Cambodia: Banana Cake

The Dish:  Banana cake
The Country: Cambodia has a population over 14.8 million.

my warped reflection in the bowl definitely makes the picture better...

Ingredients:
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1.5 cups of sugar
1/2 stick of butter
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
2 tsp vanilla extract

that looks like a giant egg yolk

Procedure:


- Preheat oven to 375°
- Put all of the ingredients on a bowl and mix until there are no butter or banana chunks
- Put in a greased cake or bread pan
-Bake for 20-25 minutes

final product (and my red teapot)

Notes: It tastes good, but I can't tell if it wants to be a cake or a bread. It's really dense, so it feels like a bread... but it tastes like a cake...
Rating: 3.75

Burundi: Boiled Plantains

The Dish: plantains...
The Country: Burundi: Small, landlocked, African country that exports a lot of coffee

Ingredients:
4 plantains

the green ones aren't sweet...

Procedure:
Boil enough water to cover the plantains
Boil plantains for 15-20 minutes

steamy, yucky, plantains

Notes:
These weren't very good because they weren't the sweet kind of plantains... so I tried to turn them into plantain chips by frying them... that didn't work either. Oops...

Rating: 1

Burma: Gin Thoke

The dish: Ginger chips??
The country: Burma.. over 58.8 million people

Ingredients:
Ginger
Peanut Oil
Sesame Seeds
Minced Garlic


Procedure:
Peel, Chop ginger
Sautee in 3 tablespoons of peanut oil
when golden brown, take out and sprinkle with sesame seeds and garlic.

Notes:
YUCK. I know I didn't follow the recipe the way I was supposed to, but I felt impatient and didn't want to bother with some of the steps... so I guess that could be why it tasted so strange. Sorry for the lack of pictures, but it just wasn't even worth getting a picture of it... it ended up looking like sesame sprinkled rabbit poop pellets. 

Bulgaria: Apple Walnut Banzita

The Dish: Yummy Apple Stuff
The Country: Bulgaria, Capitol: Sofia

try and remove as much of the peel as you can

Ingredients:
3 golden delicious apples
1 tsp chopped walnuts or pecans
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
lots of sheets of filo dough
1 stick of butter

the filo dough box

Procedure:
Melt the butter
Peel and chop the apples
Mix sugar, nuts,  and cinnamon in a bowl
Preheat oven to 400°
Set two sheets of filo dough on a plate, coat with butter
Add two more sheets
Sprinkle the nut/ sugar mixture
Add apples
Fold over and seal closed with more butter
Repeat until all the apples are gone
Place on parchment lined baking tray
Bake for 20 minutes

FINAL PRODUCT

Notes: Working with the filo dough was quite messy because it kept breaking and flying everywhere.  It was also messy to eat, but it tasted really good!!

Rating: 4.5