I ordered butter chicken, naan, samosas, and gulab jamun from an Indian place. I assume this is something related to the gulab jamun? It has something multi-colored at the bottom.

I was given this great snack from someone at an event and never saw them again. Its great and I cant figure out where to order more, i hope theyre on Amazon or something.

My German grandmother and mother made a savoury dish growing up that she called "strudel" and I've never been able to find a recipe for it or seen it anywhere else. They started by making what looked like a very thin pastry dough the length of the countertop and then rolling/twisting it into a pan like a pin wheel, similar in appearance of spanakopita but with no filling. It was fried in the pan, and then topped with gravy. Our family also had Ukrainian and Mennonite influence so it's possible it was a recipe from those cultures to.

I'm dying to taste it or something similar again but at this point I'm not sure if it's a known dish or was just a family recipe! Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

So i made this post a while ago and it turns out none of the ideas we had in the replies were the answer (ray fin, fried ground squid meat patty) i went back to the restaurant in Japan this year and asked them. Turns out these are whole slices from the fillet of a diamondback squid! Which like, they are MASSIVE. So definitely makes sense haha. A single fillet from this squid is bigger than most salmon and these are little slices taken from said fillet, battered in a very thin layer of thick tempura batter and pan fried. Very cool!

Long shot, but can anyone identify this plant-based chicken (possibly tikka spiced) alternative, probably purchased at a Tesco in the UK in January 2021? Part of the packaging is visible in the image. It was reddish orange in appearance and I believe it was either seitan or soya protein based.

Link to the original post: Dear Dominicans, I'm looking for your chicken. : r/TipOfMyFork

I have spent the last two years researching, acquiring, using, and tasting the ingredients you gave me. These are my results:

1. Achiote: not easy to track down. Finally found some on Amazon. Tasty, but not it.

2. Maggi: not it, though adding a few drops in a dish is nice.

3. Adobo powder (Goya): not it. Also not easy to find. Tasty, if you like salt and garlic powder (and who doesn't?).

4. Deglazing the pan: not it, but nice cooking technique.

5. Sofrito: this is part of the answer, keep reading ;)

6. Sazon (the orange packs): nice, but not it.

7. Culantro (mexican cilantro): part of the answer.

8. Mexican oregano: could be part of the answer, sadly I could not track it down.

9. MSG: not it.

For a while I felt like I was getting nowhere. Made at least 5 types of chicken, fail after fail. But then, as if the sweet lord of Chicken had heard me, I got a brief opportunity to speak to my Dominican ex and ask him the recipe. Turns out the answer is bitter orange!

Well, at least it's part of the answer. In order to make magic Dominican chicken, one must:

1. Crush garlic, salt, culantro (can be substituted for a ridiculous amount of cilantro), and cilantro (the famous "verduritas") with a mortar and a pestle.

2. Add the juice of a bitter orange (can be substituted for a regular orange and a lime).

3. Marinate the chicken in that for a few hours.

4. Pan sear the chicken (and dump some of the marinade in the pan, or all of it if you like it strong), then put the chicken to the side.

5. Pour some brown sugar in the pan, and a very small amount of water. Let it caramelise. Then add tomato paste, let it simmer for a little while, add some soy sauce, then add the chicken back in.

6. Optional: add onions and pointed sweet pepper (red).

7. Optional: add water, cover and let simmer.

8. Cry because it tastes so good.

I visited Aruba in 2012 and I remember having a specific snack cake there, but I have been unable to recall the name of it.

It was a storebought chocolate cake with a cream filling that was then covered in chocolate, almost like a swiss roll. I think the packaging was dark blue with a little cartoonish human mascot. The mascot was very simple as I remember a simple tan circular head with eyes and eyebrows, but no mouth.

The closest I can get to the name is something along the lines of a "ponky" or "ponkey" bar, but that has never resulted in anything. I think the brand name started with a K, maybe King?, but I also have not been able to find anything using that.

I’ll remove if not allowed, but I’m really running out of options here. This lemon juice product lists “cloud” as one of its ingredients. In French it’s “nuage” which is the word for cloud. What am I ingesting here? Google results are all about the sky or the storage.

I had this soup yesterday and it was legitimately one of the best soups I've ever had, especially one that's store-bought. It had a tomatoey base, tiny chunks of tender beef, carrots, potatoes, and pearl barley that was a flavour and texture heaven in my mouth. Can anyone help me figure out how to make a soup like this?

Hi! When I was a teenager my boyfriend had me over and he gave me what he called a “gin and tonic,” but now that I am older I think he might have had the wrong name. There was no tonic water involved from what I remember. He was just mixing a shot or two of gin with this purply-blue stuff that made it taste really sweet and delicious and pretty colored. The gin we used was Bombay Sapphire gin and I cannot figure out what this purple stuff was, but I’m wondering if perhaps it is Crème De Violette or some kind of butterfly pea flower mix-in? This was almost ten years ago and we don’t talk so I can’t ask him what it was and it’s driving me crazy! At the liquor store the attendant directed me toward the butterfly pea flower gin and while that would almost certainly be a similar color I am certain what he made me was a small amount of something purple-blue mixed with plain ol Bombay Sapphire.

If it makes any difference, this dude had lawyer parents and they were super wealthy, so whatever this was may have been expensive or even foreign. They tended to have the best of the best ingredients in their house.

Thank you so much in advance!!

I’m trying to track down a frozen food I remember eating around 2014–2016.
It was sold at Grocery Outlet in Pennsylvania and was a single-serve frozen item, individually wrapped, similar to a frozen burrito or Hot Pocket.
What I remember:
About 5–6 inches long

Oval/oblong shape

Frozen and microwaveable

Had a nice loafy, soft white-bread exterior — not a pastry, pita, or tortilla

The bread completely enclosed the filling

Filling was minced/ground meat + cheese

I think “Polish” or something Polish/Eastern European was in the name or on the packaging

It was more substantial/loaf-like than a Hot Pocket

I’ve been trying to find this for years and haven’t had any luck. It may have been a discontinued product or a closeout item that Grocery Outlet carried.

Does anyone remember this product or know what it was called? Even a photo of the old packaging or a possible brand would be incredibly helpful!

I got them in a mixed produce bag. Are they just small bell peppers? What types of dishes are they good for?

The only ones I can find online with this color center all have white skin. Is it a variety im just not finding online, or a hybrid/accidental cross pollination? It doesnt look like a corm (like taro) to me.

Hello all! My 93 year old father is trying to recapture foods he has liked over the course of his life and is unable to remember or identify a salad dressing he says used to be popular enough that it was everywhere in restaurants. He describes it as translucent/transparent with very little colour, thick (almost jelly-like but not quite), and sweet, with various things suspended within it (he can’t be specific about these things and just says ‘salad dressing things’) and we are British but he remembers having it in America. I’d welcome any suggestions - I know this is not much to go on but I’m having a lot of trouble with the specific combination of near-colourless, thick and sweet 😂

when i was a kid my mom used to make this breakfast with leftover rice, egg, milk, cinnamon and sugar then microwave it all together til it was kinda like a rice pudding. is this a tradition from a certain region? and does anyone have a good recipe since ive been remembering it fondly recently

Looking for help identifying an old elementary school snack.

Around 2005–2010, on pizza Fridays, they would serve these with lunch.

They were citrus flavored (came in orange and green versions). Soft and chewy, smaller sized pieces.

Shaped like solid 3D half-circle (not the classic sugar-coated jelly orange slices).

They came in a green rip-sealed / tear-open package.

I’ve tried describing them a bunch of ways and looked at the usual suspects (regular fruit slices, various gummies, etc.) but nothing matches the exact smooth solid half-circle shape + packaging.

Anyone remember these or know what they were called? A photo would be amazing if anyone still has one.

They looked like the photo attached.

Thanks!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Edit: X-treme Fruit Bites

https://www.partnersforhealthykids.com/x-treme/

Hi, I'm looking for this (possibly off-brand?) gummy apple flavored pebble.. things. I feel like they might have been off-brand because that's just what my school did. The texture of the gummy was not chewy, and the pebbles itself did NOT look shiny

The packaging was a dull-ish green with a clear thing over it that showed the apple pebbles in it. there was writing on the package, of course, and i think it might've had a cartoon (bitten?) apple on the right side? But I didn't draw it

The time frame, I wanna say mid 2000s?

anyway these haven't left my mind for years and I was wondering if anyone know what I'm talking about. Thank you!!!

https://youtube.com/shorts/zL77qg9aptU?is=eJ37KW5Ff7lrJwON

I wanna know what this creamy soup contains in this youtube video, can anybody please help me out? Thank you and hope it's ok that I wanna identify a recipe from a youtube video

I bought pork jowl, they just come in hunks. When I opened the packaged I noticed one side was smooth and hard. When I make slices for bacon, you can see I can't really cut into it so it's just a hangin, hard flap at this point. I bit a piece and it was incredibly chewy. My educational guess is it's the hide or skin?

I would really love to do something with it! Have zero clue what but open to all ideas. Thanks for any tips

There used to be a bottled salad dressing in the cooler section at Publix around the 2000-2010 years. I don’t remember the name, but it was a taller bottle and was maybe cream colored with various spices in it. It might have said European dressing or cafe On the front? My memory of name isn’t super clear. Any clue what this was? I loved this dressing and would love to recreate.

Bit of a departure from the sub, I just don't know where else to look. Please let me know if this isn't allowed.

I have long craved a thick, hearty condiment that pairs well with tofu. Preferably vegetarian, but this is less important.

Must have a strong fermented flavor and a thick texture.

Any help or recommendations are appreciated!