Pacific Islands meal

YUM!  We love Core 5!  We eat our way around the Eastern Hemisphere.

The first stop...
The Pacific Islands.  This includes: Melonesia, Macronesia, Polynesia, Australia and New Zealand.

Today's meal included:
Philippines Punch
Island Beef
Polynesian Chicken and Rice
Lamingtons (Australia)

Sophie wantes to make Pavlova for New Zealand but I didn't want to do 2 desserts in one day.

You can find the recipes here.

We Flew To Greece

Well... not really...
But we did base an entire menu around Greek foods!!
We ate at my brother's house (payment for my babysitting for them LOL)

What I made is in blue, what my sil made is in red

Dolma: meat/rice stuffed grape leaves

and in the pot on the right has lemon rice pilaf

Being cut is Spanacopita: spinich/feta in flaky pastry crust

Souzoukaklia: spiced beef on skewers and grilled

Greek Salad: mixed greens, Kalamata olives, peperonici, feta, croutons and Greek vinaigrette

pitas, which... *ahem*  I bought instead of making homemade

Tzatziki: cucumber sauce

Greek Chicken: cooked with Greek Vinaigrette and then I added a dried tomato tampanad

There are also 2 other tampanads in the black jars there, an olive and a feta

Lemon Cake

Sweet Sesame bread

Brother, sil and 2 nephews

Sophie and 2 nieces

Nephew

Husband

baby nephew :)

Christian and the teen nephew were too cool to hang around with us downstairs, therefore they were already gone by the time I got out the camera for 'eating' pictures

It was sooo yummy!  I loved everything!!  The kids for the most part loved everything too, only a few icks here and there.