Favorite Foodie Friday Foods
They represent some of Gabe's ALL TIME favorite foods!
Our son Gabe's birthday fell on a Friday this year so we decided to do something special and he picked some of his all time favorites from past Foodie Fridays for us all to cook up this week! One thing I realized through his picks- he is definitely not a vegetarian.
He picked three past main dishes from Australia, Thailand, & the UK Foodie Fridays. He wanted several desserts but we put the kibosh on the number of recipes (I mean, I love cooking with my kids but that doesn't mean I want to do it for 8 recipes and 3 days straight...) so he settled on Canadian Nanaimo Bars.
Look at that plate?! I mean, wow...that was some super yummy, artery clogging, special occasion foods!!! I don't necessarily recommend all of these things together but you MUST try these dishes! They are seriously all of our favorites so no one was sad by his selections.
Firecracker Shrimp~ When we were in Kansas City a while back we went to a Thai restaurant and Gabe got Firecracker Shrimp so on one of his first picks for countries he chose Thailand and we searched for a shrimp recipe. The firecracker shrimp recipe we follow can be found at Picture the Recipe. Why blog it all again when they've got suburb directions and great pictures!
These shrimp are accompanied by a sweet & spicy chili sauce. We add a little less Sriracha than it calls for so that the girls will eat it too. We've made these several times- very easy but intense on great flavors!
Scotch Eggs~ Scotch Eggs are a lovely little dish that has everything you'd want wrapped up in a neat little fried bundle. We discovered them when we did the UK for our second ever Foodie Friday. They consist of a hard boiled egg, sausage wrapped around that, then rolled in bread crumbs, and last they're fried! This go around, we decided to add our own twist by adding bacon!Ingredients:
6 hard boiled eggs
1 lb sausage
2 tbl finely chopped onion
1 tsp sage
1 tsp cumin
breadcrumbs or panko chips
1) Mix the sausage, onion, and spices together. 2) Take a peeled egg and wrap 1/6 of sausage mixture around egg. 3) Roll gently in the breadcrumbs. Deep fry for 1 1/2-2 minutes on each side. You want the sausage cooked all the way through but not to burn the coating. (If you want to add bacon like we did, you wrap a round a partially cooked piece of bacon around the egg, then the sausage.)
Australian Meat Pies~ This recipe we found from a fun website full of all things Aussie. One of the things we enjoyed the most about this site was the slang we learned. We had a blast trying to speak "Aussie" all day...All Down Under has the recipe. We've made this with the round steak this recipes calls for and it was great but this time around we gave ground beef a try and it was just as yummy!
Canadian Nanaimo Bars~ These bars are amazing! They are sweet and rich so a little piece goes a long way, you can find the recipe we follow here. The only change we made was increase the semi-sweet chocolate from 4 ounces to six! Who doesn't like more chocolate?!
I'm not usually a nut or coconut fan and the crust in these bars have both. We crushed the nuts very fine and used coconut flakes instead of shreds which I found super delish! I was surprised how much I really liked them! They have a creamy center and hardened semi-sweet chocolate top.
This Foodie Friday we took time to focus on Gabe and we prayed over him before we ate. I love how adventurous he is about eating all sorts of crazy things- he's discovered flavors I don't think he would have ever thought he would like! I think that speaks to his personality and maturing. But more than how he is about food I love how he is deep down. I'm so proud of the man he is growing up to be. I can see a deepening relationship with the Lord, his love for his sisters, and how he cares for his friends. Our family is truly blessed by this boy!
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