The national dish of Slovakia, bryndzové halušky, is potato-dough gnocchi smothered in salty sheep bryndza cheese, and topped with fried bits of smoked, fatty bacon along with some of the fat. The ingredients are staples of the Slovak cuisine, and the dish itself exemplifies its nature.
If you’re looking for an excellent place to spend your next gastronomical adventure, why not consider the beautiful island of Malta? This Mediterranean paradise continues to fascinate food lovers thanks to its wide variety of traditional and local cuisines.
In the Maltese way of life, partaking in Fenkata is a way of expressing joy and a welcoming ritual for friends and visiting relatives. Pans of simmering Fenkata fill the air with inviting aromas during festive celebrations, or a momentous life event.
“Obara” is a thick soup. It can be made only with vegetables or you can also add some meat. The favourites are the “Obara” with chicken or beef. It’s a simple, rich one pot dish. One pot, that means only one pot to clean, but most important all the flavours will come together making a great combo.
Hakarl is a national dish of Iceland, consisting of Greenland shark meat, that has been buried, rotten and fermented. The reason for the fermentation process? Well, the Greenland shark is poisonous to eat in it’s natural state due to extremely high levels of trimethylamine oxide and uric acid in the flesh.
A pastizzi is a Maltese pastry that comes in 2 varieties, either cheese or pea. A pastizzi is incredibly cheap and delicious. It costs 35 euro cents each in Sliema, the high rent district of the island. In the middle of this sleepy island, just 100km or 60 miles from Sicily, prices are significantly less.
You can either prepare Bratwurst in a pan with veggies and rice for example, or put them on the grill until they are roasted. They need to have a lovely brown tone. You should always eat them with mustard and/or ketchup. But they have to be „gebraten“ – roasted. „Brat…“ means roasted in German.
If you ask for pepperoni pizza, you’ll get something vegetarian. This is because pepperoni in Italian is plural for green pepper. Ask for salami in your pizza instead.
As enticing a reason as any to cross the Bosphorus into Asia, Çiya Sofrası has been hailed by more than one source as possibly the best restaurant in all of Istanbul.
Turkish food is described as the continuation of Ottoman Empire cuisine. The Ottomans fused Central Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Eastern European, and Balkan cuisines to create one of the world’s most diverse and influential cuisines.