Who has the best food?

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yeshua said:
As for Latin Vs. Eastern/Oriental:

What would you choose, coffee and donuts or ma’mool and cardamon tea? 🙂

Come on, my brothers, this is a non-issue!

As for Eastern Vs. Oriental:

I had the pleasure of attending a Greek Easter last year, a wonderful experience, though I will take my kibbe nayieh over goats brains any day (sorry Byzantines)!

Much love!
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I don’t doubt that ma’mool and cardamom tea beats ordinary coffee and donuts. But I’m going to go with that Louisiana fellow’s Cafe au Lait and begnets, largely because I don’t know what ma’mool is. Well, then too, Cafe au Lait and begnets are AWFULLY good. Be hard to beat them, particularly when one is trying to recover sufficiently from a hard night in the French Quarter to go to Mass at St. Louis Cathedral.

Now, my son-in-law tells me kibbe nayieh is, um, largely raw ground beef. Of course, as opposed to goat brains…
(Are Latins supposed to bare these secrets?) Why don’t we revisit ma’mool instead?
 
I hadn’t heard of ma’mool either so I looked it up. Turns out it is a holiday cookie made with a mold (the shaped kind, not a fungus). It looks good to me. I wonder how many other foods above mean nothing to readers. Anyone want to describe some of their favorites with pictures?

 
Ridgerunner said:
Now, my son-in-law tells me kibbe nayieh is, um, largely raw ground beef. Of course, as opposed to goat brains…
(Are Latins supposed to bare these secrets?) Why don’t we revisit ma’mool instead?
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Raw Beef! Heavens no!

Raw Lamb!

Peace and God Bless!
 
Perhaps I should chime in on this food fight 😃

This is a typical Assyrian-Chaldean food:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Assyriancusiene.jpg

A few popular dishes include:

Kubbebe Rabbe - large and round wet wheat grains, stuffed with mainly meat and onion and spices, and are cooked and cut like a pizza.

Kubbebe Khamoose - small and round wet wheat grains, stuffed with meat, onion, spices, and are cooked in a stew that has a lemony-sourly-powdery product added to it, which gives the dish a sour taste.

Dolma - grape leafs stuffed mainly with rice, tomatoes, spices, and usually with meat, though some prefer to use potatoes instead of meat, and are then cooked. There are also onion or green peppers prepared alongside the grape leafs, and likewise stuffed and cooked.

Shish Kabob - cooked meat.

White rice with various types of stews such as Karee (potato stew), bamya (okra stew), etc.

God bless,

Rony
 
yeshua said:
Raw Beef! Heavens no!

Raw Lamb!
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:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Well, my son-in-law is too Americanized to eat it, or he would no doubt have known better. And he knows my daughter wouldn’t make it for him if he did want it. But I do recognize dolma from that earlier post, now that someone has described it. That’s good stuff!

You know, that ma’mool kind of reminds me of my Teutonic wife’s springerles just a bit. They’re molded in wooden molds with all kinds of designs too. But they’re flatter. If ma’mool tastes anything like springerles, I could go for it in a big way!
 
Raw lamb or kibbe nayieh is not really popular among the Chaldeans like it is with the Maronites and Melkites.

We prefer our kibbe (or as we say: kubbebe or kubba) to be throughly cooked :yup:

When I first was offered kibbe nayieh, offered to me by my friends jimmy and LakaYaRabb of this forum in a recent Maronite festival, I had an initial facial reaction of disgust before I actually tasted it, but then when I tasted it, it was actually pretty good 🙂

But, I still prefer the kibbe to be cooked, and the Maronites do have cooked kibbe. I had one not too long ago in a nearby Lebanese bakery, and they’re really quite good. :tiphat:

Being in an area where there are no Chaldeans around me, the Lebanese kibbe is fairly equivalent to the Chaldean kubba.

So, if you’re ever at a Lebanese festival, make sure you get some cooked kibbe, and if you have the stomach for it, at least taste their raw kibbe, you’ll be surprised.

God bless,

Rony
 
Speaking of interesting food, who would have thought this creature could be eaten…

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The snail-loving French Latins are as strange as the raw-lamb-loving Lebanese! :whacky:

God bless,

Rony
 
ronyodish said:
Raw lamb or kibbe nayieh is not really popular among the Chaldeans like it is with the Maronites and Melkites.

We prefer our kibbe (or as we say: kubbebe or kubba) to be throughly cooked :yup:

Rony
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Interesting observation. My son-in-law’s mother is Iraqi Chaldean (A Turkish/Kurdish ancestral blend), but his father is Jordanian of Palestinian ancestery. It was at his fathers’ peoples’ event that he was exposed to raw kibbe nayieh, and that’s where his “genetic imperatives” failed him.
 
That seems pretty disgusting to me Rony. Givve me some raw-lamb any day over snails.
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I agree there, though I’m not a fan of any raw meat, I’ll take raw lamb over snails 🙂

But if I ever do taste a snail dish, I might actually like it! It might taste better than it looks, who knows?

God bless,

Rony
 
ronyodish said:
I agree there, though I’m not a fan of any raw meat, I’ll take raw lamb over snails 🙂

But if I ever do taste a snail dish, I might actually like it! It might taste better than it looks, who knows?

God bless,

Rony
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Well, I’ll have to admit I have not only eaten snails, but liked them a great deal. Of course, you don’t just eat a snail “as is”. The meat is extracted, cooked and diced finely, butter and some herbs that I can’t recall are added. The whole business is then “restuffed” into special shells that are reuseable “serving dishes” for the next time around.

The French are weird in many ways, but their culinary specialties are almost never short of excellent.

Puts me to mind of the old descriptions of European heaven and hell. Maybe everybody knows it, but bear with me because someone might not.

Heaven is:
Where the cooks are French,
The police are British
The auto mechanics are German
The lovers are Italian
And it’s all run by the Swiss.

Hell is:
Where the cooks are British
The police are German
The auto mechanics are French
The lovers are Swiss
And it’s all run by the Italians.
 
Well, I’ll have to admit I have not only eaten snails, but liked them a great deal. Of course, you don’t just eat a snail “as is”. The meat is extracted, cooked and diced finely, butter and some herbs that I can’t recall are added. The whole business is then “restuffed” into special shells that are reuseable “serving dishes” for the next time around.
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Ok, now that sounds a little better 🙂
The French are weird in many ways, but their culinary specialties are almost never short of excellent.
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I too like their French bread and French fries! 😃 Beyond that, I don’t know, so I’ll take your word for it.
Puts me to mind of the old descriptions of European heaven and hell. Maybe everybody knows it, but bear with me because someone might not.
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Heaven is:
Where the cooks are French,
The police are British
The auto mechanics are German
The lovers are Italian
And it’s all run by the Swiss.
Click to expand...
Hell is:
Where the cooks are British
The police are German
The auto mechanics are French
The lovers are Swiss
And it’s all run by the Italians.
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haha, good one 😃

God bless,

Rony
 
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