What is your heritage

KristenAnn711

Do you follow any traditions? I'm Irish/Italian, but basically just eat lots of pasta and drink lots of beer. :drinker:

BobbyDaniel

Cajun...lots of rice, seafood, really good sausage, did I mention rice? LOL

KristenAnn711

Haha, I just moved to Cajun country.

UpToAnyCool

I'm born here, my mother is born here, but both my mother and father are of Chinese descent.
I pretty much take my shoes off inside the house - LOL - but food-wise, we were raised to eat a lot of fruits and veggies.
I guess I'm also used to drinking my tea w/o milk or sugar, unless it's chai.
My folks are not religious types, so most of our family reunions and celebrations are centered around FOOD, rather than religious rituals.

cem2168

italian! pasta with a side of pasta was pretty much my diet growing up...would explain a lot...

SMJohnson27

Native American---FRY BREAD, YUMMMM!!!!!!!!

TheMaidOfAstolat

Scottish/Irish/English....but I love asian food, lol. Other than a Guiness or some Drambuie....I'm not too keen on any of my 'heritage' foods, lol.

jon_dub

English Irish Scottish. I like to drink

janemartin02

My kids are part Irish,so I have been making corn beef and cabbage for over 30 years.

jtsmou

Japanese and German... Both sides hate me, I am considered an abomination and none of them ever let me forget that when I was growing up.

monylove311

Mostly Hungarian... don't have any good dishes though. bummer.

Sirhijinx

I'm a mutt... Scottish/Irish/English/German and a bit of Indian I've been told.

abyt42

Peasant...Boiled veg with a side of tongue/scrapple/organ meat, anyone?

Lots of cabbage, potato, beets, carrots....... Lentils cooked with ham bone...

krissy_pooo

maltese... family gets together for spaghetti and rabbit dinners- i skip the rabbit lol

kbloodworth

1/4 Japanese
1/4 Filipino
1/8 Irish
1/8 English
1/8 Italian
1/8 Russian

So...every food on the planet? That's my problem, I think. Plus I live in Arizona where Mexican food is available on every corner.

nanc94

Filipina....have to have rice w/ every meal...and yes that even means breakfast.... shoot rice can even be made as the main dish just fry it up with garlic and some salt...maybe even stir in an egg..and there's lunch

kacka68

I wish could say convict.....but that wouldn't be true.

My great grandparents immigrated to Australia, so Sweedish on my mother's side, English / German on my father's side.....but food here (at least for my family) is all about Asia, especially Thai. Lemongrass, ginger, chilli, stir fries, red curries......yum.

bpdai

Welch and Irish, but we have been in the US since the 1600's so the influence is pretty well gone. Recent ancestors from the hills of Kentucky so that pretty well defines "ethnic food" in my house.

BrandNewMia

My mother is Korean, and all of her grandchildren refer to her as "Halmony" which is Korean for "grandmother", and my sister and I each go by the Korean words for "aunt" when it comes to nieces and nephews. The granddaughters (my daughter and my niece) also wore the traditional Korean hanbok on their 1st birthdays. We eat LOTS of Korean food, or rather I used to eat a lot of it before MFP (hello sodium!), and my 4 year old's favorite snack is dried seaweed. I grew up eating white rice with everything - steak, hot dogs, smoked sausage, etc... - and didn't know it was considered weird until my husband pointed it out to me, lol. Garlic is in just about everything I cook.

My dad's side is polish. I can't think of any traditions, but we don't know that side of the family very well.

Barelmy

My father's family are Indian, my mother is a mixture of English, Irish and Welsh.

I love traditional British foods, and I'm trying to perfect a low calorie, vegan, full-English breakfast. So far, I've got baked tomatoes and mushrooms, homemade baked beans (so much better than from a tin, seriously), toast, and vegan sausages. I've yet to get the hang of hash browns, let alone come up with a low cal version.

...idea! Grated potato, microwaved, mixed with a dash of french salad dressing for zinginess, sprayed with oil and baked. I wonder if that would work? Must try it.

ace175

Irish and Sicilian! Pasta, pizza, cheese, cannoli, beer, wine....ugh YUM!!!!

kiwi_dee

I'm NZ Maori (mostly - the rest is a mix of English, Irish, Scottish and Chinese) - any occasion is celebrated with food! Hmmmm fry-bread here too!!

kbloodworth

Japanese and German... Both sides hate me, I am considered an abomination and none of them ever let me forget that when I was growing up.

That is incredibly sad. One of my grandmothers is from Japan, and moved to California with my grandfather after WWII. I haven't met most of her family (can't afford to go to Japan), but they have always been very good to my mom and her brothers and sisters... but I know that isn't always typical. I love being of mixed heritage, I think it has allowed me to see things from a more global point-of-view.

UpToAnyCool

Japanese and German... Both sides hate me, I am considered an abomination and none of them ever let me forget that when I was growing up.

:frown: I would imagine that was difficult to comprehend as a child - I'm sorry to hear that you had to go through that. Both of those cultures have interesting food, though.

I've only been to Japan once, but now I am mildly obsessed w/ those interesting hybrid foods you see in there like the pizza w/ corn and seaweed as toppings or those rice omelettes. Spaghetti sandwich! Talk about carbo loading!

Mrs_McFadden

My mother is Korean and I was born there. My father was German/English and Spanish. I love Korean foods- always have it in my house but I limit it due to my current lifestyle changes ( agreed- it's the sodium). My fathers side comes from TN- very home made country southern cooking. I know how to cook some things from memory. My favorite from my childhood would be biscuits and gravy

eeeekie

I'm a mutt lol but I identity more with Hawaiian/Mexican parts of me. So rice is a BIG thing!

UpToAnyCool

I love Korean foods

...i could probably be vegetarian if i didn't love bulgogi oh so much :laugh: ... and bacon!

Yemaya1129

Armenian/German/English/Dutch. I love me some garlic and am generally a foodie....all definitely from my Armenian side. Hence, I am on MFP. I also have a Kim K-esque butt, without her tiny waistline

Natolee72

Japanese and German... Both sides hate me, I am considered an abomination and none of them ever let me forget that when I was growing up.

AWWWWWWWWW :frown: THAT IS SOOOOO SAD :frown:

Natolee72

Oh...and I was born here in the US ....both my parents are Mexican :bigsmile: :drinker:

itly6782

I was born in Italy and moved to the States with my parents and 2 older brothers when I was 6. The rest of my family is there. We always eat 2 courses, the first of which is pasta. The second course is some kind of meat and a vegetable.