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Peasant Food

Cheap, simple country dishes made of local, seasonal or left-over ingredients

This is a start-up page and is currently in development.

There is something reassuring about country food. Nothing fancy, no miniscule portions arranged artistically, no delicate drizzling of unlikely coloured sauces on expensive porcelain, no exotic ingredients or garnishes, just good, honest, filling food, and plenty of it, ladled out on wooden trenchers or in earthenware bowls. If this is what you like, read this. And if you'd like to contribute dishes from your country to appear in these pages, send an email here.

I have had the good fortune to travel quite widely in my life as an English teacher, and have made friends in many countries around the world. This in part has motivated this page. But I also felt it would be useful to have in one place a reminder that I and my friends could access from anywhere and use to remind ourselves of meals we had made and enjoyed. Simple stuff, easy to prepare (though not necessarily quick - certainly not 'fast food'). Hence this space.

This page is quite straightforward:

Dishes are listed below by name and simple description.
The principal ingredients are marked below in bold.
Links below right will take you straight to the recipe pages.
Vegan, gluten-free, etc. meals are deducible from ingredients

All the dishes here have been contributed by me or my friends, and all can be downloaded, shared, cooked and hopefully enjoyed.

Name of Dish	Brief description of meal	Country of recipe	Contributed by	Link
Atascaburras	Spanish cod stew with potatoes	Spain, Castille and La Mancha	Willie Cabrera Walsh, Argentina	GO
Bandeja Criolla	National dish of Venezuela, with shredded meat (usually beef), black beans, plantains and white rice.	Venezuela	Mireya Pereira, Boconó, Venezuela	GO
Bauernfruhstuck	Dish from Germany, with smoked bacon, potatoes, onion and green peppers.	Germany	Michael Carrier, UK/USA	GO
Bubble and Squeak	A dish made from cooked potatoes and cabbage, with or without additions, mixed together and fried	England	Phil Denston, Durham, UK	GO
Carbonada	A dish from northern Argentina with beef, corn, potatoes, squash and other vegetables.	Northern Argentina	Annie Altamirano, Spain/Argentina	GO
Cham’s Style Hot 'n Spicy Pork Trotters	A Nepalese dish using onions, tomatoes and pigs' trotters, highly seasoned.	Nepal	Sarita Dewan, Nepal	GO
Crubeens	An Irish dish using boiled and fried pigs' trotters , seasoned and eaten by hand with Guiness.	Ireland	John Liddy, Ireland	GO
Grillée aux mojettes	A French peasant dish with beans, salted butter and farmhouse bread.	France (Vendée area)	Gerard Hocmard, France	GO
Le Touski	Quebecois leftover stew typically made with sausages, beans, root vegetables and pretty much anything else around.	Canada	Julianne Burgess, Hamilton, Canada	GO
Locro	Traditional South American stew typically made with corn, beans, potatoes, pumpkin, chorizo sausages and meat such as pork or beef.	North-west Argentina	Martin Eayrs, UK/Argentina	GO
Tourin à l’ail	French countrymeal typically made with garlic, eggs, flour and wine vinegar	South-west France	Gerard Hocmard, France	GO