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My grandfather's beer boiled shrimp with Ole Bay =P~

Start with a large pot, fill with your favorite beer, bring to a boil, throw in your ole Bay dusted shrimp, once cooked and pink, enjoy!

I'm from Maryland where Ole Bay goes on everything! From shrimp and crabs to fries to burgers to even Ice cream and chips lol we have a beer that is actually made with Ole Bay from the Flying Dog company that is also based in Maryland!

So I was born in Florida but now I live in Kentucky. My family likes to make what we call Stuffed peppers. What we do is we cut off the tops of the bell peppers and take out the membrane and seeds, we would boil rice and cook beef with garlic onion salt and pepper. We would take some of said white rice and add it to the beef along with some tomato sauce, after baking for like half an hour or till pepper is soft, we would top it off with sauce and cheese and melt said cheese.

I also love to make homemade sugar cookies.

I'm from Nova Scotia and garlic fingers dipped in donair sauce are a BIG thing around here, often eaten with pizza, or donairs (another Atlantic Canada food that if it wasn't such a process would have made this post).

They are simple but delicious- pizza dough, with garlic butter instead of sauce topped with mozzarella and optionally bacon bits (real not fake).

The donair sauce is a little more difficult- 1 can evaporated milk, add sugar and garlic powder, and then white vinegar until desired thickness is reached- adjust sugar and garlic to taste, should be sweet but not overly so.

I live in Eastern Texas, and something I've found to be a staple around here is BBQ. My dad cooks amazing brisket tacos. I'm not from Texas originally, but man they have amazing bbq.

I'll edit in the recipe in a minute, I have to find it :P

So I currently reside in Arkansas but my hear forever resides in my home state of Florida and with that being said my absolute favorite food is seafood but my favorite food that my Nana use to cook is steamed stone crab claws with melted butter.
The ingredients are pretty simple lol 4 1/2 stick of butter 32 large stone crab claws and 1 lemon cut into wedges you start out by putting the uncracked claws into a steamer basket and set over a steamer pot of boiling water on high heat. Cover and steam until heated throughoughly for about 5 minutes while that was going my Nana would have me melt the butter in a pan making sure I didn't burn it lol you remove the claws crack em open and dip em in butter :x =P~ makes me want some just thinking about it =))

I am from Australia and an aussie icon is damper eaten with golden syrup and a cup of billy tea. Traditionally cooked over a campfire in a camp oven (cast iron pot with lid).

Damper recipe: https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/easy-australian-damper-recipe/vjqvsg8t

Billy Tea recipe: https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/billy-tea

I am actually making bacon and red lentil soup for dinner tonight with damper.

Edited to add, I am loving the other recipes posted above, I think I will have to try some of them. Thanks for starting this Herzeloyde.

I’m originally from Connecticut where clear broth clam chowder was a big thing for my family. Our recipe is quite similar to the one in the link. My family doesn’t have an exact recipe for it, it was always just made by my grandparents at summer parties. http://ediblenutmeg.ediblecommunities.com/recipes/connecticut-clear-broth-clam-chowder

Since I live in England, and gemfish already used my favorite dish from here (minus the cheese - just chips & gravy, or chips & curry sauce!) and I just made scones today... (to rhyme with "gone" if you're English, which I'm not, to rhyme with "bones" for everyone else ;) I will share those. I make a different recipe every time, so I'll just share the one I used today. It turned out really well. It's quite necessary to have them with tea and copious amounts of clotted cream and/or jam.
You can also add any dried fruit you like when you add the buttermilk.

Buttermilk Scones
400g (14 oz) plain flour
100g (3 3/4 oz) caster sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarb of soda
3/4 tsp salt
175g (6 oz) butter (soft or hard, doesn't matter)
250ml (8 fl oz) buttermilk

Preheat oven to 220 degrees C (Gas Mark 7).
Toss dry ingredients in a bowl with a fork. Add butter and cut into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles dry breadcrumbs. Good time to get your hands involved! Sometimes that's the only way to get this part done :P Add buttermilk and mix, gently, only till combined! Roll half the dough into a ball and flatten on floured surface. Cut into six pieces with a scone cutter or simply cut into wedges. Repeat with the remaining dough. *Or - roll all of the dough out and make 8 bigger scones.
Place on ungreased baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes. You can brush buttermilk on top and sprinkle with sugar before baking if desired.

My favorite go to meal is a steak stir fry. I mix up about 1 cup beef stock, splash in soy sauce and add minced garlic and 2 tbs corn starch.
First I cook the steak in a little splash of olive oil, I add in my sauce mixture and let it come to a boil, it thickens up. Then I add a package of frozen stiry fry vegetables and let it simmer until they are cooked. It is super quick and easy, I make it almost weekly.

Hey, Buttrflyfreefall!! We can't manage Christmas without our lefse! We make a rula polsa and some boiled veggies to go with it and it's like a Norwegian burrito! :P

My family are all complete carnivores. We do shots of gravy at Christmas!

My favorite meal to cook, and the easiest darn thing I've ever made is a Mississippi Mud roast. Aquire a crockpot. Aquire a CHUCK roast. Place chuck roast in the crockpot. On top of that Chuck roast toss 1 packet of (powdered) Hidden Valley ranch dressing mix, 1 packet of brown gravy mix, and one packet of Au Jus gravy mix. Slap a stick of butter on top of that mess, and add 6 pepperocini. DON'T add any water! Just let that puppy cook on low for 5 or 6 hours and swoon over the yummy smells! Then swoon all over again when you taste it!


(I don't want to enter the contest. Just share my recipe! My Pinterest food board has about a gazillion recipies on it that I will never get around to making!)

Even though we are true Yankees (Northeastern USA), our summertime favorite is a southern classic. This is labor intensive, but SO GOOD.

Tomato Pie

1 – 9” pie crust – prebaked per instructions

Filling:
Preheat oven to 375.
1.5 teaspoons of salt
¼ teaspoon of ground black pepper
8 – tomatoes, cored and diced
Mix with 1 teaspoon of salt and roast on lined sheet pans for 30-40 minutes.
Do not crowd or allow juice into pans as you do not want to steam the tomatoes.

1 – sweet onion, diced
Deeply caramelize while tomatoes roast.

8-9 basil leaves, chiffonade

Combine roasted tomatoes, caramelized onions, and basil with remaining ½ teaspoon of salt and the ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper. You may add a drizzle of olive oil. Add to prebaked pie shell.

Topping:
1/3 cup grated parmesan
1/3 cup shredded low fat mozzarella
1/3 cup mayonnaise
a few drops of hot sauce, to taste

Blend all together, add more mayo and cheese if needed. Top the pie filling with the cheese topping.

Bake at 375 for 30 minutes.
Serve warm or room temperature. Makes 6 slices.

Thank you so much!! :D

Ok, now THAT sounds interesting!