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Your favorite "weird" or "rare" Dominican foods
Where in the hell do you get a placenta???!!! Do you hang around a delivering room yelling " I am hungry! Hurry up! Company is coming for dinner and I need a placenta to cook! This one cracked me up.
I used to get freeked out at the sight of chicken feet when I bought a chicken to cook when I lived there. I got used to it and started adding them to the pot with all the other parts to make the stock.
The strangest thing I ate while living there was horse tail soup. I was at a friend's family celebration on Christmas Eve and was told part of the meal was Dominican Sanconcho. It did not look like what I knew as Sanconcho but I figured it was the family's old time recipe. They thought they would scared me ( or make me sick) when they confessed that I was eating horse tail. I had heard of ox tail soup but never horse tail. I explained to them that I was brought up in Maine and had eaten many wild animals in my youth. I have eaten; moose, deer, rabbit,frog, bear,horse and some other mystery meats.
From the street carts, late at night, I liked eating sausage and potatoes. We referred to the sauage as "THE LONG HOT RED ONE"
I used to get freeked out at the sight of chicken feet when I bought a chicken to cook when I lived there. I got used to it and started adding them to the pot with all the other parts to make the stock.
The strangest thing I ate while living there was horse tail soup. I was at a friend's family celebration on Christmas Eve and was told part of the meal was Dominican Sanconcho. It did not look like what I knew as Sanconcho but I figured it was the family's old time recipe. They thought they would scared me ( or make me sick) when they confessed that I was eating horse tail. I had heard of ox tail soup but never horse tail. I explained to them that I was brought up in Maine and had eaten many wild animals in my youth. I have eaten; moose, deer, rabbit,frog, bear,horse and some other mystery meats.
From the street carts, late at night, I liked eating sausage and potatoes. We referred to the sauage as "THE LONG HOT RED ONE"
Not sure of the Domincian name for it...
Not sure of the Dominican name for it, but I have eaten a really nasty soup made from the hooves of cows. When they are cooked they look and taste like museledge (sp?) glue... you know they kind made from horse hooves here.
If I ever have to eat it again, it will be too soon, but I will do it to be polite!
Not sure of the Dominican name for it, but I have eaten a really nasty soup made from the hooves of cows. When they are cooked they look and taste like museledge (sp?) glue... you know they kind made from horse hooves here.
If I ever have to eat it again, it will be too soon, but I will do it to be polite!
Chinola
I'll just throw it out there and let you all debate if it's a food or whatever, but I may miss the Chinola juice the most.
Pardon me, I miss the Presidente the most, then Chinola.
Actually, I miss the Presidente AND the Brugal the most, then Chinola.
What I really miss is the "fruitolas" (is that what they are called?) the mobile fruit stands that littered my neighborhood where you could get a full size pineapple cut fresh, oranges, guava or papaya and other melons all cut fresh in a heaping portion for 20 or 30 pesos.
Not much for sanitation practices, but it eats good.
I'll just throw it out there and let you all debate if it's a food or whatever, but I may miss the Chinola juice the most.
Pardon me, I miss the Presidente the most, then Chinola.
Actually, I miss the Presidente AND the Brugal the most, then Chinola.
What I really miss is the "fruitolas" (is that what they are called?) the mobile fruit stands that littered my neighborhood where you could get a full size pineapple cut fresh, oranges, guava or papaya and other melons all cut fresh in a heaping portion for 20 or 30 pesos.
Not much for sanitation practices, but it eats good.
Cleef said:
Hello, Cleef, you could buy the "welch fruit juice", they make the passion fruit(chinola), and it sell all over the states(usa), i buy it, it is taste real good:bandit:
Cleef...you've got to be careful though...you know what they say about 'jugo de chinola...lo tumba'!!! 
MQ
MQ
Musicqueen said:Cleef...you've got to be careful though...you know what they say about 'jugo de chinola...lo tumba'!!!
MQ
Hi, Queenie, i know this was for cleef, but damn, i am gonna stop drinking it then, lolo lol:bandit:
Mondongo
gre: Dont want to toot my own horn (but i will)...I MAKE THE BEST MONDONGO IN TOWN!!!! I mean even the old school folks in my family bowed down to me and are amazed that not only does my house NOT stink like mondongo when i have it in the pressure cooker, but when i cook it, its DEEELICIOUS. with pig feet cut nice and small, cleaned very well, no stray hairs.
With home made picante a good mexican friend taught me to make and avocado and some white rice!!!
CANT GO WRONG!!!
There is an art about making mondongo, u either make it nasty and it stinks and taste like shyt, or u make it sooo good u dont even beleive its mondongo!!!!
LOVE IT
I will eat anything put before me to be honest, as long as it doesnt LOOK disgusting, i am willing to try about anything (Except placenta, NASTY)
gre: Dont want to toot my own horn (but i will)...I MAKE THE BEST MONDONGO IN TOWN!!!! I mean even the old school folks in my family bowed down to me and are amazed that not only does my house NOT stink like mondongo when i have it in the pressure cooker, but when i cook it, its DEEELICIOUS. with pig feet cut nice and small, cleaned very well, no stray hairs. With home made picante a good mexican friend taught me to make and avocado and some white rice!!!
CANT GO WRONG!!!
There is an art about making mondongo, u either make it nasty and it stinks and taste like shyt, or u make it sooo good u dont even beleive its mondongo!!!!
LOVE IT
I will eat anything put before me to be honest, as long as it doesnt LOOK disgusting, i am willing to try about anything (Except placenta, NASTY)
Maguey
Many years ago, I took a group of friends to check out a tree that I consider one of the tallest and oldest of the island. It is a ceiba, called by the locals “La Ceiba de Tuta”. The ceiba is located on the side of the old royal road which extends between San Juan de La Maguana and Neiba. The road is now an almost invisible path with stretches that have been washed away by the adjacent river...
At that time there were scores of large bright orange-red fruits strewn around near the ceiba's base. I had never seen them before, so I asked one of the campesinos what where they. He said that the fruits were mamey. Until then, it was understanding that mamey was just another name for zapote or one of its varieties. My then pregnant wife picked up one of the fruits to eat, and suddenly one of the campesinos rushed over frantically and made her stop. He said that mamey was a very dangerous fruit, that it could be fatal, especially if you had consumed milk products or eaten river crab (jaiba) that same day. The ceiba is taller than a 10 story building and the nearby mamey is about two thirds the ceiba’s height...
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Many years ago, I took a group of friends to check out a tree that I consider one of the tallest and oldest of the island. It is a ceiba, called by the locals “La Ceiba de Tuta”. The ceiba is located on the side of the old royal road which extends between San Juan de La Maguana and Neiba. The road is now an almost invisible path with stretches that have been washed away by the adjacent river...
At that time there were scores of large bright orange-red fruits strewn around near the ceiba's base. I had never seen them before, so I asked one of the campesinos what where they. He said that the fruits were mamey. Until then, it was understanding that mamey was just another name for zapote or one of its varieties. My then pregnant wife picked up one of the fruits to eat, and suddenly one of the campesinos rushed over frantically and made her stop. He said that mamey was a very dangerous fruit, that it could be fatal, especially if you had consumed milk products or eaten river crab (jaiba) that same day. The ceiba is taller than a 10 story building and the nearby mamey is about two thirds the ceiba’s height...
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Mirador said:
True, I guess that could be considered "fried" cheese but I mean specifically that white cheese in DR made for frying..... Americans mostly use Kraft singles and butter a saucepan to create "grilled" cheese sandwich. I've never seen an American diary company produce fried cheese. It's always a Dominican company.
People fry cheese in other places too: paneer in India, halloumi in Cyprus (though it's usually grilled), and for some years now restaurants in the UK have dishes like 'fried camembert/brie in cranberry sauce' on the menu :ermm:.
Grilling 'queso de freir' is an option for those who find the idea of fried cheese a little too much.
Grilling 'queso de freir' is an option for those who find the idea of fried cheese a little too much.