Cooking Activity- Roman Bread Pudding

For the past couple of weeks, we have been learning about the Egyptians and the Romans. In today's lesson, in our book "Living Long Ago", we learned that the Romans ate lots of weird things like snails, oysters, stuffed dormice, and boar's head. We also learned about some of their desserts that sounded a little more appetizing.

Paxton suggested we try the recipe the book offered for Roman Bread Pudding. We had several disadvantages when attempting this recipe because one ingredient was bread and we only had diet low carb bread. I know from experience that this doesn't cook well. I also didn't have enough olive oil to make it more like deep fried but I agreed we could try it anyway and here is what we discovered.

 Pax helped me gather the ingredients which were milk, cubed bread, olive oil, and honey. 

The low carb bread soaked up the milk and became mushy instantly. We tried it out anyway and learned that it did not want to cook in the oil and only certain parts browned. Had we used more oil and attempted to deep fry, this might have worked better. 

We drizzled raw honey on top of the fried bread and Pax ate about half of his serving. I was done after one bite. LOL.

Maybe you are brave enough to try this recipe out for fun? We decided this is a recipe we probably won't be trying again but had fun anyway!

We're Back!!!

Good morning everyone! As Pax works on an art project, I am stealing a few minutes to share some of our adventures from the first full week of homeschool! I am beyond thrilled at how much fun we had last week. I still can't get over the fact that I have this amazing privilege to teach my son at home and be in control of what he is learning. I am living the dream! (my dream at least!)

I want to share with you some of the highlights from the week. I am sorry, but there will be a lot of pictures in this post as I cover the week. I am proud of everything we learned and how much fun we had getting back to our routine!

Enjoy!

~Kendra

Every kid deserves a first day of school picture, whether they homeschool or leave the home for school! This is my kindergartener!!!

Paxton loves to practice his handwriting and he is trying so hard to make the letters look just like the ones he traces. He is also learning to cut along the lines as well as cutting freestyle. He worked on this in Pre-K but now he really concentrates and doesn't want to be sloppy.

We got to turn water into ice and graph how long it took when placed in the freezer. (this experiment took about 6hrs from water to complete ice) and instead of making a tornado, we used out Discovery Kids tornado to observe how tornadoes are made. 

We got to celebrate our first "official" day of school with cousins Will and Jude at Chuck E Cheese and visit Will for lunch at his school later in the week.

On Wednesday, we were supposed to have some gross motor play at the park and visit with our friends Brittle, Silas, and Teddy. Unfortunately, an unexpected storm hit Springfield and we were stuck indoors for the day. We decided to make things fun by doing homeschool by candlelight, have flashlight play, and even read our book "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" in the dark. (we had electricity, but just decided not to use it and pretend instead)

Speaking of our current read aloud, "The Mouse and the Motorcycle", Pax came up with the idea to create a "safe" mouse trap using cheese, his VBS hat, and some toys under the hat for the mouse to play with. 

And last but not least, we decided to reorganize our homeschool supplies. Over the summer, I kept throwing things here and there and last week it felt a bit chaotic when I looked for our curriculum materials for each day. We now how every subject on a different shelf. I decided to recycle our diaper caddy and make it into an art caddy instead. Pax loves it and now all of his art supplies are in one place!