North Dakota
4 dishes from North Dakota, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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4 dishes from North Dakota, cooked the way the place cooks them.
Raw seasoned beef sealed thin inside a soft buttermilk dough and deep fried, so the meat cooks in its own steam while the pastry blisters — the fried filled pastry of German-Russian North Dakota.
A pot of pork broth thick with cabbage, potato and dill, finished with cream off the heat and a spoonful of sour cream at the table — the borscht of German-Russian North Dakota, which is not the beet soup the word makes you expect.
Little flour dumplings cut off a rope and dropped into a thick potato and cream broth — the soup of German-Russian North Dakota, and a dish whose whole argument is how the dumpling gets into the pot.
Riced potato worked cold with a little flour, rolled paper thin and baked dry on a hot griddle until it freckles — the Norwegian half of North Dakota, in a soft grey sheet.