Our 5th Year of 25 Days Around the World (2020)

This year has been nuts if anything and doing the Christmas cooking is exactly what I needed. (Plus who knows the work that goes into this... the answer is a lot of work)

Day 1: Native American Culture. Pork Roast, Native Holiday Cake, Kolab Salad, Cranberry Sauce, Fry Bread

Day 2: Italy. Cheesecake with cranberry compote, Lasagna Bolognese, Broccoli, and Parmesan roasted potatoes.

Day 3: Russia. Rasstegai, Kartoshnik with cheese and onions, Russian chicken, Syrniki

Day 4: Portugal. Rabanadas (french toast), Sopa de Ventura (carrot soup), Pasteis de Bacalhau (fish balls)

Day 5: Nigeria. African beef stew, Nigerian Jollof rice, chickpea moimoi, and puff puff

Day 6: Aruba. Rum balls, sancocho soup, bolita Di Keshi(cheese balls but in this case cheese pancakes)

Day 7: Spain. Spanish patatas bravas (the red sauce and French Fry's) homemade cheese puffs with sesame seeds and honey then we had the Valencian puchero (winter stew) and the Spanish lemon olive oil cake.

Day 8: Greece. Hearty Greek beef stew, Greek salad 'horiatiki', Greek lemon potatoes, Greek dipiles

Day 9: Korea. Naan Bread, kimchi fried rice, hot Korean pork chops, and sweet rice.

Day 10: Slovenia. belokranjska pogaca, carrot soup, chicken with mushrooms, Slovenian struklji, solvenian roasted potatoes

Day 11: England. We have mashed potatoes and potato and leek soup with roast lemon chicken and plum pudding

Day 12: Venezuela. We had corn cakes, pabellon criollo, coconut cream cake, sweet and savory plantain

Day 13: Sweden. Braised Swedish red cabbage, Swedish Christmas toffee called knack, Swedish Christmas ham, janssons temptation Swedish potato dish.

Day 14: Israel. We made Falafel, cabbage rolls, artichoke soup, honey Puffs.

Day 15: France. Croque Madame and French onion soup, classic French gratin potatoes, buche du noel.

Day 16: Egypt. Mahalabia, Egyptian koshary, fried cauliflower, kofta

Day 17: Germany. German krautstrudel, German apple and sausage stuffing, Potato dumplings, Stollen

Day 18: Ethiopia. daro wat, green bean dish, sour fry bread, honey bread for dessert and rice

Day 19: Peru. Sweet potato puree, pantone bread pudding, orange Peruvian pork, and apple sauce

Day 20: Indonesia. a spicy potato dish, nastar (pineapple cookies), sayur urap, and spicy chicken.

Day 21: Poland. homemade pierogies, lemon and pepper fish, cabbage and peas, poppy seed noodles, cheesecake

Day 22: Belgium. Pousse dommes, pork and wine sauce, Belgian endives (we replaced with reddico) and Belgian specialoos

Day 23: Bulgaria. Bulgarian Christmas bread, garash cake, Bob chobra, a potato dish and Bulgarian meatballs

Day 24: Scotland. White rolls, turkey, mashed potatoes, Scottish rumbledethumps, and caramel shortbread

Day 25: Mexico. Mexican style potatoes, mexican bunuelos,street corn salad, skillet beef tamales.