The Little Traveler's Blog

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.

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.

52 meals week 2 Swedish meatball

This week we made Swedish meatballs.  We used the pan fried recipe with the white sauce and we went to IKEA to buy some lingonberry sauce to eat with them.  They were really yummy, but we lost the pictures.  Here's a picture from a recipe.

52 meals from 52 countries

This year we've decided to try cooking one meal each week from a different country without repeating any of them.  Any meal of the day is fine.  I think we're going to do a breakfast next week.  Our first week's dish was Moroccan stew. Morocco is a country in northern Africa.  Our mom wishes she lived in a Moroccan riad like the one in the link-that's what they call their houses that are built around a courtyard- and makes us look at pictures of them a lot on her computer.

The recipe sounded good, but we didn't really like it because it was too mushy. Here's a picture of it.

It did smell really good though while it was cooking.

We printed out a map and are coloring in each country after we've tried the dish. We think it would be really fun if other families joined us in this activity this year.  It would be fun to see what some other people have tried and would be really good if others could share yummy recipes from that country.  

There is a flickr photo album where you can post your pictures of what you cooked and then write to us and tell us what the recipe is or give us the link to it.  And of course tell us whether or not it tasted good and if you would make it again.