Fufu is a West African finger food made with boiled cassava and green plantain. Our ancestors brought this accompaniment to soups and stews to the Caribbean and South America. Today, I’m teaching you how to make Tom Tom ak Sos Kalalou from Haiti and encourage you to follow the story of West African Fufu and Okra Soup from Africa to Haitian Tom Tom ak Kalalou Gombo. In 2023, ...
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Chef Mireille is a classically trained chef with many years of experience teaching kids international recipes that reinforce geography, history and math skills. This food and travel blog focuses on traditional recipes from around the world so that you can use these resources as a teaching tool for your families.
Caribbean Recipes
Best Homemade Haitian Okra Sauce with Crab and Breadfruit Fufu (Tom Tom)
Best Black Cake Recipe – Traditional Caribbean Rum Soaked Christmas Fruit Cake
Black Cake – aka Caribbean Fruit Cake or Caribbean Rum Cake is a rich rum cake that is fed with alcohol. This is a Caribbean holiday staple. No Christmas is complete without ...
Best Caribbean Accra Recipe (West Indian Cod Fish Cakes)
Caribbean Accra are ubiquitous throughout most of the Caribbean islands. They are known as West Indian Cod Fish Cakes, Fish Cakes, Salt Fish Cakes or Accra, depending upon the ...
Ice Cream Recipes
Multi Cultural Cooking for Kids
FREE Kenya Multi Subject Resource Guide – How to Inspire African Cultural Learning in the Kitchen
African Cultural Learning can be reinforced with fun cooking activities in the kitchen. This FREE Kenya Resource Guide not only includes 3 menu options for the whole family to enjoy, but an easy printable that you can go over with your kids, reinforcing history, geography and other cultural learning - all about Kenya. This is the 6th Resource Guide I have released, ...
Cooking with Your Kids – Multi Subject Learning in the Kitchen
Free Resources to reinforce math, geography, history, science & cultural learning in the kitchen with recipes for both Vegetarians & Meat eaters! Are you a ...
World Cuisine Recipes – How to to Help your Kids Explore the World in the Kitchen
Cooking World Cuisine Recipes with your kids is one of the best ways to inspire cultural learning in the kitchen. Cooking international recipes with your kids not only teaches ...
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Best Homemade Haitian Okra Sauce with Crab and Breadfruit Fufu (Tom Tom)
Fufu is a West African finger food made with boiled cassava and green plantain. Our ancestors brought this accompaniment to soups and stews to the Caribbean and South America. Today, I’m teaching you how to make Tom Tom ak Sos Kalalou from Haiti and encourage you to follow the story of West African Fufu and Okra Soup from Africa to Haitian Tom Tom ak Kalalou Gombo. In 2023, ...
Best Authentic Ethiopian Collard Greens Recipe (Gomen Wat)
Ethiopian Collard Greens will become your new go to collard greens recipe. This meatless Collard Greens recipe is elevated to a whole new level with homemade Niter Kibbeh (Ethiopian Spiced butter). This clarified butter not only pushes levels up Gomen Wat, but it will add flavor to all your cooking. Add it to all your rice and vegetable dishes, fry your meat in it. Niter Kibbeh ...
Best Black Cake Recipe – Traditional Caribbean Rum Soaked Christmas Fruit Cake
Black Cake – aka Caribbean Fruit Cake or Caribbean Rum Cake is a rich rum cake that is fed with alcohol. This is a Caribbean holiday staple. No Christmas is complete without Black Cake. This is quite different than the Christmas Fruit Cakes you might be used to eating. Get ready to taste the Best Black Cake Recipe ever! Black Cake is an intense rum cake, required in the ...
Niter Kibbeh Recipe – How to Make Ethiopian Spiced Butter
Niter Kibbeh Recipe and Berbere are two essential pantry items you must always have to make delicious homemade Ethiopian food. This delicious spiced clarified butter along with berbere spice mix are the backbones of Ethiopian Cuisines. It is an essential ingredient if you plan to be doing any kind of Ethiopian cooking. Are you ready to Travel Your Tastebuds to Ethiopia ...
Easy Pumpkin Jam Recipe From Fresh Pumpkin
Fresh Pumpkin Jam is an easy and delicious jam recipe that has so much versatility. It can be enjoyed on toast or or utilized in cookie recipes like Pumpkin Hamantaschen or any other sweet recipes. It is also very delicious when used in savory recipes - especially when paired with pork or chicken. Are you looking for a new way to use pumpkin this fall? Why not try making ...
12 Delicious Homemade Ice Cream Maker Recipes You Must Make
It seems like just about everyone is experimenting with how to make homemade ice cream now. The ability to customize the flavors to your own palate is so irresistible everyone is joining in the Ice Cream craze. So here you are going to find AMAZING 12 Homemade Ice Cream Maker Recipes You Must Make TODAY! Love ice cream but don’t know how to make it? I’ve got you covered! ...
Chef Mireille is a classically trained chef with many years of experience teaching kids international recipes that reinforce geography, history and math skills. This food and travel blog focuses on traditional recipes from around the world so that you can use these resources as a teaching tool for your families.