So, I've been posting pictures on Facebook and Instagram of our family dinners, which my kids call "The Feast" for a couple of years?! I get lots of feedback about how great the food looks and lots of questions about recipes, etc. I decided to fire up the old blog so that I can add some recipes and some details about what we are doing.
After living in Brooklyn, NYC for over 15 years, my husband, two daughters, and myself decided that the time was right to move back to Nova Scotia, where I am originally from. One of the main reasons for the move was to be closer to my sisters, who live in Halifax. After we had been here for a couple of months, we decided that the Sunday dinners a traditional we wanted to keep. The thought of a roasted chicken or pot roast EVERY Sunday seemed like it might get old pretty fast. That's when we hatched the idea to start playing around with food from around the world.
We wrote down a big list of countries, and put them in a hat. Some were countries already known for being foodie destinations, some weren't. It's all part of the fun! Every Sunday after we eat, we let one of the kids pull a name from the jar, and then we spend the week deciding what each of us will cook. I love to set the table in colours and textures inspired by the region we are cooking. We also love exploring our city to find the ingredients we need. Turns out, there isn't an ingredient we haven't been able to find yet! Sometimes we have to go to the "fancy" grocery store, and sometimes we have to find a tiny specialty shop we didn't know existed.
I've decided to start the blogging side of things a little more, so I can write in more detail about the recipes we tried. Which ones worked, which ones didn't, what we would change, and which recipes would be added to the weekly rotation for my family.
There are so many benefits to this weekly traditional! Getting together with my sisters and their kids, learning new cooking techniques, introducing the kids to new flavours, and the list goes on!
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