Wednesday, February 22, 2012

You never know where or how you will learn

I love teaching my kids in part because I love to learn new and interesting things. My favorite things to learn is about things that affect my kitchen, from the food we grow to the food we eat there is always a new study, recipe, ingredient to try. As such I have taken on the challenge both to my kids and to my family to dedicate once a month to try something new. Well February was the month of chocolate in all forms to attempt to bake with and really challenge our taste buds. What an adventure this month has been.

We have made:
Chocolate gravy


And thanks to Hershey Chocolates we tried
Chocolate Sloppy Joes


Of  course everything had to be fun as well




The absolute best thing was



Ok so it was not just those few dishes we actually tried cocoa chili, spicy cocoa pork chops, cocoa and black bean soup, chocolate chip muffins, and all sorts of dishes. February is not yet over and I still have a few surprises left.


But we are already planning for March where our theme will be Things that Swim