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World Cup Cuisine – USA Burgers and Pecan Pie
So, onto the USA, which is of course well known for burgers, amongst other things. As it was such a lovely day, we continued the barbecue theme. My sister and her husband came round to visit and brought my little niece along, who ran around a lot and tired everyone out, but it was a […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – Brazilian “Churrasco” Barbecue
This is a traditional style of barbecue which originated from the gauchos (i.e. cowboys) in southern Brazil – meat on long skewers cooked over a barbecue pit and then sliced off with a knife. Not having a barbecue pit close at hand, we made do with a normal barbecue. Also not having a really long […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – Cameroonian Ndole (Bitterleaf Soup), Yam Fufu and Plantains
I have been planning this one for a while, probably ever since last weekend when I decided that we needed to cook another African dish. As it turns out, Ghana have made it through to the next round, but we have already cooked a Ghanaian dish so thought we would try Cameroon now and maybe […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – English Fish and Chips
That was a close one! England scraped though into the next round with a 1-0 win over Slovenia today. We were initially keeping something English to cook for later in the competition given that neither of us were going to be in this evening, but that started looking overly optimistic and as it turned out […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – Danish Breaded Fish Sandwich
After being out for a couple of nights, we got back into doing our world cup food this evening and chose Denmark. The Danish national dish is meatballs (called frikkadeller) but various types of open sandwiches on rye bread are also popular. Having a look at the Wikipedia page about Danish food, I noticed that […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – Honduran Pupusas
So, day six of our World Cup Cuisine series and our first loss: none of the teams that we have chosen so far have lost their games, but when choosing Honduras we figured that that roll was likely to end anyway. I only had a vague inkling where Honduras was before I looked it up, […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – Japanese Clams and Spring Onions with Miso and Mustard Sauce
Day four in our World Cup Cuisine escapade and we are already a quarter of the way through our target of cooking the food of half the countries! Today we went for Japan, and chose a recipe that at first glance looked a little like a Japanese version of moules mariniere, but turned out quite […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – Ghanaian Nkrakra
Ghanaian food is something that we have been planning to try for a while but somehow have never got around to it. One thing in particular that we were keen to try was a peanut soup. But when searching for something to cook for today as Ghana was playing we found Nkrakra, which is a […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – Argentinian Steak with Chimichurri Sauce
When thinking of what to cook for Argentina, we automatically thought of this dish. Having cooked it before though, we felt that maybe we should be a little more creative and try something else, but we remembered it having been particularly tasty and were keen to eat it again. As it turned out, we were […]
Read More..>>World Cup Cuisine – South African Milk Tart
Kerri and I came up with a rather ambitious plan for the World Cup – to try to cook the food of the participants on the day that they were playing. We figured that we could probably get through roughly half of the countries involved, which is probably a bit over-ambitious but something to aim […]
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