Do you ever cook your national dish?

I'm lucky that I'm a total euro-mutt, so I have tons of choices!

My corned beef + cabbage and goulash are top notch, I make a MEAN souffle, my pierogi are meh, I hate sauerbraten and sauerkraut makes me want to kill myself, and fondue is kind of passe.

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.

fried, squished, and fried again plantains = tostones

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I do know this, just couln't remember at the time. And I looooove when my mother-in-laws visits from Miami, and brings some pasteles, meat filling and cream cheese filling. Soooo bad, soooo good.

YOu forgot the pasteletios filled with gauva and cream cheese together ..yum yum... Also empanadas and croquettas...

Lebanon has a bunch of national dishes, but my husband and I cook Lebanese food all the time. Shawarma, fattoush salad, homemade hummus or falafel, taouk (grilled chicken breast chunks), and the many many vegetable/beef stews.

That is what we eat regularly! It's healthy, although a bit high in carbs because nearly every meal has rice or bread as a component, but I do my best to focus on the protein and veggies!

We also regularly eat Lebanese style breakfasts, including labne (a form of yogurt) and zaatar (thyme).



I wish I had Lebanese heritage...the food is so good. Mmmm good labne as Bart says. I'd love that for breakfast! I'm Aussie/English - any Aussies can name a national dish? Lamingtons? :happy:

Yes, Swedish meatballs with boiled potatoes and lingon jam and cream sauce is one of my kids fav meals, I personally am not a fan, but i make it for them.

I don't think Australia has a National dish, if it does it probably involves with lamb or pumpkin,, both of which are not that easy to find in Sweden, or it could be the debated over pavlova (NZ or OZ???) and I don't have the time to make that!

I must not learn to cook Puerto Rican food.

People keep trying to say that Poutine is Canada's national dish, but really it bases from Quebec, and since that Province is perpetually interested in separating I don't feel like throwing in that their food invention represents the very nation that they don't want to be a part of... now, being a Prairie girl myself, I'd have to say looking at the list of contenders (Yup, I googled it) Saskatoon Berry Jam, which I get from my Grandma, and do use, tho' not really a dish, so let's say Saskatoon berry Pie!!!! Yum, but only get on special occasions.

You can hate the easterners all you want... it doesn't change the fact that it is an internationally recognized dish that is associated with our country. It is also a dish found throughout our country and associated with our national identity. Ergo national dish.

People keep trying to say that Poutine is Canada's national dish, but really it bases from Quebec, and since that Province is perpetually interested in separating I don't feel like throwing in that their food invention represents the very nation that they don't want to be a part of... now, being a Prairie girl myself, I'd have to say looking at the list of contenders (Yup, I googled it) Saskatoon Berry Jam, which I get from my Grandma, and do use, tho' not really a dish, so let's say Saskatoon berry Pie!!!! Yum, but only get on special occasions.

You can hate the easterners all you want... it doesn't change the fact that it is a internationally recognized dish that is associated with our country. It is also a dish found throughout our country and associated with our national identity. Ergo national dish.

I didn't say I hated the Easterners just that the dish originated in a province that's trying to separate.... also, I find Poutine to be one of the more repulsive dishes ever concocted, but to each their own, I must concede that many a Canadian would feel Poutine to be their national dish, once again, a personal choice. Just not mine.

I'm Scottish-Canadian and German-American.
Porridge with maple syrup and Schnitzel and apple pie, anyone?

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

Yes! Tortilla de patatas, gazpacho, paella, salmorejo with jamón serrano... Ummmhnnn!

Karelian pies, yummm.

Fast Food has to be the American dish by now.

the United States doesn't really have a "national" cuisine or dish because we are a nation of immigrants. depending on when and where you look, you'll find the most common dishes were the same dishes eaten by those immigrants in their native countries or by what was available in their region of the country. i think this is probably why there's such a huge diversity of foods here... every state is different from every other. so i think it's safe to answer with "state dishes". where i grew up, the unofficial state dish was steamed crabs (steamed in beer with Old Bay seasoning) or crabcakes. i haven't had those in more than 20 years, but i think you could ask anyone from there and they would give you the same answer, no matter if their ancestors were German, British, Irish, Italian, etc.

Yes I put french fries on my sandwiches and salads.

What is mine? A shrimp on the barbie? I hate seafood! Unfortunately us Australians don't have a long culture to draw on.

I'm American and i'm pretty sure the national dish is a Big Mac lol