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Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice (shari) combined with other ingredients (neta), usually raw fish or other seafood. Neta and forms of sushi presentation vary, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is vinegared rice calledsushi-meshi. Raw meat sliced and served by itself is sashimi.
The common ingredient across all kinds of sushi...
Sushi is a Japanese dish of prepared vinegared rice (鮨飯,sushi-meshi), usually with some sugar and salt, accompanying a variety of ingredients (ネタ,neta), such as seafood, vegetables, and occasionally tropical fruits. Styles of sushi and its presentation vary widely, but the one key ingredient is "sushi rice", also referred to asshari(しゃり), orsumeshi(酢飯).
Sushi is tradi...
Svíčková, or svíčková na smetaně is a Czech meat dish and one of the most popular Czech meals. It is sirloin steak prepared with vegetables (carrots, parsley root, celeriac and onion), spiced with black pepper, allspice, bay leaf and thyme, and boiled with double cream. It is generally served with houskové knedlíky (bread dump...
Svið is a traditional Icelandic dish consisting of a sheep's head cut in half, singed to remove the fur, and boiled with the brain removed, sometimes cured in lactic acid.
Svið originally arose at a time when people could not afford to let any part of a slaughtered animal go to waste. It is part of þorramatur, a selection of various traditional Icelandic...
Sweet and sour is a generic term that encompasses many styles of sauce, cuisine and cooking methods. It is commonly used in Asia and has been used in England since the Middle Ages. Sweet and sour remains popular in Europe and the Americas.
Some authors say that the original sweet and sour sauce (simplified Chinese: 糖醋酱; traditional Chinese: 糖醋醬; pinyin:tángc&ug...
Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread) especially of the calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau) (although beef and pork sweetbreads are also eaten). Various other glands used as food are also called 'sweetbreads', including the parotid gland ("cheek" or "ear" s...
The Sydney rock oyster is an oyster species endemic to Australia and New Zealand. In Australia it is found in bays, inlets and sheltered estuaries from Wingan Inlet in eastern Victoria, along the east coast of New South Wales and up to Hervey Bay Queensland, around northern Australia and down the west coast to Shark Bay in Western Australia. There is also a small intr...
You can't go to Bologna without eating tagliatelle al ragu; but go during carnival time and you'll find an even sweeter option. Tagliatelle fritte are literally fried tagliatelle -- then dusted in sugar, making for a high-carb treat, with orange and lemon peel providing the flavor. This is a seasonal dish, so look out for it on menus if you're around at Carnevale, or ...
Chevrettes à la vanille et coco orshrimp in coconut-vanilla sauceis a dish specific for the Tahitian cuisine. This highly nutritious appetizer consists of peeled and deveined shrimps, oil, sliced Tahitian vanilla beans, coconut milk, rum, cream, salt, and black pepper.
Shrimps can be replaced with fish or chicken, and the dish is best served with rice or spina...
A tajine or tagine is a historically Berber dish from North Africa that is named after the type of earthenware pot in which it is cooked. A similar dish, known as tavvas, is found in the cuisine of Cyprus. The traditional method of cooking with a tajine is to place the tajine over coals.
Moroccan tajine dishes are slow-cooked savory stews, typically made with sliced m...
Takoyaki (literally fried or grilled octopus) is a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special takoyaki pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus, tempura scraps (tenkasu), pickled ginger, and green onion. Takoyaki are brushed with takoyaki sauce, a sauce similar to Worcestershire sauce, and mayonnaise. The tako...
Tapioca is a starch extracted from cassava root (Manihot esculenta). This species is native to the North Region of Brazil, but spread throughout the South American continent. The plant was carried by Portuguese and Spanish explorers to most of the West Indies, and continents of Africa and Asia, including the Philippines and Taiwan. It is now cultivated worldwide....
“Taquito” literally means “small taco”. Taquitos have become a staple of some American diets since retailers discovered Taquitos lent themself to the frozen food aisle and time-stressed mothers could use them as a quick and easy main course. It was a restaurant in San Diego, California though, that is credited with making them popular as a port...
Tarator in Bulgaria is a cold soup, which in my view is not exactly meze. It can also be served as drink (in large glasses) upon demand - in that way it usually accompanies hard alcohols.
Also, dry tarator / snezhanka is also called "mlechna salata" ("milk salad"), mostly outside the capital city. Actually there is article "Milk Salad", which has to be ultimately merg...
Taro ball is a traditional Taiwanese cuisine dessert made of taro. It can be found in almost every part of Taiwan, among which Jiufen's taro ball is said to be the most famous.
The taro balls can be made by mixing mashed taro with water and sweet potato flour or potato flour, making the taro balls more springy or softer respectively. The colour of mashed taro makes th...
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