Laaloo Posted November 22, 2016 Posted November 22, 2016 Yeah I've heard about ethiopian food but it just looks weird.
Muloghonto Posted November 22, 2016 Posted November 22, 2016 Just now, laaloo said: Yeah I've heard about ethiopian food but it just looks weird. weird ? Most of their curries look like ours. Their bread looks like pancakes...i guess you can think curry on pancake to be weird.... Rasgulla 1
Laaloo Posted November 22, 2016 Posted November 22, 2016 1 minute ago, Muloghonto said: weird ? Most of their curries look like ours. Their bread looks like pancakes...i guess you can think curry on pancake to be weird.... I guess I've seen different ethiopian food. So what are all those items?
maniac Posted November 22, 2016 Posted November 22, 2016 4 minutes ago, Muloghonto said: weird ? Most of their curries look like ours. Their bread looks like pancakes...i guess you can think curry on pancake to be weird.... Yeah I heard that too that Ethiopian cuisine is very similar to Indian food and heard they have a lot more Vegetarian options for a non-Subcontinental cuisine. MechEng 1
Muloghonto Posted November 22, 2016 Posted November 22, 2016 33 minutes ago, laaloo said: I guess I've seen different ethiopian food. So what are all those items? the pancake like bread is called 'injera', which is made from mixing flour and ground 'teff', which is a grain from Ethiopian highlands. It has the consistency of pancake but tastes like sourdough. Going clockwise from the top: Savoury beef curry ( options exist for Chicken and lamb but IMO the beef tastes best of the three with this kind of spicing) Thick 'Channa' daal- very similar to the Indian way, they make it slightly thicker. Keema curry (and their keema curry is better than ours, no question) fried eggplant Cabbage & Carrots- boiled and then they flash-fry it with spices Spinach curry (its very dry) Yucca curry (its an African root veggie) In the centre is the standard boring salad every Indian should know - diced onions,green peppers, cucumbers & tomatos Mariyam 1
Cricketics Posted November 22, 2016 Posted November 22, 2016 14 hours ago, radhika said: arhar in north toor in south and west I like arhar with zeera,heeng and garlic ka tadka. Guac aint good for you. Get veggie bowl with guac and get used tomit and you will still like your veg bowl like you liked with guac.
Cricketics Posted November 22, 2016 Posted November 22, 2016 1 hour ago, maniac said: Yeah I heard that too that Ethiopian cuisine is very similar to Indian food and heard they have a lot more Vegetarian options for a non-Subcontinental cuisine. 1 hour ago, laaloo said: I guess I've seen different ethiopian food. So what are all those items? Yes, many of my Indian friends have tried and some of them like it. However, vegetarians like me have hard time in convincing ourselves to try. Just that because we have eaten the authentic India food all our lives, I gues you might feel the same. Hence I was never able to push myself to try their tortilla/roti. Nothing like our Indian flour, roti etc and food. Best in the world. Long live Indian veggie food. Laaloo, maniac and MechEng 3
MechEng Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 Yes, Ethiopian culture happens to be one of the most sophisticated cultures which existed in ancient era, challenging the claims made by historians about black people always being uncivilized. In fact it was the ethiopians who laid the foundation for Egyptian civilization and also the world's first ever coffee brewers. maniac and Cricketics 2
moniker Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 Chipotle......Even got Guac free because I am veggie......suck it meat eaters You can add sofritas to your chipotle bowl if you want some veggie proteins. Guac wouldn't be free then though. maniac 1
sourab10forever Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 Dal chawal kha lo Mitro... MechEng and Cricketics 2
MechEng Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 11 hours ago, Muloghonto said: It looks like traditional Indian thali curries on a dosa. SLICKR392 1
vayuu1 Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 Quinoa mixed with rajma cucumber, tomato, onion, lemon, along with kanji. Sent from my SM-N900 using Tapatalk MechEng 1
sourab10forever Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 What more do you want...the perfect meal! MechEng 1
sourab10forever Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 Whats that brown cork ball ? Ragi balls...they Clare called "mudde" here Rasgulla and MechEng 2
SLICKR392 Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 Coffee; chips and dip. Made my own dip. :]
Muloghonto Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 14 hours ago, MechEng said: Yes, Ethiopian culture happens to be one of the most sophisticated cultures which existed in ancient era, challenging the claims made by historians about black people always being uncivilized. In fact it was the ethiopians who laid the foundation for Egyptian civilization and also the world's first ever coffee brewers. I don't know about Ethiopia laying foundations of Egypt- atleast I've not seen any scholarly evidence for it. But what is interesting, is that Ethiopia became very rich around 1800 years ago (then known as Axum) because the Romans banned Indian merchants from Roman territory & due to the Roman-Indian trade being the biggest international trade of those times (bigger than the China-Rome trade), the Ethiopians became the intermediaries: our merchants would go sail to Yemen/Eritrea with Ethiopian merchants & Ethiopians would take our wares to Egypt to sell to the Romans. Maybe this is why their food is very similar in flavor to ours, as our spices have been present in Ethiopia for many many centuries. MechEng 1
MechEng Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 10 minutes ago, Muloghonto said: I don't know about Ethiopia laying foundations of Egypt- atleast I've not seen any scholarly evidence for it. But what is interesting, is that Ethiopia became very rich around 1800 years ago (then known as Axum) because the Romans banned Indian merchants from Roman territory & due to the Roman-Indian trade being the biggest international trade of those times (bigger than the China-Rome trade), the Ethiopians became the intermediaries: our merchants would go sail to Yemen/Eritrea with Ethiopian merchants & Ethiopians would take our wares to Egypt to sell to the Romans. Maybe this is why their food is very similar in flavor to ours, as our spices have been present in Ethiopia for many many centuries. The origin of the Egyptian civilization is still a mystery and how the pyramids were built is even bigger a mystery, there is a speculation that the Egypt pyramids were built by Cushites (the ancient people of Ethiopia and Sudan), there are pyramids found in Sudan which are called the Nubian pyramids and are believed to be even older than the Giza pyramids. Btw, why would the Romans ban Indian merchants? Possibly Indian businesses were outperforming their local businesses at that time.
Muloghonto Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 7 minutes ago, MechEng said: The origin of the Egyptian civilization is still a mystery and how the pyramids were built is even bigger a mystery, there is a speculation that the Egypt pyramids were built by Cushites (the ancient people of Ethiopia and Sudan), there are pyramids found in Sudan which are called the Nubian pyramids and are believed to be even older than the Giza pyramids. Btw, why would the Romans ban Indian merchants? Possibly Indian businesses were outperforming their local businesses at that time. 1. The Nubian pyramids are a lot younger than the Egyptian ones and we know who built the Nubian ones - The Cushite dynasty around 750-650 BC built the nubian pyramids. 2. We don't know exactly why the Romans banned the Indian merchants. But a ban was enforced around the time of Emperor Marcus Aurelius ( 160-180 AD), where Indian merchants were not allowed on Roman soil. Since Trajan annexed Nabatea (Modern day Jordan-Negev region), Indian merchants had no outlet to the Roman empire except for Axum(Ethiopia) & Charax (Modern day Basra region, under the Persians). The Charax trade route was less reliable for commerce, because Romans & Persians were like India-Pakistan back then. In anycase, the reason Romans banned the Indian merchants are unknown but there are clues towards it. For example, Pliny the Elder (around 50 AD) said this: " India, China and the Arabian peninsula take one hundred million sesterces from our empire per annum at a conservative estimate: that is what our luxuries and women cost us. For what fraction of these imports is intended for sacrifices to the gods or the spirits of the dead?" My guess would be, our traders were completely dominant over the Roman traders, because our traders did arithmetic in decimal & base-10 system, the Romans did it in Roman numerals. Which are impossible practically to add/subtract etc. in large numbers. For eg, if the Roman goes ' i want 10 bales of cotton, 2 sacks of turmeric, 1 sack of pepper for 1000 gold pieces' and i go ' no, i will give you 9 bales of cotton, 1 sack of turmeric and 2 sacks of pepper for 900 gold pieces', the Roman would take hours to figure out if he got a better/worse deal than before, while we can figure this out in matter of minutes. So they probably had enough of continuously losing on bargains with us and banned us from their soil. MechEng 1
maniac Posted November 23, 2016 Posted November 23, 2016 (edited) Vegetable Stromboli from a local Pizza place...By the time I was through 30% of it,It was the best stromboli I ever had...... by the time I hit 60% I was full but I couldn't stop eating it because it was really good... By the time I hit 90% I hate Stromboli, now I am completely through with it,no more Italian food ever...can't stand the frikin smell of Italian cuisine Edited November 23, 2016 by maniac Cricketics and MechEng 2
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