ADSactly Food: Typical Venezuelan Food II
Typical Venezuelan Food II
Hello, friends of @adsactly
As you all know, we eat not only as a condition to stay alive, but also for pleasure and satisfaction. Moreover, sharing our food is a way of showing love and relating to others. Venezuelan is very much about sharing food. Any date is a pretext to invent a lunch or dinner that helps us to strengthen fraternal ties with our environment. Inviting a neighbor or friend to eat at our house is a custom that we still maintain despite the adverse circumstances that exist in Venezuela at this time.
One of the meals we share the most is lunch. If breakfast is usually abundant, lunch is much more generous in quantity. We generally eat proteins and carbohydrates, perhaps a few vegetables. One of the emblematic dishes that brings together the mixture of who we are, is the famous "pavilion criollo". This delicacy consists of white rice, black carrots, esmechada meat and fried banana. Protein can be exchanged for fish if it is an oriental pavilion. Likewise, there are areas of the country where the grains or legumes are made with sugar and therefore eat the sweet caraotas.
Another favorite food of Venezuelans and generally made to share, is the soup or "sancocho". This type of food is usually made on weekends and in large pots if the group is very large. You can make meat, fish and chicken, but you can also make what they call "Cruzado", which is the mixture of all the meats. Among the most recognized and popular soups are chicken soup, mondongo soup, grain soup (carrots, lentils, beans) with pork and fish. Each one has its own way of cooking and its own degree of complexity. For example, some people say that the "mondongo" stew is one of the most difficult to make and there are some who do not know how to do it. Next, I would like to share with you a song that talks about how a fish soup is made:
Grilling or barbecue in the houses, is also accustomed, although now less and less. It was not unusual that on certain non-working jubilation dates, friends agreed to barbecue. Grilled meats, accompanied by boiled tubers such as yucca and a kind of sauce or "Guasacaca" made with avocado, cilantro and garlic, are a delight worthy of any king. This type of meals and celebrations are made with the collaboration of each diner, who not only provides food, but helps with the preparation.
It has been proven that sharing the table with family and friends strengthens our affective relationship and creates bonds. It is not only to feed ourselves, but also to socialize, to converse, with others. On December 24, for example, Venezuelans have dinner at Christmas. For this important date, families make one of the best known foods in our country as is hallaca. Hallaca is a kind of cornmeal cake, filled with meat and covered with banana leaves. To make hallacas is a rite that some families usually enjoy and assume as a custom. Usually, more than two people are needed to make this dish, as it is a long and arduous process. Begin by cutting the banana leaves, chopping the meat and other ingredients, tenderizing the dough, and then beginning to tie each hallaca. This corn cake is accompanied by chicken salad, ham bread and sweet milk. It is the typical Christmas dish.
Self-perception is a psychological process through which we try to represent and comprehend ourselves. Although it may sound stereotypical, Venezuelans are happy, festive, joking people; we like to share with family, friends. Any casual encounter can become an unforgettable party, an enduring memory. Food is part of that sharing, of that celebration.
As our ancestors surely did when they hunted and took the prey to share it among all, Venezuelans also like to share what we have. Beyond the situation of scarcity and inflation that we live today, regardless of differences, we still bet on solidarity, cooperation and companionship. Finally, no matter what culture or country, all over the world, people come together to eat and share food.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE
https://www.101viajes.com/venezuela/comidas-tipicas-venezuela
https://www.venezuelatuya.com/cocina/platos_representativos.htm
Written by: @nancybriti
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@nancybriti, If Breakfast 🥣 is delicious then in my opinion the whole day we can spent pleasantly because it's all depends upon the Start. And when we eat helathy food it's abundant essence. Stay blessed.
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In some villages it is not what you eat that is important, but who you eat it with. By sharing our food we not only socialize, we also show affection for others. Blessed day to you too, @chireerocks
Thank you so much and these words truly reflecting the essence of Humanity.
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What a treat. It' s good to rememebr not only the dishes we have but the traditions asociated with them.
I remember getting at a brother's house in Carúpano and complain about the fact that as soon as he finished cooking he'd start taking food to different neighbors'. On top of that some closer neighbors would come over and eat with us.
He usually told me that those neighbirs did the same. Sometimes the first served was for him, so he was just reciprocating the gesture.
We can be that hospitable. Hopefully, we'll be able to afford that soon.
I loved all the dishes you have mentioend here. I regret we don't eat a lot of vegetables in our diet. That's the only kind of food I had a hard time getting used to as I grew up
Just like my family, @hlezama. It is normal that we share not only jokes, drinks, but also our food. Unlike you, I did like vegetables, what I didn't like was the soup (it was a bit mafaldiana). I was even sleepy to drink it! LOL. Greetings.
Hahaha. If smart women do not like soup there might be something wrong in them that we have not seen yet... Shall we trust women's 6th sense?
One vegetable I was forced to eat, only because I was too skinny and allegedly needed it, was spinach. I hated it so much the very smell made me sick
I ate a lot of spinach because I wanted to be strong like Popeye! LOL. ;)
Haha. I actually hated that cartoon, not so much because of their annoying voices, but because I felt cheated by their false advertisement. Spinach did to my body what an encyclopedia under the pillow would do to a lazy student :)
love love food, especially learning and tasting foods from different parts of the world that i am yet to Visit. This was a great mouthwatering (literally) read. Now atleast i know this much about Venezuela.
That's good! That's the idea. I also like to read about other cultures and other countries. A good way to get to know other nations is to know their food. Thank you for commenting, @purpletanzanita
Of all these succulent Venezuelan dishes you present in your post, @nancybriti, the ones I enjoy the most are sancocho (if it's more fish) and hallaca. Both, besides being the conjunction of diverse ingredients and flavors, suppose, as emphasizes, a process of familiar, friendly and social sharing linked to the rich Venezuelan sociocultural tradition. In the most informal or popular contexts, the accompaniment of some spirit drink, as they say, that is to say, rum, cannot be absent.
Thank you for your tasty article. Greetings.
LOL. That's right. Each of these family gatherings is accompanied by alcoholic beverages such as beers (my favorite to combat heat) and others. In particular, I have learned to taste and enjoy soups, especially seafood asopados. Thank you for commenting, @josemalavem.
Oh all that food looks and sounds so good! Especially the sancocho. Love the song too, although I can only understand one word, "sancocho"!
Your description of the Venezuelans is lovely. Generous. Any casual encounter can become an unforgettable party, an enduring memory.
Excellent post, thank you.
I'm glad you liked it! Part of the essence of a village can be seen in its food. Thank you for commenting.