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| La Americana en la cocina! |
Made dinner for Pilar and Sergey! It went great! I have been wanted to do this all semester, not only to show off my awesome cooking skills and how a healthy meal is prepared, but also to thank Pilar for always providing food for me and let her have a night off from cooking. The menu consisted of spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, and italian salad. I wanted to make chocolate cookies, but this is when I learned why nothing is ever baked in my house: the oven is broken. Dont know how I lived here almost 4 months without knowting that one!
Well, the ordeal all started with a trip to the grocery store with Pilar, which was fun, I havent dont that one before. After coming back from the store, I spent about and hour and a half in the kitchen (Taking my time and trying to figure out what utensils were where and what I should use to make what.)
We'll start with the spaghetti. Easy easy, but I had to take them out early even though Pilar would have cooked them more because she likes her noodles as flaccid as wilted lettuce, while I prefer mine a little more al dente.
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| Final spaghetti and meatball product |
The meatballs were a hit with the Spanish diners. Besides the fact that they didnt turn out as beautiful as I would have wanted. I used moms killed meatball recipe, and the quantities may have been a little off, so they fell apart a little bit, and the stove was kind of hard to deal with, so some of them got a little crispy (but burnt is beautiful right? None of this really matters though because Sergey and Pilar loved them! Pilar even had seconds (which she never does) and Sergey really liked them (and he is a picky eater.)
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| pre meatballs: looking tasty! |
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| On their way to perfection... |
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| Final product! |
I think the salad was the best (since it was such a nice change from the normal iceberg, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and olive combo we get here) I did the usual, switching iceberg for romaine, and added CHERRY tomatoes, red onion, grated cheese, and chopped salchichon. SO GOOD.
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| YUM. |
The garlic bread was interesting....since we dont have an oven, but it was good too, maybe a little duro (hard).
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| Pre Garlic Bread |
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| Post Garlic Bread (with slightly roasted garlic, paprika, olive oil, and parmesan cheese, all made without an oven!) |
Pilar liked the meatballs so much (¡Que rica!) she wants the recipe and had me repeat it to her like 100000 times. She couldnt believe that you dont fry the onions first. Oh spain!
Although I am S-T-U-F-F-E-D from eating so much, it feels good because it was so NOT fried in oil, covered in salt, and actually had flavor and health to it (can you tell I am a little over Pilar's cooking/Spanish food in general?)
Wish I would have started this whole cooking for the host fam thing earlier...
BUEN PROVECHO!
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