Family meals if you are from another country or culture!

[DawnInAutumn]

I am sure this has been done before or versions thereof, but I am interested in what a typical family meal is in other cultures.

I am from a British background but brought up abroad. We were strongly influenced by British food culture, but my grandmother's mother was Ukrainian and my father was obsessed with French culture so we also were brought up with blintzes and stuffed cabbage rolls and borscht; and coq au vin and crepes. I love those so much.

I'd be really interested in what was a typical family meal for you when growing up. I guess even what is your comfort go-to meal! My favourite comfort foods are;
-french onion soup
-creamy seafood crepes
-vareniki with potato and soured cream
-derunyi

Thanks!

More at my nonna in Italy's house then at home in England but most evenings were some kind of pastina/minestrone followed by a little bit of lots of different things e.g cheese/salame/bread/cucumber salad/carrot salad. If she had guests then there would always be a fruit crostata afterwards.

English, Austrian, Greek heritage here.

Goulash and Spaeztle
Spanakopita
Semolina cake with rose water

@Girasoli I love the idea of a raw vegetable salad starter. I have been trying to implement this for a while as standard. My older DS has food issues due to SEN but I feel a bit better if I can get a grated carrot and cucumber salad down him most days.

My mum was born and grew up in Germany. She was always interested in food and achieved a Cordon Bleu diploma when she was studying in Paris, so we grew up eating just about every European cuisine, some of which we liked and some we didn't

I am talking about the 1960s here BTW.

She used to shop in a Polish delicatessen as well as the supermarket, and we used to eat things like Polish sausage and sauerkraut, latkes, fresh ravioli, home made pizza, chicken Provencal, fish and chips, roast dinners, borscht (yuck), spinach Florentine (yuck), chicken in caper sauce, casseroles, shepherd's pie, different salads etc. She was also a fantastic baker and used to make a lot of cakes from her German recipe books.

She also made the odd Chinese meal and curry, but this was before it was easy to get all the ingredients to make them taste authentic, so they were very anglicised versions.

@DawnInAutumn we usually do it the other way around in Italy, something warm/carby/soupy first and then the salad and cheese bit after. I sometimes do the veg bit first though e.g. a bunch of cherry tomatoes while the dinner finishes cooking as DS1 tends to get 'hangry'

Chinese,

Congee when I'm sick
Noodles in anchovy stock

German here. I grew up with a meat & 2 yeg diet but we had roulades, schnitzel, goulash, bratwurst together with steamed or fried potatoes and vegetables.

We also had Eintopf, basically One-pot, where you cook for example curly kale with small cut potatoes and a smoked sausage or bacon. Swap the vegetable for carrots, green beans, peas. Fantastic winter food.

When I moved out I changed a lot of my cooking as I discovered Italien, Chinese, Thai, Indian food