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The flat iron steak is cut from the beef shoulder, more precisely the shoulder blade. Until a few years ago, that ended up in soup meat at best. In recent years people have realized what a great cut that makes for a beef roast. The piece contains a tendon in the middle, which turns into a kind of jelly after prolonged stewing and makes it so juicy. Our American friends found out a long time ago that if you remove this tendon, it is...
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Japanese food is actually a no-go for me. I'm a big fan of East Asian food, but Japan really isn't my thing because it's too lush with spices. However, I noticed two dishes that stand out from normal Japanese food due to their heavy use of sugar and soy sauce. These are the Yakitori skewers made from chicken and the pork belly, which probably originally comes from China.
I summed it up as a menu, there were yakitori skewers, kakuni,...
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Like so many things, this pork belly seems to have spilled over from China to Japan. With its overpopulation and the few areas that can be used for agriculture, Japan is of course not suitable for pig farming there. As I've seen the days, they don't even have enough space for rice, the staple food. Interestingly, it is imported from Italy, the only European country that produces surplus short-grain rice. So both rice and pork are...
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Although originally from Japan, Japanese chicken skewers have become popular as street food throughout East Asia. If the cook is reasonably clean and doesn't smear the handles of the skewers with teriyaki sauce, they're easy to eat by hand. In the other case, you definitely need the opportunity to wash your hands, the sauce sticks to your hands worse than honey and sugar syrup together.
It doesn't really matter whether you put the...
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I included the cucumber salad in my Japanese rice table, but it's not really Japanese. Rather, it is played with Asian flavors. Sake and Japanese soy sauce come from Japan. But then a curry paste from Thailand comes into play. Nevertheless, the salad was a good source of vitamins for the Japanese menu.
Normally there is cilandro in the salad, I simply forgot to buy it. 2 servings Ingredients:
250 g mini cucumbers, cut into large...
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Fritto misto is found not only in Italy but around the whole Mediterranean sea with various modifications. Of course, in Turkey, the near-East and North Africa no beer is used in the batter but I think with sparkling water you will achieve a similar effect.
One theory says that the Portuguese took the recipe to Japan, where it, adapted to the country, is known as Tempura.
There are in Italy the Fritto misto di verdura with pre-cooked...
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Ropa vieja is known as the national dish of Cuba. It is a dish made with beef, peppers, tomatoes and onions. However, the recipe does not come from Cuba, but is a Sephardic dish (Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula, who settled mainly in the Ottoman Empire, but also in Northern Europe and America) and may have originated in the late Middle Ages. The main vegetable is the chickpea, which is still used in Spain. In Cuba, the...