What Food From Your Home Country Did The Argentinians Ruin?

[ElQueso]

Buy some panceta ahumada and ask them to slice it thick. Soak the slices in a solution of water, liquid smoke (available in Chinatown in quantity and relatively cheap - recently bought a 1 liter bottle for $150 pesos) and salt. Proportions to your liking, may take a few batches to get right. Soak for about 8-12 hours in the fridge. Remove and dry, then store in fridge. When you cook them, don't cook them too hard too fast. Won't be quite as crispy (unless you burn them) but it will have a good flavor. Put some crushed black pepper on it when you dry for some pepper bacon.

 

[fifs2]

Can't believe no one has mentioned Caesar Salad. Couldn't they just try a to pay a little homage to the real thing with a little Romaine lettuce or anchovy in the dressing? Clearly not. It should be renamed limp lettuce with mayonnaise and grated favorless cheese product.
PS I get plenty of sex Richone but a girl cannot live on orgasms alone.

 

[Davidglen77]

Italian American food on the East Coast up to the 80's was very simple and mostly homemade by Sicilian Inmigrants such as Spaghetti and Meat balls. Cannoli etc. Later came the more sophisticated Nuova Cucina Italiana created by Italian Chefs from Northern Italy , ie Toscania and Milan/ Lombardia!

I grew up on the "East Coast" during the 1970s and 1980s in New York City to be exact and while I will admit that Italian food was red-sauce heavy at that time, it was in hardly limited to spaghetii & meatballs, in fact, that was something you ate at home or it was on a children's menu at some diner. How I miss my Italian neighbors from back then! who were all from southern italy, Calabria, Bari, Napoli and some Sicilian, and their unforgettable cooking! Some of the great Italian foods I miss sooo much from back then are - Eggplant parmagiana, eggplant rolatini, linguine vongole (clam sauce), Conchiglie florentino (stuffed shells with ricotta and spinach), chicken scarparo, manicotti, garlic bread with parsley, pasta fagioli, tortelini en brodo, escarole with mushrooms, spinach with garlic & olive oil, struffoli, cannoli, sfogliatelle, rainbow cookies.......the list goes on.......for me that's REAL Italian food, not the "stuff" they serve here!

 

[ghost]

That is your personal taste. I am sure Argentinians like the Argentine-Italian food here too. But ask Mexicans what they think about texmex...

Read carefully.

 

[nikad]

I grew up on the "East Coast" during the 1970s and 1980s in New York City to be exact and while I will admit that Italian food was red-sauce heavy at that time, it was in hardly limited to spaghetii & meatballs, in fact, that was something you ate at home or it was on a children's menu at some diner. How I miss my Italian neighbors from back then! who were all from southern italy, Calabria, Bari, Napoli and some Sicilian, and their unforgettable cooking! Some of the great Italian foods I miss sooo much from back then are - Eggplant parmagiana, eggplant rolatini, linguine vongole (clam sauce), Conchiglie florentino (stuffed shells with ricotta and spinach), chicken scarparo, manicotti, garlic bread with parsley, pasta fagioli, tortelini en brodo, escarole with mushrooms, spinach with garlic & olive oil, struffoli, cannoli, sfogliatelle, rainbow cookies.......the list goes on.......for me that's REAL Italian food, not the "stuff" they serve here!

Being of Italian ascendance I usually cook 3/4 of those dishes at home.

 

[Davidglen77]

Being of Italian ascendance I usually cook 3/4 of those dishes at home.

What I wouldn't do for some pasta fagioli and a side of garlic bread with parsley!! You must come to a pot-luck one of these days, I will buy the ingredients for you!!

 

[syngirl]

Just cross fingers that she doesn´t come up with the brilliant mondongo milanesas...just on case, do not mention these two words during dinner. I am not a big fan of this texture either, I like the rest of the dish, just not the " towel " as they call it. It is one of those dishes that take hours to prepare, like locro, etc, is she trying to be nice or your husband loves it? Thanks God for patitas hehehe

Yes it's absolutely the texture that turns me off -- I'll eat everything else in it but the tripes... I think preparing it is probably because it's a relatively cheap dish to make for many people -- though I can't confirm that since I don't know what the price of tripes is these days! I'm not sure who of the family loves it -- it will be about 10 of us or perhaps a couple more. For the amount of time it takes to prepare (and the stink!) I think I'd rather just do a stew tipo asturiano (which is actually kind of what I made on monday, butter bean & chorizo stew). Anyway I guess to look on the positive side, I'm sure I'll have room for dessert, haha

 

[Rich One]

I grew up on the "East Coast" during the 1970s and 1980s in New York City to be exact and while I will admit that Italian food was red-sauce heavy at that time, it was in hardly limited to spaghetii & meatballs, in fact, that was something you ate at home or it was on a children's menu at some diner. How I miss my Italian neighbors from back then! who were all from southern italy, Calabria, Bari, Napoli and some Sicilian, and their unforgettable cooking! Some of the great Italian foods I miss sooo much from back then are - Eggplant parmagiana, eggplant rolatini, linguine vongole (clam sauce), Conchiglie florentino (stuffed shells with ricotta and spinach), chicken scarparo, manicotti, garlic bread with parsley, pasta fagioli, tortelini en brodo, escarole with mushrooms, spinach with garlic & olive oil, struffoli, cannoli, sfogliatelle, rainbow cookies.......the list goes on.......for me that's REAL Italian food, not the "stuff" they serve here!

Well I mentioned Spaghetti and meatballs as an example, but you are correct the cooking was mostly from all over southern Italy. Very different from the Menu offered today at Italian Restos in the US. I My XP was based on the Italian community on the Jersey side of the Hudson!

 

[syngirl]

Well I only know two of my fellow countrymen who like mondongo, everybody else hates it. It's like I could go to your country and pick the most disgusting traditional food you can offer and then make my judgement from there.

Well, if you read what I wrote I did say it's the ONE Argentine dish I can't stomach. I've been here for so long I'm used to the food and usually rather than complain I just cook something different at home (my husband is also adventurous by local standards so he welcomes indian curries for dinner etc)

 

[pitipur]

Timely article on the difference between Mexican and Tex-Mex:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/draft-tex-mex-and-mexican.html