'Goodbye England' ' and 'Hello America'. Once my family and I had taken the decision to lift up our roots and head to the US for a new life, it didn't take us long to make the necessary changes. We were all very keen to embrace opportunities available in the New World, and quite rapidly found ourselves living the life ' and being a part of a real neighbourhood.
Most people don't like looking as though they're tourists when they're at home, and having established our home as being the US, it was important to all of us that we try our best to fit in. That necessarily meant making various changes in our lifestyle, as well as learning a lot about local customs, including traditional recipes. As very keen cooks my wife and I enjoy finding out about different recipes and local cooking.
For many years we've been very happy to cook traditional British recipes, everything from Fish and Chips to the old Spotted Dick. But now we were in the US we wanted to introduce our family to traditional US recipes. At first we were slightly stumped, knowing that we couldn't very well feed our kids on steak and chips every day. What we needed to do was to find out as much as we could about healthy, delicious recipes we could enjoy making in our new home.
So we spent quite a while trying to identify just what makes a traditional US recipe. We were looking for recipes that were very much part of America, taking in its history and culture as well as local foods and popular dishes. We had started making a lot of friends, and wanted to be able to offer them local recipes and typical US meals, not so much to make them feel at home, but to help them feel that we were trying to feel at home ourselves.
As well as looking for recipes which were traditional, we were also fairly anxious to identify some recipes which would be warming too. Naturally, as English, we are very used to fairly cold weather. But with the US version of cold reinventing the concept, we were all on the lookout for warming food. We used the internet to help us with our search, quickly coming across a Navy Bean Soup recipe which we agreed sounded fantastic, as well as a Ham Navy Bean soup recipe. We downloaded these, and gave them our best shot.
After having a go with the Navy Bean Soup recipe, we all agreed, children included, that it was a resounding success. To have the children giving one of our recipes the thumbs up is always good, and we felt as though we'd accomplished an important step in becoming accepted as locals! We tried the Ham Navy Bean Soup recipe too with equal success. Both were heartily warming, although we did feel that it was important to expand our repertoire beyond merely two alternative dishes. I had a look online again, at the same place I got the Navy Bean Soup recipe from.
The website from where I downloaded the Navy Bean Soup Recipe had a number of others available, two hundred other recipes to be precise. I figured that two hundred traditional US recipes would probably be about enough to see my family through the winter! They sounded just as appetizing as the Ham Navy Bean Soup recipe, and when I saw the price I was astonished, 200 recipes for just $10!
Being able to pick up two hundred traditional recipes for just $10 was too good to be true - and I immediately acquired the full pack. In all honesty I couldn't even take my kids to the pizza parlour for $10 - so to have a whole heap of successful recipes was a bargain. I know my children are definitely impressed with the food, and my wife and I have discovered a great way to make a lot of new friends too!
Most people don't like looking as though they're tourists when they're at home, and having established our home as being the US, it was important to all of us that we try our best to fit in. That necessarily meant making various changes in our lifestyle, as well as learning a lot about local customs, including traditional recipes. As very keen cooks my wife and I enjoy finding out about different recipes and local cooking.
For many years we've been very happy to cook traditional British recipes, everything from Fish and Chips to the old Spotted Dick. But now we were in the US we wanted to introduce our family to traditional US recipes. At first we were slightly stumped, knowing that we couldn't very well feed our kids on steak and chips every day. What we needed to do was to find out as much as we could about healthy, delicious recipes we could enjoy making in our new home.
So we spent quite a while trying to identify just what makes a traditional US recipe. We were looking for recipes that were very much part of America, taking in its history and culture as well as local foods and popular dishes. We had started making a lot of friends, and wanted to be able to offer them local recipes and typical US meals, not so much to make them feel at home, but to help them feel that we were trying to feel at home ourselves.
As well as looking for recipes which were traditional, we were also fairly anxious to identify some recipes which would be warming too. Naturally, as English, we are very used to fairly cold weather. But with the US version of cold reinventing the concept, we were all on the lookout for warming food. We used the internet to help us with our search, quickly coming across a Navy Bean Soup recipe which we agreed sounded fantastic, as well as a Ham Navy Bean soup recipe. We downloaded these, and gave them our best shot.
After having a go with the Navy Bean Soup recipe, we all agreed, children included, that it was a resounding success. To have the children giving one of our recipes the thumbs up is always good, and we felt as though we'd accomplished an important step in becoming accepted as locals! We tried the Ham Navy Bean Soup recipe too with equal success. Both were heartily warming, although we did feel that it was important to expand our repertoire beyond merely two alternative dishes. I had a look online again, at the same place I got the Navy Bean Soup recipe from.
The website from where I downloaded the Navy Bean Soup Recipe had a number of others available, two hundred other recipes to be precise. I figured that two hundred traditional US recipes would probably be about enough to see my family through the winter! They sounded just as appetizing as the Ham Navy Bean Soup recipe, and when I saw the price I was astonished, 200 recipes for just $10!
Being able to pick up two hundred traditional recipes for just $10 was too good to be true - and I immediately acquired the full pack. In all honesty I couldn't even take my kids to the pizza parlour for $10 - so to have a whole heap of successful recipes was a bargain. I know my children are definitely impressed with the food, and my wife and I have discovered a great way to make a lot of new friends too!
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