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?

[Sibble]

lol Alexa808. My in laws have mussels with everything including fried breakfasts.

[Alexa808]

Would like to add that here in Asia I've come across some of the grossest, most disgusting and simply shocking twisted perversions of great European dishes:

• doughnuts filled with durian (stinky fruit)
• gnocci cooked to 'perfection' until it all blends together with a ketchup like sauce due to overcooking
• English breakfast with grilled abalone (shells)
• traditional German stew with a pig's trotters in it
• over-use of herbs such as thyme, oregano, etc until you gag
• french onion soup with vegetables in it and a layer of cheese on it (unbaked and straight out of a plastic wrapper)
• hot porridge with sugar + cinnamon and a bird's nest in it

All the local cakes and cookies here are so sweet you could get holes in your teeth from just looking at them.

and so forth...

[Alexa808]

My German Mum makes the most delightful 'Braten' (roast) with cooked potatoes, dark brown sauce, peas and carrots or red cabbage and fresh mixed salad. It's middle to northern German fare.

The south just loves anything with bread and flour (Kloesse, noodles, etc)

Oh, I'm hungry and homesick now...

[eidsvold]

yes - love lamingtons - so does dh!

[superloopy]

Ahhh I was just a bit too slow....

[superloopy]

Lamingtons are squares of sponge cake dipped in chocolate icing (quite a thin runny icing) and then rolled in desicated (sp?) coconut. You can also cut them and filled them with whipped cream too. YUMMO!!

You can also make jelly cakes which are very similar but instead of dipping the cakes in chocolate icing, you quickly dip them in unset jelly then coconut. M-m-m-mmmmm!!!!!

[sandcastles]

Lamingtons

[sandcastles]

Blerh at Yorkshires with mango...!

I am off to hunt down said puddings....they come out crap in the sandy household too...unless dh makes them & that happens often.....NOT!

We can get Paxo at the local English deli, so am with that!

[UnderRated]

I wouldn't argue with a Texan about BBQ either

[olyoly]

I'm in Texas, and they love BBQ here. I sometimes wonder if a civil war will break out b/c states argue over who has the best bbq. If you happen out this way, I think Memphis style is the best, but don't tell my fellow Texans.
ilovemydog- I can't live without Mexican! We make it all the time in our house.

[ilovemydog]

califrau, am from california and would say that MEXICAN is the roast dinner equivalent?

Can't get a decent taco here in England

[Kindersurprise]

We are in Germany. I would say "Gemischte Braten mit Klöse" mixed roasts with potato dumplings (pork and beef), I suspect that this is a regional dish particular to South Germany where MIL is from.

Each area has it's own specialities, from Thuringer Bratwurst to Himmel und Äärd mit Blutwurst(mashed potato and apple served with black pudding) from Cologne.

[vacaloca]

I read that article about tortillas too and although I was under the impression that I made the best one in the world my method is quite different from the one in that article. It's probably true that everyone's got their own recipe for them.

Tutter - I was in Llanes just two weeks ago.

[scouserabroad]

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?

[LyraSilvertongue]

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.

[UnderRated]

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

[Sibble]

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

[Tutter]

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

[ChicaLovesBranstonPickle]

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!

[WelliesAndPyjamas]

THE meal here is lamb on a spit

[sakurarose39]

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.

[UnderRated]

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

[eidsvold]

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.