Sunday, 30 August 2015

#2 Famous Food, Spain

Let's moving on to the Spain, explore as much as we can. Spain is well known with their unique cuisine and flavours.
Croquettes
The creamy cheese (queso) croquettes pack a smooth flavour, try croquettes filled with a mixture of béchamel and Spanish cured ham (jamon), or the local sweet-spiced black sausage (morcilla) for something stronger.
Zaranggollo
A Catalan salad that consists of several types of grilled vegetables, such as eggplants, spicy red peppers, red tomatoe and sweet onions. Once well cooked on the grill, those vegetables are peeled and/or sliced in strips, the seeds removed, and seasoned with olive oil and salt, and sometimes with garlic as well.
Escabeche

Referring to both a dish of poached or fried fish, and not only fish (escabeche of chicken, rabbit or pork is common in Spain) that is marinated in an acidic mixture before serving, and to the marinade itself.
Horzano Chorizo and Egg Pie
This is mostly like high tea where you can have this kind of meal in the evening while releasing your tension. For every foods in other countries they will always have pork or wine in their foods. seriously.

Pincho Moruno (Chicken)
It's look like a Chicken Kebab, But, an ingredient or mixture of ingredients is put and held there using a stick. The common ingredients are fish such as hake, cod, anchovy, and baby eels; tortilla de patatas; stuffed peppers; and croquettes.

Famous Foods In Each Country, USA

Hey guys! I'm still wide awake struggling to finish my entry. Okay for this time, I'm going to talk about famous foods in each country just in case if we are planning to have a vacation later. So, let's have a look on USA first. What will be their famous foods that can be attracted to the tourist.

Pastrami Sandwich
The savory combination of flavors prospered, and the pastrami sandwich continues to be a deli staple to this day.

Buffalo Wings
Buffalo Wings only available at Buffalo,USA but for now its already spread to other places where you can have it at any places. But, origin it's came from Buffalo,USA


Fajitas
Grill skirt steak (faja in Spanish) over the campfire, wrap in a tortilla.

Meatloaf
S'Mores
"Gooey, melty, warm and sweet"

Japan Traditional Foods

Konnichiwa ! Onaka Ga Sukimashita

Hey! okay for the last entry I was talking about the arabic foods, it's kind of interesting too when we are exploring about their cuisines. So, let's moving on to another country which is Japan! wohoooo! okay, pause! let's go back to two words on this entry,what does it means? Let's learn Japanese for a second.. 

Konnichiwa means ; Hello meanwhile, Onaka Ga Sukimashita means I'm Hungry! It's really related to my blog which is I'm talking about foods that can make us feel so hungry! 


Basically, everyone knows what is the traditional foods for Japan. Japan is well known with SUSHI! why? it's because Sushi that come from Japan are really fresh and juicy. 


Sushi means consisting of cooked vinegar rice combined with other ingredients seafood, vegetables and sometimes tropical fruits. Ingredients and forms of sushi presentation vary widely, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is rice. 

Me, myself loves to eat sushi too, because it taste so good when you gives a bite on the sushi. It also can be a challenge to your friend which is eat it with wasabi on it. Wasabi taste so damn spicy! Seriously, it's not taste like a chili, but gently it can make you cries.   

Another foods is, Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is prepared right at the table by cooking thinly sliced beef together with vegetables, tofu and vermicelli.

Arabic Traditional Foods

Ahlan Wa Sahlan to another entry which is I'll explore more on Arabic foods! Yeah, let's "cuci mata" with the pictures..

Giant Shawarna *maybe*

Kebab with Fries

Nasi Arab
As we know, Arabic peoples love to eat foods in huge portions, and don't get too surprise if a person can eat a goat by themselves. In addition, meat, lamb and chicken are the most used with beef, goat and camel used to a lesser extent. Arabs also used fish but in coastal areas. 
When we go for Arabic foods, there will be herbs and spices which is the most well known is mint and thyme. Those pictures are the moments when I went to this restaurant, *i don't really remember what the restaurant is but the place are just nice and comfortable. The restaurant is easy to find because it's located at lot corner. It was really a huge Nasi Arab where my family and I (9 members) yet we still can't finish the Nasi Arab because it's too much! Plus with side foods, we thought we are the arabians but we are actually Malaysian people. 

Let's watch some video on how they prepare the foods.. enjoy it!




Saturday, 29 August 2015

Countries That Famous with Their Traditional Foods

Dumplings with Tofu Mushroom

Obviously, we can know this is type of Chinese food because there's a pair of chopstick. So, this is what we called Dumplings with Tofu Mushroom. Dumplings consist of minced meat and chopped vegetables wrapped into a thin piece of dough skin. In China, popular fillings are mince pork, ground chicken, beef and vegetables. They can be cooked by boiling, frying or even steaming. Dumplings are traditional dish eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Meanwhile, for the dumplings sauce dipping..


how to prepare dumplings sauce dipping


  1. Bring soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and 1/4 cup water to boil in small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
  2. Pour mixture into bowl and stir in scallion, ginger, oil, and hot red pepper flakes (Sauce can be refrigerated in air-tight container for several days).
*chinese people also put wine in dipping sauce, maybe they want to make it taste good




India,Traditional Foods

How I wish to be in India, even though it's a crowded country but the foods are really attracting me to go there. LOL, just dream it. Okay, now let's fly to India to explore more about the traditional foods there. So, the food that really attracting me is called Bengali which is it tastes sweet and spicy. As we know, Indian people love to eat sweet and spicy. By right, we know how their foods taste like. 



The specialty of Bengali food lies in the perfect blend of sweet and spicy flavors.Bengali cuisine is appreciated for its fabulous use of panchphoron, a term used to refer to the five essential spices, namely mustard, fenugreek seed, cumin seed, aniseed, and black cumin seed. The staple food of people in Bengal is rice and fish. Typical Bengali needs to have fish in every meal, if not there is a feeling that the meal is incomplete..

Most of the cooking is done by using mustard oil.Bengali food is famous for its mithais (sweets). The origin of typical Bengali sweets can be traced back in the traditional household kitchens. For cooking fish,you can either fry, or cook it with gravy.

Mexico Traditional Foods

Hey, let's continue on our trip which is for this entry, we will go to Mexico. But,before that let's take a look on their traditional foods first.

Gorditas (chili-braised pork)

Alright, it looks good right? Me, myself feels like want to try some but I don't know when I can step my food on that country (Mexico). Basically, it looks so simple and I'm pretty sure to make this kind of food just a piece of cake. But, let's take a look on the ingredients what they put in this awesome food.

Okay, as we already know, the food that are come from overseas they will put some alcohol or even used some NON-Halal things such as pork, and champagne. But, that's just additional ingredients for them, if we want to cook this kind of food (Gorditas) we can actually eat it but just don't put the NON-Halal ingredients. 

A gordita is typically prepared as a thick Tortilla.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 recipe masa dough
  • Vegetable oil, for frying
  • 1 recipe chili-braised pork, beef barbacoa, or slow cooker chicken, warmed
  • 1 recipe quick curtido
  • Mexican crema, for serving


DIRECTIONS


  1. Using wet hands, roll masa dough into 15 golf-ball-sized balls. Pat balls into flat 4-inch rounds about 1/4 inch thick; if edges crack, run a wet finger around them to smooth them. Place rounds on a baking sheet and keep covered with a towel as you work.
  2. Fill a large cast iron skillet with 1/4" oil and heat over medium-low heat until shimmering. Working in batches, add masa rounds and fry, flipping once, until well-browned and crisp, about 4 minutes per side. Test for doneness by poking shells with a finger: if they feel soft inside, return to oil and continue frying, flipping as needed to avoid burning, until firm to the touch. Drain on a paper-towel-lined baking sheet. Continue until all masa shells are fried, adding more oil to the pan if necessary.
  3. Using a sharp serrated knife, split masa shells in half crosswise. For each gordita, pile about 2 tablespoons braised meat on lower halves of masa shells, then top with about 2 tablespoons curtido. Smear top half of gordita shell with about 1 teaspoon crema. Close sandwich and serve immediately.

Goodluck! *dont forget to change the NON-Halal Ingredients with Halal things