Do you ever cook your national dish?

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  • Laddiegirl
    Laddiegirl Posts: 382 Member

    I do enjoy making Toad-In-The-Hole, though.

    HOW CAN YOU POST THIS AND NOT ELABORATE? toad in the hole? I always thought british equals meat pie...

    My parents made us what they called Toad-In-The-Hole for breakfast, which was a piece of bread with the center circle cut out and replaced with an egg, then cooked as one in a frying pan, we toasted the circle of bread that had been cut out and put butter and jam on it for dessert....yummy but I don't know if that really is the Toad in the Hole traditionally or just something they made up. lol

    We (at least my family) call that toad-in-the-hole to in Australia... YUMM! Traditionally it was fried in lard or bacon fat, but we usually used butter and fried the extra cut out circle too.


    In England, Toad -in-the-hole is sausages in yorkshire batter mix then cooked in the oven. You can either cook the sausages first or let them roast in the oven with the batter mix. Then smothered in gravy! YUM

    We sometimes use hot and spicy sausages for something different.

    This is the Toad-in-the-Hole I love but is so hard to find in the US (except at Renaissance Faires). I would love a recipe for trying to make this at home. I've also made the eggs & toast dish that some people call Toad-in-the-Hole but I grew up with it being called Eggs-in-a-Basket.

    Both are yummy!
  • Silver_Star
    Silver_Star Posts: 1,351 Member
    Im from India. i make all kinds of Indian food . But im in love with food from all over the world. FOOOODDD :love: its what brought me to MFP!!!
  • LelliAmi
    LelliAmi Posts: 327 Member
    I'm Canadian...so if my national dish is poutine, then no lol ..Waffles with maple syrup on the other hand...
  • LelliAmi
    LelliAmi Posts: 327 Member
    Actually...now that I think about it, I'm only 3rd generation Canadian. Grandad was straight from Scotland and Gram was from Norway. And My grandpa was adopted, and he's half scottish and half Irish...so, I've never made haggis, smoked fish (although my mom has and it's so yummy), and I've never brewed my own beer. (Just assuming that's the national item of Ireland, since I can't think of anything else besides those chocolate coins you put in cauldrons for St.Patty's day..)
  • zanAspera
    zanAspera Posts: 29 Member
    I'm a wolf. Our national food is whatever you hunt down and kill with your fangs and can wolf down before someone tries to take it away... So... Not really something one can 'cook'.

    I am living in the Soviet of Washington (A quote from FDR's Postmaster General that is as true today as any other time in history), so the official foods, Apples and Walla Walla Onions are also best served raw.
  • jeffryjirraf
    jeffryjirraf Posts: 179 Member
    I cook haggis all the time. I absolutely love it, especially with a lot of tomato ketchup!
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    I cook haggis all the time. I absolutely love it, especially with a lot of tomato ketchup!

    i checked food network for this!! boiled cow's stomach stuffed with other organs? hmmmm.. I won't say 'yuk' cos it sounds fascinating, but it made me think I rarely cook organs. occasional liver pate and holiday gizzards.....hmmmm... and my mother talked about cows stomach.... saying it was tough. she never made it... according to FN you stuff it, boil it for 3 hours and 'Serve with mashed potatoes, if you serve it at all.' hmmmmm
  • robynj88
    robynj88 Posts: 104 Member
    Surely British = fish and chips?! Or sausage and mash?
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,078 Member
    I'm British.

    Is it bland? Is it accompanied by potatoes? Then it reeks of home.

    I do enjoy making Toad-In-The-Hole, though.

    I was just wondering what the British national dish would be? Maybe a roast dinner? You can't beat roast beef and Yorkshire pudding!

    fish and chips?
  • jennibee70
    jennibee70 Posts: 1,067 Member
    I love haggis. Veggie these days but I did like the meat variety before I went veggie. With neeps and tatties obviously. Also potato scones and irn bru.
  • LisaMariaMuir
    LisaMariaMuir Posts: 14 Member
    Scottish, and never once had haggis.

    Also, don't even have a deep fryer.

    As the Doctor once said, "What kind of Scot are you?!"


    I thought Scot's only made haggis for tourists???? Scottish & never touched it..........and never will........... :laugh:
  • LisaMariaMuir
    LisaMariaMuir Posts: 14 Member
    Irn Bru, potato scones,

    only national food that works for hangovers.....
  • deb62pink
    deb62pink Posts: 84 Member
    I eat Kangaroo, OH wait, that's our national animal not our national dish LOL!!! Us aussies really don't have a home made national dish I don't think, but I guess you could say a meat pie and sauce would be the closest thing!!!!
  • Jay_Jay_
    Jay_Jay_ Posts: 194 Member
    My family is Jewish and I don't eat carbs. That pretty much eliminates everything good about being Jewish.
  • RiverMelSong
    RiverMelSong Posts: 456 Member
    I'm Dutch so I suppose our National dishes would be 'stamppot' and 'hutspot'.
    Not sure how to explain it but the almighty Wikipedia says this: ''Stamppot: a traditional Dutch dish made from a combination of potatoes mashed with one or several other vegetables. These vegetable pairings traditionally include sauerkraut, endive, kale, spinach, turnip greens, or carrot and onion (the combination of the latter two is known as hutspot in the Netherlands).
    Let's just say it's usually very bland and gross xD

    On the other hand we also have 'bitterballen', which are little pieces of fried heaven. Like John Green once said: ''I wish you had taste-o-vision, so that you could see what happens when you take meat and hope... and then fry it''

    I have no idea how to post pictures but google has many! ^^


    *Edited to answer your original question xD* Stamppot and hutspot I have never cooked and never will! Bitterballen are usually ordered in a pub to go with your beer so yeah I eat those regularly, but I don't have a deep fryer so I never ''make'' them myself. (not a lot of cooking involved in throwing stuff in a deep fryer but meh :p)
  • GeekyGirlLyn
    GeekyGirlLyn Posts: 238 Member
    Moms side is Puerto Rican and I can but havent cooked Puerto Rican style food. Dad's side is Polish Jew and I don't really cook food from that side much either. Can but don't. Maybe I should cook the foods from these influences more but.....eh.
  • jeffryjirraf
    jeffryjirraf Posts: 179 Member
    I cook haggis all the time. I absolutely love it, especially with a lot of tomato ketchup!

    i checked food network for this!! boiled cow's stomach stuffed with other organs? hmmmm.. I won't say 'yuk' cos it sounds fascinating, but it made me think I rarely cook organs. occasional liver pate and holiday gizzards.....hmmmm... and my mother talked about cows stomach.... saying it was tough. she never made it... according to FN you stuff it, boil it for 3 hours and 'Serve with mashed potatoes, if you serve it at all.' hmmmmm

    Well it is sheep. And honestly it is amazing... especially if you (sigh - soo stereotypical) deep fat fry it.
  • AnahitaCanDoIt
    AnahitaCanDoIt Posts: 448
    Irish people eat a lot of shpuds (potatoes) but I don't eat them...they make me blocked up.

    I cook and eat Iranian food occasionally, but it takes ages to make....my favourite is 'fehesenjoon' pomegranate, walnut and chicken stew with persian rice...yum but v calorific!

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