Cuisines!

I recently developed a fascination with foreign cuisine and like to experiment cooking a different dish every week. It is a real fun!

It's true! Where are you from and where is foreign to you?

Well, wherever the OPer is from, everywhere else is foreign!

P.S. The OPer reminds of the one hereon who posts half her face. I can't think why.

I am from UK and I am very interested in Thai, Indian and French cuisine although I must admit I am not the best cook but at least I try to improve my skills :)

OK :)

I like all three cuisines you mention, Jasmine, though there's often too much coconut in Thai, for me. French cuisine is undoubtedly superb. Indian cuisine can be excellent but it's often a poor imitation of what it might be - the stuff made by many take-aways and zappable supermarket meals are really not that good (unless one is inebriated!)

I am not the best cook I doubt if any poster hereon would lay claim to this either.

I really like this Indian cookbook

tony0001 try madhur jaffrey indian cookbook. great dishes without a lot of complicated steps.

Noted with thanks, gengis - I've been using two of Jaffrey's books for some years. (I came across the 50 Great Curries book at least 20 years after my first Madhur one.)

For me.... Either Italian or Hungarian cuisine is the best 'Foreign'.
No surprise to many here, I'm sure.... I can't stand curry.
Two full on challenges.... The perfect pizza base and a 'Just right' - very difficult for me to achieve, Goulash.

Are you seriously suggesting, bb, that raw, pickled, Spanish pig ears is not in your Top 10 Cullinary Delights? (I suspect it is and you're just being coy!)

Tony, just because you eat pickled pigs ears cold doens't mean that they're raw. Or maybe you just mean thqt they're not cooked after being pickled.

Anyway, the best way to eat pigs' ears is in the form of cuchifritos, deep fried along with tongue, maw, and blood sausage.

(I know what you meant. I just wanted battybilly to know that plenty of people do in fact enjoy pigs' ears. Crunchy gristly bits of fatty goodness.)

Uh........not so sure about pigs' ears. Crunch gristly sounds less than appealing.

But "foreign" food- the internet is great. I go through spurts of this- one week we had South Africa, Argentinian, South Africa, Hungarian, and Chinese. And McDonalds. I think the last night we had some pizza. Some things stick and are repeated again and again, some are a nice try but maybe not again.

If you like bacon, you'll like pig's ears.

I meant they're raw in the sense that they've never felt heat but have just been pickled, Vinny. They most definitely weren't salty or sugary (as per your link) - they were but raw pigs' ears in vinegar - with cartilage like brick.

But I agree that it's good for bb to learn that plenty of people do in fact enjoy pigs' ears. And I think the ones in your linked recipe sound better than the ones I've eaten in Spain!

If you like bacon, you'll like pig's ears.

I agree. After all, everyone who likes, say, lamb chops likes lamb testicles too.