Cooking Around the World Fijian Style

So this week we visited Fiji. When I was in 5th grade, I took a trip with my family to the islands and that trip is still one of my favorites. Fiji wasn’t so developed then and the hotels were few and far between—to get to where we stayed we flew from San Francisco to...

Seswaa – Yes!

This week’s meal from Liam’s Cooking Around the World journey, hails from Botswana and is called Seswaa. It is hands down one of the easiest, yummiest, beef dishes we’ve had in LONG time!  Basically we used about 3.5lbs of beef (served 6 but we also had leftovers),...

Open Book Blog Hop’s Favorite Holiday Songs!

On Open Book Blog Hop this week we’re talking Christmas Songs!! I love Christmas music, I really do. Usually my younger son and I start playing it the day after Thanksgiving (I think part of the reason we like it so much is because we don’t start playing it until...

Quality vs Quantity: This is not what you think

In addition to the “Cooking Around the World” blogs I’ve been posting, I’ve joined a group of writers called the Open Book Blog Hop – Writers Writing on Everything. I love this blog hop because the topics, like me and most of you readers, are very diverse. This week...

Rendang? Rendo!

We visited Indonesia via our kitchen this week and Liam picked Beef Rendang, a beef curry cooked in spices and coconut milk. Since it has to cook for three hours, he prepared the spice paste and coconut milk mix the night before and I then seared the meat in the spice...