My husband and I have always loved food; no surprise there. Our food likes have evolved over the past decade and we have become more adventurous. After our trip to Mexico in 2013, Tex Mex places here in the states just aren't that great and we seek out hole in the wall Taquerias for a more authentic flavor. After moving to Missouri in 2016, we expanded further to middle eastern and African cuisines. Most recently we realized we loved Ethiopian food. It's actually pretty hard to find restaurants that serve authentic foods. I mean, Italy doesn't really do pasta the way we think; Mexico certainly doesn't do crunchy tacos; and why in the world has Asian cuisine been lumped into one single buffet style category when there is a clear difference between Vietnamese and South Korean foods? It's like lumping together American foods as baby back ribs and burgers, when there are such differences between local cuisine in the South with Jambalaya, Nashville hot chicken, and sweet tea vs the North with Poutine, King Crab, and hearty stews.
We came up with a goal for 2020. We want to research and experience the foods of countries that may not be accurately represented in restaurants here in the states, if represented at all! As an example, Ireland really doesn't do Corned Beef and Cabbage. Gasp, right? They are more into lamb, stews, seafood, and potatoes. This challenge we have given ourselves may prove difficult since the food quality and selection here isn't the greatest. I can't tell you how much I miss the cuisine in Ireland. Black pudding is quite tasty, but if I tried to make my own, I'd have a difficult time gathering the ingredients, not to mention, the quality of food there. Milk is otherworldly good there, and the sausages look and taste nothing like the Jimmy Deans precooked and formed links you get in the frozen section here (blech). Even their bacon is nothing like what we are used to here. It's all WAY BETTER there. I digress. That's a WHOLE different topic I'm not going to get into.
If there's any way for me to make decently authentic dishes from countries we don't think about often, I'm going to attempt it...and log it here for your reading - and hopefully inspirational - pleasure. Luckily there are many YouTubers and bloggers who dedicate their time to making traditional recipes easy for Americans to recreate. Aside from asking my friends for their old traditional family recipes, I'll be seeking out these recipes. Once per month we will be experiencing a different country's cuisine. Maybe more than once a month because we have a long list of countries in mind.
Before we get to the good stuff, I'm humbled you're interested enough to be here reading. Personally, one of my biggest peeves is clicking on a recipe blog and reading the writer's life story before getting to the little printable recipe that isn't even at the bottom because there's 250 comments after the actual recipe, so I'm forced to either read or slowly scroll until I find what I'm actually after. My promise to you is that this foodie journey will NOT be like that. This intro post is the most "fluff" you will see. My plan for every post is to have a couple of sentences as an intro followed directly by the links to the recipes I'm using. Then I'll make some small commentary on tips I found helpful in the making of the meal, pictures of the result, and how we liked it. They will be straightforward quick reads without the fluff, without the stupid pop ups, and without having to click NEXT after every 1.5 sentences. So, thank you for being here, and I hope you enjoy!
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