In 2018, Sweden's official national Twitter account claimed that Swedish meatballs are based on a Turkish recipe[10] and King Charles XII used food as a way to help boost the relationships between the two countries.[11] However, a food and culture expert at Stockholm University claimed that there was no evidence behind this and that the meatballs likely originated in France or Italy instead.
They've got a decent amount of nutmeg in them actually if you're making them right. Onion too. I like kofta better but Swedish meatballs are one of the few Swedish dishes I don't feel compelled to shit on
I think growing up my family's recipe for them was just like meat, salt, pepper, onions (but not enough), and breadcrumbs. Admittedly it was probably one of the best dishes they would make, up there with saffron rolls, but in retrospect it was just like bland kofta. I will say that the swedish dishes they'd make tended to be better than the generic American ones they'd do, which were inevitably mediocre to start with and then also cooked wrong without any attempt to fix or refine them.
Ugh. American food. Mushy casseroles, inedible, brick like meatloaf, badly cooked chicken, burnt, cracker-dry grilled hamburgers, potato salads in which the key ingredient is salmonella, deviled eggs with just enough flavorless paprika to turn them reddish, dry, fiberous turkey stuffed with mushy bread, and god awful desserts that combine like three different kinds of mushy sugar.
Yeah. A lot of underseasoned and overcooked meat too. Some of it's even stuff that can be good when prepared properly (like burgers can be great when seasoned and shaped properly so they're not just a bulging blob of charred unseasoned meat), but it seems like most people just fundamentally lack the ability to learn and improve upon recipes and instead just sort of throw food vaguely in the direction of heat and eat whatever comes of it.
So it's not surprising that dishes my family grew up eating and learned organically from their culture were consistently better than like recipes clipped from a magazine or half remembered from watching a cooking show.
You'd be hard pressed to get mainland Chinese food in the states outside of some cities. Had real dim sum once, but I was a culinary coward at the time, so I didn't really experience most of what was on offer.
I've got some great Sichuanese options in my area which really stand out from your standard takeout places that serve the same Chow Mein and Fried Rice dishes. The Mapo tofu is so perfectly crisp and mouth-numbing. Also have a Hui muslim restaurant a bit further away which serves massive sesame and scallion bread which comes out on a 3 foot diameter plate. So delicious
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Ikea food court serving Turkish meatballs
That's weird, since swedish meatballs are basically just kofta without the spices.
Similar dishes can be invented in multiple places at once.
Dumplings, for example.
:kombucha-disgust: but also :lmayo:
They've got a decent amount of nutmeg in them actually if you're making them right. Onion too. I like kofta better but Swedish meatballs are one of the few Swedish dishes I don't feel compelled to shit on
I think growing up my family's recipe for them was just like meat, salt, pepper, onions (but not enough), and breadcrumbs. Admittedly it was probably one of the best dishes they would make, up there with saffron rolls, but in retrospect it was just like bland kofta. I will say that the swedish dishes they'd make tended to be better than the generic American ones they'd do, which were inevitably mediocre to start with and then also cooked wrong without any attempt to fix or refine them.
Ugh. American food. Mushy casseroles, inedible, brick like meatloaf, badly cooked chicken, burnt, cracker-dry grilled hamburgers, potato salads in which the key ingredient is salmonella, deviled eggs with just enough flavorless paprika to turn them reddish, dry, fiberous turkey stuffed with mushy bread, and god awful desserts that combine like three different kinds of mushy sugar.
Yeah. A lot of underseasoned and overcooked meat too. Some of it's even stuff that can be good when prepared properly (like burgers can be great when seasoned and shaped properly so they're not just a bulging blob of charred unseasoned meat), but it seems like most people just fundamentally lack the ability to learn and improve upon recipes and instead just sort of throw food vaguely in the direction of heat and eat whatever comes of it.
So it's not surprising that dishes my family grew up eating and learned organically from their culture were consistently better than like recipes clipped from a magazine or half remembered from watching a cooking show.
You'd be hard pressed to get mainland Chinese food in the states outside of some cities. Had real dim sum once, but I was a culinary coward at the time, so I didn't really experience most of what was on offer.
Eat the chicken feet
:xi-gun:
This is not a request
One of the best dishes by far
I've got some great Sichuanese options in my area which really stand out from your standard takeout places that serve the same Chow Mein and Fried Rice dishes. The Mapo tofu is so perfectly crisp and mouth-numbing. Also have a Hui muslim restaurant a bit further away which serves massive sesame and scallion bread which comes out on a 3 foot diameter plate. So delicious
Gonna me honest basic bitch takeout veggie fried rice is one of my favorite comfort dishes.
I fucking love all Asian foods. Hook me up with some natto, kimchi, mochi, fried rice or nan bread any day.
I mean, Asia is a bunch of very different countries, there's no way someone couldn't find food that they like.
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Indo-Chinese is one my favorite cuisines in the world!
those are pretty good