That's what my host-mother told me last weekend after I cooked them dinner. I made calzones and they liked them and now they want me to make dinner once a week, so I don't know what I got myself into there! But anyways, I said I would try to make dinner for them once a week and I would try to make some"American" food, or at least dishes that I thought maybe they had never eaten. I agreed with her that calzones definetely were Italian and not American, but dammit, Chili is Tex-Mex and Texas is part of America! (Of course I was dissapointed in myself for making an argument that George Bush would have made, but then again, Lance Armstrong would have agreed too, and as long as he's not a doper, that makes it a little bit better.)
So yeah, this weekend I'm making Chili and in the future I don't know exactly what. Because I did realize that America doesn't have a recognized cuisine like a lot of other countries do. Or at least America doesn't have recognized cuisine that you would want to eat every night, because Philly cheese steaks and Chicago deep-dish pizzas can get pretty unhealthy. So post some comments with suggestion if any pop into your head please.
But I've already made one post about food, so what else is going on? I posted some pictures a couple days ago that I took when I went out riding Wednesday. They're just of a local "climb" and the view you see while a the top, which I think is awesome.
Yesterday I walked around le Jardin de la Fontaine with a friend of mine but I forgot to put my camera in my backpack, so I'll have to go back and get some pictures. It's not really a magnificent garden in the way of various flowers and other plants, but it is an amazing Roman ruin. It's quite large and includes canals that are sourced from an underground river! Plus if you walk all the way up trough the garden and up through the hill you can see all of Nimes and another monument, the Tour Magne. However, this tower costs 2.70 euros (or about $3.78 at the moment) to climb to the top, so of course I didn't do that. I'll definetely take some pictures n the next week and get those up.
That's it for now, I hope everyone's well and have a good weekend!
Jonah
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Hey Jonah-
According to many Texans, Texas is in fact a separate country- I agree.
As for American cuisine, being a country of immigrants, our native cuisines have influences from around the world. But there are many great American dishes, such as:
yankee pot roast, New England clam chowder, oyster po' boys, jambalaya, okra gumbo, corn bread, Indian pudding, collard (and other) greens in pot likker, good smoked barbecue- many variations from different regions, new england boiled dinner (corned beef and cabbage, much more American than Irish), real hamburgers, macaroni and cheese, Maryland crab cakes...
more to come; recipes available on request.
Chris
ps- chili is a texan dish.
make them some smores!
I think it's pretty amazing that you are planning to make your family an entire country in South America for dinner! You know, make sure you include Santiago (with a good sprinkle of pollution), the Andes (add a dash of snow), and the Atacama Desert- maybe that can be dessert!
Hehe... chili, not Chile. Make them cheese steaks- that has to be American.
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