Cooking an American meal in Italy
I'd love to get some advice! I'm currently couch surfing in Padova, near Venice, in Italy. I'd like to make my couchsurfing hosts a typical American meal with the ingredients that I can find in Italy.
Any ideas?
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6 Comments:
Colossal Burgers with blue cheese and crumbled bacon on sublimely wonderful rolls. (You might be able to find Stilton, if not Maytag blue which would be my first choice of an American brand of blue cheese.)
French fries, though French in name and Belgian in origin (per an old cooking teacher of mine) have become an American symbol. If you can do them perfectly, they'd fit this menu. Salt at will! :D (Make some ketchup if you can - here's one from Martha Stewart's website.)
Green beans, steamed, then sauteed in a bit of bacon and its drippings. (Resist the temptation to use pancetta which would be wonderful but it would defeat your purpose.)
Do a biscuit Strawberry shortcake. American as apple pie. (And yes, I see the irony of that statement...LOL.)
Have fun! Make us proud.
therealchiffonade at 6:33AM on 04/17/09
Yes apple pie, at least for dessert.
Buffalo wings.
Fried chicken (southern style)
Grits (no polenta)
Make a good old fashioned Thanksgiving feast.
Better yet make a Barbeque.
Chilli
pjracz10 at 7:51AM on 04/17/09
meatloaf, mashed potatoes & gravy..... apple pie, or angel food cake.
pooch at 7:54AM on 04/17/09
This is no time for health,
Chicken fried steak with pepper gravy and mashed potatoes
I don't know if you can get good greens, but maybe some collards braised in stock seasoned with a pig foot
chili pinto beans
I concur with the apple pie
nowonder at 9:10AM on 04/17/09
i am living in argentina right now and last month i made my friends (i'm surfing their couch) a complete thanksgiving dinner. it took about 4 phone calls to track down the turkey but everything else was at the central market.
coolname at 11:31AM on 04/17/09
Chocolate Chip Cookies!!! Soft, chewy cookies pretty much don't exist there, beleive me, they will be blown away by homemade ones. I think this is even better (if less iconic) than apple pie because pies and fruit tarts are pretty common (although not neccessarily the same.)
Embackus at 2:11PM on 04/17/09