Last night I had a Persian dinner...
 

I have a friend who's family is from Iran. My friends sister was in town visiting so her family through a big dinner party. Aunts, uncles, cousins, family friends, the whole shabang. Probably about 30-35 people were there for dinner, all Persian.

I have never felt so out of place in my life, lol. It wasn't because I'm white, it was because everyone was speaking Farci (sp?) but me. A third of the people there didn't know English, including the little kids.

Anyway, we had chafron (sp?) chicken and chafron (again, sp?) rice and holy shit was that good. There were these little berries in the rice that were sort of bitter, they were very tasty.

I grew up on meat and potatoes but lately have been trying all sorts of new stuff. All VERY good, but nothing beats my meat and 'taters. :-)

Nothing beats your meat? :winkwink:

Sounds like you are talking about saffron chicken. Good stuff! :thumbsup

Saffron is the word you were attempting.

Goos for you....the Persian restaurant we went in Amsterdam wasn't that good. I like Persian food, but only if it's prepared by natives FOR the natives,
like yours was.

I've never tasted zebra. Any good?

Depends on if you get the white or the black meat.

little red bitter things on the rice?

Some kind of berry from the Mediterranean. I have no idea what its called. I couldn't understand anything, haha.

Hmm its the center of the spice world so that means litterally any berry.
Could be juniper, cappers, funegreek (thats sweet though), or many others.

dude it's
zereshk

persian food is great... Sly did you hook up with a kuni there?

Dried Barberries

I asked if you were coming but they had no idea who you were. WTF?

hhahahaha

hahahhahha

if u havnt had ghorme sabzy,, u r missin out hehe

The berries are called 'zereshk' in Persian. The only place I know where they actually get harvested is from small bushes in the mountainous regions of Iran. Been there...

Persian food is very well prepared, and relies on quality of food over overdone spices and sauces to mask bad quality (ie. Chinese Food).

little red dingleberries in the rice? WTF???? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh Just kidding a good friend of my parents is from Iran. Awesome food! :thumbsup

dude, that pretty much makes you 100% persian! :winkwink:

hmm... interesting food.. I ahen't tried persian yet

Does dinner with Persian Kitty count as having a persian dinner? <EG>

trust KRosh - he knows this type of food better than almost anyone on GFY :thumbsup

Hey Krosh, I'm assuming your persian name is Kurosh?

You guys need to try out ...

Chelo kabab with butter and doogh for drink :)

w00t ..

Now that is some kick ass food! or joojeh kabob mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Yes it is... I am friends with your Business partner Chris

He told me about you. I would like to meet you someday :thumbsup

I tried Pho the other day.. weird. Not crazy about it. but maybe it was bad Pho?

its somewhat of an aquired taste... it will be okay the first time... and then second time will be a bit better, then in a couple days or so you'll start to crave it... :thumbsup

yeah what he said - first time I had it I was like.. boring / crap - now I eat it at least once a week, it really grows on you and then you get hooked eventually

I'm not familiar with Persian food. Anyway, good thing you deal with Persians well.. ;)