The Making of a Canadian Meal

For geography we are starting our journey throughout North America and one of Zoey's recent "assignments" was to choose a recipe from North America from her cookbook (Eat Your Way Around the World) and prepare it for the family. She chose a meal from Canada and made maple chicken with wild rice and a blueberry crisp for dessert. It was DELICIOUS!!!

This was the first meal that she has made all on her own. I helped her with the timing of things so that everything would be ready around the same time for the meal, but other than that it was completely her! So proud of her!

The really cool part of all of this...besides getting to sample this yummy food, is that she has a little passport that she stamps (in this case we will stamp Canada) for every meal that she makes from a different place around the world and then she writes up a little journal entry for her food journal on the foods that she prepared.

It's tying in perfectly with our geography studies!

Rhubarb Upside Down Cake

We had some rhubarb and I've been craving it so we ended up making a rhubarb cake here this week. It's been pretty hot and humid but somehow we were able to squeeze this in on a day that wasn't all that bad, (we have no air conditioning so having the oven on really heats up the house!).

Z enjoys helping out in the kitchen and trying new recipes just like me so she was all for this project.

Here is the recipe we used in case you are interested...

Ingredients

• 1 package Pamela's Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake Mix (or any yellow cake mix)
• 3 cups diced rhubarb 

• 1 1/4 cups white sugar
• 1/2 pint whipping cream

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 
2. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. 
3. Prepare cake mix according to the package directions. 
4. Pour batter into prepared pan.
5. In a medium bowl, mix together the rhubarb and sugar. 
6. Spoon the rhubarb mixture over the cake batter. 
7. Drizzle the whipping cream over the top of the rhubarb.
8. Bake 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. 
9. Let cake cool completely before turning it out onto a serving dish.
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It was pretty simple considering it called for a ready-made cake mix and it ended up being delicious! Super moist. The best part was the gooey bottom. Yum! I didn't even have a scoop of vanilla ice cream with mine because it was so good on it's own.

The picture of the finished cake doesn't look amazing, but let me tell you...it was!