Food Fun. 😁 Your 3 Favorite Cuisines!!!

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You can only have these three. Anything from them but only them! 🍽️🍴Share your favorites from each and if you want why you enjoy these the most. 🙂

So getting things going - I even had to change my mind at the last moment as I getting ready to post!

So I'm 2nd generation half Greek-American. Luckily my mom was a very good cook (first gen Grk-Am). Luckily once I got out of my picky eating phase I started to love this heritage. I go both meat, and vegetarian here.

GREEK~ slightly tangy feta cheese, lots of garlic, rich olive oil, the different (acquired) taste of lamb, crinkly texture of phyllo dough, oregano - all these cobinations and more!

Fun and delicious appetizers like: Dolmades rice, sometimes pinenuts, with or without dill, olive oil wrapped in grapevine leaves; Tiropitez <sp> feta cheese with or without chopped spinach, wrapped in layers of buttered phyllo (thin like parchment) dough; Taramasalata, white or pink fish roe with cream, lots of garlic, a touch of lemon juice,Saganaki; baked (a few varieties to choose from) Greek cheese flambéd, brought to your table - flame put out with squeezed lemon juice.

Soup: Easter lentil soup; lentils, mashed cooked carrots, potatoes, some mashed lentils, olive oil, garlic, oregano, bay leaf, a touch of tomato paste at the end.

Mains: Lamb Sheskabob; marinated lamd cubes with olive oil, garlic, oregano skewered with cut tomatoes, onions, green or red peppers. Lamb gyros; basted lamb on a spit roasted then sliced off in thin strips put into, or next to pita bread. Pastsisto: wide noodles layered with ground beef (some herbs, maybe a bit of tomato paste mixed in) covered in bechemel sauce and baked. Stefado: beef stew, beef, pearl onions, garlic, red wine and maybe a touch of tomato paste.

Desserts: Baklava, crushed walnuts( maybe almonds too) with honey layered between pyhllo dough. Galateboureko; custard in between honeyed phyllo dough.

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INDIAN~ so many different kinds of ingredients - similar and different spices, and savory herbs (I don't like heat spices); chcken, lamb, so many different vegetables and beans, the different breads. Imho Indian is the most varied cuisine I've ever eaten. I go meat, vegetarian, and some of the best vegan ever.

Noerhern-
Appetizers. Piazi: chickpea flour battered sliced smushed together onions; Samosas: triangular shapes dough, filled with either meat, vegetables (& fun to eat).
Served with onion chutney, green (fresh coriander) sauce, taramind sauce.

Main (Northern): Lamb Korma: a creamy, gently sweet cashew sauce; Lamb Rogan Josh (I think) a tomato sauce with onions etc and what makes it different is more cardamon spicing; Tandoori chicken: marinated, sometimes w chickpea flour, and roasted in the Tandoori oven; Chicken Saag, chicken with spinach. Aloo Gobi: cauliflour and potatoes; Chana Saag: chickpeas and spinach.

Breads: Nan: chewy with a touch of char; Pararha: buttery and layered; Poori, crisp and puffy.

Southern- This is a small smattering of South Indian dishes. Much more, plus variations in the different States of these I've mentioned!
Appetizers: Idli, a donut made of rice; Vada, rice in a pillow shape (can have other ingredients added) These usually served with sauce on the side, and lentil dal.

Main: Dosa, giant thinnish crepes wrapped over potatoes, vegetables, or just by themselves. Rice/or lentil flour.
The dosa can be served alone. They also make a cone dosa.
Uttaphams: stack of thick dosas (pancakes) topped with vegetables, coconut, or onions, fresh coriander.

Dessert: a red orange colored sugar thick syrup (not sure if there's any flour in it) - squeezed through like an cake icing
thing in random crossing circular lines into hot oil. Fried and eaten. So fun looking besides being tasty!

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(I chose Italian for my third but I realized I'd miss too much of...)

AMERICAN~

Cheeseburgers. Hotdogs. Grilled cheese. Breadstuffing (sage). Baked potatoes. Mashes potatoes. French fries. Tuna salad. Chicken salad.
Southern fried chicken. Waffles and Chicken. BBQ ribs (various) Pulled pork. Mac n Cheese (dry crisped top please 😁 ) Sweat potatoes. Potato salad. Corn Bread.
(all the meat dishes here are a few times a year specials)

Dessert: lce Cream. Flourless Chocolate cake. Chocolate lava caje. Apple walnut pie. Cheese Cake.

[CanonRay]

1. Italian, Indian, Mexican

I like spice

[genxlib]

9. Right off the bat

You hit my three. I didn’t have to think about it for two seconds

[electric_blue68]

22. ding, ding!

[ret5hd]

2. 1)breakfast 2)lunch 3)supper

[applegrove]

3. Italian, French, & Tibetan (momo dumplings are the best).

[electric_blue68]

16. mono dumplings...

When we get a good working vaccine, I know there's been a few Tibetan places in NYC...I'll go look for them.

[applegrove]

17. Momo. Nepalese cuisine too. Anthony Bourdain had them on his trip to

Nepal in Parts Unknown. And you need to eat them with a really great hot sauce. I worked at an amazing Tibetan and Himalayan restaurant in a town. Regulars came in from town or hours away all the time for momos. Other food was good too. The owners had crossed the Himalayas from Tibet to India when they were kids. Then they moved to canada, put their money together, built a strip mall where their restaurant would be situated and went on to be the favourite restaurant in the big town for years. It was international with chinese dishes and their own take on spring rolls etc. Apparently the open flame under the wok is what made the stir fried noodles so fabulous. I've never been treated so well or eaten so well. Amazing family.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Thai, Indian and Mexican.

[Skittles]

5. English, Greek, German

yes indeed

[genxlib]

10. English

Yikes! I love England and even lived there for a year. But thank goodness for Indian food.

[Skittles]

12. I don't care much for Indian food

nope

[electric_blue68]

18. Indian food in England...

Well I wouldn't pass up the ole fish & chips, but I've heard enough jokes about standard English cooking. And some long time on line English acquaintances often were eating curries!

[Polly Hennessey]

6. Chinese, Thai, Japanese.

[fierywoman]

7. Chinese, Italian, Indian

(... the possibilities ... OH! ... the possibilities!)

[electric_blue68]

19. Chinese...

I hear ya.

It was hard to ex out Chinese which I also love but I found for me over the decades even more variety in Indian cooking.

[fierywoman]

26. They're both such extraordinary cuisines. I love learning how the structure of the

cooking (weird way to put it; what you cook first, then what, the little things to finish at the end.) I love how Indian cooking is constructed to help the digestion (but OMG the flavors!) I love all the Chinese people on youtube carefully explaining to us non-Chinese what certain directions mean -- Mikey Chen explained when showing how to make noodles that you had to mix the dough until you arrived at "3 clean" -- which he described as: the bowl you are mixing it in doesn't have anything remaining to be integrated into the ball of dough, the ball of dough is well mixed, and your hands don't have anything on them that should still be mixed into the dough.)

[smirkymonkey]

8. Some of them blur into each other, it's hard to pick just one in a particular region.

My favorite would have to be pan-Mediterranean (including Greek, Turkish, Southern Italian, French and Spanish, Israeli, Lebanese, etc. ), then pan-Asian (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, etc.), followed by traditional Italian (pasta, pizza, calzones, lasagne, picatta, marsala, etc.).

[2naSalit]

11. Not in any order of preference, Italian, French, Dalmatian.

[Karadeniz]

13. Indian, Mexican, anything chocolate!

[electric_blue68]

20. Still haven't had the Mexican mole that includes Chocolate

[pnwest]

14. I have only two fave cuisines:

1. Chocolate
2. Everything else.

[electric_blue68]

21. As a serious....

Dark Chocolate fanatic... I understand.

[Danmel]

15. Mexican, Jewish and Vietnamese

I could never give up all the traditional Jewish traditions. Challah and challah French toast, matzah ball soup, brisket, latkes, kasha varnishkes, blintzes, bagels and lox etc do I also have Mexican heritage because my family couldn't get into the US because of immigration quotas and my eastern European Jewish mama was born in Mexico. She grew up in New York, but long story short, I have Mexican family and love the food.

And I also love Vietnamese food, especially pho and noodles with grilled lemon grass chicken and banh mi

Really, I'm very easy to feed.

[electric_blue68]

23. Interesting story....

Challah french toast, matzah ball soup, and latkes w sour cream, and real bagels w cream cheese. All yummy!

Vietnamese is one I haven't tried. I eat around another nine cuisines in varying amounts as well. Pretty easy to feed, too.

[yellowdogintexas]

24. get thee to a Pho shop and tuck in to a bowl of chicken breast pho

It is heavenly. Especially when you have a cold. It is easy to make if you have the ingredients.

PSA be sure to ask them to show you the size of the bowls. A Pho shop small is probably a quart of soup. A large is big enough to bathe a baby in it.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. Indian, Asian(chinese, japanese, korean, Thai, Vietnamese) and my new favorite : Persian

Favorites:
Indian: Aloo Gobi, Chicken Tikka Masala, and tandoori chicken. I also like the various lentil and chickpea dishes. Everynow and then I whip up a big batch of lentils cooked Indian style.

Asian: I love the spicy fiery stuff. Hunan or Szechuan, a nice Thai noodle dish or Pho

Persian: my daughter married into a Persian family and we have developed a great fondness for their food. So many wonderful stews and of course kabobs, falafels etc. The best thing though is the most basic: Tahdig rice. It is regular white rice prepared so that if forms a crust on the bottom. Let me tell you when that stuff hits the table, they all practically kill themselves to get it. I found a recipe for it that I think I can actually follow so I am going to try it.

Now don't get me wrong I love some good Italian or Mexican. Where we live, you can throw a rock and hit a Mexican restaurant or taco truck. (or a paleta cart)

I also love many "American" foods of course. Burgers, fried chicken, pot roast, cheese grits, turnip greens with cornbread, pulled pork BBQ, a big plate lunch of 4 vegetables, cornbread and tea. And PIE I love pie. I do not make very good pie crust so I do not make them often (I do make great cake) but don't get between me and a slice of coconut cream pie!! Or peach cobbler for that matter...

[electric_blue68]

28. Ah, Persian cuisine...

...cool!
Tahdig rice - interesting, crunchy!
I think I was reading just a few days back about another cuisine that has that lining the bottom of the pot crunchy rice. Sure so much else is delicious!

The challenge in particular was those who love a lot of different foods was to narrow it down - like myself. Greek and Indian were easy, it was figuring out the third one!
l enjoy to really love another nine cuisines; which includes Mexican.

Yes coconut cream pie is yummy, plus pecan pie, sour cream walnut apple pie.
Neat on the cake baking!

[Dem2theMax]

27. Mexican, Italian and dessert.

Dessert is a cuisine!

[electric_blue68]

29. I saw what you did there....

[Dem2theMax]

30. Eat dessert first.

Especially this year. We never know what's going to happen next. Might as well have dessert!