After a crazy (but totally fun) weekend, we’re ready to have our cooking around the world night – and on Valentine’s Day. It’s the perfect way to end the day. Miss A has decided to take us to Brazil after picking a color-coded country on her globe. This came as a huge shock to us all as we were sure she was going to pick a pink colored country. Brazil is green! That said, we couldn’t be more excited to begin our Brazilian adventure. This week we needed some quick options since it’s a weeknight and we’ve got homework and routines to run through. So our menu for this evening is Brazilian Chicken with Coconut Milk from allrecipes.com (I’m not sure if this is an authentic Brazilian chicken or not, but it’s what we found that works for this evening) and Pao de Queijofrom a great cooking blog Bewitching Kitchen. Continue reading
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Special Thursday Night Edition–Holland Style
Today we continued our tour of Holland with Appelmoesand Slavinken. 20 inches of snow gave Mr. N a snow day, and me too, and so we decided to cook a day early. Mom picked the recipes and they
were awfully good winter fare.
Appelmoes is, I suppose, the Dutch word for applesauce, and this was good and very easy to make. I peeled the apples and Mr. N willingly diced them. Last week he was petrified of the knife, but today he started grabbing for it and talking like he was an old pro who sliced and
diced things all the time. Quite a lot of progress in a week, I was proud of him. Nervous though, and nervous his little sister’s gonna want to start chopping things too. While Mom finished dicing, Mr. N juiced the lemon, then drank the excess straight! Miss A wasn’t so keen on that. A little bit of spice, a little bit of microwaving, and a little bit of mashing and we had Appelmoes. Continue reading
Viva Mexico!
Well here it goes…our first attempt to try new recipes from around the globe and venture into the world of blogging. Mr. N calls it “cooking around the world.” He was the first to select our cooking destination, and our budding little foodie selected Mexico. We didn’t want to pick the usual suspects (burritos, tacos, enchiladas or fajitas), so instead we picked a more obscure recipe (at least it was unknown to us) – Cinnamon Fried Chicken with Roasted Potatoes. It was deemed an “easy” recipe – with a 6-year old and 2-year old in the kitchen we’re likely to pick the “easy” options for quite some time. The prep was definitely made for the little ones. Both Mr. N and Miss A loved getting to measure the spices, which included flour, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, nutmeg, ground cloves and salt. Miss A took a liking to it immediately and wasn’t afraid to double-dip her stirring spoon. 
(Fortunately no one has a cold this week!) Mom and Dad cleaned and dipped the chicken breasts (don’t want to spread raw chicken germs around the house), and the seasoned chicken with potato wedges were tossed with canola oil and placed in a roasting pan. 
The only downside of the recipe was that it took an hour and 15 minutes to bake (on the convection setting) and that made for a long, hungry wait. When we make this again, we’ll start it much earlier! About 20 minutes in to the baking, the aroma of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg filled the kitchen. We were off to a good start. When we finally sat down to eat, the kids were definitely hungry (and willing to eat anything!). Fortunately the meal was a big hit; although the potatoes, while I enjoyed them, weren’t as highly regarded as the chicken. Everyone seemed happy with our first adventure and agrees it’s one to keep in circulation. Mr. N gave the chicken our highest honor of 4-spoons, Mom and Dad agreed it was worthy of 3-spoons and Miss A – well, she ate it so we’ll say she agrees with Mr. N and gives it 4-spoons. We’ve got one more week, and one more meal, of Mexican cuisine. I think we’re all looking forward to it already!
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