Cooking and travelling - I love to put the two together!!

Yaa, I l like cooking. I know very well about the preparation of Hyderabad dham ka birayani. Most popular food in south india. Do you know any indian food.

I have tried to make dishes from different areas of the U.S. I suppose that is almost the same as what you do with different countries. It would be quite a trip to travel to a different country for me, with this country being so big. I have traveled a bit around this country, although I have yet to get to the west coast (California), as I live on the east coast and there's like 3,000 miles between here and there. But, I was especially fond of the Cajun and Creole dishes found in our southern states. I've made some of them but, like you, they never do taste quite the same as they did when made in their native soil. Of course, foods found right in my area don't taste the same when I make them as opposed to getting them in a restaurant. I'm convinced that is because, in a restaurant, the food is SERVED to us. LOL My favorite dish that does not come from this area is Shrimp Creole. I've made that a few times and ADORE it! Sadly, I'm on a "shrimp strike" until the shrimping industry in the Gulf of Mexico is back on track. Maybe I could substitute shrimp with lobster. Hey! That would work! Oh! I just remembered the Philly Cheesesteak Sub (hoagie). It reigns from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nothing special and easy to make, just large rolls, thinly cut steak, grilled onions, green peppers and cheese. Sometimes mushrooms. Not so healthy but Oh, So Yummy!!!

Hi, oldchem1. This dish of Paella looks like oysters mixed with yellow rice. I have never tried to cook food that I have seen from another country. When I have went to Newark New Jersey, I saw an dish at IHop. It was pancakes that were made with strawberries and whipped cream. I have always wanted to try this dish. But I never was able to.

Hi oldchem1, I like to eat out when i go for a visit to other places. Every place will have a particular dish will be famous. If i like, i will take the recipe and try it after coming home.

hi oldchem, may i know if you're a man or a woman? sometimes,i just am confused on what is your gender regards to your pics and posts,cause i haven't seen all of them though. well, i'm happy you liked traveling,i also wanted to experience traveling to other countries or out of town,but i have no money for that thing. i'm still hoping i could travel when the right time comes. i also seldom cook at our house. i am not good at cooking,but i can try. i hope i could cook like my mom.she is great cook always make food delicious,and i really loved it! well,i can sense that you also are a good cook that's why you love traveling and cooking both.keep it up!

hehe...that sounds neat..and that paella looks tasty! i've done quite a bit of travelling too. and because i do like to cook up stuff, once in a while i do try to do up a dish which i discovered while travelling.. but now days with all the cooking shows on tv, i don't exactly wait to travel before wanting to try out anything new & foreign. i just turn on the telly!

I have not tried to recreate to many dishes like that. I guess cause I am always afraid that they will turn out bad and then there will be wasted food. And we can't afford to waste food. i might have to try to be a little more creative in the future though.

Hi Oldchem, I never travel away these days but I have a Thai sister-in-law and she alwaysmakesbeautiful dishes when I go visit her here in the UK, my favourite dish ofhers is a very mild curry called Massamum quai, which is made with cashews nuts, chicken, sweet potatoes and cocnutmilk plus a few other ingredients, it is mild enoug for my son to enjoy too but enough flavour for me. I have tried to remake this a few times at home and it has always been delicious but not as good as the one she cooks. huggles. Ellie :D

Hello, Sue. I live in Spain, and I've embraced Spanish cuisine enthusiastically, but before we moved here, I'd always try to recreate the cuisine when I got home. I agree with you, the flavours are never going to be so good - mainly because Mediterranean cuisine relies on in season ingredients - they don't fly their stuff half way around the world, after picking it before it's ripe. I buy all my produce from the local street markets - it's cheap, and the stallholders are so proud of their wares they insist you try before buying. When I come back to England on a visit, I can't afford to eat how we eat here - everything is so much more expensive - and I usually find I gain a few pounds.

Hi oldchem..You are talking my kind of stuff here!! My life is food as I am a recent graduate of culinary school, graduated as chef and have been studying food for the better part of my life. I have done a lot of traveing and the main thing I enjoy is the eating of the food wherever I am and talking to chefs and such, trying to pick up knowledge of their food. I write everything down and someday woud really like to write a cookbook. I believe I have learned more from traveling than I did in school, especially in France as my background is classical French methods. I love to eat as well and now the struggle is keeping my weight where it was before I started cooking for a living and its not easy..I have to work out twice a day and there are days I don't feel like it, but I do it..I have lots of DVD's on cardio and well as strength work outs and they run in 15 minute intervals which seems like hours when you are tired! I work on a 200' boat as a private chef and love my job with the exception of the restrictions cooking in a galley present..very small quarters despite the size of the boat and long hours. When the Owner has guests on board and we go someplace iike the islands (Bahamas. we are docked in Ft Lauderdale) I have to get up at 3am and I do 3 full meals and don't finish until after 10pm at night..Its not easy work but I love it. I would love to have my own restaurant in another country. but just don't have the money..Maybe if I hit the lottery!!! Happy cooking...J

Although I have been on several foreign holidays I have stayed in hotels and then with my family and friends - all Indians!! The only foreign cuisine I enjoy are the deserts and chocolates and my favourite being coffee mousse and any kind of chocolates. I do remember however one of my friends' son who is married to a South American did prepare Lasagna(though an Italian dish!) which I quite liked and I had taken down the recipe but never tried it! She had prepared it with chicken and spinach.

cooking and traveling put together is camping... but when you travel to other countries and try their cuisine, you don't normally cook their cuisine in their country and eat there... what is usual is that you try to cook it when you get back home... but if you do what you say, you really are an adventurous person... experimental too...

I do from time to time, but it usually never works out quite like I want to, so I have stopped doing it lately. Would love to try to cook a paella though, it is really a delicious dish, so well done for pulling that off!

Not yet. Actually it is so difficult for me. As you mentioned "flavour comes from the ingredients bought in that country". However, now some ingredients may be also available in your own country. I don't know if you like Korean, Japanese or Chinese food, the ingredients of which can be bought in USA now.

Yes I do, when ever I vist other states of my country. I haven't tried cross border recipes except pizza and noodles. As u have stated, the dish comes out well only with those ingredients bought in that particular area.

I'm doing it, too.I have a book where you write all the recipes.Try it at home.It's fun.Not always good.