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Eating Rice in DR, or NOT
Suarzen, please add, some "Chicarones de Cerdo", an "Aguacate Bien Maduro", and a "Querito" for desert!
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The funny thing is that many Dominicans believe they have a rich cuisine. My country doesn't have the most sophisticated kitchen but it's way better than the horrible, boring, Dominican food. The food is actually one of the reasons for me to consider to go back to Holland.
It took me a while to get clear to the cooking lady not to use oregano, not a lot, not a little and not even a very tiny little bit. That stuff makes my stomach turn.
Happily we regularly eat pasta, lasagna, Mexican, as well, but the joy of eating is gone when I'm served rice and beans, mangu, yautia, guandules, yucca, sancocho (guacala). Asopao is the only thing I do enjoy.
It took me a while to get clear to the cooking lady not to use oregano, not a lot, not a little and not even a very tiny little bit. That stuff makes my stomach turn.
Happily we regularly eat pasta, lasagna, Mexican, as well, but the joy of eating is gone when I'm served rice and beans, mangu, yautia, guandules, yucca, sancocho (guacala). Asopao is the only thing I do enjoy.
And saying Holland does not have a rich cuisine, is the understatement of the year. It has no cuisine.
I thought I had tasted the worst food ever in the world, in Holland, until I came here. Even I now crave some bitterballen and "een broodje kroket". Still not sure about that "bal gehakt".
BelgianK
so how do you explain all the Dominicans who say that tourists come to the DR for the music and the food? are they mistaken?
Now how would it look on travel advice sites if they told the truth...." went for the cheap booze and plentiful p#@$%"
I used to tell the truth all the time and got dirty looks now I lie a lot and it works out better
ok. i am following your lead.
i am here for the morir sonando with spaghetti and tomato paste.
Don't they only eat 'friet' in Belgium? I do really miss my 'frikandel speciaal' though.
And no, holland doesn't have a cuisine, but at least we vary with what we eat our daily potatoes...
"Mauricio", "Not So Fast"!!!!!
When my grandparents moved to Illinois from Amsterdam, "Grandma" brought all her favorite "Dutch National Dishes" with her!!
Boy could that lady "Boil A Potato"!!!!!!!!
And not only boil a "Potato", but every thing else too!
"Salcochado" was her element!!!!!
They had 7 boys, & 7 girls, to it looks like "Boiled Potatoes" are very neutricious, or more likely, an "Aphrodisiac"!!!
I do thank my "Uncle Ronnie" for introducing me to whole smoked herring ( Like "Arenke Light") at around 6 years old!
Good Sausages there too!
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When my grandparents moved to Illinois from Amsterdam, "Grandma" brought all her favorite "Dutch National Dishes" with her!!
Boy could that lady "Boil A Potato"!!!!!!!!
And not only boil a "Potato", but every thing else too!
"Salcochado" was her element!!!!!
They had 7 boys, & 7 girls, to it looks like "Boiled Potatoes" are very neutricious, or more likely, an "Aphrodisiac"!!!
I do thank my "Uncle Ronnie" for introducing me to whole smoked herring ( Like "Arenke Light") at around 6 years old!
Good Sausages there too!
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I heard somewhere in a thread around here, that people in DR don't know how to cook goat and other meat. let me tell you guys something, it really depends on the cook, because not everybody have the cooking skill. Heck, my mom's cousin knows how to make killer chicharrones cuchifritos, and goat meat. I think the more elderly folks are the ones with cooking talent. I love rice, and I prefer rice over platano, guineo verde, and rulo anytime. In my family, we eat what is being cooked, either that or que no coma na! There's no room for manosos. I was raised like that and I'm alive!.
First time I lived in DR I lost 10 kilos of weight (and I have never been fat). The lady cooking in my future parents in law's house was Haitian (not trying to start another discussion here) and she didn't know at all how to cook. It seems most Dominicans are not very sensitive when it comes to food, even though the whole family admitted she cooked horrible, they all loaded their plates like if they hadn't eaten for days. I didn't, I just ate enough to not starve and would often go to KFC, MacDonalds or BK.
It took me a while (when I got married and we had our own cooking lady) to realize the food is bad but it's eatable. Same with avocado. They served me once (my first) one that was not good anymore. I haven't touched one anymore until 4 years ago, which made me realize it improves the rice and beans a lot when you add a avocado.
It took me a while (when I got married and we had our own cooking lady) to realize the food is bad but it's eatable. Same with avocado. They served me once (my first) one that was not good anymore. I haven't touched one anymore until 4 years ago, which made me realize it improves the rice and beans a lot when you add a avocado.
i knew someone would bring this up. we are not kids here. or poor. we eat what we like, not what is there.
ha ha ha ha. indeed. a wife has to cook every day. but the husband has to eat it. not sure who has the worst cards dealt here
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I love your sense of humor!!! Don't we all know that both music & food suck?That said, there is a salvation for us, newly Dominican citizen: Pandora Internet Radio - Listen to Free Music You'll Love & Mediterranean Food!
A good playlist on Pandora, and some time to form you Dominican maid to use local fruit, veggies & sea-food to make great italian style food...
I love this country, but I am not going to copycat the behavior of my new nation
Jajajajajaja
That said, there is a salvation for us, newly Dominican citizen: Pandora Internet Radio - Listen to Free Music You'll Love & Mediterranean Food!
A good playlist on Pandora, and some time to form you Dominican maid to use local fruit, veggies & sea-food to make great italian style food...
I love this country, but I am not going to copycat the behavior of my new nation
if you eat in the homes of the higher classes of Dominicans, you can sometimes get some spectacular food. i had a sancocho in Santo Domingo, and it was one of the best meals i have ever eaten, anywhere. it is the poor people who have no clue about cooking .that is unlike the english speaking caribbean, where the poor people make some awesome food.
I agree... I still remember Jamaican food when I used to live there, back in the 90's... But now I eat fantastic "Mediterranean/Italian" food, made with local products... Gourmet seafood salad, perfect pastas, and so on...
Of course, Olive oil is not made here... But French bread is made right here in Las Terrenas
I will allow rice about twice a week. No sopita, no "habichuelas rojas/blancas".
On the positive side, I love "arrepitas de yucca" and "batida de lechoza"