/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5929178
Falafel.

>>5929207
Shit, I love falafel. I've tried making it at home a ton of times but I can never get the chickpea's consistency right.

>>5929215
I use a fork to mash. Using the fork helps prevent over-mashing.

>>5929227
Do you buy them as whole beans or what? I usually soak them overnight but a fork made them too chunky and my blender made them to pasty. Maybe I just need to mash for longer with a fork.

>>5929178
I love paella and grilled, fresh sardines. I miss those more than anything else from my time in Spain.

>>5929235
I buy them whole and canned. Mashing with a fork is a bitch because it takes forever, but I couldn't figure out a way with the blender that wasn't overkill. I'm sure some people have a better technique, but that's what worked for me.

>>5929178
>>5929207
Man both are so great.
Anyway my favorite would be sashimi, especially tuna

>>5929178
What kind of nuts do you use in yours? I've only made baklava 3 times in my life. Mexican here.

I've never had good baklava.

>>5929555
It's usually a mix, but walnuts seem to be the most prominent.

I've seen some stores have them with pistachio. Green baklava, it just looks unsettling.

>>5929178
Now I want baklava but there's no where around here to get it. Too lazy to make it myself today.

Fried bacon with fried eggs and "biscuits."

>>5929178

>Eating headgear.

>>5929674
>baklava
>balaclava

>>5929674
thats a balaclava you fucking moron.

>>5929680
>>5929686
>falling for obvious troll

>>5929704
>posting such an obvious troll people think you're serious

>>5929704
>I was just pretending, guys

>>5929215
>falafel
>chickpeas
Nope. That's how the Israeli Jews make them. The name means "made with a metric fucktonne of fava beans" in old Durkadurka language. It's Christian Arab food and it's made with fava beans. It's pretty delicious.

>>5929178
A single type of food? nigiri sushi

A single dish? tom yum goong soup made extra thai hot [with straw mushrooms not the regular white ones you'll see in 4/5 thai places in the US]

>>5929555
6oz of walnuts, 6oz of blanched almonds and 6oz of pistachios.

>>5929178
I just watched the baklava episode of good eats.

this shit is fire

>>5929178
>favorite foreign food
>everything is foreign food to an american

>>5929247
>I'm sure some people have a better technique
You need one of these.

>>5930609
Reminds me of a Greek spinach pie

>>5930616
No just anything that hasn't been incorporated into our national palate.

Don't worry, eventually we'll popularize something from your shitty country to the point that we make a better version of it. You can then bitch about how our better version is inauthentic.

>>5929235

If you have a stand mixer soaking them and then putting them through the grinder attachment twice makes them just right. Otherwise I've seen them made in a food processor with good looking results.

>>5929617

Homemade is pretty much the only way to go. Store bought is fucking pig disgusting dripping with sugar syrup.

>>5929555
Pistchios is the original.
Almonds work well too.

you're supposed to use soaked but uncooked chickpeas for falafel (actually fava like >>5929717 says)

using canned and cooked chickpeas is why you have to worry about overmashing.

I went to america at 16 to go to school there. I love these things. I wish we had them in Greece

>>5931180

Oh, man. Greek food is the worst.
Ever.

>>5931181
Its pretty simple but the spices make it pretty tasty. Although other countries have better food Greece has some healthier stuff.

>>5931185

>chicken
>dry
>fish
>dry
>olives and shit

Meh.
The ingredients are fine.
The preparation is not.
Worst cuisine in the world, bar none.

>>5931102
Americans truly are the worst sort of person.

>>5931185
yah fuck you

>>5929178
French fries.

>>5931190
>greek food is bad

I had no idea there were people who thought this way. Please think of the future of our species and remove yourself from the gene pool.

>>5932630

He's right. I think it was a Terry Pratchett book where he said greek food is simple - put it in a bucket and if it crawls out, serve it lukewarm as food. If it stays in the bucket, make wine from it.

Greek food is like Turkish food if you made it from a recipe book translated from chinese.

Moussaka's kind of nice, but that's it.

>>5929178
>Ruins Baklava with cinamon and orange.
White people not even once.

>>5932667
That just.. isn't really based on any truth. You could say that about any kind of food you don't like. Sounds more like a criticism of restaurant practices honestly.

>>5932716

Greek food is bollocks.