What are your favorite foods and/or drinks?

[JarlWolf]

So what is "ishavstorsk "?   

Shaved stork?

That almost sounds lewd. 


As for the gender discussion... in my country, and when I was growing up, women had to be as competent as men/vice versa. I can say, that whatever nonsense that did happen in my former nation, massive gender inequality was not one of them. And trust me, I'd know. My first wife was actually an American. (It's a long story on how a Soviet military engineering student on a year long exchange trip to New York meets a beautiful, fiesty woman, and the loads of paperwork and signed invitation permits that followed    - And no she wasn't a New Yorker. That's enough about that though...)


Needless to say I know both sides of the fence...


As for cooking, I can cook beans and breakfeast, and burn my nerves on booze and cook- enough to feed myself and not give me a heart attack. Does that count? 

Edit: Though I can cook a mean stew, and know a few tricks with curry and a few other spices I've picked up along the road... wouldn't call myself an expert cook though.

[Zoid]

It's cod from the Arctic Sea. Google Translate is easily confused

[Zoid]

Another favourite, wallenbergare. Beef patty of veal made with plenty of cream and a couple of egg yokes. Served with green peas, a fluffy potato puree, brown butter (original recipe calls for just clarified butter but I like the brown butter, gives it that extra oomph) and lingonberries. This is heaven on a plate.

[Zoid]

Worth noting is that allthough this is a good representation of a classical dish the plating sucks. The puree is creeping up on the rim of the plate (which is a big no-no in my book) and the lingonberries should be served à part...

[ariete]

mmm how many delicaces in list.
i eat meat just 1 or 2 times in a week, i'm quite vegetarian but not for policy, just because i love me.
mainly i feed off of plants (in all ways).
through you, i've discovered the waffles, but i must find them, i never noticed.

@Valka try this (maybe Barilla is easy to find and the quality is high, but attention how cooking)


Peel the broccoli, remove the leaves and flowers divide into florets.
Wash them and then boil them for a few minutes in boiling salted water.
In a pan, heat two tablespoons of olive oil, sauté the garlic and chilli and then insaporitevi florets.
Meanwhile, boil salted water and the orecchiette.
Drain them and flavor them in the pan of broccoli.
Stir and passed it on the plate.
Serve with grated Parmesan cheese separately.
A variation is to boil the orecchiette with broccoli, drain thoroughly and then season it with oil and grated parmesan cheese.

[Dio]

Salted brackish veal tongue . If it is salted, then why soak it in a salty fluid? I hear whispered excessive salt intake. Also do veal tongues taste like cow tongues? I have had cow tongue but never veal tongue.

[Valka]

@Valka try this (maybe Barilla is easy to find and the quality is high, but attention how cooking)


Peel the broccoli, remove the leaves and flowers divide into florets.
Wash them and then boil them for a few minutes in boiling salted water.
In a pan, heat two tablespoons of olive oil, sauté the garlic and chilli and then insaporitevi florets.
Meanwhile, boil salted water and the orecchiette.
Drain them and flavor them in the pan of broccoli.
Stir and passed it on the plate.
Serve with grated Parmesan cheese separately.
A variation is to boil the orecchiette with broccoli, drain thoroughly and then season it with oil and grated parmesan cheese.

That looks wonderful!

[Geo]

(It's a long story on how a Soviet military engineering student on a year long exchange trip to New York meets a beautiful, fiesty woman, and the loads of paperwork and signed invitation permits that followed    - And no she wasn't a New Yorker. That's enough about that though...)

Now I'm starting to wonder if half the Red Army was married to foreign spouses. 15 years ago I had a new neighbour, a former Red Army captain. He met and married a French woman, and was allowed to leave the Soviet Union (appearantly with a stern warning) to live with her. His marriage went awry later on and he wound up as my neighbour until the day he died from his alcohol addiction (yes, I lived for two days next to a dead body ).

[Zoid]

Salted brackish veal tongue . If it is salted, then why soak it in a salty fluid? I hear whispered excessive salt intake. Also do veal tongues taste like cow tongues? I have had cow tongue but never veal tongue.

Again Google Translate. The swedish word "bräcka" when used for food means to fry something quickly in a hot pan without fat...

[JarlWolf]

Eh, were all men of the world. And the Red Army was and still is seen as a romantic bunch by many people. My marriage mind was happy and did not go awry, its just my lovely half got claimed by a horrible horrible sickness and didn't survive it.

My wife lived with me mind, I didn't go move to America. Plus, she wanted to leave the States anyways... there was a few things in her background, family mostly, that would haunt her and make her life problematic if she stayed.

So in a way, I literally liberated a damsel in distress 

 

Yeah, were romantics, just I got lucky and wasn't a hopeless one 

What was this man's name/branch, if you know?

[Geo]

What was this man's name/branch, if you know?

Victor/Viktor is all I remember for sure. And he probably served in the infantry. At least, I remember a story about how he and a comrade broke their ski's (on purpose) during a winter excercise to avoid it, and going drunk on the way back to base. I *think* he was from Belarus, but I'm not totally sure.

[JarlWolf]

He sounds like a reserveman, from the sound of that or on some pissant checkpoint or border posting...

Can't be sure though.

[Rusty Edge]

. Also do veal tongues taste like cow tongues? I have had cow tongue but never veal tongue.

Me either. My guess is that it tastes the same ( unless it's lower in iron content ), but it's more tender.

[Dio]

My favorite dessert has to be pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie.

[Valka]

My favorite dessert has to be pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie.