What dish do you think is just eatten in your region?

[chirurgeon]

On a recent cooking show on our local PBS station, the hosts, who are not native to Pittsburgh said they never heard of Strawberry Pretzel Salad before moving here. It is my mother's signature dish, we can't go to a gathering at my sister's house without it. The base is crushed pretzels mixed with sugar and melted butter and baked in the oven. Then you mix cream cheese, sugar and Cool Whip for the middle and the top is strawberry Jello and frozen strawberries. Yummy yummy.

What is distinct to your area that you can't imagine not having around?

 

[chirurgeon]

If someone could tell me how to fix the spelling in the title, I'd appreiciate it.

 

[NMAmy]

Paczki. It's THE most delicious filled donut you'll ever have. You can only get them just before Lent. In fact, I'm stopping at the store to bring them in to work tomorrow. Each one weighs about a pound. Okay, I'm exaggerating here. I wait all year for this! I've lived other places and Michigan is the only place I've ever seen them.

There's a lot of food in New Mexico that isn't available elsewhere. Mainly green chile. EVERYTHING in New Mexico comes with green chile. You can even get it on your burger at McDonald's.

 

[Not so Dumbo]

If someone could tell me how to fix the spelling in the title, I'd appreiciate it.

click on edit and go advanced.

I've heard of Strawberry Pretzel salad and have even had it once or twice, but it's not common here. In the U.P. they have Pasties which is closest to a pot pie but not really the same. That's the only place I've heard of those.

 

[Not so Dumbo]

Paczki. It's THE most delicious filled donut you'll ever have. You can only get them just before Lent. In fact, I'm stopping at the store to bring them in to work tomorrow. Each one weighs about a pound. Okay, I'm exaggerating here. I wait all year for this! I've lived other places and Michigan is the only place I've ever seen them.

There's a lot of food in New Mexico that isn't available elsewhere. Mainly green chile. EVERYTHING in New Mexico comes with green chile. You can even get it on your burger at McDonald's.

YUMMY It's Paczki time again I love prune.

 

[NMAmy]

YUMMY It's Paczki time again I love prune.

I'm partial to raspberry myself. Pasties are yummy, too, but I have to pick the rutabega out.

I've never had strawberry pretzel salad before--actually I'd never even heard of it. It sounds kind of yummy.

 

[james'mommy]

I love stawberry pretzel salad. I haven't had it since we moved south. My coworker used to put nuts in it. Yum. Could someone give me the recipie? I'm alreay slobbering. Something we have in NC is pimento cheese. I'm not from around here so I have no idea what the appeal of pimento cheese is. It's like a mushy orange cheese spread with pimentos in it. I have adapted quite well to the house wine of the south- sweet tea. I'm so used to the sweet tea that I was sort of taken aback when I was in NY last month and I was given unsweetened tea.

 

[SillyMe]

Mmmm, that sounds delicious.

I've found that most people have never heard of pierogies, so they must be a regional thing (NE PA).

 

[Kimmielee]

But it is considered a dessert, not a salad! I made it for the first time for my family Christmas gathering and they did everything but lick the dish clean! I have the recipe:

STRAWBERRY JELLO PRETZEL DESSERT
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LAYER #1:

2 c. crushed pretzels (grate in food processor)
3/4 c. butter, melted
3 tbsp. sugar

Mix above ingredients into 9 x 13 inch pan. Press flat onto
bottom of pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 5 minutes. Let cool.


LAYER #2:

8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 c. sugar
8 oz. Cool Whip

Mix together until smooth. Spoon over pretzel layer.


LAYER #3:

2 (3 oz.) pkg. strawberry Jello
2 c. boiling water
2 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen strawberries

Mix strawberry Jello and boiling water together. Add sliced
strawberries. Refrigerate for about 1 hour until slightly
jelled. Pour carefully over cream cheese mixture.
Refrigerate.


I have very southern parents so most of our "staples" are actually brought from the south.

Paczki's are big here in MI as another poster stated... Hamtramck is a polish community near Detroit and the bakeries there started the craze.... or so I'm told....

Pasties... they have started to migrate to southern MI, but in my opinion, they can stay in the U.P.!!!

 

[LadyAmongTramps]

I think red velvet cake is mainly in the South, or am I wrong?

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

kolaches--they're for breakfast, the most popular is ham and cheese or sausage and cheese (the meat and cheese are wrappped in a dough and baked). but you can get all sorts of flavors, including fruit and cream cheese....yumm!

 

[Cool-Beans]

Paczki. It's THE most delicious filled donut you'll ever have. You can only get them just before Lent. In fact, I'm stopping at the store to bring them in to work tomorrow. Each one weighs about a pound. Okay, I'm exaggerating here. I wait all year for this! I've lived other places and Michigan is the only place I've ever seen them.

We have them in Cleveland, just before Lent. I don't get all the fuss. They've always seemed and tasted like over-sized doughnuts to me. But people do get excited about them.

Mmmm, that sounds delicious.

I've found that most people have never heard of pierogies, so they must be a regional thing (NE PA).

We have pierogies, too. I've never made one...but use the frozen ones all the time. Rarely do I meet a pierogie I don't like.

 

[momrek06]

OKAY I am in New England and anything and everything with FISH!!

LOBSTERS

SHRIMP

CLAMS

Melt in your mouth fish dishes!!!!!!
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Now for my town, which is in South Central MA., it is a large Polish Community and I have lived here 10 years and I am not Polish so I do not know that much about their dishes but allot of Polish Church Fesitvals and Polish dancing and Polish specialities.

 

[christineann]

I think it's hard to find many dishes that are still exclusive to one area. We love grits. We love steamed or roasted oysters....split a bucket with my son today. YUM

 

[ariel & eric]

Mmmm, that sounds delicious.

I've found that most people have never heard of pierogies, so they must be a regional thing (NE PA).

I believe they are a Polish thing. Grandma use to make them all the time in the Detroit area.

 

[ariel & eric]

I think red velvet cake is mainly in the South, or am I wrong?

Make that too. I haven't personally, but have eaten it at many parties and I'm a northerner.

 

[freckles and boo]

For purists the Chicago-style hot dog is:

a BEEF hot dog (all beef Vienna)
a POPPY seed bun
YELLOW mustard (not brown)
SWEET relish
chopped RAW onion
a kosher dill pickle spear
tomato slices
sport peppers
celery salt
NO KETCHUP

A salad on a dog. I am NOT a purist.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/enter...ogs,1,2057332.story?coll=chi-archspecials-utl

 

[kelsco99]

Poutine...

French Fries topped with cheese curd and brown gravy.... really yummy! Started in Quebec but has migrated out from there to other parts of Canada.

Some use mozza cheese instead of cheese curds.

Of course, most people think this is gross when they first hear of it or see it but you have to try it if you ever get the chance

 

[jbmom]

Paczki's, I like the raspberry and strawberry ones. Yum!

 

[MidgeD79]

muskrat YUCK!