Green Bean, you can make soy milk yourself. It’s not hard. It basically entails soaking soybeans and squeezing the milk out of them. Recipes abound on the WWW.
Or, go to Chinatown. Many vegetarian Asian restaurants or supermarkets will sell it made fresh. Either option tastes way better than the stuff at Trader Joes.
Chicken vindaloo - from the only authentic Indian place around here. The place has a very good rep, but I’ve nothing to compare it to, so…
Did I like it? Yes, mostly. The spiciness I was expecting, but there’s something else in there that I can’t quite identify. Something different from what I’m accustomed to in the same way that anise is different from anything else (but it’s not anise). Did that make sense?
Will I try Indian again? Absolutely - I think the chicken tikka marsala is next on the list - isn’t that the UK national dish?
-mdf
Asparagus.
Don’t laugh, I know it’s not that unusual!
Hated it…oh my god it was awful.
Grilled portobellos though…very very good stuff. I had mine on a toasted sourdough bun with some sort of olive dressing.
To answer your question mdf -
The BBC has a nice little article about curry in the UK.
As Britain ruled India for so long, the people who lived there obviously got very attached to Indian food. When Brits came back after living there some time they brought a taste for spicy food with them.
Lamb pasanda is quite tasty as well. Actually, I’ve ever only had a couple things I wasn’t too keen on. Try a bit of everything. My hubby is addicted to Bombay potatoes.
The one thing you have to remember though is that as with all food, it gets regionalised. What I’ve had in California is not even close to the quality of Indian food in the UK. I was greatly disappointed after having dragged 2 friends with me nearly 90 miles to try Indian food in Northern Cal. Boy were we all disappointed 
My latest food - last night: hubby did me some marikli which is a Romani flatbread very similar to tortillas. Quite tasty! However, he keeps threatening me with hedgehog surprise… :eek:
The only problem I have with soy milk is that they usually have a lot of salt in them. At least the ones I could find.
The only new food I’ve tried recently is grits. Pretty good, but that too was a bit salty for my taste.
i was round at a friend’s the other night and she had just got a care package from home (singapore) so i got to try all sorts of goodies!
i had some candied sour plum in powder (anyone know what i mean) which was really good, but very sour!
and some little milk sweets, which were a cross between Reissens and fudge. yummy.
the most exciting thing i had to eat in the sumer was lampuki (dolphinfish) in malta. it’s a carnivorous, migratory fish that passes by the maltese islands in september. it was SO GOOD! tasted like a cross between salmon and mackerel. and when it’s freshly caught it’s scales are bright blue and yellow.
i love biltong too.
i’ve tried homemade stuff from ostrich, eland, and zebra. although i didn’t know what i was eating at the time. washte, you can get it in harrod’s, and the airport shop in stanstead, other than that i couldn’t tell you!
and my favourite curry is lamb rogan josh, it’s very good. i have a recipe which is decent, but it’s better from the balti house!
(if you’re having lamb at home, buy a joint, cut slits in the skin, push in slivers of garlic and rosemary leaves and roast. it’s amazing)
I’ve had sour plum, too. It is indeed very sour, and some kinds are really salty as well.
The most recent new foods I’ve tried would probably be the dim sum I had with some Dopers a couple of weeks ago in London Chinatown. I can’t remember what everything was, but I do remember the squid cakes (v nice), steamed pork dumpling (my favourite out of the lot, I think) and turnip cake (came with delicious red bean sauce).
Vegan brownies. They used egg substitute and tofu instead of the usual
eeeevil animal product eggs and the like. They weren’t bad at all; my stomach got upset because I actually had too many.
My last big culinary discovery was Korean cuisine, but that’s been a few years ago.
I am just about trained up in cooking cassava leaf, in the traditional Sierra Leonian or Ghanian fashion. Only one public presentation, which was fairly well received by the ladies at work. Although mine is still not quite up to the native standard, it is pretty good. I love the stuff. (After only a few visits, I am a relative celebrity at the local Sierra Leonian food market. They already know me, and I am not all that hard to pick out, since I haven’t seen any other white men in the place at all.)
I had moy-moy (phonetic, I don’t know the spelling for sure) last night. It’s the meat of blackeyed peas, all cleaned of skins and the black eyes, ground up, and steamed with oil and spices. It’s Nigerian, I think, or at least the lady who made it for me is Nigerian. Pretty good, and compared to a lot of West African food, it’s fairly mildly spicy.
Smoked dried Cuta (Which is barracuda, I think) baked with a really spicy sauce is another of my favorites. (Ghanian, again.) Served over rice.
Up until I had met the cuisine of Sierra Leone I thought Indonesia had the spiciest food. Woah, was I wrong. Pepper soup. I think that says it all. Texans, eat your hearts out.
“These things that are pleasin’ you can hurt you somehow.” ~ Don Henley & Glenn Frey ~
Naan, and I’m an addict now. Real barbeque- about six months ago, and I’m addicted to that, too. My fiance and I have worked out the food thing- I go try things, and if I think he’ll like them, I drag him along the next time.
I want to try Afghani food- there’s a restaurant that I’ve had recommended to me. I tried some kind of Peruvian sweet pastry during the summer, and that was good, too.
Sunspace, what are you doing being cautious about food? You live in Toronto! It’s heaven for adventurous food!
I had antelope last week. Slow cooked a couple of steaks in a pan with olive oil and butter and then brought in mushrooms, artichokes, onions, tomatos and okra… all under a lid.
I served it on Texmati rice, stroganoff style with sourdough bread. That damn chihuahua that lives next door broke his chain trying to get over. It was vunderbaugh! Very lean without being gamey.
Thanks to Thylacine I got my first taste of some American candy about a month ago. Can’t remember the exact names but from memory - Cracker Jack’s (caramel coated popcorn and peanuts?) there was even a little game in the box, lollipops with bubble gum inside them ?blow pops? and some sort of exploding rock candy - very very cool.
Leechboy made Gumbo at about the same time and it was really yummy. Must try that again.
What kind of naan did you try Lissla Lissar? I’ve liked most that I’ve tried. My favourites are garlic and corriander naan (self-proclaimed garlic nut here!) and pershwari naan which had almonds, coconut and honey… more a dessert naan than one you’d dip in your curry. As I mentioned earlier, Indian food - all food really - is quite regionalised. It was only down south that I could find this kind of naan. Haven’t been able to find one similar in almost 3 years now that I live in northern England. 'Spose I’ll have to learn how to make them myself eh?
Be careful eating too many peanuts leechbabe cos they can cause your child to develop allergies. BTW, I wish you much luck in this pregnancy. My cravings were for spicy things… Couldn’t seem to get enough horseradish and ketsup on toast! American candy is definitely an experience. I try to bring my hubby, who’s English, many types of candy and candy bars to try when I have to go back to the States. I think his favourite has been rootbeer barrells. What you described does sound like Cracker Jacks btw.
lieu was your antelope local? I lived in Wyoming for several years but only had one opportunity to try antelope. Loved it. Mine had a very sagey taste, but not the game taste I was expecting, to it so didn’t have to season it much. Ended up doing an antelope roast with lots of veg… Scrummy!!
I fried up some rattlesnake recently, although in all honesty it was the first time I’ve had it but it has been awhile.
that should have been “wasn’t my first time”
sorry it’s late, I’m going to bed g-nite.
Peace
It was basically like very, very fresh pita. There’s a really cheap buffet in Little India that I go to frequently, and they keep bringing just-cooked naan around to the tables and forcing it on you…
Oh, my life is hard.
Washte, it was from southeastern Colorado. That area’s experiencing a severe drought now and they were extremely skiddish to hunt.
I’d like to try some again when grazing in their habitat is more plentiful and fattening. Still, I’m a fan.
The most remarkable thing I tried in recent memory was Snake Soup from a local Dim Sum…interesting, but not something I would eat regularly.
I also recently made a recipe in my crock-pot (love that thing…) with pork chops, apples, butternut squash, sugar, cinnamon, etc. The wierd thing was that there were no onions or garlic called for in the recipe. The dish was very fragrant, but smelled more like apple pie than supper! I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was amazing!
okay, every Christmas I lovingly wrap an assortment of very odd things I get at the local Asian market for my friends. The spirit of the holidays and all.
Unfortunately last year I was treated to a buffet of them. I subjected myself to fried dace (a fish), tinned eel, jellyfish, mixed congee (still trying to figure out what that is) and fried gluten in a jar. I like odd foods, but these?? Not good. Not at all.
i’ve had chimichangas recently, i think they are so yummy, the crispier the better