Week 11 done of my US National Food challenge with 5 out of 7 accomplished!
August 20 – Lemonade Day
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If today was Lemonade day, why is there a picture of scones here (I hear you ask)? Well, I found a recipe for lemonade scones … and wanted to try it. They worked ok, but not brilliant. The kids loved them for breakfast though! |
August 21 – National Pecan Torte Day
| Apparently pecan torte is a fancy way of saying a pecan cake. Clicking on the link in my list of US Food Days gave me a recipe that I had to adapt to both gluten-free flour, and not having a set of 2 round cake tins to do the correct filling. Surprisingly, this was REALLY yummy! The chocolate frosting used sour cream, but it was a totally different taste and texture to usual cakes and I am definitely going to make this again! |  |
August 22 – Eat a Peach Day
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I contemplated making peach muffins or something like that, but as you’ve noted, most of the days are quite dessert-type, or junk-food type, so I decided to make something a little healthier. I made a spinach and peach salad (recipe here) – very yummy and much better for me! |
August 23 – National Sponge Cake Day
| Not exactly my success story of the week – it was supposed to be a sponge cake roll. I took it out of the oven too early, it rose too much in a too small container, so I couldn’t roll it. Then … let’s just say I’m glad I got the photo I did! Always room for trying again, I guess. |  |
August 24 – National Peach Pie Day
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While I have made a peaches and cream pie previously, I wanted to try a peach pie with my normal pie crust (the infamous ‘ugly crust‘) with a concoction of peaches & sugar to be the filling, added some crumble and a creamy icing on top and you have instant yum! |
August 25 – Whiskey Sour Day
Another day celebrating alcohol, so I sat this one out.
August 26 – Cherry Popsicle Day
We still don’t have popsicle containers, so unless I wanted to go and find a cherry popsicle to buy and eat, I thought I’d have a rest day today as well!
Coming up next week:
- August 27: National Pots de Creme day / Banana Lover’s Day
- August 28: National Cherry Turnover day
- August 29: More Herbs, Less Salt day / Whiskey Sour Day / Swiss Winegrowers Day / Chop Suey Day / Lemon Juice Day
- August 30: National Toasted Marshmallow day
- August 31: Eat Outside day / National Trail Mix day
- September 1: National Cherry Popover day
- September 2: National Blueberry Popsicle day
Stay tuned to see which ones I choose to make/eat and how successful (or not) I am!
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