Food Combinations

Isn't it funny how some foods just go together. Like I just like sauerkraut and dumplings combined with country sausage and cold pork and beans. Or borscht and mom's homemade bread to dip in it. Or the Norwegians combine lefsa, lutefisk and mashed potatoes and though I laugh that they are all white foods, the combination of tastes is delicious. Like all traditional dishes, the ingredients are mostly simple, it is the preparation that is complex. The Czechoslovakian recipe for pierogies, polish Pierogi, and the Ukranians have pirohi but they are all little dough pockets with a surprise inside. My neighbor brought over tamales she made and they were wonderful and you can hide different ingredients. Mexican food just combines the same basic 6 or so ingedients in many different ways. Chinese food is probably the most adventurous - lots of unusual ingredients sometimes.

When we get older and have too much stuff, food makes the best gifts.