gathering.
Join us for a day of camaraderie and progressive strategizing with Big Orange flavor. In a day-long seminar, learn how our Connect! Unite! Act! team maximized the Daily Kos forum to effect change in Kansas state politics. We are going to duplicate that effort across the nation. Participants will focus on organizing from the ground up.
You'll also get a chance to meet the blog's founder, Markos Moulitsas and some Daily Kos writers, such as Joan McCarter, Meteor Blades, David Nir, Jen Hayden and others.
TIME: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Alamo Drafthouse
1400 Main Street • Kansas City
SCHEDULE:
8:00 AM - Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - Presentations, panels and Q&A's begin
Noon - Lunch served
1:30 PM - More presentations, panels and Q&A's
6:00 PM - After Party
REGISTER HERE: $30 registration fee at Eventbrite
Benefactor level is also available if you plan to attend and buy a scholarship for someone, you and your attendee can have a front row seat. Angel level is also available if you can't attend but want to help someone else attend.
We granted two scholarhips! We have three more scholarships available thanks to our Benefactors and Angels. Please kosmail navajo if you need a scholarship to attend. |
Grow our network, unite our progressive communities, help win elections!
RSVPs:
1. Markos Moulitsas
2. tmservo433
3. Meteor Blades
5. Joan McCarter
6. David Nir
7. Jen Hayden
8. Monique Teal
9. Neeta Lind aka navajo
10. Cindy Kelly from Women4KS
11. Peter Gogol
12. Jeffrey Zamrzla
13. Brian82
14. C.M.
15. Sandzen
16. kj in missouri
17. artguy4life
18. Chris
19. pyoung
20. Madge Montgomery
21. cdtribble
22. Mrs. cdtribble
23. kd4dean
24. ColoTim
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Saturday and Sunday, April 25-26, 2015
DKos Asheville's Roadtrip and Two-Day Retreat to Roanoke, Virginia
From randallt:
After seven successful and engaging meet ups, DKos Asheville's core members decided to take our next gathering on the road. The first reason was that our chef and benefactor for all our meet ups has been Gordon20024 and we wanted say thanks by traveling to be with him instead of having him drive to be with us. We asked and he was thrilled and so the idea was born. Another reason is that it offers us the opportunity to meet more Kossacks from around the region including Virginia and parts of North Carolina to the north and east of us.
Grow our network, grow our community, help win elections.
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TIME: 1:00 pm Saturday till 1:00 pm Sunday
LOCATION: Hotel Roanoke, Conference Center
110 Shenandoah Avenue • Roanoke
ORGANIZER: Send randallt a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. gordon20024
2. davehouck
3. randallt
4. Joieau
5. LamontCranston
6. Steerler Grrl
7. Steeler Guy
8. Otteray Scribe
9. DawnN
10. emmasnacker
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Latest diary: DKos Asheville: Open Thread
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