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Around the World in 12 Dishes
Welcome to “Around The World in 12 Dishes”. We will be taking you on a journey around the world, (loosely) following in Phileas Fogg’s footsteps, exploring 12 different countries with our children, by cooking 12 dishes with them. One for each country visited. The world is such a wonderfully diverse and colorful place. Our children see maps, flags and books. They see postcards and maybe they see films about the world.. but let’s really bring it to life through food! Taste and smell don’t often get explored, we think this would be wonderfully fun and interesting for you and your children. Not only is it an exciting and different way to learn about cultures, but cooking with children brings a host of benefits – from numeracy to science. How can you beat … Read entire article »
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France – Boeuf Bourguignon
Since our French bread was such a big success, our second attempt at a French recipe turned out to be a very tasty, although very difficult dish to type (a big THANK YOU to whoever invented copy and paste!) – Boeuf Bourguignon. For a long time now Nico has been a big fan of almost anything soup and stew, so a beef stew sounded right up his alley and the recipe we found over at Delish.com … Read entire article »
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France – French breads (regular & sweet)
So we are moving on from Dublin and we cross the Irish Sea and Channel to set foot to the mainland in France, the second stop of our second season of “Around the World in 12 Dishes”. You can find our colouring placemat right here and the passport right here (the cover for the passport is right here for you!). For our second stop of the second season of “Around the World in 12 Dishes” is … Read entire article »
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Ireland – Irish Chicken Stew
Ireland’s cuisine seems to be such a good match for us, since on top of the soda bread we found more highly interesting things, such as Irish Chicken and Dumplings, recipe to be found on Allrecipes again. There original recipe calls for a baking mix to make the dumplings, since we had not idea what that mix was and probably only is available in the US anyway, we decided to scrap the dumplings, since the … Read entire article »
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Ireland – Soda Breads (regular & sweet)
To kick off the second season of “Around the World in 12 Dishes”, we go next door to where we had started out a year ago and set up camp in Ireland’s capital Dublin. You can find our colouring placemat right here and the passport right here (the cover for the passport is right here for you!). The “Emerald Isle” is known for its very down-to-earth cuisine and when we started to research what they have … Read entire article »
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Around the World in 12 Dishes – Season 2 – 2013/2014
Welcome to the second season of “Around the World in 12 Dishes”. Since the first year was such a big success, it was an easy decision to go for a second helping This time around we can welcome two new blogs to the fold of “dish blogs”, while two have moved on to concentrate on crafts, cultural topics etc., so we will be able to broaden what we can learn for each country. The … Read entire article »
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Austria – Wiener Schnitzel
To conclude our first year of “Around the World in 12 Dishes”, we are traveling to Austria, a country very close to my heart, since I grew up right on the border to it, so this feels a bit like a quick trip home. At the same time it obviously is also the country on our travels that I feel the most comfortable with, since I’ve been to it countless times (that you have to … Read entire article »
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Around the World in 12 Dishes – Austria
Welcome to “Around The World in 12 Dishes”. We will be taking you on a journey around the world, (loosely) following in Phileas Fogg’s footsteps, exploring 12 different countries with our children, by cooking 12 dishes with them. One for each country visited. The world is such a wonderfully diverse and colorful place. Our children see maps, flags and books. They see postcards and maybe they see films about the world.. but let’s really bring it … Read entire article »
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Greece – Spetsofai
As usual we did quite some research for our Greek dish and came across a kind of stew, listening to the name of Spetsofai on a site that surprisingly is called “The Greek Food” (clever, isn’t it?). We like stews and soups and the likes and the ingredients were simple enough – pork sausage (which Nico eats…potentially), green peppers (which Nico eats…when he wants to), onions (that Nico eats…sometimes) and crushed tomatoes (which Nico probably would … Read entire article »
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Around the World in 12 Dishes – Greece
Welcome to “Around The World in 12 Dishes”. We will be taking you on a journey around the world, (loosely) following in Phileas Fogg’s footsteps, exploring 12 different countries with our children, by cooking 12 dishes with them. One for each country visited. The world is such a wonderfully diverse and colorful place. Our children see maps, flags and books. They see postcards and maybe they see films about the world.. but let’s really bring it … Read entire article »
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Morocco – Marrakech Tagine
Researching Moroccan dishes, most of the ones that were interesting, had one thing in common – lots of different spices that we do not normally have in our pantry, a conundrum we had first faced with India and there we had taken the shortcut of a ready-made sauce. So the thought entered our mind to do the unthinkable again and do the same for Morocco, especially since we were in the middle of Christmas preparations … Read entire article »
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