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India – Murg Makhani (Butter Chicken)
Murg Makhani (Butter Chicken) India is a country that is known for hot dishes, for very complex spice mixtures and for some palates odd ingredients. When doing the research on the Indian cuisine, I came across many dishes that were too hot for Nico to even try or had ingredients that none of us really were to keen on, so the choice fell on Murg Makhani, better known as Butter Chicken. Checking out several recipes, they all … Read entire article »
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India – T is for Taj Mahal – Book review
“T is for Taj Mahal” – Varsha Bajaj (Author) and Robert Crawford (Illustrations) On our journey around the world as part of our “Around the World in 12 Dishes” challenge, we reached India and our partners at Sleeping Bear Press (and no, this is not a sponsored post!) had a beautiful book on the topic, titled “T is for Taj Mahal”. It follows the same principle as “D is for Dala Horse”, their book on the … Read entire article »
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Russia – Individual Apple Sharlotka
Apple Sharlotka So after having Alex’ Russian apple sharlotka for our Russian meal for “Around the World in 12 Dishes” I was thinking, “that was good, we should redo it”, but differently. I like how the whole cake looks but once you cut it, you loose the look. So I figured we could do the same but in individual portions! A week after the first one, I got our jumbo muffin tin out buttered it up (I … Read entire article »
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Russia – a quick showcase
Here is a little round up of everyone that did something so far. Don’t forget to check the linky to see who links up later! Mummymummymum is offering us her Russian Tea Cakes Creative Family Fun has baked up some Potato Pancakes while also showing us how to draw some Matryoshka dolls Repeat Crafter Me is giving the traditional Matryoshka nesting dolls a Sesame Street twist From Make, Do & Friend we get some delicious Blinis Mom 2 Posh Lil Divas is Exploring Russian Stories and Folklore and adds some Russian Tea Cakes to go with it Kara’s Classroom has reviewed the book “The Littlest Matryoshka” by Corinne Demas Bliss Domestic Goddesque shares with us How to make a Russian Icon and bakes up some more Russian Tea Cakes At Kitchen Counter Chronicles we find a whole Russian … Read entire article »
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Russia – Shashlyk
Shashlyk So what comes to mind first when you think about Russia and food? Vodka? Tsk, tsk, tsk, while being consumed a lot there, it is still not food per se. Now there is Borscht, but if you’re not a big fan of beets, that’s a no-go, so when I rummaged through the Russian cuisine scene I came across something that I had actually had in my European past – shashlyk. Originally coming from the countries … Read entire article »
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Russia – Russian roasted potatoes
Russian Roasted Potatoes Since a main dish is a little lonely on a plate without a side dish, we stumbled upon Russian Roasted Potatoes, which to no surprise are potatoes that are roasted. Who would have thought? It is a really simple dish that will not take you a lot of time or effort to make and is very tasty on top of it! And it goes very well with our Shashlyk skewers! The ingredients are: 1 lb … Read entire article »
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Around the World in 12 Dishes – Russia
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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Sweden – Chokladbollar (Chocolate balls)
Chokladbollar (Chocolate balls) I will admit, we have sweetteeth, not just one, but several. So when looking at Swedish recipes, we automatically also checked out potential desserts and on Valerie’s great blog find Anne’s Food (by a blogger in Stockholm, Sweden) she found one that she immediately fell in love with – chokladbollar = chocolate balls, another recipe that looked very tasty and easy to do. Just follow the link above for the actual recipe, I’ll … Read entire article »
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Sweden – Hasselbackspotatis (Hasselback potatoes)
Hasselbackspotatis (Hasselback potatoes) After deciding on the Christmas ham for our main dish, Valerie looked around on this great blog (Anne’s Food, by a blogger in Stockholm, Sweden) and found a really cool recipe for a side – Hasselback potatoes. They look really cool and kind of fancy, but when we looked at the recipe, they are super easy to do! After peeling and washing the potatoes, I put them into a serving spoon and with a … Read entire article »
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Sweden – Julskinka (Christmas ham)
Julskinka (Christmas ham) When looking for a dish we could do for our stop in Sweden, we pondered over several options, but let’s be serious, which dish says more “feature of the month of April” than a good old Christmas ham? Well…probably a lot of them, but who says that it can only be done for Christmas? Exactly. The first dish that had come to mind was meatballs, but they were maybe a little cliche, then we … Read entire article »
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