Alphabet Food Safari

By Dan Foyster and Annie Foyster

You are invited to the inaugural Alphabet Food Safari. The concept is as follows. On
the first Saturday of every month for 2012 we shall have a world food extravaganza.
Each couple/person is invited to make a dish from a country of the world starting
with a specific letter. Naturally, January will be the letter A. This first dinner will be
hosted at our house at 7pm. Then at that first event a persons/couples name will
be picked from a hat and they will then host the February event also to be started at
7pm so its easy to remember. Also at the first dinner, a letter will be picked from the
hat so that the next choice of countries may be allocated. If you are interested in this
event, would be prepared to make a dish to share once a month and are also able
to host a dinner event during the year, please let us know and well put your name
in the hat. If you are unable to host an event but would like to be a part of this social
eating feast, we will host the event at our house when your name is selected.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: May 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493136582

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Copyright © 2014 by Annie & Dan Foyster. PID: 612627

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014907801

ISBN:        Softcover                978-1-4931-3657-5

                Hardcover              978-1-4931-3659-9

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Rev. date: 05/13/2014

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Contents

The Invitation

Foreword

Acknowledgements

A

Australian Kangaroo And Coopers Pies

Australian Burgers With The Lot

Andorran Little Gypsy Pork Rolls

Armenian Lamb And Bean Stew

Argentinian Beef Short Ribs

With Chimichurri Sauce

C

Cambodian Rice Paper Spring Rolls

And

Deep Fried Spring Rolls

Chinese Peking Duck Pancakes

Chilean Beef Empanadas

Croatian Black Risotto With Squid

Columbian Arroz Blanco Con Cerdo, Champiñones Y Salsa De Aguacate

(Rice With Pork, Mushrooms And Avocado Sauce)

D

Danish Meatballs With Creamy Dill Sauce

Danish Havarti Baked Eggs

Danish Crab Cocktail

Djibouti Samboussa With Hot African Sauce

Dominican Republic Fried Chicken (Chicharrones De Pollo)

E

El Salvador Atole De Elote (Corn Beverage)

English Scotch Eggs

Ethiopian Chickpea Wat

Ethiopian Beef, Sweet Potato And Red Lentils

El Salvador Pupusas

Egyptian Stuffed Quail (Hamam Mahshi)

J

Japanese Tasting Plate:

Tuna And Salmon Sashimi, Beef Tataki With Ponzu Sauce, Unagi Kabayaki

(Smoked And Grilled Eel With Kabayaki Sauce)

Japanese Katsu Chicken

Japanese Scallop Yaki Nori

Jamaican Pepper Prawns

Jamaican Yam And Chicken Patties With Jerk Sauce

K

Kiribati Coconut Poached Seafood, Lime Powder And Candied Chilli

Korean Bibimbap

Kuwaiti Chicken Wings With Fragrant Rice

Kyrgyzstan Gutap

Kenyan Mtuzi Wa Samaki

M

Mexican Stuffed Jalapeños

Malaysian Laksa

Macedonian Stuffed Capsicum

Mauritian Rougaille

Mexican Pancakes

N

New Zealand Fish And Chips

Nepalese Momo, Lamb Sekuwa And Tomato Achaar

Nepalese Stuffed Tomatoes

Nicaraguan Arroz Con Pollo

T

Turkish Bread With Houmous, Baba Ghanoush And Falafel

Thai Tom Yam Goong

Taiwanese Crispy Chicken Shrimp With Asian Dipping Sauce

Tanzanian Masai Beef Ribs With Mchicha

Turkish Tiramisu

Turkish Baklava

U

Ukranian Borscht

Usa Cajun Prawn Po’boys

Ukranian Zrazy

Uk Spotted Dick

Uk Trifle

Uk Cheese Platter – Stilton And Cheddar

V

Venezuelan Gazpacho

Virgin Islands (British) Chicken And Mango

Vietnamese Stuffed Chicken Wings

Vanuatian Meat In A Nut Shell

Virgin Islands (Us) Baked Bananas

Y/Z

Yemen Oxtail Soup

Zimbabwean Jollof Rice

Zanzibarian Beef And Spinach Stew

Zaire Potato And Lentils

Zambian Golabjamoun (Sweet Potato Cakes)

Zimbabwean Baked Pineapple

The invitation

Alphabet Food Safari

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You are invited to the inaugural Alphabet Food Safari. The concept is as follows. On the first Saturday of every month for 2012 we shall have a world food extravaganza. Each couple/person is invited to make a dish from a country of the world starting with a specific letter. Naturally, January will be the letter A. This first dinner will be hosted at our house at 7pm. Then at that first event a person’s/couple’s name will be picked from a hat and they will then host the February event also to be started at 7pm so it’s easy to remember. Also at the first dinner, a letter will be picked from the hat so that the next choice of countries may be allocated. If you are interested in this event, would be prepared to make a dish to share once a month and are also able to host a dinner event during the year, please let us know and we’ll put your name in the hat. If you are unable to host an event but would like to be a part of this social eating feast, we will host the event at our house when your name is selected.

Here’s to a yummy 2012.

Dan and Annie

Foreword

The concept behind the ‘Alphabet Food Safari’ was a simple one. My husband, Dan, and I love food and so, fortunately, do some of our friends. We therefore decided what better way was there to eat, drink and chat, than to have friends over for dinner.

In fact, better than that, we decided that this dinner invitation could actually be more interesting than just having friends over for dinner. Dan and I enjoy food from many different cultures and wondered if any of our friends felt the same. We decided that we could create a monthly event where friends would cook a tapas style dish from a country starting with a specific letter chosen at random. A letter of the alphabet would be picked from a stein at each event and then countries starting with that letter could be considered for the following ‘Alphabet Food Safari’.

The conditions were that all food and utensils needed to be brought to the ‘host house’ and the kitchen needed to be left in the condition in which it was found, hence, no stress or hassle for the host. The dishes would be washed, the counters cleaned and the leftovers taken back with the person who had made it.

So an invitation was crafted and sent to select friends who we thought would be keen, could commit for a year and who would enjoy the challenge of cooking up a storm despite us all being novice cooks. On discussion with keen participants, it was also decided that all recipes chosen needed either to be an original, or to be adapted with a personal flair added. No recipe could be copied exactly, so some were ‘created’.

Naturally changes were made to the concept at the first Alphabet Food Safari. The initial food portions were so large that everyone struggled to eat the final two dishes. It was immediately recommended that all portions should ‘shrink’ for the next event. It was also decided that instead of people’s names being randomly chosen to host the next food safari, a specific ‘host order’ would be created so that people knew in advance and to ensure that the date was suitable to all participants.

One final adaptation to the food safari events was that during the winter months we changed the start time from 7pm to 1pm so that we could still entertain outside and enjoy the weather. This meant that people who did not have a large enough indoor entertaining area could make use of their outdoor patio areas. We were lucky in that every day we had the food safari during the winter months it was sunny and warm. You’ve got to love the beautiful Perth winters.

We have all thoroughly enjoyed this food safari challenge since we have learned so much about food presentation, international cooking and the ways in which flavours can be blended together. We are now continuing the food safari for another year so that we can