Inspired by this thread:
What international or not-so-international food do you make really well?
As a cheapskate and someone who gets sick everytime I have fast food and often whenever I eat any food out, I LOVE to cook, so I make most of our food from scratch.
My best dishes are rava idli (steamed rice or semolina cakes - mine with spices & chili), spinach and carmelized garlic & onion pizza (crust made from scratch, too), orange chicken and dark chocolate lava cakes. What about you?
My speciality is mince, tatties and white pudding! Yum! Everytime me and my flatmate are hungover we cook this for lunch to make us feel better.
Creole, paella, risotto, meatloaf, spaghetti sauce (with meats), chicken marsala, turkey with all the trimmings. . .actually, I make most things really well.
Everybody loves my Moroccan braised beef, but I don’t know how Moroccan it really is.
As for not-very-international food, I get a lot of requests for my sauerkraut and apple and bratwurst casserole-ish thing, pot roast, and desserts. I rock desserts. Oh, and the olive loaf I got from the Pioneer Woman.
This is nothing that any half-wit couldn’t make, but I make a great chicken-rice stir fry. I’ll put my scrambled eggs against any professional chef’s. It’s just a knack. Other than that, I’m terrified of the oven/stove - My wife must be within phone’s reach at least when I cook, because I always am sure that I’ve ruined everything.
Joe
Yorkshire puddings. I’d pit mine against native ones. It comes from years spent with shite ovens which don’t go hot enough, forcing you to make sure you do everything right. Plus the spirit of experimentation coupled with the ability to remember what you did come the next attempt.
I make a Thai style chicken stir-fry in spicy peanut sauce that’ll knock your socks off. Probably not terribly authentic, but very tasty.
I guess I’m most proud of my spaghetti sauce. I found a recipe and tried it. It was okay but not special. So I kept tinkering and tinkering till I got it just right.
I think everything I make is good. That’s in part because if it doesn’t turn out, I’ll try again. But after a couple tries without much success I give up and stop making it. Bread? Forget it.
Blackened Tilapia with brazilian black beans (feijoada) and rice.
hmmmm, mouth watering…
Lasagna to die for. Just about anything in the traditional Southern food line except fried chicken or gravy. Shrimp scampi.
I bring really good pie. Also, fried chicken and potato salad. I also got to be a pretty good Indian cook and made all the tasty breads and chutneys from scratch and curries with all the fresh spices and so forth. It was a regular thing to have dinner with fresh naan, chutney, a raita, dal, and two curries. Not so much any more, although I may try some out on the kids some time, now that they’re older.
You are all invited to a potluck at my house tonight. I’ll see you at 7. I’ll have a spare cooler of ice on hand.
I’ll challenge anyone to a Devilled Egg Throwdown.
I make a kick-ass lasagna, yummy-but-not-very-authentic butter chicken, and really good pie.
Chicken Matza ball soup… mmmm
Trifle- I make a cranberry-chocolate one with homemade pastry cream and ganache.
It is sooo good.
Everybody loves my biscotti. I found an easy recipe from Cake Mix Doctor, which actually uses a cake mix.
What’s butter chicken?
I make a good thai cucumber salad, and some steamed chicken/shrimp dumplings. I can do a decent tortilla de patata. American-wise I do a mean roast. And I’m really good at putting together salads.
My chocolate chip cookie pie is probably one of the best things anyone anywhere has ever made (and I am bringing one to the Jersey Dopefest later this month!)
I make waffles that are so good the belguminians are ashamed of their pathetic waffle attempts.
I make excellent deep fried chicken as well.
maladroit, what do you do with your roast? My dad has been doing some recreational grocery shopping and he sent me home with a few small beef roasts. It’s not something I cook at home very often, so I don’t have any really good ideas beyond basic pot roast.