Favorite Local Food or Recipe

[469roadking]

After making the cheeseburger crack the other day on Les's post, and rustling up some of my favorite grub for lunch, I started thinking.
What do the brothers in other parts of world like to chow on. Please post some traditional type stuff, ie. no Scottish Egg Foo Young.
I'm curious.

Today for lunch I fixed my version of pork tacos.

Take small thin cut boneless pork chops and roll in cilantro seasoning. (usually comes in cubes like bullion, just break them up in a plate).
Grill chops over charcoal or sear in a cast iron skillet. A George Forman grill works pretty good too.

Fold into a warm corn tortilla with fresh spinach, onions, tomatoes, avocado, swiss cheese and top with mexican salsa.

Fast, easy and pretty darn tasty.

OK, now what ya got. I'll be hungry again before long.

[pwfirst]

That does sound good.
My favorite is a pork tenderloin. You take it rub in garlic salt and your favorite barbeque rub and put it on the grill on high, sear the out side until brown, take it off the grill and wrap it in tin foil and put it back on the grill on low for about 3 hours. Don't touch it. Get some fresh asparagus soak in olive oil and sprinkle with garlic salt and put it on the grill for about 5 min until bright green. Add a salad to that with blue cheese dressing, and straw berries and short cake for dessert and life is good.

[gasman]

First of all, I'm not much of a cook, but one dish I just love that I grew up with and is easy to make is fried squash and corn. Just slice up some squash and mix with corn (fresh off the cob or canned, it doesn't matter) in a lightly greased pan and cover and fry. Don't use too much heat and stir and check often. The juices in the squash and corn should make the mixture sort of moist. If not, add a little water. Once the veggies seemed to be cooked, you can add some cheese (any kind), and season it with salt, pepper, garlic salt, or whatever seasoning you like. Let it cook until the cheese melts, stirring to get everything nice and coated with the melted cheese. If you want, you can add some onions at the start and fry those along with the squash and corn. To give it a southwest kick, add some already peeled and roasted green chile to the mix. Good stuff!

[Happy Jack]

Lancishire Hot Pot

Lamb chops, the fattier the better - works really well with cheap cuts of lamb. Brown off put in a casserole dish (best to use a glass one) cover with a layer of sliced onion and loads of black pepper and some salt. Add a layer of sliced carrots and loads of black pepper.

Slice some creamy potatoes (Marfona are the best) in to 2-3mm thick slices and layer over the carrots. Dribble with a bit of olive oil

Pour over 200-300 mls lamb stock, worcestershire sauce so the lamb and onions are covered. Put a lid on the casserole dish

Put in a hot oven at 190­­ degrees Centigrade and bake for 2-3 hours topping up stock as required

After 2-3 hours turn the oven up to 230 and take the lid of the dish to allow the potatoes to brown

You can replace the lamb with pork chops and use a layer of apple after the onions. Replace the stock with dry cider

[469roadking]

Man, ya'll are making me hungry. G Mans recipe should go good with the tacos.
Pork tenderloin sounds like a definite winner too.
I'm going to try the Lancishire Hot Pot as well but will have to get on the internet to convert the mm and mls to in and oz.
Thanks guys

[469roadking]

For a Mother's Day weekend breakfast this morning I whipped up some eggs a la Roadking.

saute onions, garlic and fresh spinach in olive oil. Beat the eggs with salt and pepper added. pour the mixture together and add a couple of spoons of bacon grease. scramble the eggs.
Served with Bacon, Sausage patties, tomato slices and avocado slices.
Some biscuits and orange marmalade ain't bad either.

[469roadking]

I can't wait to see what Les has in store. I'm sure it will be fantastic. But in reality I'm quite certain that Lady Ann is serving him boiled turnips and oatmeal at every meal because that's what the little bugger deserves. Treating that poor women in such a manner. And not revealing how he gets away with it to boot. ;D

[gasman]

RK, you just made me hungry again. I just ate, and I wanted to make eggs for breakfast, but didn't. I might just have to re-visit that decision. I don't have all of the ingredients, but I'll improvise for now!

[Mohikanas]

My own recipe for Spaghetti :
Put spaghetti in boiling water with some chicken bouillon and a tiny bit of olive oil, when spaghetti are ready pour the water out, leaving just a little bit left.
Then the souce: Heat up small amount of olive oil on the pan. Chop two blue onions and cook it on the pan. After few minutes add a pork or beef mince. While cooking the mince with onions add some seasoning (oregano, salt, black pepper, paprika, chilli), when the meat is cooked pour tomato souce and sour cream together on it (at proportion 2:1) mix everything up, and heat it until its hot. Then mix in ~5 mashed garlics, and heat it until you can feel that incredible tasty smell put it on the spaghetti and thats it oh and sprinkle some cheese on those spaghetti, tasty too ;P~~~```

[Happy Jack]

We had some friends round for a meal last night

Recipes serve four

Celery and Stilton cheese soup with Stilton toast

Chop up 1 onion and about 20 celery sticks, fry in Olive Oil and butter for 10 minutes or until soft. Add enough chicken stock to just cover the celery and onion. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Take off and allow to cool. Add 150 grms (5-6 ounces) of Stilton cheese and blend in a blender. Check seasoning and add salt and pepper

For the Stilton toasts - mix together some creme fresh and crumbled Stilton. Lightly toast slices of granary bread on both sides. Spread on the creme fresh Stilton mixture, add a couple of ripped up broad leaf parsley. Pop back under the grill until the cheese has melted and bubbling. Cut diagonally and serve with the hot soup

Smoked Finnan Haddock with mustard mash, poached egg and peas amadine

For the mash - Take 5 large creamy baking potatoes (mafona are my faves) and bake in the oven for 90-120 minutes at 350 F. Scoop the cooked potato out of the skins and mash with creme fresh, butter, salt pepper and whole grain mustard to taste

For the Haddock - take 4 large fillets and poach in a little milk for 5 minutes

For the peas - Cook 700grms / 25-30 ounces of peas. Chop two thick cut rashers of bacon and 1/4 of an onion and fry until the bacon is starting to crisp. Add the peas and 100mls / 3.5 fluid ounces of double cream and warm but don't boil

Arrange the mash with the fish fillets on top and top with a poached egg. You can put some hollandaise sauce on the egg as well if you want.

Serve the peas in a side dish

Best eaten with good friends, convivial atmosphere and plenty of alcohol

In our case last night plenty of wine, plenty of beer, a good few Moscow Mules made with alcoholic ginger beer, vintage port and a couple of Gin and Tonics to cleanse the pallet.

My head was mashed this morning never mind the damn potatoes!

[leerummey]

cant beat a big fat doner kebab after a few beers ha ha
not a traditional english dish but is definately local to everyone everywhere in the uk lol
greasy and really bad for you but tastes great after a few beers ;D
how come all the things that taste great are bad for you ?

[469roadking]

Jun 6, 2010 13:55:31 GMT -5 leerummey said:

cant beat a big fat doner kebab after a few beers ha ha
not a traditional english dish but is definately local to everyone everywhere in the uk lol
greasy and really bad for you but tastes great after a few beers ;D
how come all the things that taste great are bad for you ?

What's a doner kebab? If it's bad for you then I'll probably love it. ;D

[leerummey]

a doner kebab is basically pressed meat (all the crap thats left over after animals are slaughtered ) its cooked on a spit put in some pitta bread with some salad and chilli sauce mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm