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In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, Multicultural Kid Blogs is sponsoring a blog hop, and you are invited! We are celebrating the cultures and peoples of this diverse region by sharing our posts and asking other bloggers to do the same! Our hope is to create a wonderful resource for celebrating Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with children. Be sure to visit the co-hosts of the blog hop (listed below) and share your own posts at the linky at the bottom! You can find even more resources on this region in our Asia and Australia and Oceania boards on Pinterest! Co-Hosts Multicultural Kid Blogs Crafty Moms Share Bicultural Mama Finding Dutchland Kid World Citizen Marie's Pastiche All Done Monkey Tiny Tapping Toes Creative World of Varya Miss Panda Chinese For the blog hop we decided to share some of the Asian-Pacific Island crafts we have been doing as well as a few books we have enjoyed! We have been having fun exploring games, puzzles, stories and crafts! For our crafts we used three books as our main resources: Asian-American Crafts Kids Can Do! by Sarah Hartman, Hands-On Asia: Art Activities for All Ages by Yvonne Y. Merrill, and Asian Crafts by Judith Hoffman Corwin. We started by looking at China with a Chinese Tanagram Puzzle. I made one from a square piece of memo paper. I copied the line placement from Asian Crafts. Then I showed Hazel the pictures of ways to arrange the shapes and she chose some of her favorites and made them. For more ideas on looking at China, check out the posts here. Next we looked at Japan with some origami. I made some shapes for Hazel and she and I made a few. To make these origami animals, we followed instructions from two books: Super Quick Origami Animals by Nick Robinson and Making Origami Animals Step by Step by Michael G. La Fosse. One of the things I really liked about making origami and about the tanagram is that you can review geometrical shapes. We talked about folding the paper into rectangles or triangles. For older children you can go into more detail and talk about right triangles, etc. We also made Japanese fans. Now Hazel has a thing for fans, so she loved this. We followed instructions using Asian-American Crafts Kids Can Do! except instead of cutting out circles we used paper plates. To make them you need a paper plate or a paper circle and three popsicle/craft sticks. Two of the sticks are glued in a v-shape next to the handle stick to support your circle. For more ideas on looking at Japan, check out here. We also had fun making a Nepal snow leopard mask. Hazel pointed out how we saw snow leopards at the zoo recently. Again I used a paper plate and cut the pattern we found in Hands-On Asia. Not reading the directions closely I cut out the eyes to make it a wearable mask instead of a piece of art. Then I let Hazel have fun. I cut out the mouth, tongue and ears for her as well as using the book's pattern for the nose. I also followed the instructions in Asian Crafts for a simplified version of Pachisi, a game from India. I decided to make it on the computer instead of hand drawing all the squares. As a result, you can download what I made by clicking the picture above or here. We decided to use glass beads and rocks as the playing pieces. Hazel could not wait to play and started to play with Ducky. To start you put the piece on its matching color in the corner of the board. The first person rolls the die (you have to make one either by cutting mine out and taping it together or getting a wooden cube and painting/coloring sides). If the person rolls his or her own color they get to move one square counterclockwise and then roll again. If the person rolls white, they just get to roll again. If they roll any other color the turn is over and the die goes to the person to the right. Once the piece makes its way around the board the player than has to go up the center spoke on their color. The person to make it to the middle first wins. For more ideas on learning about India, check out these posts. Hazel's and Ducky's Game In Play We have also been enjoying some stories from the different countries and about children adjusting to moving from the country to America and such. Here are some of our favorites. For more book choices, check out my Asian-Pacific Book Round-Up post. For all of our Asian-Pacific Island related posts check out here. And of course check out all the great ideas shared in this blog hop!! Feel free to share your Asian-Pacific crafts, books, and more as well!! An InLinkz Link-up
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In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, Multicultural Kid Blogs is sponsoring a blog hop, and you are invited! We are celebrating the cultures and peoples of this diverse region by sharing our posts and asking other bloggers to do the same! Our hope is to create a wonderful resource for celebrating Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with children. Be sure to visit the co-hosts of the blog hop (listed below) and share your own posts at the linky at the bottom! You can find even more resources on this region in our Asia and Australia and Oceania boards on Pinterest! Co-Hosts Multicultural Kid Blogs Crafty Moms Share Bicultural Mama Finding Dutchland Kid World Citizen Marie's Pastiche All Done Monkey Tiny Tapping Toes Creative World of Varya Miss Panda Chinese For the blog hop we decided to share some of the Asian-Pacific Island crafts we have been doing as well as a few books we have enjoyed! We have been having fun exploring games, puzzles, stories and crafts! For our crafts we used three books as our main resources: Asian-American Crafts Kids Can Do! by Sarah Hartman, Hands-On Asia: Art Activities for All Ages by Yvonne Y. Merrill, and Asian Crafts by Judith Hoffman Corwin. We started by looking at China with a Chinese Tanagram Puzzle. I made one from a square piece of memo paper. I copied the line placement from Asian Crafts. Then I showed Hazel the pictures of ways to arrange the shapes and she chose some of her favorites and made them. For more ideas on looking at China, check out the posts here. Next we looked at Japan with some origami. I made some shapes for Hazel and she and I made a few. To make these origami animals, we followed instructions from two books: Super Quick Origami Animals by Nick Robinson and Making Origami Animals Step by Step by Michael G. La Fosse. One of the things I really liked about making origami and about the tanagram is that you can review geometrical shapes. We talked about folding the paper into rectangles or triangles. For older children you can go into more detail and talk about right triangles, etc. We also made Japanese fans. Now Hazel has a thing for fans, so she loved this. We followed instructions using Asian-American Crafts Kids Can Do! except instead of cutting out circles we used paper plates. To make them you need a paper plate or a paper circle and three popsicle/craft sticks. Two of the sticks are glued in a v-shape next to the handle stick to support your circle. For more ideas on looking at Japan, check out here. We also had fun making a Nepal snow leopard mask. Hazel pointed out how we saw snow leopards at the zoo recently. Again I used a paper plate and cut the pattern we found in Hands-On Asia. Not reading the directions closely I cut out the eyes to make it a wearable mask instead of a piece of art. Then I let Hazel have fun. I cut out the mouth, tongue and ears for her as well as using the book's pattern for the nose. I also followed the instructions in Asian Crafts for a simplified version of Pachisi, a game from India. I decided to make it on the computer instead of hand drawing all the squares. As a result, you can download what I made by clicking the picture above or here. We decided to use glass beads and rocks as the playing pieces. Hazel could not wait to play and started to play with Ducky. To start you put the piece on its matching color in the corner of the board. The first person rolls the die (you have to make one either by cutting mine out and taping it together or getting a wooden cube and painting/coloring sides). If the person rolls his or her own color they get to move one square counterclockwise and then roll again. If the person rolls white, they just get to roll again. If they roll any other color the turn is over and the die goes to the person to the right. Once the piece makes its way around the board the player than has to go up the center spoke on their color. The person to make it to the middle first wins. For more ideas on learning about India, check out these posts. Hazel's and Ducky's Game In Play We have also been enjoying some stories from the different countries and about children adjusting to moving from the country to America and such. Here are some of our favorites. For more book choices, check out my Asian-Pacific Book Round-Up post. For all of our Asian-Pacific Island related posts check out here. And of course check out all the great ideas shared in this blog hop!! Feel free to share your Asian-Pacific crafts, books, and more as well!! An InLinkz Link-up
On this interview with Amber O'Neal Johnston, we talk about heritage and Charlotte Mason homeschooling and ensuring cultural diversity.
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This easy and delicious Irish Oatmeal Bread recipe is made with steel cut oats, yeast, and molasses. Perfect for toast, sandwiches, & everything in between.
Hungarian cuisine, this cuisine belongs to Hungary, and to its primary ethnic group The Magyars.Hungarian dishes are cooked with meats, seasonal vegetables, fruits,fresh bread, dairy products and cheese.Hungarians love to enjoy their meat in stews, casseroles, as steaks. The mixing of different meats and vegetables in their dish is a traditional feature of this cuisine.Soups,desserts, pastries and the famous pancakes are the other important dishes of this Hungarian cuisine.I have been looking for a simple recipe from this cuisine for this month's long blogging marathon as we are cooking from around the world with country name starts with alphabets, since today"s alphabet is 'H',i picked immediately the Hungarian cuisine. While going through the google master, i got hooked immediately to their Palacsinta, the famous Hungarian pancakes or crepes. These crepes are almost as like French crepes.However most of the Central European pancakes are thin pancakes similar to the French crêpe. The main difference between the French and this Hungarian version of this dish is that the mixture for this crepes can be used straight away unlike that of the French crepes which is suggested to be left at rest for several hours. Palacsinta are made by creating a runny dough from eggs, flour, milk, and salt and frying it in a pan with butter or oil. Unlike thicker types of pancakes, palascinta are usually served with different types of fillings and eaten for lunch or dinner.One among the well known crepes of this Hungarian cuisine is the Gundel pancake (Gundel palacsinta), made with ground walnuts, raisin, candied orange peel, cinnamon, and rum filling, served flambéed in dark chocolate sauce made with egg yolks, heavy cream, and cocoa. But the Hungarian pancakes i picked for this blogging marathon is the simplest one, you can fill this palacsinta simply with any spread like apricot or strawberry jam, you can also go for sugar, grounded walnuts or poppy seeds. Some people may also fill their pancakes with sugared cheese, sweetened cocoa or simply with cinnamon powder. These thin crepes are dangerously addictive and my kids enjoyed this cigars shaped like crepes happily for their evening snacks. These crepes can be prepared very easily with simple ingredients,we loved it very much. However i prepared this crepes with eggs, an eggless version can also be prepared if you replace the eggs simply with buttermilk. Recipe Source: Budapestology 2cups All purpose flour 3cups Milk 3nos Eggs 2tsp Sugar 2tbsp Oil Take the eggs in a large bowl, beat with a hand mixer. Add the flour, sugar, milk and oil, beat everything well, the batter should be smooth and runny. Heat a crepe pan or a frying pan, heat some butter on medium heat, drop enough batter, turn the pan until the batter cover the bottom of the pan. This crepe should be thin, when its turns brown, flip and cook on the other side. Remove the crepe from the pan, continue the same process with the remaining batter. Put jam, marmalade or anything over the crepe, spread it and roll it carefully. Sprinkle some sugar in the top. Serve immediately. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 44 An InLinkz Link-up
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We just started and came to the end of what was supposed to be a 3-month worldschooling trip across Europe. Athens, Greece was our first stop, but it ended up being our only stop, thanks to COVID-19. And although the coronavirus brought everything to a screeching halt, I'd still like to share what we were
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After seeing pictures of this beautiful layered mango dessert made recently by two different friends, I was intrigued. And since I still had some mangoes, I thought I'd give it a try. First off, this recipe needs to come with a warning. Here's my suggestion: WARNING. This recipe has many steps and no time allotment guidance besides the directions of cool and chill so if you are making this for the first time, it might take you the entire night. And you won't get to enjoy it until the next night (because it needed to chill) after you have tortured yourself all day wondering if it turned out okay, but you don't know because you are stuck at work. Good luck. We start with the crust. Sift together 2 cups of flour and half cup of powder sugar. Cut 1 and 1/2 sticks of butter into dry ingredients. Pat into a 9x13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Cool. At this point I would normally start the second step, but I didn't want the cream cheese layer to be sitting around for the baking time plus the cooling time. I guess I could have just stuck it in the fridge, but I didn't and instead started dinner for the kids. As the kids were eating, I started the cream cheese layer. Use a mixer to combine 8oz cream cheese (softened), 1/2 cup sugar, and 1/2 tsp vanilla. Fold in 8oz cool whip (defrosted). Chill. You want this layer to be firm before adding the last layer. The next layer involves cooling gelatin so I started this last step while the second layer was chilling. Mix 2 packages of knox gelatin in 1 cup of water and add 1 cup of boiling water, 1 cup sugar, and 1/4 tsp salt. Keep mixing until dissolved. Add 4 tablespoons of lemon juice and cool. After cooling, add this mixture with 4 cups of firm, diced mango. Chill until mixture begins to gel. Ladle over the cream cheese layer and refrigerate until the top layer is firm. The next night when I finally cut into the pie, it was delicious! Definitely not as pretty as the ones my friends made, but I admit I made a ton of mistakes: I halved the recipe, used overripe mangoes, omitted the lemon juice, and accidentally let the mango layer solidify too long before topping the dessert. Still, it turned out delicious!
A spice bag is a favorite takeaway item served in Chinese restaurants all over Ireland. Chinese food is Ireland's favorite type of take-out, known in Ireland as takeaway. So it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Irish have invented their own Chinese dish, the Spice Bag. An Irish Spice Bag But what
Last November I had the opportunity to speak to the St. Cloud Heritage Quilters. A woman named Jean Gilbertson brought this amazing quilt for show and tell that literally made my jaw drop...in the best way possible, of course! If I recall correctly, this is at least a queen size quilt. It was truly stunning. Each of the 4 patches finish around 2", so each individual square finishes at about an inch, I believe. I was foolish and asked the only question that came to mind, which was: "how long did it take you to make that?" (I should know better. Hahahaha!) No surprise that her response was: "a long time". After seeing this EPIC quilt, I knew I had to make something inspired by it....someday. After a mandatory three month waiting period, I STILL want to make it, so.... ...I pulled out some scraps and started sewing! I had a small bin of 1 1/2" squares that I had previously cut, so I was able to sit down and sew.....no prep needed. How fantastic!!! Of course I've already blown through my supply of pre-cut squares, but that means I'm making good progress! I made it a point to not overthink the fabric selection. I know that some day in the future I will look at some of these blocks and think, "what was I thinking", and other days I will think, "hey, those aren't bad at all". I waver back and forth, depending on the day, or my mood, I suppose. (Does that happen to anyone else???) The pieces are small, but not unmanageable. That's a good combo! (Quarter in the photo for scale.) There are a lot of things to love about this project: -There is only one seam in the center to match up. -Playing with fabric combinations within each block is a delight. -They are small, so you can get away with finger pressing the seams during the block construction. (I do press them with an iron once a bunch of blocks are finished.) -They are addictive. As I was sewing, I found that I kept telling myself, 'just one more'. -They are QUICK to make. -It's easy to check the block for accuracy with a 2 1/2" square. Did I mention that it's FUN sewing up scraps??? I'm having a blast! A friend asked me, "how many blocks do you need to make?" I think this is one case where it's better to NOT do the math quite yet. Why take all the fun out of it so soon? Hahaha! I decided to name my quilt "Lost in the Crowd", for a few reasons. One, because it would be really easy to camouflage ugly scraps and get away with it. Two, if you wanted to point out a favorite fabric to someone, good luck finding it! Rarely do I have a name for a quilt this early in the game, so that's pretty exciting! I think I'm going to go sew just a few more blocks now. :)
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Last year, I gave a talk about books as mirrors and windows. Some of you may have heard it. There was much more to it than just this, but to summarize briefly, I expressed that there is a need within the Charlotte Mason community for our children to have more books that reflect the diversity
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Last November I had the opportunity to speak to the St. Cloud Heritage Quilters. A woman named Jean Gilbertson brought this amazing quilt for show and tell that literally made my jaw drop...in the best way possible, of course! If I recall correctly, this is at least a queen size quilt. It was truly stunning. Each of the 4 patches finish around 2", so each individual square finishes at about an inch, I believe. I was foolish and asked the only question that came to mind, which was: "how long did it take you to make that?" (I should know better. Hahahaha!) No surprise that her response was: "a long time". After seeing this EPIC quilt, I knew I had to make something inspired by it....someday. After a mandatory three month waiting period, I STILL want to make it, so.... ...I pulled out some scraps and started sewing! I had a small bin of 1 1/2" squares that I had previously cut, so I was able to sit down and sew.....no prep needed. How fantastic!!! Of course I've already blown through my supply of pre-cut squares, but that means I'm making good progress! I made it a point to not overthink the fabric selection. I know that some day in the future I will look at some of these blocks and think, "what was I thinking", and other days I will think, "hey, those aren't bad at all". I waver back and forth, depending on the day, or my mood, I suppose. (Does that happen to anyone else???) The pieces are small, but not unmanageable. That's a good combo! (Quarter in the photo for scale.) There are a lot of things to love about this project: -There is only one seam in the center to match up. -Playing with fabric combinations within each block is a delight. -They are small, so you can get away with finger pressing the seams during the block construction. (I do press them with an iron once a bunch of blocks are finished.) -They are addictive. As I was sewing, I found that I kept telling myself, 'just one more'. -They are QUICK to make. -It's easy to check the block for accuracy with a 2 1/2" square. Did I mention that it's FUN sewing up scraps??? I'm having a blast! A friend asked me, "how many blocks do you need to make?" I think this is one case where it's better to NOT do the math quite yet. Why take all the fun out of it so soon? Hahaha! I decided to name my quilt "Lost in the Crowd", for a few reasons. One, because it would be really easy to camouflage ugly scraps and get away with it. Two, if you wanted to point out a favorite fabric to someone, good luck finding it! Rarely do I have a name for a quilt this early in the game, so that's pretty exciting! I think I'm going to go sew just a few more blocks now. :)
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Finnish doughnuts, is well known as Munkki, the speciality of these deep fried beauties are: they are simply flavoured with cardamom.The munkki are eaten any time of the year, but specially during and around on Vappu which means the 1st day of May month.In Finland, they have a special oil thats sounds like lard but as much as like butter t fry this yeasted doughnuts but however some fry these doughnuts in oil. The dough of munkki is very similar to pulla’s one but instead of baked, they are fried. Finnish doughnuts can find also shaped as a ball but the traditional one looks like ring,once fried these doughnuts gets well coated with sugar and cinnamon powder.If using bread machine, you can make the doughnut's dough easily, since i prepared the dough with bread machine, the dough came out extremely prefect. Am running my third week of blogging marathon from today and this week's theme is Doughnuts, Valli asked to check this link to pick anything from the list from A-I. Finnish doughnuts caught immediately my attention and i simply got hooked to this Finnish munkkis as they are very easy to make. Finnish Munkkis came out prefect and we couldnt stop munching them, when rolled with sugar and cinnamon powder these doughnuts tastes absolutely incredible and my kids went crazy on seeing these prefectly fried golden doughnuts.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#47. 2cups Flour 1cup Milk 1/2cup Sugar 60 g butter 1no Egg 1tsp Instant yeast 1tsp Cardamom powder 1/2tsp Salt Oil for frying Sugar and cinnamon powder (for coating) Beat the egg. Mix the lukewarm milk with the egg, sugar, salt and cardamom. Take the flour and yeast in a bowl and mix well, add gradually the butter. Knead until the dough turns soft. Place it in a greased bowl, cover with a towel and leave to prove until it doubles its size. Knead again for a while. Divide the dough to make bigger balls and open a hole in the middle of each ball with your fingers. Cover them with a towel and let it prove for 30 minutes. Heat oil fr deep frying pan or a pot , deep fry the munkki in small batches. Place the fried munkkis on a plate prepared with paper towels. Take the sugar in a bowl with a teaspoon of cinnamon powder. Drop the munkki into this mix when they are still hot and toss them well to get coated completely. Continue the same process with the remaining dough. Enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee. Finnish Munkkis: 2tasses Farine de blé 1tasse de Lait 1/2tasses Sucre 60 g Beurre 1 oeuf 1c à café Levure instantanée 1c à café Poudre de cardamome 1/2 c à café Sel Huile pour la friture Sucre et de cannelle en poudre Battre l'œuf . Mélanger le lait tiède avec l'oeuf , le sucre , le sel et la cardamome . Prendre la farine et la levure dans un bol et mélanger , ajouter petit à petit le beurre . Pétrir la pate jusqu'à ce que la pâte soit moelleuse. Placez-le dans un bol graissé , couvrir avec une serviette et laisser lever jusqu'à ce la pâte double de volume . Pétrir à nouveau. Divisez la pâte et faire un trou au milieu de chaque boule avec vos doigts . Couvrez-les avec une serviette et laissez-les pendant 30 minutes . Chauffer l'huile, frire les donuts. Placez les munkkis frits sur une plaque préparée avec des serviettes en papier . Prenez le sucre dans un bol avec une cuillère à café de cannelle en poudre . Déposez le munkki chaud dans ce mélange. Continuer avec le reste de la pâte . Manger avec une tasse de thé ou de café .
I was lucky enough to spend more than one year of my life in this country and visit its many cities. Although, I never had the chance to stop in Bordeaux and visit their rich heritage: the wineries.
