December 18th - MeMe

[alexisjane]

18th Dec: majestic_duxk - what is your favourite non british main meal to eat?

Oooo, this is kinda hard, mostly as I'm trying to think what constitues a "British" meal. Apart from roast dinners and sandwiches, I'm not sure if anything is really that British...I guess stuff like haggis, jellied eels, laverbread or stargazy pie but really, that's not exactly on the standard British menu either. Mostly we are a nation composed of other cultures, it's just they've been around long enough that we've forgotten that.

So it's all pizza, pasta, curry, stirfry, burgers...stuff like that, none of which is really that British.

I guess for me though, I do like Japanese. Give me some gyoza, yakisoba, or something teriyaki or katsu curried and I'm happy : ) I can sushi and sashimi to a point, which is usually when the texture of raw fish suddenly reminds me I have raw dead flesh in my mouth and it doesn't matter how delicious it is I just can't. And I can't get down with the whole pickle thing they have going on either. But miso with smoked tofu is my comfort food and did I mention gyoza? Fried or steamed I can eat those little darlings until I explode!

Pretty much my main meal of all main meals is stirfry. Nothing fancy, just usually a red onion, red pepper, chicken breast, some peas and noodles all fried up with some soy sauce. I usually eat that 5 days out of 7 because easy and yum.

And omg I'm hungry now...

Comments

[meesasometimes.livejournal.com]

I only recognize about 6 words in this whole post. It is clear I'm American, and we don't eat things like stargazy pie, no no no we don't, I wiki'd it, no, no, I might have nightmares tonight. It reminds me of Beatrix Potter where the rats steal the kittens and roll them up in dough. Perhaps stargazy pie is Beatrix's muse. omg.

[saltandburnboys.livejournal.com]

Toad in the hole, cottage pie, beef hotpot, chicken pot pie, steak and kidney pudding... ;-) Great answer though; you're very adventurous. I don't know what half those things are! Hehe!

xx

[debauchedsock.livejournal.com]

I want japanese food so bad now! I haven't had it at all since I got here, but I used to have it at least once every two weeks back home! Where do you get the good stuff??

[casey28.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, Japanese food. I'm vegetarian, so miso with smoked tofu sounds delicious. :) Stirfry is always yummy.

[majestic-duxk.livejournal.com]

I'm all japanese fooded out at the moment. I am sure I will recover, but yeah... (although, gyoza!)

I hear you!

Aus cuisine is the same - there is not a lot that is truly 'australian' (well, there are bush foods, and traditional aboriginal things, but I guess I am talking from a white settler point of view). And then, because we so multinational, we eat pretty much everything. but I guess it is a 'fusion' thing.

yeah.

anyway! great answer :)

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Stargazy pie, wow that IS a blast from the past!!! I think I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, third time to say sorry for the mess the first go round ;) xx