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Post by ninchursanga on Apr 21, 2016 10:18:17 GMT 2
An unexpected discovery: Iranian ice-cream. It is simply delicious and my favourite local flavour is saffron ice-cream. I never thought it would taste so good!
Another discovery is a Isfahan speciality. A dessert that contains yoghurt, sugar, saffron and....beef. It did not sound appealing to me at all but tasted delicious.
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 21, 2016 12:22:18 GMT 2
Last year I discovered pomegranate molasses. We were staying in a pansiyon in Turkey and a bottle of their home made stuff was on the table. We put it over our salad. And back home I use it when baking duck or chicken thighs. Wonderful flavour.
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Post by ninchursanga on May 1, 2016 20:09:10 GMT 2
I also have a bottle of pommegranate molasses on my kitchen counter and use it for different kind of things. Homemade pommegranate molasses must have been a real treat though.
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Post by tzarine on May 2, 2016 5:41:26 GMT 2
my life changed when i discovered yuzu in all its forms
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Post by ninchursanga on May 2, 2016 9:58:50 GMT 2
So what is it and what do you like so much about it?
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Post by tzarine on May 3, 2016 5:37:19 GMT 2
yuzu is a japanese citrus that has a unique flavour it is used savoury sauces, mized w chilies, in a ramen broth or in sorbet or as candied peel or as a flavouring in pastries www.gourmetsleuth.com/articles/detail/yuzu |
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Post by shrjeff on May 4, 2016 5:16:48 GMT 2
all the cutesy restaurants around here seem to have jumped on the yuzu bandwagon...
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Post by Baz Faz on May 4, 2016 10:05:02 GMT 2
I remember in the Philippines discovering kalamansi juice. It was wonderful. Mrs Faz and I used to mix it with rum. The rum was cheaper than the kalamansi juice so we were really saving money.
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Post by tzarine on May 7, 2016 9:13:08 GMT 2
yes, shrjeff
it is the new fad - yuzu martini, anyone?
baz
i love kalamansi, too!
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Post by tzarine on Jun 3, 2016 7:51:34 GMT 2
i remember the revelation of isaan cuisine years ago
now it's the ny fad
& overpriced tacos
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Post by Scrubb on Jun 3, 2016 17:42:39 GMT 2
What is isaan cuisine?
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Post by Kate_R on Jun 4, 2016 7:30:33 GMT 2
There is a show here called Kitchen Cabinet, where one of the political journalists (and avid home cook) turns up to a pollies house and the politician will cook a meal for her while she interviews them. I love it.
Anyway, last week the politician was Sam Dastyari, who has an Iranian background. The shop he visited to get the ingredients to make the traditional Iranian meal is one that is close to me but I'd sort of forgotten about it and haven't been in it for years and years. I think I need to go back and get some of the lovely food it stocks!
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Post by tzarine on Jun 5, 2016 4:20:53 GMT 2
scrubb
it's a regional thai cuisine that features somtam- papaya salads, larb - meat salads & uses garlic, chili lime & fish sauce & sticky rice
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Post by Scrubb on Jun 5, 2016 6:12:21 GMT 2
ok, that is the cuisine for me!
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Post by wikki on Jun 6, 2016 8:53:50 GMT 2
In the last few weeks I discovered Georgian food and Russian pastries. Very yummy.
I also discovered сырники (syrniki) thats are curd chees pancakes. It's sweet, eaten with jam, honey, condensed milk or sour cream (that's my favorite)
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Post by tzarine on Jun 9, 2016 21:06:29 GMT 2
my fav russian food remains ikra, caviar, red or black
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 3, 2016 18:12:07 GMT 2
I have no idea why I held off for so long, but I finally bought and ate some Chinese 100-year eggs today. It was a real adventure.   A little bit of fleur de sel was appropriate.  |
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 3, 2016 18:51:38 GMT 2
I have no idea why I held off for so long, but I finally bought and ate some Chinese 100-year eggs today. It was a real adventure. A little bit of fleur de sel was appropriate. I hope it was an enjoyable adventure. |
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 3, 2016 23:42:18 GMT 2
tasting notes?
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Post by ninchursanga on Aug 4, 2016 12:39:37 GMT 2
In the last few weeks I discovered Georgian food and Russian pastries. Very yummy. I also discovered сырники (syrniki) thats are curd chees pancakes. It's sweet, eaten with jam, honey, condensed milk or sour cream (that's my favorite) Oh, yummy! When I was in Berlin this spring I found a nice Russian restaurant that served this kind of food. My husband loves it as well, cause it is all very similar to the Circassian dishes his grandmother used to cook. |
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Post by ninchursanga on Aug 4, 2016 12:40:11 GMT 2
BazFaz, how old are the eggs really?
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Post by rikita on Aug 25, 2016 9:11:37 GMT 2
i still remember how it was when i was 17 and discovered root beer. never had heard of it before that time ...
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Post by kuskiwi on Aug 26, 2016 22:11:31 GMT 2
Just discovered that baked apples with cayenne pepper sprinkled on them aren't quite as nice as with cinnamon  |
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 27, 2016 0:08:43 GMT 2
oops! unless there's way too much cayenne, it should be a good stimulation for your digestive system.
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 28, 2016 14:22:58 GMT 2
oh, and I never mentioned that when I went to that festival earlier this summer, I discovered that a lovely breakfast was made from mushroom pate on buckwheat crispbread. Maybe it should be in the shame thread. it was moreish.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 4, 2016 12:32:30 GMT 2
fuet, a lovely dry-cured sausage from catalunya (region of Spain) they are yummy.
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Post by shrjeff on Sept 4, 2016 14:18:25 GMT 2
i still remember how it was when i was 17 and discovered root beer. never had heard of it before that time ... the secrets of oklahoma...  |
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Post by rikita on Sept 4, 2016 17:21:51 GMT 2
it was a very exotic place for me ...
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Post by tzarine on Sept 21, 2016 21:52:23 GMT 2
tzarevich discovered pani puri on food street in bengaluru
& spent the rest of the journey seeking them out
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 21, 2016 22:17:10 GMT 2
Cheap as well. Somewhere around ten rupees each? Called something like golgapa if you are ever in the north.
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