Foods in Argentina

  Argentina is not only famous for its soccer, it is also famous for its agricultural products: beef, cheese, milk......
 
  Cuisine in Argentina is based on those abundant agricultural materials.

  Manchego Cheese and Quince Paste Hors d'Oeuvres

  It is a kind of dessert which is made of Manchego cheese.(Manchego cheese is a kind of cheese which is very famous and popular in both Spain and Latin America)
 
 

  Dulce de leche Muffins
 
  Dulce de leche Muffins is a kind of muffin which is made with Dulce de leche.(Dulce de leche is a confection with is prepared by sweetened milk and chocolate)

  How to prepare Dulce de leche

 Boiling an unopened can of sweetened condensed milk for 30 to 45 minutes in a pressure cooker, the adding some hot chocolate, when it is finished,it looks like toffee sauce.


    

Empanada
 
Empanada is a stuffed baked bread, it is popular in Southern America and Southern European countries. Its stuff is made by pork and various kinds of vegetables, including onions, cabbages and carrot, it always be eaten with peppers or other saulty sauces, in Argentina, it is always eaten during celebration period.
                                

Spanish Cuisine

  Spanish food culture is quite colorful and popular as same as its soccer culture, it contains variety of different flavors dishes and soups, but both of them have an identical trait: Mediterranean style.

  Food in Andalucia
  Andalucia is the second largest  autonomous communities in Spain, the local food includes pescaíto frito(fried fish) and Gazpacho(soup)

  Pescaíto frito
  It is a delicious dish which is made by fried fish and lemonade, it is not only popular in Andalucia, but also acceptable in Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid.

Gazpacho
  It is a soup which is made by tomatoes and other vegetables, it is very common in southern Spain and Portugal.

  Food in Aragon
  Jamón serrano
  It is a special flavor of ham which comes from Aragon, it always be served with thin slices.

  

Food in Cataluña
Crème brûlée(Cataluna Cream)
Crème brûlée is a dessert in Cataluna, it looks like traditional egg cake or jelly.


                                         

Rendang

Rendang is a spicy meat dish which originated from the Minangkabau ethnic group of Indonesia, and is now commonly served across the country. One of the characteristic foods of Minangkabau culture, it is served at ceremonial occasions and to honour guests.Rendang is also commonly served among the Malay community in Malaysia, and is also popular in Singapore, Brunei, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand. Rendang is traditionally prepared by the Indonesian and Malaysian community during festive occasions such as traditional ceremonies, wedding feasts, and Hari Raya (Eid al-Fitr). Culinary experts often describe rendang as: 'West Sumatran caramelized beef curry'. In 2011 an online poll by 35,000 people held by CNN International chose Rendang as the number one dish of their 'World’s 50 Most Delicious Foods (Readers' Pick)' list. Rendang have rich flavor, and spicy and very oily because of the other ingridients. But the meat is very tender because of slow cook.

Rendang Ingridients

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground coriander seed

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1 inch ginger roughly chopped

4 large cloves garlic roughly chopped

4 large shallots roughly chopped (about 7 ounces)

chili pepper flakes to taste (I used about 3 tablespoons)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 pounds beef shanks or shortribs cut into large cubes

2 stalks lemongrass white part only, smashed

4 kaffir lime leaves

1 inch galangal sliced into coins

2 packs freeze dried coconut cream rehydrated in 2 cups of warm water, or 1 can coconut milk

1 tablespoon palm sugar brown sugar can be substituted

- See more at: http://norecipes.com/blog/beef-rendang-recipe/#sthash.ZAaXEEdY.dpuf

500 g beef
4 cups coconut milk (made from 1 coconut if using freshly granted coconut)
2 bay leaves (Indonesian usually use Salam leaves)
2 kaffir lime leaves
3 cardamom pods, bruised
1 stalk lemongrass
2 fresh turmeric, leaves (optional)
4 cm cinnamon sticks
4 red chilies, sliced (you can add more if you wish)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar or 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar
8 shallots, peeled and sliced
6 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
3 cm ginger
3 cm galangal, peeled and sliced (laos)
1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns, crushed
2 cm turmeric

Instruction:

1 Grind or blend shallot, garlic, ginger, galangal, peppercorn and turmeric into paste.
2 Cut the beef into small but thick slices square.
3 Put the beef, spice paste and all other ingredients into a wok and bring slowly to the boil, stirring constantly to prevent the coconut milk from separating. Cook over low heat, stirring from time to time, until the meat is very tender and all the sauce has evaporated.
4 Continue cooking the beef, which will fry in the oil that has come out from the coconut milk, until brown.
5 Serve with warm Basmati or Jasmine plain rice.

Food in USA

  The United States is the one of most typical and important immigration countries in the world, so the culture in their is quite colorful, you can easily find various countries' culture in the US, especially for food. In general, British style food dominates US food culture.

  British Style Food
  Due to the US was the Britain's colony, so Britishs bring their food culture to the new world. There is a recipe which describes a US family's daily food:
Dried, salted codfish
Bacon
Cabbage and turnips
Brown biscuits with butter
Apples
White crackers
Indian pudding
Beer
(Reference: http://www.foodbycountry.com/Spain-to-Zimbabwe-Cumulative-Index/United-States-Northeast-Region.html)

As you can see from above food list, their daily foods are pretty European style, you can easily find lots of typical European foods, such as bacon, biscuits and beer. In fact, British style foods dominate the majority part of American food. I will introduce some dishes for British style in following.

Johnny Cake
  According to this name, it is a kind of desert in the American's food culture, especially for travelling; it used to be called" Journey Cake", so Americans always prepare it before long distance travelling.

  To prepare this cake, the ingredients are quite simple: seven tablespoons cornmeal, one tablespoon sugar, half teaspoon salt, and half cup of milk. The procedure is simplier than this: you only need to mix those ingredients and bake the ingredient in an oven for 30 minutes. When it is finished, it always eat with  sweet strawberry sauce.

New England Clam Chowder

  This is a famous and popular chowder in the New England, which is made by clams. This chowder is quite special because it is thicked with oyster crackers, not traditional flour. It also contains onions, potatoes, tomatoes and milk.

  To cook this cuisine, you should buy some fresh daily clams, after clean them, mix them with onion, then cut up above mixture, poll those mixture to a griddle, after a slight heating, cut up remaining vegetables for chunks, then put all ingredients in a pot to boil for 20 minutes.

Honey-Baked Apple
  It is a special apple which is baked with honey or other sweet ingredients. The ingredients and process are quite simple.