peopel abroad - what is the " roast dinner" equivalent in your country

[Flobberghasted]

am reading a mag about spain( free wiht times) and it's talking about hwo every spanidards fave dish is their Mum's tortilla( the one with potatoes.)
i would have thought it was paella( dumskull brit emoticon)
now i knwo food is a lto mreo regional in other coutnries btu waht is the dish that everyone likes their mum'e version of best?

Yam seems to be the food of choice here. Nigerians love meat, the tougher the better. > Anything that has breathed counts as meat, yuk!!

ooh yes i was taught how to make a great tortilla by a spanish lady

yum

am trying to think what it might be in france

when i lived there i ate loads of cous cous and merguez-frites

but i don't think that's quite right

In Australia Pavlova is HUGE as well as Lamingtons.

I think they do have roasts, but not like British ones - no roast parsnips and no focus on fluffy inside crispy outside potatoes [holy grail] more a hotchpotch of roasted winter veg. And no mint sauce [horrors] or stuffing or yorkshires.

Our local BIG Woolies (think Sainsburys) sells frozen yorkshires from the real Yorkshire and has lots of recipe ideas for the Aussies such as 'Yorkshires with Rasperries' and 'Yorkshires with Mango. [Speechless with horror]. Seeing the way our Yorkshires are mangled it makes me wonder what on earth we're doing with the international food we get in the UK.

Oooohhh!!!! I didn't know you could get frozen yourkshire puds here. I will have to get down to Safeway and have a look.

My DH will be pleased as I am shite at making them. They will only ever be served with roast dinner and gravy in this house!!!!

I am also rubbish at cooking them (although I think it's easier in the UK, I blame the climate).

I was so pleased when I found some last year. They're not in my local Woolies but in our 'Big' one in the pudding section of the freezer (hence Yorkshires with mango [eeewww]).

I cook them for DD with sausages cut up and put into them as 'Toad in the Hole' with mash and gravy.

[salivates]

pavlova is fab

damper cooked in campfire is fab too.

however we do roasts as well.

In our house arfishy stuffing and home made mint sause was the go - think that was my mum's welsh grandmother's influence for proper roasts.

oh yeh - lamingtons.

in fact my mother still insists on doing roast dinner for christmas lunch - we are slowly winning her over to cold meats, seafood and salads.

Souvla, yummy!

i know aussies like their lamb roasts (thanks tom cruise), but maybe a 'surf and turf' bbq is the equiv to an english roast dinner?

I'm afraid I will never, ever be able not to have a full roast dinner on Christmas Day. I don't care if it's 40', after 37 years it would be wrong. Ditto the champagne breakfast [although seeing as that takes away the pain of the 5am start I would say that's practically compulsory].

I have to agree with the whole pavlova thing.

Absolutely agree with mint sauce and stuffing Eids. When we do MEGA roasts we do the meat, loads of roasties, roast parsnips, cauliflower cheese, carrots in honey, peas, brussels sprouts, stuffing, yorkshires and mint sauce/cranberry.

My flemish mother in law makes delicious Blinde vinken - veal meat battered into a roll with a wine sauce. Served with deep fried croquettes. Typical belgian vegetables are: red cabbage, chicory, asparagus.

Another typical belgian dish is gentse waterzooi - 'Gent stew' - chicken in a white wine and terragon sauce. That can also be very delicous.

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kfc is big here in NZ - or it could be just a south auckland delicacy before the rest of NZ jumps on me

apart from that it seems to be Pavolova -apparantly the kiwi's invented it and the Aussies stole it

dh is the roast chef in our house. He gets it just right - very tender moist roast.

arfishy - used to just have light breakfast for christmas. Since being with dh - we have moved to champagne breakfast with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. We are usually full however from my aunt's fabulous christmas eve dinner.

dh does as many veges as he can and unfortunately no home made mint sauce - that is for mil to make for him.

in fact we are having roast chicken for dinner tonight. I just hope ( as it is dh's birthday) i get it right.

I don't know what the equivalent is here - it varies from region to region and seasonally too. So now, everyone BBQs everything. Thankgiving dinner is the most similar to a sunday roast though.

And Mac & Cheese (from a box) seems to be a staple

OK, in Japan, the dish everyone likes their mum's version of best, is niku-jaga, which literally means "meat and pototoes". Not very Japanese, is it?! Its like a hot-pot, with either sliced beef/pork, onions, and potatoes, simmered slowly in soy sauce. It is comfort food, I guess. I am a whiz at it now! On special occasions, you order sushi - sushi is not really something you make at home.

THE meal here is lamb on a spit

THE meal here in NW Spain is probably either a 'cocido gallego' - lots of different types of meat, stewed with cabbage and chickpeas, or some fish, eg. merluza a la gallega - hake with an oil and paprika sauce.

But as a few people have pointed out above, Spanish food is very regional. Paella is typical of Valencia.

I think EVERYONE makes a good tortilla though!

ah where are you chica? i spent a happy summer near llanes in asturias when i was 17

oooh Califrau I should move where you are RIBS are my favourite - hard to find good ones

Ribs are big in ChiTown too - one of my local restaurants is called Ribs 'n' Bibs

Mmmm Califrau, I love ribs.
Can someone tell me what Lamingtons are?
I heard them mentioned on Home and Away (waaaaaay back when I used to watch it) but never knew what they were.

I'm in france and it would be couscous in our house, if it weren't for the fact that my couscous isn't as nice as MIL's. Every time I try to make it, me & Dh have a conversation that starts "polite but strained" and quickly escalates to "everything that is wrong with scousers cooking," and usually ends with "why dont you move back to MILs"...

Tutter, wasn't couscous voted France's favourite dish a few years ago?