We had a sort of St. Patrick's Day week...spreading out the St. Patrick-ness over several days. Earlier in the week we made beef stew and the kids helped me make green jello to go with it. They loved that. Then we made some green shamrocks out of paper and decorated them and played find the gold treasure with a few gold foil covered candies. Today we just did a couple things...including the fort under the table thing. Not at all related to St. Patrick's Day, but fun.
We made a rainbow fruit tray (I got the idea from Family Fun). I was going to do skewers, but I only had one skewer left for two kids, so we did the tray instead. It didn't look as good as it did in the magazine. Oh well. Also, it was a huge mess 'cause there were no fresh blueberries this week at the commissary, so I used frozen, which look purple, not blue, after being frozen and then bleed purple blueberry juice like crazy all over everything. More stain removal in the afternoon. :( I know, I'm just a big complainer.
Green eggs and green milk. Matthew helped me make the eggs (I think I overdid it on the food coloring). When Matthew got to the table to eat he looked at the green eggs and said, "I don't like these." I convinced him that they were just like regular eggs so he eventually tried them, and liked them (I do, I LIKE green eggs...) so that was good.
And for dinner we went out for sushi. It was a goodbye party for one of Scott's co-workers. We went to a place called Yoshihachi that is supposed to be where some celebrities go when in Okinawa. It was our first time there. It was pretty good.
We had to order the sweet potato roll. It has purple Okinawan sweet potato (beni-imo) wrapped around the outside with some avocado. Beni-imo has a really mild flavor, so you hardly notice it, but it does make the whole thing a lot more starchy. So it was a real sushi St. Patrick's Day for us. :)
We had a sort of St. Patrick's Day week...spreading out the St. Patrick-ness over several days. Earlier in the week we made beef stew and the kids helped me make green jello to go with it. They loved that. Then we made some green shamrocks out of paper and decorated them and played find the gold treasure with a few gold foil covered candies. Today we just did a couple things...including the fort under the table thing. Not at all related to St. Patrick's Day, but fun.
We made a rainbow fruit tray (I got the idea from Family Fun). I was going to do skewers, but I only had one skewer left for two kids, so we did the tray instead. It didn't look as good as it did in the magazine. Oh well. Also, it was a huge mess 'cause there were no fresh blueberries this week at the commissary, so I used frozen, which look purple, not blue, after being frozen and then bleed purple blueberry juice like crazy all over everything. More stain removal in the afternoon. :( I know, I'm just a big complainer.
Green eggs and green milk. Matthew helped me make the eggs (I think I overdid it on the food coloring). When Matthew got to the table to eat he looked at the green eggs and said, "I don't like these." I convinced him that they were just like regular eggs so he eventually tried them, and liked them (I do, I LIKE green eggs...) so that was good.
And for dinner we went out for sushi. It was a goodbye party for one of Scott's co-workers. We went to a place called Yoshihachi that is supposed to be where some celebrities go when in Okinawa. It was our first time there. It was pretty good.
We had to order the sweet potato roll. It has purple Okinawan sweet potato (beni-imo) wrapped around the outside with some avocado. Beni-imo has a really mild flavor, so you hardly notice it, but it does make the whole thing a lot more starchy. So it was a real sushi St. Patrick's Day for us. :)
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I love the rainbow fruit plate. The one in the magazine probably only looked better cuz it was fake fruit!
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