Looks cool! Great to know that you like it ^^

"Churrasco" é the word in brazilian portuguese for "barbecue". That's literally the translation. On the other hand, "churrascaria" is the place where you can eat diferent kinds of meat made in barbecue style just paying on single valor for it and paying additionally for beverages in general.

Har, har. So, we meet again, stranger ;]

Totally agree on chilli, it's Peppers-with-goddamn-Meat, can't go easy on either. Same with cumin, same with garlic. Though it's a bit-a-case of "do as I say not as I do" with meat for me, 'cos real, honest to gods, non-ground beef is way out of my financial league... Didya know that adding a chunk of dark chocolate or at least cocoa has interesting results? It's hard to describe other than by comparison to an earthy, almost thick-seeming dry wine. And I'm a barbarian hopelessly guilty of going overboard with beans and also chucking in canned corn but...it's an affordable way to feed the eager moocher maws...
Not to mention that I kinda like beans.
And let Japanese keep the rice for their puny kare-raisu paprikasz ;p

Uh, are people really capable of picking their favourite anything? Every time I see such a prompt I instantly panic. So much stuff I'd like to share, yea? Drinks are pretty straightforward, heh. Surely it's cocoa / hot chocolate and real, homemade, unfiltered hard cider. The kind you drink lunching on cheese, stale bread, some cold cut and an onion to feel straight outta mediaeval fantasy. The kind you make from pressed apple juice, fermented with their own yeast even. Though I add Burgundy yeast just to be sure. And the more alcohol it has in the end, fermenting on a strong culture, the less sweet it's gonna be so it's win-win. Beautifully delishus. And yea, muh english seems to be breaking down, probably from drunkennes desu~

I'd recommend a nice, stupid-simple dish that's so straightforward, it's hard to actively dislike:
Mashed boiled potatoes are mixed together with about half their mass in curd cheese and a reasonable (depending on who's asking) amount of slightly(!) browned onions, liberal amount of black pepper and salted to taste; can be left sitting in a fridge for a couple hours (disclaimer: also great for midnight poaching if left sitting overnight, take care ;p). Then you need to prepare yourself some pancakes, but not the omelette-like ones with baking powder; the legitimately flat and wobbly ones are what we need. Something-something-crepe may be the word. You spread them with the prepared filling, fold them into triangles, batter lightly and deep fry to utter deliciousness until crunchy outside. Served with chopped parsley greens on top. Have fun x)

It doesn't really have a standard name. The place I buy it from calls it Rodopska Zakuska (Rhodope Breakfast/Snack), but if I google that I get something entirely different. Thing is, here we have tons of little bakeries that sell variations of banitsa and other baked goods, and no two use the exact same recipes. So they end up making up their own names for half the things they sell. And I've never encountered that exact thing I like at any other bakery, so I don't know what anyone else would call it.

The thing itself is like a thick sleeve of pizza dough with lots of sauce inside and a long vienna sausage/hot dog in the center with the tip sticking out of the dough on both ends. The top of the dough is covered in melted cheese. The dough is rectangular-ish, almost the shape of a brick, not like calzone. (Well, not like the images of calzone on the internet. The bakeries here make calzone with the same brick-shaped rectangular thick dough. In fact, the only difference is they use chopped meat that doesn't taste as good as the sausage and seal the dough on both ends.)

I really love this particular thing because it manages to combine the right amount of dough and filling. That same brick-shaped dough is used for various other pastries by most bakeries here, and while I very much love the dough itself, most pastries using it are too plain, whereas this one has plenty of meat and sauce and they both taste good.

Yeah, grilled or fried both work I'd imagine. So far I've enjoyed grilled salmon BLT's best, but it goes surprisingly well with the other ingredients. I haven't tried fried that I can recall, but probably a good idea with some fish types. As far as actual fish dishes, that's probably what I cook the most of when I get inspired to do that (or my girlfriend doesn't cook, which is generally a rarity overall). I have a few I created from other things/accidents that I really like!

The cheese straws I make a pretty spicy, and more fluffy and airy, just like if I were making soft chocolate chip cookies, sort of, but with sharp cheese/spices instead. So they're not really straws anymore I guess, but I still call them that since they have the same ingredients as the other kind. Very good and they go way too fast!

Oh yeah, and for alcoholic stuff, I forgot that I still like fermented stuff... like kombucha! Great stuff, but very meager amounts of alcohol (no percentages even shown, so probably under 1%). Good probiotic source, for those into that sort of deal. The taste... in a way, kinda reminds me a bit of the days when I did love to have a few beers though ;)

Yeah it is. :) And kudos on learning to cook, definitely opens up the variety of food you can enjoy! I've learned to cook the past couple years and it can definitely be a lot of fun. I feel like I don't know what I'm doing but am always pleasantly surprised how things turn out haha. Yep I am.

Yeah I do the same, bulking things up with it. Can't really go wrong! Hope you like it. :)

As an art form cooking is among the best. Art in all forms has the ability to bring joy to other people, though this one's beauty is fleeting. Taste, smell, appearance are all lovely, but fade over time or when someone eats it ;) That temporary beauty is part of what makes it special :) And the joy it brings to other, the memories it helps create are much more valuable. Enjoy your latest creation with your family, and amusingly enough I'm enjoying that soup I mentioned earlier XD

_“People die . . . so love them every day.
Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone.”
~L.J. Smith

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I've been to Malaysia and tried a couple of dishes in Penang, but Loh Mee was my favorite. A shame that most of the places I went to sold shirt souvenirs and cheap electronics -- I didn't visit enough street food stands. I got a hotel in the wrong area of town I guess.