International Om Nom

        Hey guys! This month, In the Mood for Food has been busy exploring the corners of the world in honor of our international food theme. For the most part, we focused on finding international cuisine settings for our weekly meals together and planning our monthly event of cooking together. These past four weeks we explored food from sushi at Zumi's and ginger noodle salads at PM, to yummy tiki masala chicken at Bombay Palace. We were able to learn a lot about different countries and the foods they celebrate through our weekly dinners together this month.

       On another note, we were able to fit in our monthly do-it-yourself dinner this weekend with much success! Since this was our first time executing the dinner, we decided to pair off and create a total of five dishes. By the end of our cooking frenzy, we had made hummus (interesting side story, since the recipe called for a food processor and we had none, we resorted to shoving chickpeas into a ziplock bag and stomping on them with our feet..not pretty, but admittedly effective. If anyone is interested, here is the recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Hummus-101577), a lovely greek salad, tomato and fresh mozzarella linguine pasta with grilled chicken (did you know that raw meat can be cooked in a microwave..?), a Chinese egg and tomato dish(note the unplanned theme of tomatoes..), and to finish off our meal, African banana fritters topped with powdered sugar (yumm!).
With content bellies, I think we rounded out our International month quite successfully!
We'll keep you all posted as we tackle Vegetarian month next!

Love from In the Mood!