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Around the World in 12 Dishes: Australia

August 6, 2012 Ticia 5 Comments

I have a friend from church who moved to Australia and she writes about their life there.  One of the things I noticed is a lot of cook outs and barbecues.  This works well with my cooking and eating style, so barbecue it was for this trip in our cooking around the world.  I did a quick search and found a recipe for barbecue chicken and smashed potatoes, and then proceeded to completely ignore their recipes. I’m not a good example in following recipes for our geography lessons.

barbecue chicken and smashed potatoes

Barbecue Chicken

Are you ready?  This is super simple.  Defrost about 6 or so chicken breasts in a ziploc bag.  Pour in a bottle of barbecue sauce and a half cup or so of honey.  Let marinate for a while.  Start the grill and grill those babies.  Super hard, I know.

Smashed Potatoes

Does anyone else call their mashed potatoes smushed potatoes?  I do because it amuses me.

Smashed potatoes Ingredients

several small potatoes (I like the red ones)
butter
salt, garlic, other topping type of things
parmesan

1.  Wash your potatoes and put them in a pan filled with water.  Boil for about 20 minutes or so, until the potatoes are fork tender.  I did not cook mine long enough because I was hungry.  So make sure it’s fairly tender.  Preheat oven to 250.

2.  Smush the potatoes with a potato masher.  This is where I had undercooked it a little, so they didn’t smoosh too well.  More of tried to roll away or fly away and hit unaware people in the face.  Make sure to try any random pieces that fall off and say “Mmmmmm potato.”

cooking around the world australia
3.  Add the butter, garlic powder, salt, whatever toppings you’re putting on.  Cook for 15-20 minutes.  Ours were a hair under done because of my earlier mistake, but the chicken was ready and I was HUNGRY!

4.  After you take them out sprinkle some parmesan cheese on.  Yummy.

eating our barbecue chicken and smashed potatoes
5.  Eat.  My boys would say bonus points for stuffing the entire potato or chicken into your mouth.

Jeff reading Misty of Chincoteague
Maybe enjoy some dinnertime reading as you eat (years later we read Misty of Chincoteague again and made it into a movie night).  By the end of the meal there was nothing left.  Superman ate 3 potatoes and 2 small chicken breasts.  Batman ate 2 potatoes and all of his chicken.  Princess ate large amounts of meat.  At the end of the meal they were scavenging and stealing from other people’s plates.

If you’d like some other Australia activities, here’s some more we’ve done:

  • Books on Australia
  • Kangaroo craft
  • Koala Lou
  • Australian animal reports
  • How far can a kangaroo jump?

geography, recipe Around the World in 12 Dishes, australia, country studies

Comments

  1. Eddie says

    August 6, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    Looks delicious!

    Reply
  2. Raising a Happy Child says

    August 6, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    Kids demolishing their meal is clearly a success in my cookbook 🙂

    Reply
  3. MamaTea says

    August 7, 2012 at 10:46 am

    Looks like a success! I am glad to know other boys try to shove that much food in their mouth and that it is not just an occurrence at our house. 🙂

    Reply
  4. Christy says

    August 11, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    Sounds good!

    Reply
  5. Valerie @ Glittering Muffins says

    August 15, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    Glad it worked out for you this month, it looked very yummy 🙂

    Reply

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