Well back to more cheerful topics
Here are my favorite foods from our journeys, in no particular order
Bitterballen (Amsterdam)- (minced meat, spices, rolled in a ball, breaded, fried... yumm
Foccacia ( Italy)- In the US this is usually a fancy bread, in italy it is basically pizza crust with olive oil, balsamic, rosemary, salt ... pure goodness
Gelato-(Italy and Germany) yes it is good, and also cheap
Belgian waffles (Belgium), yes in Belgium are better
Beer- (Belgium, Germany) yes it is good, even there NA beer is good
croque monsieur (France) not sure how I never had this before, grilled cheese, smothered in cheese
baguettes, croissants (France) available at the local boulangerie
Lamb shank (Ireland)- free roaming happy sheep make good food
Sticky Toffee pudding (Ireland)- , no reason we should have this in the states
Open fire pit meat (Germany)- the meat at the Christmas markets was divine
Cornish Pasty (UK) - anything in puff pastry is good on me, the original hot pocket
will need to return to continue to explore the culinary adventure of europe
Rob
Looks like you found a nice assortment of fattening foods. Don't know how you keep your figure, might need to get back to the dragon boats on your return. You just need to go try new things on offer in Portland's international eateries. We're still trying new things after all these years. I also bought cookbooks from a lot of the countries.
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