Who Knew We Had So Many Talents??

So after a few rough nights of salad with salami, tomatoes, and cucumbers beans and I have started to branch out! We have cooked chicken at least three times now, and I have got to say it gets better and better each time. This might have been previously mentioned but the Italians sell zero spice of which we are familiar with so we usually stick to marinating the chicken in olive oil, salt, and pepper and it’s not bad!! The other night we even hosted our first dinner party where Paige came over!! Beans and I slaved over the stove to make a 3-course meal of pasta, chicken, and salad (you can see how we really like to switch things up around here hahaha). We got her seal of approval so we have decided to take n the challenge of a new dish….

Tonight we will be making grilled cheese (which you might think is hard but they have NO cheddar cheese and so that was a task in itself to figure out what was actually gunna melt and be similar), carrot salad (this consists of grating a carrot and tossing it with some white vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper yum! Ps we got this recipe from an actual Italian!!!!), salad (we couldn’t go one night without our fav!), and drum rollllllllllllll………..TOMATO SOUP!! Our lovely Betty Crocker (Chelsea) taught us how to make this and it seemed pretty easy so pray for us I will have to keep you all updated on how it all turned out. Everything is getting a lot easier and definitely more comfortable around here. We have definitely begun to branch out and are now challenging ourselves to make a different dish each time we cook (how long that will last is the true test).

The other night we were coming home from a long day at school and were stopped by our neighbors (yes they are boys). We stopped to chit chat with them about what they were doing here, just the usual friendly conversation and surprisingly the next day we were greeted with and invitation to dine! And guess how we were supposed to contact them if we wanted to attend, by email Hahahaha oh Italy! We said yes of course who wouldn’t say yes to 5 boys cooking for us and had dinner with them this past Sunday! Boy were they good cooks they made pizzas, pasta and salad (this consisted of roasting the tomatoes in a pan before putting them in the salad olive oil and salt, they salt all their salads here its kinda weird but delish!). We ended up hanging out and talking with them for a few hours. One was from LA, two from Turkey and one Italian and they were all studying here in the city. It is now our turn to have them over and guess what they asked for…American breakfast HAHAHAHA oh man.

Yesterday the girls and I took a cooking class!! We made “thousand layer eggplant”, spinach and ricotta crepes, and tiramisu. It was so fun to try cooking new things! I gotta say that I wasn’t a huge fan of the crepes the spinach kind of over powered but OMG the eggplant tower things were to die for! I cannot even put into words how amazing it was and I don’t even like eggplant!!!!!!!! I will definitely be making this for you familia when I get home so get excited! I miss everyone at home and can’t wait to share all my good recipes! (ps below you will see that i had some trouble with the air flip of the crepe lol)