Ana's school is having a potluck tomorrow for Thanksgiving.

[conuly]

I was going to make Doro Wat, but then I started thinking - hey, I'm not Ethiopian, what if it's all weird to do that? Or what if my recipe (though really yummy) is embarrassingly inauthentic and somebody knows?

So I thought I'd make something Belgian. I want to make mashed potatoes, but I know somebody else is bound to do that. Though really, I ought to go ahead and do it anyway, other people don't make mashed potatoes right. Potatoes alone do not mashed potatoes make. You have to have, like, carrots and stuff in there. And lately I've been making mashed potatoes with apples too. Mmm, that's good. We have a lot of potatoes to use up, and a lot of apples as well.

And for sure I'm not showing up with frites :)

Can't do rabbit until they sell rabbit at the local supermarket (I'm not being sarcastic here, they *do* sell rabbit periodically there. It's a weird store in many ways, probably because our corner of the island is all different ethnic groups and they all eat different things), and I don't think they're doing that right now.

Which leaves me with waterzooi. Or waffles, but really. My sister may be reading this and going "What the heck waterzooi, I never ate that!", but, indeed, she has. Waterzooi is, loosely, "stuff". In a skillet. (How you can have recipes online for stuff in a skillet, I don't know, but people do. Of course, considering that's the bulk of all meals for all people everywhere and everywhen, I guess I'm just being persnickety.)

Except that all these recipes say I need to separate a number of eggs. We have eggs, that's no problem (I'll still make berbere this weekend just so I can make devilled eggs!), but I hate separating eggs, especially when I have no use for the whites. I'm just lazy. My mother goes "Well, make meringue cookies!", but if I'm too lazy to separate the eggs I'm much too lazy to make more cookies!

So I guess I'll make waterzooi. With mashed potatoes on the side. I'm not going to dinner at Ana's school and having to eat substandard mashed potatoes.

Comments

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

Potatoes with...carrots? That just sounds wrong. I've tried potatoes mashed with parsnips once and that was okay, but my preferred version is still one with just potato, olive oil, and a little rosemary.

[conuly]

*shakes head*

You need to try it with carrots. Because that's the way to do it :P

[marveen.livejournal.com]

You do know that the apple version is known as Himmel und Erde in Germany, right?

(I too prefer mashed potatoes in the pure and uncut state, with merely enough butter & milk/cream to ensure they are mashed to the proper silken consistency.)

[conuly]

Yes, I did know that - reading it in a book was where I got the idea! But not being German, nor speaking German, I just call it "mashed potatoes with apples".

[conuly]

And silken consistency, bleh. I like my mashed potatoes to still resemble potatoes, not baby food. My prefered texture is more... full-textured.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

You'd like Sausage and Kraut the way my mother makes it--the potatoes are cooked with the bacon, onions, sausage and sauerkraut until they start to fall apart, so part of the dish is mashed-texture-with-meat-etc-in-it and part is solid bits of potatoes with the wonderful smoky-sauerkraut flavor cooked into them.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

I hear you on the potatoes. I whisk mine among other things.

[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

Ethiopian food sounds like Dr. Seuss food. Zil zil tibs! Doro wat! Tej!

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Personally, I LURVE the dorowat, and who cares if it's authentic to Ethiopians? It is authentic to US as that's how we eat it! Howver, I am just as glad you're not making it as it makes it much easier for me not to eat it!!

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

Potatoes with...carrots? That just sounds wrong. I've tried potatoes mashed with parsnips once and that was okay, but my preferred version is still one with just potato, olive oil, and a little rosemary.

[conuly]

*shakes head*

You need to try it with carrots. Because that's the way to do it :P

[marveen.livejournal.com]

You do know that the apple version is known as Himmel und Erde in Germany, right?

(I too prefer mashed potatoes in the pure and uncut state, with merely enough butter & milk/cream to ensure they are mashed to the proper silken consistency.)

[conuly]

Yes, I did know that - reading it in a book was where I got the idea! But not being German, nor speaking German, I just call it "mashed potatoes with apples".

[conuly]

And silken consistency, bleh. I like my mashed potatoes to still resemble potatoes, not baby food. My prefered texture is more... full-textured.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

You'd like Sausage and Kraut the way my mother makes it--the potatoes are cooked with the bacon, onions, sausage and sauerkraut until they start to fall apart, so part of the dish is mashed-texture-with-meat-etc-in-it and part is solid bits of potatoes with the wonderful smoky-sauerkraut flavor cooked into them.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

I hear you on the potatoes. I whisk mine among other things.

[feebeeglee.livejournal.com]

Ethiopian food sounds like Dr. Seuss food. Zil zil tibs! Doro wat! Tej!

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Personally, I LURVE the dorowat, and who cares if it's authentic to Ethiopians? It is authentic to US as that's how we eat it! Howver, I am just as glad you're not making it as it makes it much easier for me not to eat it!!