#food cuisine

[lotusinjadewell]

Illustrations of Vietnamese food. Credit to Le Rin.

#vietnam #vietnamese #culture #travel destinations #cuisine #vietnamese food #asian food #illustration #food illustration #digital art #artwork #art #banh mi #lunar new year #spring rolls #rice cakes #condiments #hot pot #hanoi #hue vietnam #saigon #digital painting #paintings #painting #drawing #digital sketch #watercolour sketch #sketch #healthy food #looks tasty

[daily-deliciousness]

Marinated tomato burrata salad

#tomato #cheese #salad #cherry tomatoes #food #burrata #tomato salad #vegetarian #bread #italian food #italian cuisine #basil #healthy recipes #tasty #foodporn #delicious #cooking #food photography #foodgasm #recipe

[almondfae]

rym.nur on instagram

#food #italy #kitchen #rooms #italian cuisine #mediterranian diet #mediterranean diet #mediterranean #tomato #cheese #citrus #almondfae

[polish-food]

Heart-Shaped Polish Pączki with Raspberry Filling (recipe in Polish)

#pączki #raspberry #polish food #easy recipes #heart shaped #filled donut #donuts #foodblr #polish cuisine #food #poland #sweet tooth #lovecore #valentines day #heartcore #paczki #sweetcore #happy valentine's day #dessert #doughnuts #walentynki

[petermorwood]

Food on St Patrick's Day (in the USA)...

...is usually Corned Beef & Cabbage, which is the Irish-American version of the original Irish boiled bacon & cabbage, but while the celebratory Irishness is still going strong, try something a bit more authentic.

A nice warm coddle. Not cuddle, coddle, though just as comforting in its own way. (Some sources suggest it's a hangover cure, not that such a thing would ever be necessary at this time of year, oh dear me no.)

Coddle is a stew using potatoes, onions, bacon, sausages, stout-if-desired / stock-if-not, pepper, sage, thyme and Time.

You'll often see it called "Dublin Coddle", but my Mum made Lisburn Coddle lots of times, I've made West Wicklow Coddle more than once, and on one occasion in a Belgian holiday apartment I made Brugsekoddel, which is an OK spelling for something that doesn't exist in any cookbook.

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I do remember one amendment I made to Mum's recipe, which met with slight resistance at the time and great appreciation thereafter.

Her coddle was originally cooked on the stove-top, not in the oven, and nothing was pre-cooked. Potatoes were quartered, onions were sliced, bacon was cut into chunks and then everything went into the big iron casserole, then onto the slow back ring, and there it simmered Until Done.

However, the bacon was thick-cut back rashers, and the sausages were pork chipolatas.

Raw, they looked like this:

...and the bacon looked like this:

Cooked in the way Mum initially did, they looked pretty much the same afterwards. The sausages didn't change colour. Nor did the bacon.

While everything tasted fine, the meat parts always looked - to me, anyway - somewhat ... less than appealing. "Surgical appliance pink" is the kindest way to put it, and that's all I'm saying. This is apparently "white coddle" and Dubs can get quite defensive about This Is The Way It SHOULD Look.

I'm not a Dub, so I persuaded Mum to fry both the bacon and sausages first, just enough to get a bit of brown on, and wow! Improvement! I remember my Dad nodding in approval but - because he was Wise - not saying anything aloud until Mum gave it the green light as well.

Doing the coddle in the oven, first with lid on then with lid off, came later and met with equal approval. So did using only half of the onion raw and frying the other half lightly golden in the bacon fat.

Nobody quoted from a movie that wouldn't be made for another decade, but there was a definite feeling of...

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There are coddle recipes all over the Net: I've made sure that these are from Ireland to avoid the corned-beef-not-boiled-bacon "adjustment" versions which are definitely out there. I've already seen one with Bratwurst. Just wait, it'll be chorizo next.

Oh, hell's teeth, I was right. And from RTE...

Returning to relative normality, here's Donal Skehan's white coddle and his browned coddle with barley (I'm going to try that one).

Here's Dairina Allen's Frenchified with US measurements version. (I feel considerably less heretical now.)

And finally (OK, not Irish, but it references a couple of the previous ones and is a VERY comprehensive write-up, so gets a pass) Felicity Cloake's Perfect Dublin Coddle (perfect according to who, exactly...?) in The Guardian.

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Returning to the beginning, and how boiled bacon became corned beef (a question which prompted @dduane to start an entire website...!)

The traditional Irish meat animal for those who could afford it was the pig, but when Irish immigrants (even before the Great Famine) arrived in the USA, they often lived in the same urban districts as Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

For fairly obvious reasons pork, bacon and other piggy products were unavailable in those districts, but salt beef was right there and far cheaper than any meat Irish immigrants had ever seen before.

Insist on tradition or eat what was easy to find? There'd have been contest - and do I sometimes wonder a bit if sauerkraut ever came close to replacing cabbage for the same reason.

The pre-Famine Irish palate liked sour tastes: a German (?) visitor to Ireland in the mid-1600s wrote about about what were called "the best-favoured peasantry in Europe", and mentioned that they had "seventy-several sour milks and creams*, and the sourer they be, the better they like them."

* Yogurt? Kefir? Skyr? Gosh...

Corned beef and Kraut as the immigrants' celebratory "Irish" meal for St Patrick's Day? Maybe, maybe not.

Time for "Immigrant Song" (with kittens).

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Corned beef got its name from the size of the salt grains with which the beef was prepared. They were usually bigger than kosher salt, like pinhead oats or even as large as grains of wheat, and their name derived originally from "corned (gun)powder", the large coarse grains used in cannon.

BTW, "corn" has been a generic English term for "grain" for centuries, and "but Europe didn't have corn" is an American mistake assuming the word refers to sweetcorn / maize, which it doesn't.

Lindsey Davis, author of the "Falco" series, had a couple of rants about it and other US-requested "corrections". As she points out, mistakes need corrected but "corn" is not a mistake, just a difference in vocabulary.

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In Ancient and Medieval Ireland pig would have included wild boar, the hunting of which was a suitable pastime for warriors and heroes, because Mr Boar took a very dim view of the whole proceeding and wasn't shy about showing it (see "wild boar" in my tags and learn more).

Cattle were for milk, butter, cream and little cattle; also wealth, status, and heroic displays in their theft, defence or recovery. It's no accident that THE great Irish epic is "The Cattle-Raid of Cooley" / Táin Bó Cúailnge (tawn / toyn boh cool-nyah).

Killing a cow for meat was ostentation on a level of lighting cigars with 100-, or even 500-, currency-unit notes. Once it had been cooked and eaten there'd be no more milk, butter, cream or little cattle from that source, so eating beef was showing off And Then Some.

Also, loaning a prize bull to run with someone else's heifers was a sign of great friendship or alliance, while refusing it might be an excuse for enmity or even war. IMO that's what Maeve of Connaught intended all along, picking undiplomatic envoys who would get drunk and shoot their mouths off so the loan was refused and she, insulted, would have an excuse to...

But I digress, as usual. Or again. Or still... :->

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For the most part, "pig" mean "domestic porker", and in later periods right up to the Famine, these animals were seldom eaten.

Instead, known as "the gentleman who pays the rent", the family pig ate kitchen scraps and rooted about for other foods, none of which the tenant had to grow or buy for them. These fattened pigs would go to market twice a year, and the money from their sale would literally pay that half-year's rent.

For wealthier (less poor?) farmers, pigs had another advantage. Calves arrived singly, lambs might be a pair, but piglets popped out by the dozen. A sow with (some of) her farrow was even commemorated on the old ha'penny coin...

What with bulls, chickens, hares, horses, hounds, pigs, salmon and stags, the pre-decimal Irish coinage is a good inspiration for some sort of fantasy currency.

But that's another post, for another day.

#food and drink #St Patrick's Day #Irish cuisine #Dublin coddle #corned beef or boiled bacon #pigs and cattle in Ireland #The Cattle Raid of Cooley #Youtube

[cowboy-robooty]

this is a dorohedoro moment (redraw of a sketch i never poasted lawl)

#hetalia #itager #aph #hws #gerita #aph germany #aph italy #hws germany #hws italy #draws #THIS IS OBVIOUSLY VERY NOT CANON COMPLIANT #im so embarapple rn.... #im gunna start posting shit that isnt canon like tho and feeds my demons #ofc i love canon compliant shit the most forever #but yknow... just cuz u love 5 star cuisine doesnt mean u cant crave fast food sometimes #ill tag non canon compliant shit as lies #lies #robooty lies

[mexican-recipes-to-learn]

Pupusas de queso 🔥😍

#Pupusas de queso #pupusas #dinner #mexican recipes #recipes #mexican cuisine #mexicanfood #baking #mexican dress #mexican #foodporn #food porn #food photography #foodie #food #cajun cooking #cooking

[one-time-i-dreamt]

America was founded because someone pickled onions by putting them in a jar with coke and potato chips and someone else painted it.

#dream #america #food #cuisine #cooking #gourmet

[lovertm]

food earrings by chlosoup

#chlosoup #transparent by me #jewelry #earrings #kids cuisine #fruit tray #strawberry cookies #pb&j #nerds rope #apple pie #strawberries #food art #food jewelry #novelty jewelry #novelty earrings #pngs #transparent pngs #fashion #objects

[lotusinjadewell]

Vietnamese dishes from different regional cuisine: bánh xèo (Southern), bánh bột lọc (Central), bún đậu mắm tôm (Northern). Credit to ni_cherry (Instagram).

#vietnam #vietnamese #culture #travel destinations #travel #cuisine #vietnamese food #food and drink #asian food #snack food #street food #food photography #food #foodie #foodpics #foodphotography #foodlover #healthy food

[thelcsdaily]

Creamy Lemony Chicken Sausage Orzo

This one-pot meal is a great addition to any recipe book. This recipe might be your go-to on nights when your fridge is nearly empty or you just don't have the energy to prepare a fancy dinner. Here, orzo gets toasted in olive oil that’s infused with the flavors of lemon, garlic, and butter before cooking in a flavorful chicken broth amped up with tomatoes and dried oregano. When they simmer, the starch they produce gives the sauce a creamy texture that is reminiscent of risotto. It's a quick and easy dinner to prepare because everything is prepared in a single pot in less than an hour. Topped with fresh Parmesan and freshly ground black pepper.

“Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.” — Maya Angelou

#food #home cooking #home cooked meal #homemade #my photography #original photography #food photography #thelcsdaily #mediterranean cuisine #italian cuisine #orzo #risoni

[daily-deliciousness]

Mosaic sushi

#sushi #sashimi #fish #food #shrimp #salmon #tuna #tobiko #scallop #rice #asian food #japanese cuisine #japanese food #main course #foodporn #delicious #cooking #food photography #foodgasm #recipe

[mangolottepie]

babe what’s wrong you haven’t touched your hello kitty nuggets

#kid core #kidwave #sanrio #hello kitty #2000s #2000s nostalgia #nostalgia core #kidcore #nostalgia #2000s childhood #childhood #childhood memories #y2k #kid cuisine #childhood nostalgia #cute food

[vintage-tigre]

"Life is fucking good. I look at a map and decide where I want to go. I don't know what my job is, but I like it."

-Anthony Bourdain.

Photograph published in the Vancouver Sun, 2006

#anthony bourdain #old school cool #aesthetic #travel #adventure #food #cuisine #beach vibes #vintage #chef #traveler

[gemsofgreece]

A cover photo from the Greek culinary magazine “Γαστρονόμος” (=Gastronome). featuring old traditional recipes from rural Attica. The photo was taken by Michael Pappas. 

#greece #tradition #culture #traditional clothing #folk clothing #traditional dress #folk dress #historical fashion #arvanite clothing #food #pie #greek culture #greek cuisine #large

[flourspilt]

an afghan feast » what i ate growing up 🇦🇫 — BOLANI + CHUTNEY

#food #foodedit #food gifs #foodporn #userbbelcher #recipes #vegan #vegetarian #vegan recipes #vegetarian recipes #plant based #plant based recipes #afghan cuisine #afghan recipes #bolani #chutney #sadia badiel #pick up limes #mine #youtube #gifs