The Little Traveler's Blog

our house

Here are some pictures of our house here.

Here is our bedroom where all 5 of us cousins sleep together.  It's like a slumber party every night!  So much fun.

This is our smallest cousin's bed on the other wall.

This is our play room.

American burgers

We are very behind posting and keeping up with our cooking these days.  We wanted to color something on the North American side so we decided to make American burgers.  

Mayonnaise comes in toothpaste tubes here!  It feels funny to squirt it on our food and we always joke about using it to brush our teeth with.  ew.

pizza in Germany

We haven't written much about Germany since we got here because we've been so busy with our cousins but we did want to write about this pizza because it had corn on it and kidney beans!

The weather is nicer now and we've been outside a lot more and we've been taking a lot more pictures so we'll start to put more of them up soon.

Polish caggage rolls

We love our grandma's cabbage rolls so we decided to try these Polish ones.  They used catsup in the recipe, which we thought sounded kind of good, but we didn't really care for it that much.  The next day my mom made a gravy for them and they tasted better that way.

52 meals- Russian pancakes

We really to make something from Russia so we could color in the biggest country. We looked at a lot of recipes and then we found this one for  Russian pancakes- so we thought we'd make a breakfast!  They were really good!  We used an unbleached wheat flour.  Super easy and super good!  We've already made them again.

Then we wanted to make some apples to go with them.

52 meals- Bratwurst and fried potatoes

This is the most  common meal here in Germany, so we thought we'd try it.  We're way behind on our 52 weeks- so we need to catch up!  We didn't make the Brats from scratch, we bought them uncooked from a meatshop and just had to fry them.  But we did fry the potatoes.  The potatoes are much more yellow here than the ones we have at home.  They also taste like they have butter already on them even when they're just boiled.  We ate them with curry ketchup, which is the most popular kind of ketchup here.

The kitchen sink here is quite small and they don't have disposals here so we have to be careful to clean out the sink before turning the water on.  We're not used to that.  And it's pretty tricky to do dishes- like pots and pans in this sink.

Nearly empty plate from our little cousin.  Everyone loved these.

Indian chicken tika masala with naan

We didn't really cook this week because our mom is really busy with packing and stuff since we're getting ready to go to Germany for 3 months leaving tomorrow.  So we just went to the store and bought the stuff and warmed it up.  It was really good, but not as good as our favorite Indian restaurant.  This is our favorite Indian dish.

52 meals, week #5- Irish Potato soup

Chantelle got braces this week so we had a lot of soup because her teeth hurt!

So we made Irish Potato Soup.  It tasted just like the kind we ate a lot in Ireland.

We topped it with cheddar cheese and it was good and filling.  Nakia got to eat warm bread with hers, but Chantelle had only soup- for 3 days!

52 meals, week #4- Chinese wonton soup

For Chinese New Year we decided to make wonton soup.  (But we used the recipe for Dragon Moon Potstickers from the February Book of Days, because we thought it looked good.  But you can use the wontons from the recipe.)

It was super fun to make the wontons!

We made some in this shape

And some in this shape- but this shape did not taste as good because the wonton wrapper got all gooey. 

The soup was really good!  We can't wait to make it again.

52 meals, week #3- Japanese Udon

Nakia's favorite food the whole world is Udon so that's what she chose this week.

Our map is starting to fill in.