The Comfort Food: Photo Collage
I asked people: What is your comfort food? And I put them together in a collage.
#Mexican
Garibaldi is a type of Mexican pastry. “It
is basically a butter pancake with apricot jam and sprinkles. With a glass of
milk it is a win.”
“Basically I
have been a mess during this pandemic, like everyone. Whenever I am sad I eat
sweet stuff, but when I am angry I eat sour or salty stuff.”
#Brazilian
Biscoitinho de queijo, it is “a kind of
Brazilian cheese bread (pão de queijo)”.
I did a
little research on this cheese bread and it seems like every article said that
it’s crispy on the outside and soft, chewy, and cheesy on the inside.
#Filipino
Adobo, traditional food in the
The Philippines. “We use a variety of meats but the same ingredients.” The ingredients
used to cook this dish include vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaves, and
black peppercorns.
#Guinean
Guinean
version of Attiéké –Ivory Coast’s
fermented cassava pulp with deep-fried Tilapia and homemade sauce (cucumber,
tomato, mayo)
#French
Homemade strawberry pie with crême pâtissière –or
in simple English: pastry cream. It is the essential base of many French
desserts.
#Canadian
Mac ‘n Cheese. How much cheese you need
to put on your mac ‘n cheese? “A lot.”
#Brazilian
The two
round things in the foreground: Corncake
(left) and cheese (right),
papaya, and the other round thing in the back is called requeijão (Brazilian cream cheese). This is “Super Brazilian, more
precisely from the countryside of Brazil!”
#Czech
*Europan* Chocolate –she was stranded
in an Island in the middle of nowhere during COVID, since March. All flights
were canceled and she had to wait a long time to finally find her chocolate.
(That
expression was also me seeing rice on Day 8 in Europe and everybody kept
feeding me bread and sausages.)
#Nigerian
Plantain porridge –Plantain (a member of
banana family, much less sweet) cooked in broth with meat, fish, and
vegetables.
#German
Pizza –“Not very German but I would say
it’s my comfort food.”
Yes for all
of us man, for all of us. Just like a wise man once said, the only thing better
than pizza is two pizzas.
#Indonesian
Pisang goreng or banana fritters.
Basically you dip banana slices in flour, sugar, and water and then deep-fry them. It’s
Indonesians’ number 1 dessert. Fight me.
#Australian
Spicy Korean tacos (and wine), which sounds
like the ultimate fusion.
#Chinese
Beer chicken wings -“I put a whole bottle
of beer in it" and -wait for it- "I put soy sauce."
"It's alcoholic good."
"It's alcoholic good."
#Zimbabwean
Injera, traditional Ethiopian sour flat
bread made from Teff (ancient grain originated in South Africa) with ground
beef and spinach
#Indonesian
Limpa goreng (deep-fried spleen) with perkedel (deep-fried potato cake), tewel
(young jackfruit cooked in coconut milk), cassava leaves curry, and white rice.
Yes I spent
23 minutes just to translate that to English.
#Polish
Bigos –different cured meats and sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) cooked
together, and “every Polish knows how to cook it.”
#German
What you see
there are not really German. “It’s a mix of everything. Antipasti, grilled
pepper, bread, different spreads. But I guess this kind of dinner is German
–bread and lots of stuff to eat with or to put onto.”
I believe it
is German Abendbrot, or simply
translated to evening bread.
#Peruvian
Breakfast: Cecina with eggs and fried banana.
Cecina is dried salted meat originated from Spain.
#Mexican
Amaranto con chocolate amargo. “This is
amaranth grains covered in dark chocolate. Amaranth is a native plant from
North America and we eat it a lot around here.”
#Columbian
Arepas or cornmeal cakes. It is one of
the most popular foods in Columbia, and very easy to make.
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