Rex and Ty's Food Blog

     Lily and I are continuing our virtual trip. Visiting places around the globe where our DNA originates. We are going from our lowest percentages up. We are visiting by making recipes attributed to those areas. From the last story we visited Spain where 1% of Lily's DNA was from. This time we are visiting the Baltic states and Sweden.     My report said that 1% of my DNA was Baltic. Of course I had to find out exactly where that is. This is an area on the Baltic sea now comprised of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. So I looked on the web for recipes from that area. I decided on Baltic Lamb and Rice Meatballs .  this recipe was from Women's Weekly and Food to Love . The recipe featured ground lamb, jasmine rice and egg plant cooked in diced tomatoes. (I was able to find fresh ground lamb at Blues Creek Meats not far from where I live. I recommend their shop). I made and shared this recipe during our Christmas celebration dinner with my children and gran...

    My granddaughter Lily and I have been traveling and yet haven't left the neighborhood! You see we both took DNA test with Ancestry.com. I wasn't expecting to find much I didn't know about my family and my family roots but since Lily only knows a couple of people on her dad's side of the family we were anxious to see where her DNA originated. When I took a look at my results it was indeed as expected. Most of my DNA is from a small circle of places in Northwestern Europe, England, Wales and Ireland and Scotland. Now where I was surprised with my results was with  the percentages of each of the areas. From family stories, I thought I would be mostly German (10%) and Scottish (14%).  I am (64%) English, Welsh and Northwestern Europe?     Lily's results were much more interesting. Of course hers would mirror mine but what about the other 75%? Well it spanned two continents and many varied regions on those continents. And that's where our travels have been....