Friends often ask if I can make them some authentic "American" food, but I feel like everything that I would typically make in the US would require prohibitively expensive ingredients or appliances that I don't have here. It doesn't help that I live in a rural area. And some things that I can make – blackened fish, pizza/pasta with sun-dried tomatos, chewy brownies – just don't go over well at all.
What foods do you make here from your home country? Did your Japanese friends like it?
Edit: Thank you all so much for sharing! I'm still going through the comments, but there have been so many good ideas, from foods that I already know how to make to foods that I have never attempted, and a lot that I have never even heard of. After enough bad experiences, I'm feeling inspired again!
by LingonberryNo8380