November 17 Inheritance Recipes

Inheritance Recipes started as a challenge but to allow bloggers from around the world to participate it's now a link-up. IR is about dishes bloggers cherish. Recipes which have been passed down by a family member, a friend, through an ancestral culture and dishes which you would like to bestow to future generations. Before starting, do take a look at the latest roundup collated by Coffee 'n Vanilla

How does the Inheritance Recipes work?

Each month, food bloggers will add their favourite recipe(s)celebrating a dish which they love and connects them to their root or which they would like to share with the next generation. As Inheritance Recipes is opened to all, regardless of location, each month, we'll end up with the most diverse round-up of all roundups.

Social Media
We will also add your recipe to the Inheritance Recipes Pinterest board and include your blog’s handle in our Inheritance Recipes list on Twitter (don’t forget to subscribe to them both), we will share your recipe via social media including Instagram and a round-up at the end of the month.

HOW TO ENTER

1. Please, link back to challenge page on both: Pebble Soup and Coffee & Vanilla blog.
2. If possible, display one of the IR badges (available below) on your recipe post.
3. Add your recipe via linky 
4. Up to 2 recipes accepted per blogger.
5. Feel free to link up to past posts but please, update them with links to the challenge pages to qualify.
6. Closing date is the 30th of the month.
7. Entries from bloggers all around the World are accepted.

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Please note that entries that fail to follow “how to enter” instructions won’t be approved.

If you use Twitter to promote your recipe, please use #InheritanceRecipes, tweet it@coffeenvanilla or @solangeweb and we will re-tweet it.

When you have a spare moment visit other entries that caught your eye, comment on them and give them some social media love.

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We can’t wait to see your Inheritance Recipes!

November recipes
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Inheritance Recipe August Round-up

Summer was slow blogging time and though we didn't get many recipes, Inheritance Recipes Challenge received recipes from cultures which were not featured before and some nifty ideas such as our to celebrate failure.

From left to right

Street food with Carolanne Johnson and her Mini Pizza's. 
Best Ever Gluten Free Scones with a lovely story from Kate's teenage years.
A Favorite things Birthday Cake to remember for Margot's gorgeous daughter along with a very colourful Easy Choldnik

I will let you discover what an African Kaklo is

Finally, I added my Dark Glacé Cherry Biscotti

We hope to see you in September under Margot's beautiful Inheritance Recipe's banner

July & August Inheritance Recipes with Linky

I am keeping the challenge in August so please continue to link your recipes below with the linky

ABOUT INHERITANCE RECIPES

Inheritance Recipes is a challenge that Margot of Coffee and Vanilla and I have started to celebrate dishes food bloggers cherish. We would love to hear about your friends and family recipes.

Recipes which have been passed down by a family member, a friend, through an ancestral culture and dishes which you would like to bestow to future generations.

Margot has rounded up June challenge, head to Coffee 'n Vanilla for inspiration

We will share your recipes via our social media channels and include them in the round-up (with pictures) at the end of the month. We will also add your recipes to the Inheritance Recipes Pinterest board (that has 2.3 K followers) and include your blog’s handle in our Inheritance Recipes list on Twitter. Don’t forget to subscribe to them both!

HOW TO ENTER

Please, link back to challenge page on both: Pebble Soup and Coffee and Vanilla blog.

If possible, display one of the IR badges on your recipe post. (Click through to open one of the badges, right-click to save it to your computer and then upload badge to your blog.)

Add your recipe via linky -Up to 2 recipes accepted per blogger.

Feel free to link up to past posts but please, update them with links to the challenge pages to qualify.

Recipe suggestions:

1. traditional recipes or preparation methods,
2. national recipes from all over the globe,
3. dishes that you often prepare with your children (starting a new tradition),
4. recipes inspired by childhood memories,
5. dishes inherited from a family member or a friend.

Closing date is the 31th August.

Please note that entries that fail to follow “how to enter” instructions won’t be approved.

If you use Twitter to promote your recipe, please use #InheritanceRecipes, tweet it @coffeenvanilla or @solangeweb and we will re-tweet it.

And last but not least, have a look at the terms and conditions if you haven't yet done so.
We can't wait to see your recipes and read their stories.

Favourite Things Cake by Coffee and Vanilla 

Healthy Mini Pizzas by a Literary Cocktail

Best Ever Scones by Gluten Free Alchemist

Margot's Chlodnick

Ancestry DNA : who did I think I was?

Inheritance is a recurring theme on Pebble Soup. A theme which is deeply rooted in concepts such as family, ancestry, ethnicity. During the past few month, I took an AncestryDNA test with the view to understand my ethnic background. I spat in the tube, send the test back to the lab, dabbled a little in the Ancestry DNA website but all in all, I was pretty sure of where I came from.

Who did I think I was?

My estimation of my ethnic ancestry DNA came from the knowledge that each individual inherits half of their DNA from their parents.

My parents, Michel and Suzanne, on their wedding day

My father's family originated from a small village in the Departement de l'Ain, an area named after its river, situated on the Eastern edge of France. The first inhabitants settled in the territory of today's Ain about 15000 BC. 

In the cemetery in the small village of Pollet where the Berchemins  came from, you can't move without bumping into the tomb of an ancestor of mine. My surname is proof of my roots. All Berchemins, not a very common name, come from the same area.

Therefore I was expecting the result of my ethnic DNA to show that I was 50% Western European. That's the group which contains Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein

The other half, my mum's side, was always going to be slightly more volatile. My mother was born in France of the union of two Moroccan jews. In these days, it can't have been very easy to marry outside their respective religions but they were both madly attracted by one another. 

So throw in the mix a good dose of North African, a little bit of Spanish as along the route, one may have dilly-dallied, some Middle-Eastern blood on account of the family Jewishness. Add a wee bit of Teutonic ancestry from my maternal grandmother and Bob 'z your uncle. 

Here is the scientific bit again: Each individual inherits about 25% from each grandparent, 12.5% from each great-grandparent and approximately half the previous amount for each subsequent generation.

conclusion: when getting the results, surprises can be expected. And surprise I was.

The test results

The test results taught me that it's really impossible to predict what your DNA profile will look like. I would go as far as saying, "Predictions,  forget it!. In the long run, predicting your genetic ancestry without proof will only make you look plain stupid".

My 50% French turned out to be non-existent. Vanished, disparus.

It would appear that I have less than 1% of Western-European DNA. To everyone who refers to me as The French Woman, ethnically, I ain't. Mind you, I am not much more Moroccan either, I have only 3% of North African DNA.

But I am BRITISH, and that I can't explain.

15% is a large percentage in this context. Ancestry DNA website contains some interesting facts and figures such as, "A native Brit will have 60% British DNA maximum and I have got 25% of that percentage. Goes to show we are all of mixed origins and, whoever says, "Not me, gov! I know where my ancestors came from", I dare them to take the test.

Population and DNA matching

In other words, what is the baseline for the DNA tests?. Here is what Ancestry DNA says, "Your ethnicity estimate shows where your ancestors came from hundreds to thousands of years ago. We calculate it by comparing your DNA to the DNA of a reference panel of people with deep roots to specific places around the world.

As science improves and our DNA database grows, our ability to estimate your ethnicity gets better and better. You may get updated results that include a new mix of ethnicities" to know more population and DNA matching click here

What did I think of my genetic communities experience?

Taking the test left me with a humongous question. Why is there over 51% Greek and Italian DNA present in my genetic makeup and where do the 15% British come from? Thankfully, being a bit of a travelling chameleon, I have always felt an integral part of the population of humans around me, even when xenophobia raises its ugly head and tries hard to exclude me. So puzzling as they are the results have not disturbed me. I still as I always have, belong to where my home and the people I love are. I'm not saying that it doesn't hurt because of course, it does, obscurantism is designed to hurt.

In many ways, the test results enthral and puzzle me in equal measure and even though I can't easily disentangle my ethnic DNA from my passports or my beliefs, where I come from matters less now than it did when I first agreed to take the test. Because, what matters to me, right now, are the discussions the test results are generating and the individual reactions the results provoke. The ethnic DNA test is a fascinating conversation piece.

More:

At the time of printing AncestryDNA test cost £79

Together with Margot of Coffee and Vanilla, we run an Inheritance Recipes challenge, a monthly event, click on the link and join us.

Margot and her husband took the Ancestry DNA test. Read their fascinating story

DISCLOSURE: I have received complementary AncestryDNA test kit for review purposes.  I was not financially compensated for this post. All opinions expressed here are our own and I retained full editorial control.

Inheritance Recipes - April 17 : Round up

In April we welcomed recipes from around the world. Margot showed even more creativity than usual, do take a look:

By Emma Spitzer the Master Chef semi finalist A Jewish recipe: Spiced Cod Falafel reviewed in Pebble Soup

Inheritance Recipes are about inspiring friends too. I was told the basic of cooking not by my mother but by my best friend. So how about this Corn Dogs by A2K

Polish Easter eggs are so traditional that Margot as in Coffee & Vanilla and co-host of this challenge entered her own 2017 creations and that of her daughters: Watercolour Galaxy Eggs

April 17 was a month for first here is our first Turkish Recipe Baharat Karisimi

and it was a month for vegan recipes, after A2K's here is a Vegan Caesar Salad from Veggie Desserts

Last but not least Quinto Gusto a butternut squash recipe

We hope to see you in May under Coffee and Vanilla beautiful banner
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Inheritance Recipes - April 17 -

More than ever we need to show that we are a nation made of a myriad of cultures. We love our British recipes and we might well choose to pass them down to the younger generations. But we are also proud of our ancestry and the friends who still live in our country of origin. So we cook their recipes too. Please, join us, it's easy

ABOUT INHERITANCE RECIPES

Inheritance Recipes is a challenge that Margot of Coffee and Vanilla and I have started to celebrate dishes food bloggers cherish. We would love to hear about your friends and family recipes.

Recipes which have been passed down by a family member, a friend, through an ancestral culture and dishes which you would like to bestow to future generations.

Margot has rounded up March challenge, head to Coffee 'n Vanilla for inspiration

We will share your recipes via our social media channels and include them in the round-up (with pictures) at the end of the month. We will also add your recipes to the Inheritance Recipes Pinterest board (that has 2.3 K followers) and include your blog’s handle in our Inheritance Recipes list on Twitter. Don’t forget to subscribe to them both!

HOW TO ENTER

Please, link back to challenge page on both: Pebble Soup and Coffee and Vanilla blog.

If possible, display one of the IR badges on your recipe post. (Click through to open one of the badges, right-click to save it to your computer and then upload badge to your blog.)

Add your recipe via linky -Up to 2 recipes accepted per blogger.

Feel free to link up to past posts but please, update them with links to the challenge pages to qualify.

Recipe suggestions:

1. traditional recipes or preparation methods,
2. national recipes from all over the globe,
3. dishes that you often prepare with your children (starting a new tradition),
4. recipes inspired by childhood memories,
5. dishes inherited from a family member or a friend.

Closing date is the 30th April.

Please note that entries that fail to follow “how to enter” instructions won’t be approved.

If you use Twitter to promote your recipe, please use #InheritanceRecipes, tweet it @coffeenvanilla or @solangeweb and we will re-tweet it.

And last but not least, have a look at the terms and conditions if you haven't yet done so.
We can't wait to see your recipes and read their stories.



April 17 collection

via Quinto Gusto

Via Pebble Soup an Emma Spitzer's recipe

via Veggie Dessert

Mid-Week Dinner Idea : Harissa Chicken

In France, Moroccan food is the counterpart of Indian food in Great Britain. When I was a young adult and money would hardly stretch to the end of the month, eating out was an extra-ordinary event.

We would never go anywhere else but for "un Couscous". Very recently, my friend rang, to tell me with a giggle: "I went to the loft, to clear it up and guess what I found?.... My Couscous Dress." Yes, we had special extra large dresses which would accommodate us and all the couscous we could eat. Tight jeans would have been a liability.

My favourite part of a Couscous meal were the juices mixed with harissa and spread over semolina. I was so hooked on harissa that at home, my preferred snack was harissa on toast.

Now, I would not dare to post such things as semolina harissa or harissa on toast but the next best thing for "not that young but not that old adults": Harissa Chicken to be served with semolina or a green salad. It's extremely quick and easy, the perfect Mid-Week Dinner Idea.

Harissa Chicken

Ingredients

• 4 chicken
  
   breast
• 4 tbsp harissa paste (rose harissa is nice)
• 1 garlic bulb, broken into cloves
• 1 lemon
  
  , cut into wedges
• 400g cherry tomatoes (on the vine if you wish)
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 
• green salad or semolina to serve to serve (optional)

Method

Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Oil a baking tray with olive oil

Break the garlic bulb and break it into cloves, it's entirely up to you how many cloves to use.

Spread in the tray, add the cherry tomatoes (with or without the vine).

Cut the lemon into 6 wedges.

Score the chicken breast and rub with harissa

Place the lemon and the chicken in the tray

Drizzle with olive oil

Bake for 45 minutes

I would like to share this recipe with Inheritance Recipes hosted by Coffee and Vanilla. Because it reminds me so much of time past but also because it's the type of food, I grew up with when staying with my Moroccan maternal family.