Do you ever cook your national dish?

Picadillo with black beans and rice plus plantanos and

My wife is cuban, we have this all the time, but with the fried, squished, and fried again plantains. Once had a roast pork done the good way, where you dig a hole in the ground first and cook it there. Fantastic.

what about shredded beef in tomato sauce "ropa vieja"


man I could eat that all day with some picadio

Every once in a while I make a shepherds pie, which I guess could be a national dish since I'm white trinity of English, Irish and Scottish (with a German and Swede slipped in there too) But for the traditional stuff, like beans on toast of bangers and mash? No thanks, looks like poo. But I do make american stuff- cheeseburgers, meatloaf, pork chops (or is that German...?) 2-4 nights a week.

I do like to cook a full English breakfast every now and then.

I am French on my fathers side and Italian on my mothers side. I like Italian cooking better because I can buy gluten free pasta but French uses heavy creams and stuff.. but sometimes I make French Fries and often I eat my soup cold :laugh:

I like Mexican food best and Japanese foods and I make Thai food sometimes too..anything I can find that is gluten & dairy free and yummy then I make it and eat it.

Oh Sarah! I LOVE asian food the best!

I'm British.


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

c'mon.........am i the ONLY one dying to make a comment on this dish..?!

Lol - you think that's bad? We also have a national pudding called Spotted ****! Seriously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_****

Oops - it's apparently not an acceptable word on MFP. Spotted d i c k. :-)

I'm from New Zealand...our national dish is Fush and Chups...which we usually have once a week. Less now though that we're watching what we eat of course lol

While in the spirit of ethnic diversity I can make Temaki rolls, Sir-fried black beans, cabbage, and snails, Tikka Masala, Borsht, pasta and Caprese salad, Fish Tacos, Egyptian Kabobs, Tabouli, and love to eat Haggis, Kippers, Paella, Satay, and plaintains, I am mostly French and like to make Pot au Feu, Ratattouille, Bread, and coupe les fromages!

You mean steak with a side of salmon and pasta with dill and beer?

maybe not but im about to start doing so pretty often just based on the power of suggestion.

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I'm moving in...

We also eat mainland Europeans. we call them tapas and hors d'oevres.

We eat anything we want

i dont cook them, I go to a taco shop whenever i feel like eating tacos.. which is like once a week hehe
mmmmm

Being multiple ethnicities, I cook all sorts of "national dishes" on a regular basis. Pastitsio, Pilaf, Sharlotka, Challah...

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!

Bangers and mash?

I'm cajun.. where do I start?

Start at some steak gumbo or fried okra and green tomatoes. Keep me coming with some red beans and rice and steamed crawdads.

I have family living in Kenner, La and New Orleans. We visit often and I gain 5 pounds a day every time I go. Since we're Cuban, they mix the food sometimes so we get Cuban/Cajun dishes.

Oh honey bee i know very well how to cook my "home" dishes. I too, as does my husband, always gain weight when we come to visit. (except this time, pure will power, whew!) Cuban and Cajun mix... yum! I would be all up on that!

I dont think America Has a National Dish!

Really??
With America being such a melting pot, a lot of ethnic cuisines can have other ethnic influences. In the Miami area, a lot of chinese restaurants have a cuban flair. America owns the hamburger/cheeseburger. We o wn a lot of the fair & carnival foods.
Because California has so many readily available crops, they've contributed a lot to the American cuisine. I the south, a lot of people made due with what was available in their local areas. We hadn't yet cultivated all the foods available in Europe here in the early history of America. They had to make due with what was available and whatever didn't perish in the ships bringing supplies. When the southern plantations gained popularity of slaves and a "house" cook, they incorporated with whatever they could. Southern brewed sweet tea? You can't get the real stuff in pretty much any other region unless you come to my house or know of a transplant. (and if you think it's tea with a lot of sugar and some ice, you're wrong) We also have the phili cheesecake, and while Christopher columbus was a complete @sshat, he brought barbecue to Europe when he dragged the taino indians over there.

In the early days of New York city, you had a concentration of so many various ethnicities, but not enough of the ingredients they would need to make those dishes so it inspired a lot of new things.

With the spaniards coming into Mexico, it changed their cuisine and it made it's way to texas creating a "tex-mex" unique into that specific area. (One I heavily dislike, though) With the french coming in from Florida and into Louisiana, it changed a lot there, too. They also came upon a lot of new things to cook that the french didn't have back home.

A lot of European (mainly britts and some of their allies) occupied countries in Africa and Asia, with many eventually migrating the states, they brought with them the influences of the fruits (notably mangoes) to the states. Incorporating what they had back home and adding stuff here. A lot of them just spent a lot of time in the kitchen with some weird looking food on the counter thinking "wtf do I do with this?" A lot of the dutch (BORING) and and polish people swept through PA with their own flavorings adding to that as they went along. The dust bowl proved i t's own difficulties and New England had to rely mainly on seafoods.
The mid-southern states (Tennessee up to MD), their meats relied heavily on chicken and pigs (pigs were the cheapest meats)
America really does have a lot to offer!


I'm an all-american mutt and I can rock
Mexican, thai, japanese, chinese, thai, Italian and a lot of American dishes.

Other European and South American foods, not so much. And definitely NOT a roast beef.

However, the most popular item, the potato, came from Peru, brought along with it's distant cousin, the tomato. These two items alone changed the majority of every cuisine across the world when it arrived in europe in the late 1600s. Thankfully, it also grew wild in the states when people started arriving. props to the potato! And of course Chocolate has changed the course of desserts and drinks.

Oh god no! My heritage is Norwegian, after all.