Sunday, May 11, 2008

Mother's Day Edition

This is the first meal I cooked here. It's pretty much "sauted" onions and mushrooms with sausage, spaghetti noodles, and olive oil and Parmesan cheese.
This is the first spaghetti sauce I have ever made. I didn't have recipe, either. Arianna outlined verbally how sauce is generally made, and I tried to remember what she said about five hours later. It looked a lot like yours, mom, but mostly because I just tried to add a lot of the things I remember from what you make.It turned out okay; Stephen liked it a lot. I thought it was really bland. But it looked great.

My clothes, in a washing machine. I wash dishes, too. We have a dishwasher, but we're not sure how to use it, so we wash everything by hand...until we run out of dish soap...then it's about three days of piling dishes before someone goes to get some.

We have a dryer, but the tokens for the washer and the dryer are two euro each, so I get two tokens, wash two loads, and then dry on a rack. I have to wear swimming shorts every wash day while they dry, but it's definitely worth four more euro.
My first white sauce. This time, Arianna had me over to show me how to cook this (she's a good cook, so I'm trying to take advantage of that). I added pancetta, and it turned out a lot better than my red. I also make vegetables quite a bit, and eat a lot of bread that we get from the Forno (bakery) in the Campo. I love shopping at the farmer's market that's set up in the Campo every day except Sunday (which means if I don't remember to shop on Saturday, I eat a lot of cornflakes and plain pasta on Sunday...or I fast).
Bona Die Matris (Latin Phrase of the Day), mom. I cook, I clean, and I shower almost every day.

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