Trying all new foods

Kai Kya min Jun and JiYeon are lost 42s Sam and Jake are Boris yeltstines Zack is celrocks

we were spending each night the month of June at different houses trying new foods we spent the first two nights at Alex's house where we learned about Southern traditions including having great manners we all helped get dinner prep started by getting chicken tenderloins marinating in buttermilk mixed with spices we also chopped lots of onions and started a big pan of pinto beans. We also made fresh cornbread. For lunch his grandma made fried green tomatoes fried cat fish and fried okra along with home aid mac and cheese.

I enjoyed everything except the okra it was yucky. For supper that night we all helped make the fried chicken some masked potatoes the corn bread we had made earlier pinto beans and something called collard greens I enjoyed most of it but the greens weren't my favorite for dessert we had a sweet potato pie which was super good.

The next morning she helped us make Biscuits and gravy eggs hash browns and something called chocolate gravy we also had bacon and sausage. After breakfast she had us cut up onions peppers and veggies for shrimp and sausage gumbo we also helped make a batter for fried cornmeal dodgers called hush puppies for lunch we made shrimp and grits along with a cooked veggie dish I wasn't a huge fan of the grits but that's ok. For supper we had the gumbo and hush puppies along with a rhubarb crisp yum all around. I enjoyed almost everything except the okra the greens and the grits but I still ate them.

We headed to my House next where we would make lots of yummy Italian food we started with home aid personal pan pizzas with lots of sauce and topping options I made mine with garlic sauce lots and lots of cheese mushrooms artichoke hearts black olives and a tiny bit of truffle oil Susie made hers with red sauce pepperoni sausage and cheese. Kimi made one with Alfredo sauce chicken spinach and lots of cheese. Lil made one like mine but added chicken and spinach Sam made on like Susie's minus Sausage add mushrooms. Kya made one with Alfredo sauce and olives mushrooms artichoke hearts and pepperoni JiYeon made a plain cheese pizza with red sauce Ali mad hers with tomato sauce dairy free cheese and mushrooms. Kate's was on gluten free crust and was like Kimi's but added mushrooms and artichoke hearts.

Tommy made the same Pizza as Kimi minus chicken add sausage Chucky's was the same as Susie's. Dill had the same as JiYeon but with garlic sauce Alex had a pizza like mine add sausage and chicken on gluten free crust. Kai had one sort of like Mine and Lil's but with out the mushrooms Min Jun made his a lot like Kya's but minus pepperoni add chicken. Jake's was the same as Sam's only with Alfredo sauce Phil's was the same as Kimi's Zack had one the same as mine.

We also started on two types of sauce for lasagna a meat sauce and a cream sauce along with a special dairy free sauce for Ali and special Noodles For Alex and Kate this took all afternoon but it was a lot of fun for dessert we had gilato yummy the next morning we made crepes and eggs along with lots of super creamy hot chocolate for breakfast for lunch we had Pasta fagioli or chicken gnocchi with spinach for super we had pasta and some calamari yummy yummy yummy.

We then spent a few days at Kate's where we made schnitzel which was breaded pork chops Brezeln or German pretzels SpƤtzle which was egg noodles we made Kartoffelpuffer Potato Pancakes for breakfast and we also made lots of other foods. At Chucky and Kimi's we made sushi and udon along with creating our own bento or snack boxes rice balls ongori which were rice balls tempura veggies and home aid ramen noodles and red bean ice cream.

At Zack's we made tons of Chinese food including stir fry dim sum egg drop soup and spring roles along with egg roles. Fried rice and lots more we made french food at Sam's at Jake's his mommy made lots of yummy comfort food. We had Russian food at Tommy and Dill's we had Borscht which was made with beets Chicken Kiev. Pelmeni which were fish dumplings. We made other treats at Phil and Lil's we ate lots of good food that summer