Smoor Daging

Smoor Daging

Smoor Daging is one of the many dishes you can find on a Indonesian/Dutch Rijsttafel buffet. It’s smothered beef in Soya sauce.

Chicken Enchilada

Chicken Enchilada

Enchilada: [ehn-chee-LAH-thahs ] a tortilla dipped in chile sauce, stuffed with a variety of ingredients then rolled up and baked. The word “enchilada” just means “in chile”. In Mexico the dish is simple “street vendor” fare and not typically the more elaborate version we see in most U.S. Mexican restaurants. There are two basic methods of making enchiladas. The first method is where the tortilla is lightly fried then dipped in a warmed chile sauce then filled and rolled. The second method dips the tortilla in “raw” sauce then lightly fried, filled and rolled. According to American Food and Drink an article in “American Speech” in 1949 described the enchilada as “a Mexican dish prepared more for turista than for local consumption

Meatloaf

Meatloaf

The meatloaf has European origins; meatloaf of minced meat was mentioned in the famous Roman cookery collection Apicius as early as the 5th century. Meatloaf is a traditional German, Belgian and Dutch dish, and it is a cousin to the Italian meatball. American meatloafhas its origins in scrapple, a mixture of ground pork and cornmeal served by German-Americans in Pennsylvania since Colonial times. However, meatloaf in the contemporary American sense did not appear in cookbooks until the late 19th century.