Saint Nicholas Day

In our house we celebrate Saint Nicholas Day. This is on December 6th and is a holiday for German kids. I am half German. I am half of a lot of things. Half Irish, Half German, Half Native American, Half Scottish, Half English (From England not just America, it is confusing because we both speak English) and half German.
Saint Nicholas Day is a really fun holiday and you should try it.
Basically you put a wooden shoe out on your doorstep in the evening and then Saint Nick comes and If you have been good, he fills shoe with delicious fruits, nuts and candies, oh and 3 gold coins. If not good, you get potatoes, coal, or twigs. You also get a note from Saint Nick on maybe a few things you need to work on before Christmas. Last year I needed to work on cleaning my room, yeah, that still needs a little work and probably my spelling tests! I have never gotten potatoes, coal or twigs...Though I wouldn't mind a potatoes! Yum!

Here is a picture of my shoe...

But my favorite part of Saint Nicholas day is the food. One of my favorite things to make with my Mom are potato pancakes. Here is her recipe...

There is a big German word for it (Mom will have to help with the spelling) 
Kartoffelpuffer:

Ingredients:

• 1 about 2 lbs of potatoes (Russet)

• 1 - 2 tablespoons thick sour cream

• 1 egg

• 2 - 3 tablespoons flour

• dash of salt

• 1 medium onion

• light canola oil

So far pretty easy, right?
Here is the fun part...
Peal and rinse the potatoes. 
Grate the potatoes. We have a cool grater with a funny chef guy on the top.
Let potatoes drain for a bit. 
Then put potatoes into a bowl and mix in the sour cream., 
add the egg, flour, salt and grated onion (also grate up the onion-sorry forgot that part). 
Mix everything with your hands (wash hands first). 
Preheat a fry pan with the oil on medium.
Make little balls in your hands like a meatball and then squish flat.
Make sure to have paper towels on hand, it gets messy.
Put in the oil and fry until golden on the bottom then flip and finish the other side until golden as well. 
Let pancakes drain on a plate with paper towels.

These are simply divine. They are good with sour cream or I like ketchup on them. Enjoy!

After School Snack

Looking for a good after school snack? Me too! That is why I created this fun, sort of healthy (and sort of not) snack!

First take a round tortilla (yum!)
Lay it flat and spread your favorite peanut butter on half of it.
Then (if you have any) put peanut butter frosting on the other half. I was at Chef Alina's when we made this and she had a bucket of the best peanut butter frosting that was bigger than me!
Next is the healthy part - slice up some banana an put it all around the tortilla, have fun sticking it in the peanut butter!
Then what you want to do is take some little itty bitty chocolate chips and sprinkle them all over.
Fold it closed, cut it up and Voilà!
Peanut Butter Heaven!

ok, it doesn't look great but trust me- it is Delicious!

Kennedy's Vegetable Love Soup

So, tonight at GJ's house (my grandmother) I created a recipe I would like to share with you. I did this recipe all by myself, GJ did help with the stove and the big knife. It is perfect as a whole meal or for snuggling up and watching Looney Tunes. I love Tom & Jerry and Bugs Bunny but Tom & Jerry are my favorite.

Here is what I put in a pot (aka ingredients):
-Organic free range chicken stock (Happy chickens taste better)
-Can of crushed tomatoes
-2 cups of chopped baby carrots
-half a cup chopped orange pepper
-1 cup chopped yellow squash
-1 cup chopped zucchini
-alot of dry basil (you can use fresh but GJ only
had dry)
-half a cup couscous (I love saying this word, couscous, it is so silly!)
-a little bit of garlic powder (Because Grampa doesn't like garlic so GJ doesn't have fresh garlic. But we tricked him and still put a little in the soup!)
-14 cups of love

Put all ingredients in a pot and cook it while you talk about life and things with someone you love. It is very yummy. Even Grampa liked it (Even with the garlic salt, but we didn't tell him we put it in!)

To make it even better, follow soup with one of my favorite desserts...Marshmallows and strawberries dipped in dark chocolate. You know dark chocolate is very healthy for you, so eat it.

Oh, and make sure you make the plate a little fancy!

InHouse Coffee - Shrewsbury Street, Worcester

I would like to say, if you guys want to go to a good breakfast place, you should listen to this blog. Let me tell you about this place...If you want to go today or any day, you must check this place out. If you have a date, they have carrot cake there too. I have never had carrot cake before but it looked pretty good to me. It is not Sweet Bakery up the street but if you have a date in the morning go to this place because Chef Alina doesn't open Sweet in the morning.

I ordered a bagel today. It was really, really, really soft. My bagel was perfect. When my Mom wasn't looking, I snuck a sip of her ice coffee and it was really good! 

The people that work there are really nice too! 

I give them 3 Butterflies!

I say, give them a try! http://www.inhousecoffeeusa.com/

Flying Rhino - Shrewsbury Street, Worcester

I love their food.

Well that's not really true.

The kids menu was not that great but my Mom's dinner was REALLY good.

I ordered the kids chicken and rice.

The rice was just plain rice. I mean, it was cooked but it didn't have any flavor and it kept falling off the plate, maybe they should put it in a bowl or something.

I did get to have a sundae for dessert. I loved their whipped cream. I could tell it was real whipped cream.

Now, my mom had the Braised Short Rib plate and it tasted like sugar and it was soft and yummy! I could taste many many many flavors in my mouth. I mean it was to die for, really.

It was very pretty there too. They had lots of colors and paintings. They even had a ballerina rhino picture!

Very cool.

Our waitress for very nice.

Um...one thing though... Rhinoceros was not on the menu so I do not know what one tastes like. If you want to know what a rhino tastes like you might want to try some where else.

I give their kids menu 2 and a half butterflies- I mean just because I am a kid doesn't mean I don't want things to have flavor. 




But for Mom's plate I give it 4 butterflies! 

Porto Bello - Shrewsbury Street, Worcester

First I need to say that my Mommy said if I do not have anything nice to say than do not say anything at all. So I am going to try to say nice things but it is kinda hard.
NO offense but they weren't really a place for kids to go.
The waiter really did not act like he liked us. I think he was in a bad mood or maybe he didn't like us or maybe he just wanted to stay home.
I shared the chicken parmigiana with my mom.
It was a little hard for her to cut but she said it tasted ok. I ate some of the pasta. We didn't finish it and when the meany pants waiter asked us if we wanted to take it home, we said "um, no thank you".

This is not a picture of our dinner. Mom found it on the internet and said we needed to put a picture on here.
Um...The water was pretty good.
So, If you have kids you might not want to go there. 

If you go there and order something else, I do not know how it tastes. So, Thats all.
Oh, and we went to Sweet for dessert so it ended up being a good night!

I give it 1 butterfly.

The Donut Cafe - Shrewsbury Street, Worcester

I love these donuts!
They taste like sugar and snow!
The people there love to give me hugs and say "Hi Kennedy!"
They are so nice. I love going there after ballet class.
I get to go behind the counter and pick my own donut!
My favorite donut is...ALL OF THEM! Except the jelly. I don't like jelly donuts.
Their donuts are way better than Dunkin Donut donuts. No offense Dunkin Donuts, I love your bagels.
So go to the Donut Cafe and tell them Kennedy sent you!

I give them 3 butterflies for the donuts and an extra butterfly for the hugs!