I cooked something!

"bob and john" (bobandjohn) 01/21/2015 at 17:15 • Filed to: Foodlopnik

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The dish is called 'musaca'.

its more or less the romainain take on the Shepards pie.

A layer of mashed potatos, followed by some stuffing, another layer or potatos, and then ketchup on top.

how I made it:

ingredients:

potatos
butter
milk
ground beef
1 egg
1/2 an onion
vegetable oil
salt, pepper, sugar, spices to taste
ketchup

Mashed potatoes:
-take 5 medium potatos
-peel
-boil for 15 minutes
-drain water
-add some milk and butter and proceed to mash.

stuffing:
-chop onion to tiny peices. toss in a pot with a BIT of oil
-bring to med-high heat. add salt, sugar, pepper and spices
-caramelize the onions
-after onions are done, add the ground beef.
-mix and add spices to flavour the meat as you wish
-once everything is a nice, brown color, remove from heat
-after it has cooled down a bit, crack the egg into the meat and stir. this is to help it stay together (and not just crumble apart) when you are eating it

final:

I lined a pan with aluminum foil to make it easier to clean

-put down a layer of mashed potatoes.
-put in the meat. make sure everything is nice and level
-last (second) layer of potatoes.
-add some ketchup and spread it.
- heat oven to 400 degrees F.
-bake for about 35 minutes


annd your done! this whole thing took me about 1.5 hours from start to finish. cant wait to dig into it

davedave1111 > bob and john 01/21/2015 at 17:22

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Oh, right, I never realised that's what Romanians mean by the word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moussaka

I'm much more familiar with the aubergine-lasagne type.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > davedave1111 01/21/2015 at 17:29

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Me too. I was about to go all Spelling Nazi, and then I read the ingredients.

macanamera > bob and john 01/21/2015 at 17:31

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I ate soooo much mousaka in Greece.

davedave1111 > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 01/21/2015 at 17:40

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I don't think you can be a spelling nazi for transliterated words, anyway - but then, the Romanians use the Latin alphabet, so they're more 'right' than we are :)

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > davedave1111 01/21/2015 at 17:47

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Wait, it's the same thing? That puts your latter comment into a bit more perspective. I was under the impression that they were pronounced differently (in Romanian, possibly(?)), therefore different dishes; Moussaka being layered aubergines, and Musaca potato based. Wikipedia and yourself have corrected me on that!

S2Konstantin > bob and john 01/21/2015 at 17:51

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This! I know this! My Bulgarian parents used to make this when I was a kid, brings back memories.

davedave1111 > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 01/21/2015 at 17:58

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Well, it's a dish with some really wide variations. I'm sure it's also pronounced a bit differently.

We're used to thinking of Romania as 'Eastern Europe', but if you look at a map they're actually right next to Turkey, and have a long history of trade with the Eastern Med/Levant. I guess that means it's much more of a traditional Romanian dish to them, where to us it's a recent import.

bob and john > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 01/21/2015 at 18:54

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I dont actually know how its spelt in english, i just took the Romanian spelling :P

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > bob and john 01/21/2015 at 19:09

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In other words: You did it properly!