Yesterday, we cooked food from Barbados.

• Fish cakes – Cod balls. Tasted wonderful but probably best served with some vinegar or sweet and sour sauce. 8/10. Recipe here
• Cassava pone – We eat also cassava cake in the Philippines. This one tasted great. 10/10. Recipe here.

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Last weekend, we cooked two dishes from Iran:

• Khoresh-e Fesenjoon  – Chicken stew with pomegranate and walnuts. A unique way of cooking chicken. It was a bit sour but tasted great. 8/10. Recipe here.
• Tachin – Crispy saffron rice. I always like it when the food has a crunch. This one was great but we burned the raisins a bit. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Sholeh Zard – Saffron rice pudding. I prefer the rice pudding with milk. 5/10. Recipe here.

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We cooked two dishes from Egypt yesterday. Miriam’s family loved everything (giving it 10/10) but they’re biased for these dishes. Here were the two:

• Ta’ameya – Egyptian falafel. My first time to make one. We added salad and tahini dressing. 7/10. But Miriam’s family loved it so much and gave it 10/10. Recipe here.
• Qatayef – Arabic pancakes with cheese filling. They tasted wonderful. 9/10. Recipe here.

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We made two dishes from the African nation of Gambia.

• Domoda – peanut stew with meat. I’ve tasted something similar in an African restaurant before. 7/10. Recipe here.
• Chakery – couscous with milk. It’s arroz con leche but instead of using rice, uses couscous. We topped it with mango. 8/10. Recipe here.

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We cooked two dishes from Bahrain:

• Machboos – rice dish with chicken. Quite similar to the other Arabic rice dishes we’ve made in the past. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Om Ali – Egyptian bread pudding topped with nuts. 9/10. Recipe here.

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We cooked food from our neighboring micronation Andorra. Their cuisine was very much similar to Catalonia’s.

• Trinxat – Mashed potato and cabbage with bacon. 8/10. Recipe here
• Ensalada (de Achicoria) – Chicory salad. But, we were not able to find chicory so we had to substitute it with kale. Probably, the worst substitution we’ve done so far as it loses the point of trying chicory. But, kale tasted great. 7/10. Recipe here
• Torrijas – Spain’s response to French toast. 9/10. Recipe here

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We cooked food from Colombia last weekend:

• Empanadas – cornmeal empanadas filled with ground pork and beef. We made the dough too thick, so there was more dough than filling. 7/10. Recipe here
• Aji – the sauce for the empanadas. Recipe here.
• Aborrajados – banana balls filled with cheese. It was difficult to make them look like balls so they became flat in the end. 8/10. Recipe here.
• Flan de coco – flan with grated coconut and coconut milk. 9/10. Recipe here.

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We cooked food from Syria yesterday and Miriam was excited for it given her Arabic background. We cooked the following:

• Mukloubi bi lahmi – upside-down lamb rice cake. It’s not really a cake but the idea was to flip it upside down after cooking it. We did not dare to do the flip but it ended up great. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Muhammara – red pepper dip. Not a fan of dips in general coz I’m not used to them but Miriam’s family loved it. 6/10. Recipe here.
• Halawet El-Jibn – sweet cheese rolls. It was difficult to fill it with cheese and make it stay in shape. It tasted great nonetheless. 9/10. Recipe here.

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We cooked food from Hungary two weeks ago but I forgot to post the photos. Having been to Hungary twice, I was looking forward to this. I especially loved langos which is fried pizza but we did not make it this time. Here were the dishes we made:

• Chicken paprikash – Chicken with paprika sauce. It reminded me of other Spanish dishes like fabada which typically added paprika. 7/10. Recipe here.
• Makos guba – poppy seed pudding. I love poppy seeds. Everytime I visit countries where it is staple, I love buying pastries that use them. 8/10. Recipe here.

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We cooked food from Azerbaijan this weekend. I found the food great!

• Plov – rice pilaf with chicken and various dried fruits. I really liked the blend between sweet and savory. The only problem was that we overcooked the rice since the instructions were not very clear. 9/10. Recipe here.
• Dolma – meat wrapped in grape leaves. I have tasted an Arabic dish that only contained rice and did not like too much. This one though, I liked as it’s basically meatball covered in grape leaves. 7/10. Recipe here.
• Pakhlava – baklava from Azerbaijan. Like always, we overbake things and they don’t turn out as nice as they should be. 8/10. Recipe here.

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