This week I spent my time researching the most popular dishes in all the countries I have researched, and I want y’all to help me decide what recipes I should try for the class! The most popular dish is Honduras is called the baleada and a flour tortilla folded and filled with refried beans, quesillo, and sour cream. There can also be avocado or scrambled eggs mixed in! The most popular dish in Guatemala is tamales. Guatemalan tamales differ from regular mexican tamales because they have steamed banana leaves in them. They also typically have tomato sauce, chilies, raisins, and meat such as, chicken or pork. In Argentina one of the best dishes is called dulce de leche. Dulce de leche is a caramelized desert sauce with ingredients like milk, vanilla, and sugar. In Spain, Paella is popular dish and is a rice dish prepared typically with seafood. Paella is not only popular in Spain, but is considered the national dish of the country! In Venezuela, a popular dish is called the Arepa, and is a cornmeal cake that can be grilled, baked, or fried. Lastly, Costa Rica has a popular breakfast meal called Gallo Pinto that is made up of rice mixed with black beans, served with sour cream, and scrambled eggs, and sometimes fried plantain. Here are some other general recipes that y’all can take a look at and decide whether you want to try those too!
My current event this week is an article written by Claudia Roden, who travelled to Spain to write a book called The Food of Spain. She talks of how the chefs said they would try to incorporate their own history and roots of origin in their own dishes while cooking. She also talks about how organizations were formed to preserve the culinary heritage of the country. One thing the book says is that cooking is the landscape in a saucepan. Meaning that every place has geographical differences, along with cuisine differences. This relates specifically to my questions at the beginning on if the dishes throughout spanish-speaking countries differ. This helps with my answer because I know now that every place has food specific to its region because that region has geographical uniqueness.
Next week I hope to try and bake some of these special dishes and bring them into the class I will take pictures of the ingredients, and procedures and post them to the blog!
Maya, thank you for considering the classes opinion. The one that i am most intrigued by and would like to try is the baleada. It sounds delicious.
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