World Heritage Merit Badge

Amber has been working on her American Heritage Girl World Heritage Merit Badge. She had to select three countries to learn about and chose Italy, Belgium, and France. One of the requirements was to make a meal. She chose to make Italy her lunch menu, dinner her French menu, and breakfast the following morning as her Belgian meal.

Making pesto from scratch.

Amber is mixing the pesto in with the fucilli. It was a very tasty meal ... but MY was it garlicky!

It was a nice idea to have toasted chibata bread with our noon meal. It helped to take the edge off the garlic. She melted some cheese on top. It was crunchy and yummy.

Lunch

Dinner was from France and these beans were amazing! They weren't fresh from our garden, but they were fresh from the store. Nothing frozen in this meal. All fresh ingredients. Roasted slivered almonds topped the beans. YUM!

Potatoes au gratin were a fantastic side. I had forgotten how much I really enjoy them, too. I remember Mom making them when we were kids. Brought back delicious memories.

The main part of the evening's French menu was pear pork. It was very tender and very tasty.

Dinner

Bananas flambe was dessert. Best left to Dad because of the fire. It didn't taste as amazing as it had in the past. But, maybe that was just me. However, it could have been the banana liquor, too.

Flambe!

A little glow.

Breakfast the next morning was Belgian Waffles with a fruit compote topped with homemade whipped cream. Yummy :)