The pain of wanting to try international foods (or even "international") (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

Basically anything with ingredients that your typical grocery store may not have. There's 2 phases to my planned Mexican food attempts spread over 2 weeks (minimum). This week was go to grocery store as usual, but along with buying stuff for this week I looked into what Mexican foods/ingredients they have other than the obvious stuff like tortillas and salsa. Now that I have that information, next time I can get the stuff I need for the Mexican dishes I want to try (currently I have 2 options that need practically no substitutions, but I'm also like 1/10th of the way into my Mexican cookbook so there may be more). I am excited to try the stuffed peppers, it looks and sounds good Oh and there's a third dish I could make the main dish (for the accompanying salsa I'd probably need to go to another store for the ingredients) but I while the rest sounds good (well the coca cola sounds weird but I can understand the reasoning) the recipe itself involves 4 cups of lard and that's too much lard imo, so I'm researching different methods for the same dish that wouldn't have that much lard. But it's a work in progress currently.

 

[athenaaa]

I know this pain I just wanna make foods and be able to find all the ingredients

 

[Ahsoka]

I know this pain I just wanna make foods and be able to find all the ingredients

I actually thought I saw noodles that I needed at the store last week but came back this week to realized it's noodles that look the same ish dried but are actually different noodles. I just went with them and am going to hope it doesn't affect the dish much But I think the specialty Asian store might have them? Hopefully? So when we go there again I'm going to check.

 

[chiefchilly1]

Do you prefer making it yourself or going out to an authentic place

 

[Ahsoka]

Do you prefer making it yourself or going out to an authentic place

My family in general (other than my brother) rarely go out to eat, we make our food ourselves. I know what I make is unlikely to be truly "authentic" but finding a truly authentic place where I live would probably be hard too. The stuff I make is possibly even more authentic than most restaurants because while I'm not an expert in the cuisine I often use ingredients and recipes that are closer to what's really used than a typical American Chinese buffet, for example. But I definitely wouldn't say no to less authentic restaurants anyways, as long as it's tasty

 

[athenaaa]

I actually thought I saw noodles that I needed at the store last week but came back this week to realized it's noodles that look the same ish dried but are actually different noodles. I just went with them and am going to hope it doesn't affect the dish much But I think the specialty Asian store might have them? Hopefully? So when we go there again I'm going to check.

Hopefully an Asian store has the correct noodles

 

[Ahsoka]

Hopefully an Asian store has the correct noodles

I feel like they must but they also didn't have sweet flour sauce (unless we just didn't notice) so anything is possible But given the fact that they're Asian noodles and the noodles section is massive (although then again, no mung bean noodles too) I have hopes but am aware they may be dashed.

 

[athenaaa]

I feel like they must but they also didn't have sweet flour sauce (unless we just didn't notice) so anything is possible But given the fact that they're Asian noodles and the noodles section is massive (although then again, no mung bean noodles too) I have hopes but am aware they may be dashed.

This reminds me that I wanna try out a different Asian market soon ngl

 

[Ahsoka]

This reminds me that I wanna try out a different Asian market soon ngl

You should, maybe they'll have stuff the one you use now doesn't have

 

[athenaaa]

You should, maybe they'll have stuff the one you use now doesn't have

Yes definitely!

 

[motorp77]

i usually modify the ingredients and create my own recipe

 

[Ahsoka]

i usually modify the ingredients and create my own recipe

I'm just lazy Though there's some flavors that I like that aren't easily replicated anyways so specialized stores can help with that

 

[Selfmate]

I'm Chinese so is pasta "international" to me? lol

 

[Ahsoka]

I'm Chinese so is pasta "international" to me? lol

Counting where you live now Otherwise I'd have differences too, some products here probably aren't commonly found in Russia and vice versa.

 

[Selfmate]

Counting where you live now Otherwise I'd have differences too, some products here probably aren't commonly found in Russia and vice versa.

yes well it's probably not international considering I'm in Australia...
same though like when my inlaws/parents cook they often can't find the exact ingredients and even if they do some ingredients just taste differently from what they get back in China
do you ever find that even with Russian ingredients?

 

[Ahsoka]

yes well it's probably not international considering I'm in Australia...
same though like when my inlaws/parents cook they often can't find the exact ingredients and even if they do some ingredients just taste differently from what they get back in China
do you ever find that even with Russian ingredients?

Yep, different ingredients can lead to different textures and tastes. Not a recipe I've tried in years in the US but there's popular pancakes in Russia called syrniki. For that you need tvorog, which is a dry semi crumbly dairy product, but the US doesn't have much different dairy stuff imo and the closest we knew and could easily get was ricotta I think. I'll just attach a photo of ricotta and tvorog to show you the obvious difference, which is dryness. They obviously weren't the same as they'd be in Russia using tvorog

 

[Selfmate]

Yep, different ingredients can lead to different textures and tastes. Not a recipe I've tried in years in the US but there's popular pancakes in Russia called syrniki. For that you need tvorog, which is a dry semi crumbly dairy product, but the US doesn't have much different dairy stuff imo and the closest we knew and could easily get was ricotta I think. I'll just attach a photo of ricotta and tvorog to show you the obvious difference, which is dryness. They obviously weren't the same as they'd be in Russia using tvorog

nice

 

[dark_tranquility]

There is this store down the jetty strip that sells American food and drink. Pretty good!