Democratic Republic of the Congo

Out second recipe was took us from the Caribean to central Africa: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Due to feeling a bit ropey I was a night late doing the recipe.

I did us a chicken dish based on a DRC recipe: Spicy Tomato and Peanut Chicken main and a Caakari dessert.

 

Scores (out of 10):

H: 6.0.

K: 5.5. The sauce on the chicken wasn't strong enough, but the Caakari could be used as a base for other deserts.

K



Barbados

Our first recipe and we're off to the Caribean. Specifically Barbados.

Tonight was originally meant to be a recipe from the Bahamas, but I made a bit of a mistake and accidentally chose recipes for Barbados instead, so we switched the country.

Tonight we had very tasty Bajan Style Cod with Cou Cou and Ginger Beer.

Scores (out of 10):

H: 6.5.

K: 6.5. Would definitely make the Bajan sauce again (zesty) and the wide selection of fresh herbs sprinkled over added lots of flavour. Didn't like the Cou Cou - now know I am not a fan of okra!

K

Menu change

We've not even done one meal yet and I've already cocked up!

This morning I checked the recipes for tonight to make sure that I had everything that is needed. I then noticed something strange: All three recipes are from Barbados - not Bahamas (which is what I was supposed to be doing!).  Doh!

Fortuntely Barbados is one of the 196 countries so, as I've already got the ingredients, I'm going to switch them.

Tonight is Barbados night!

K

Week 1: Menu

So yesterday we selected our first weeks eating. We'll only be doing three nights this week as Helen has a life and will be going out on the other nights.

Monday 25th : Bahammas
I'll be cooking a traditional Bahamian fish dish accompanied by homemade Ginger beer.

Monday 25th: Barbados
I'll be cooking a traditional Barbados fish dish accmpanied by homemade Ginger beer.

Tuesday 26th: Democratic Republic of Congo
Me cooking again, this time chicken stew followed by a cous-cous based desert.

Thursday 28th: Ireland
Helens turn to cook and she has chosen a Whisky glazed gammon recipe that she likes the look of.

Actual recipes and photos of each will be posted throughout the week.

How it works

Each weekend we will randomly select the countries which we will be cooking from in the forthcoming week and then spend time selecting the recipes that we would like to try.

Making use of my IT background I put together a simple spreadsheet that, on the click of a button, randomly assigns countries to days of the week.

Each country can be selected only once, and we can't have countries from the same continent grouping two nights running.

We have grouped the countries into the following continent groups:

Africa
Asia
Oceania
Latin America and the Caribbean
Europe and North America

Each Sunday we will post the countries we will be eating from over the following week and a brief preview of the recipes we are going to be cooking.

Kevin

Welcome to our food based travel blog!

 

We love to travel and we love to eat (as can be seen from my bulging gut and extra chin), however, our current financial situation means that we cannot indulge in the first of these. 

 

We had the idea that if we can't literally travel the world at the moment, then we can at least try and experience some of it through food.

 

So, what if we ate our way around the world instead, from the comfort of our own kitchen.

 

We'd talked about expanding our culinary reportoire for a while - if only to stop me eating so many chips!

 

So yesterday we decided that, using a list taken from the UN website, we are going to prepare and eat recipes throughout the year from 196 countries around the world (the list only contains countries that had a population of 100,000 or more in 2010).

 

As we make our way around the world we will post recipes and photos of the results.

 

We'd love to hear suggestions from natives/residents of the countries that we are eating from.

 

Enjoy,

Kevin