Swedish Fish...ta da...

http://www.originalswedishfish.com/ - for those of you underage...LOL

I've never tried this, as I stopped drinking alcohol a few years back. It sounds tasty, though...

http://www.floras-hideout.com/drrecipes/recipes.php?page=drrecipes&data=q-z/Swedish_Fish - for those of you legal to drink alcohol...LOL

I have no idea what that is. Looks like a jelly-type thing. Probably for US residents?

Hmmm...I'm sure they have them all over, but they're fairly popular in the US. They're basically gummy, jelly type candy. I figured I'd start out with something I mentioned in the "annoying question" thread that all of a sudden turned to alcohol/candy discussions!!!

What's a good Greek recipe? We have pretty many "greek" restuarants here in the US, but I figure that they're not all that authentic. Lots of spinach pie, gyro meat in pita, etc. I'm sure Greek nationals would have a field day with it. It may be a case of people thinking "chop suey" is actual Chinese food (it isn't...totally American).

I want to learn how to make tzatsiki :D

I love real salads with avocados and red beans and all kinds of yummy things in it ^^

Hehe, tzatziki is the recipe I wanted to post, I'll probably post it in the morning though cause it's almost 5am here at the moment and I'll probably get it all mixed up. And maybe find another one to add. If anyone wants any Greek recipes, tell me and I'll try to post them.

We have spinach pie and gyros on pita (very popular junk food here) but I don't know how they make them there, many times restaurants that say they cook one kind of food either make it way different than it's usually made in that country, or have food that's not from that country at all.

I like cooked chicken and cooked vegetables. Stuffed tomatoes with rice, yum.

What's the Scandinavian cuisine like, Hakusa?

Oh, I don't know about the other countries but norway, where i come from, have ....special.. food.
It's mainly weird fish or sheep-dishes. Or potatos. It's a reason why norwegian food isn't famous! But there's always lompe and lefse and smalahove.. The first ones are potato pankakey things, lefse is sweet and lompe we use instead of the bred around hot dogs. Smalahove on the other hand is gross. It's the whole sheep head. Personally never tasted it, and hopefully never will.

Ooh I have so many good recipes. We make a lot of bread in our house. Being Irish, my favourite is wheaten bread, though the recipe I have for Soda is disgusting or maybe it's my technique.

I also have some good cheesecake and coffee cake recipes and I do a great veggie burrito!

Battlesheep, I would love it if you would post some Greek recipes, especially if you have any without red meat. I love Greek food.

Ooh! Coffie cake!

Yum I love homemade bread! What do you mean Soda recipe, though? If you have any nice bread recipes I'd love to try them.

And any recipes of cheesecake (my boyfriend loves cheesecake, he is currently drooling all over my keyboard hehe ), coffee cake and veggie burritos, are more than welcome.

And here's a tzatziki recipe. It's a sort of sauce/salad that is mainly eaten with meat or just bread or chips(fries) or oven potates or pretty much whatever you like :)

Ingredients:
2 cloves of garlic (or more)
about half a kilo (500gr) of yoghurt (preferably strained and full fat)
1 medium size cucumber
2 table-spoons olive oil
1 table-spoon vinegar
salt
pepper

Preparation:
Put the yoghurt in a bowl.
Fine-chop or grate the cloves of garlic and put them in the yoghurt.
Peel the cucumber and grate it all down. Be careful to drain the cucumber after the grating as it can water down the tzatziki. Grab small handfuls and squeeze it tightly and drain as much of the water as possible. Put thedrained parts in the bowl. Repeat the process until all the cucumber is drained.
Add the olive oil and vinegar to the mix.
Add salt and pepper and stir the contents of the bowl very well until everything is evenly mixed.

On a sidenote, tzatziki is a much more personal experience. Each individual makes it differently. Add more garlic if you want a stronger flavour. Or pepper or salt or vinegar or even cucumber depending on how strong or weak you want it.

I think I'm going to post a stuffed vine leaves (aka dolmadakia) recipe next.

Oooh, yum...I'd never heard of this called by its proper name. Here in Wisconsin, the Greek places call it cucumber sauce. They put it on the gyro sandwiches we used to get after bar close (good drunk food, ha!) and we'd also eat it with fries (chips). Drool indeed.

Guess I'll keep it going with a Poor Man's Margarita.

First get out the blender! Add to it a can of frozen concentrated limeade or lemonade and your choice of alcohol (which is optional) or water. Rum or vodka or tequila are suitable, though of course you'd use tequila for more of margarita taste.

You'll need about a can's worth of liquid. Add the alcohol (if using) first, then add about one 1/2 ice tray's worth of ice (8 large cubes). Blend until smooth. Add some more water and continue to blend. Keep adding more ice and water until you have a drink with the consistency of a slushie. If desired, serve in margarita glasses with salted rims.

I always make these without alcohol, which is just as good. It can also alternatively be made with juices for a special frozen treat. Concentrate works best since there is more sugar and you can control the liquidity.

I use a large blender (Osterizer) and the concoction fills the blender's pitcher. Makes approximately 6 drinks!

Battlesheep wrote:

And here's a tzatziki recipe. It's a sort of sauce/salad that is mainly eaten with meat or just bread or chips(fries) or oven potates or pretty much whatever you like :)

Ingredients:
2 cloves of garlic (or more)
about half a kilo (500gr) of yoghurt (preferably strained and full fat)
1 medium size cucumber
2 table-spoons olive oil
1 table-spoon vinegar
salt
pepper

Preparation:
Put the yoghurt in a bowl.
Fine-chop or grate the cloves of garlic and put them in the yoghurt.
Peel the cucumber and grate it all down. Be careful to drain the cucumber after the grating as it can water down the tzatziki. Grab small handfuls and squeeze it tightly and drain as much of the water as possible. Put thedrained parts in the bowl. Repeat the process until all the cucumber is drained.
Add the olive oil and vinegar to the mix.
Add salt and pepper and stir the contents of the bowl very well until everything is evenly mixed.

On a sidenote, tzatziki is a much more personal experience. Each individual makes it differently. Add more garlic if you want a stronger flavour. Or pepper or salt or vinegar or even cucumber depending on how strong or weak you want it.

I think I'm going to post a stuffed vine leaves (aka dolmadakia) recipe next.