I'm going to make dinner for my family! Wait, WHAT?
I'm about to make dinner for my family for the first time EVER in about half and hour and I am FREAKING OUT!!!!!!!
It's going to be cannelloni stuffed with spinach and ricotta with a tomato and bechamel sauce with a side of garlic bread, all homemade (yes, that includes the bread and pasta). My heart is pounding and everything, I REALLY hope this goes well!
I'll edit later with pictures of the meal and how everything went over... geez, I feel like this is a test or something. I suppose that that's how I must be taking it, then? WISH ME LUCK! *bites nails*
Yeah, too exhausted last night to type up the results. I started about 10 'til 5 then officially finished around 7 so TWO HOURS OF COOKING!!! Then cleanup lasted until 8:30 as I used nearly all of the pots and pans. Mom said of the kitchen that it resembled a Christmas dinner clean up (not QUITE Thanksgiving level but still pretty huge O_o).
SO! It didn't work. The pasta, that is, as I need a pasta machine but don't and therefore rolled it out myself which took nearly half an hour and it STILL was not thin enough, thus could not get cooked enough and without the pasta in a PASTA dish then it's a flop. *shrug* On the other hand, the spinach and ricotta filling, tomato sauce, bechamel and garlic bread were all great! A shame about the pasta...
BUT I HAD FUN!!!! I was a microscopic bit dissapointed but I already had my doubts about the pasta anyway so I didn't have thoughts of grandure running through my head. The bechamel we can use for a cheese sauce, I can get some pasta shells from the store and use the spinach and ricotta filling for that, we always save tomato sauce, and the garlic bread got eaten up completely so I don't have pictures of that. We really liked the bread to the point where I've got one more loaf of it and am going to make it again tonight. The night wasn't a total flop, then!
I felt so cool, too, with all of the burners going and stirring so many things and chopping and stuff~ *inner squea!* Still, I think my career will probably be in pastry simply because I also really enjoy art and you can be very artistic with pastry, particularly sugar which is what I REALLY would like to go to! There's always a huge demand for sugar artists, too, so that's a big plus. I already did a bit of sugar work with the Spanish flan, which the picture of easily impresses people. ^_^
In other news, I'M STARTING A HETALIA COOKING SERIES!!!! I've been cooking stuff from different countries for a month, now, and thought it would be fun to do little comics where the countries teach you how to make their food. My next dish is Skolerboller (school buns) from Norway, but the first comic (which I hope to have done by Tuesday, though depends on if I get my other, more important, projects done first) will feature Japan teaching America how to make mochi/MOCHIMERICA! XD
It's going to be cannelloni stuffed with spinach and ricotta with a tomato and bechamel sauce with a side of garlic bread, all homemade (yes, that includes the bread and pasta). My heart is pounding and everything, I REALLY hope this goes well!
I'll edit later with pictures of the meal and how everything went over... geez, I feel like this is a test or something. I suppose that that's how I must be taking it, then? WISH ME LUCK! *bites nails*
Yeah, too exhausted last night to type up the results. I started about 10 'til 5 then officially finished around 7 so TWO HOURS OF COOKING!!! Then cleanup lasted until 8:30 as I used nearly all of the pots and pans. Mom said of the kitchen that it resembled a Christmas dinner clean up (not QUITE Thanksgiving level but still pretty huge O_o).
SO! It didn't work. The pasta, that is, as I need a pasta machine but don't and therefore rolled it out myself which took nearly half an hour and it STILL was not thin enough, thus could not get cooked enough and without the pasta in a PASTA dish then it's a flop. *shrug* On the other hand, the spinach and ricotta filling, tomato sauce, bechamel and garlic bread were all great! A shame about the pasta...
BUT I HAD FUN!!!! I was a microscopic bit dissapointed but I already had my doubts about the pasta anyway so I didn't have thoughts of grandure running through my head. The bechamel we can use for a cheese sauce, I can get some pasta shells from the store and use the spinach and ricotta filling for that, we always save tomato sauce, and the garlic bread got eaten up completely so I don't have pictures of that. We really liked the bread to the point where I've got one more loaf of it and am going to make it again tonight. The night wasn't a total flop, then!
I felt so cool, too, with all of the burners going and stirring so many things and chopping and stuff~ *inner squea!* Still, I think my career will probably be in pastry simply because I also really enjoy art and you can be very artistic with pastry, particularly sugar which is what I REALLY would like to go to! There's always a huge demand for sugar artists, too, so that's a big plus. I already did a bit of sugar work with the Spanish flan, which the picture of easily impresses people. ^_^
In other news, I'M STARTING A HETALIA COOKING SERIES!!!! I've been cooking stuff from different countries for a month, now, and thought it would be fun to do little comics where the countries teach you how to make their food. My next dish is Skolerboller (school buns) from Norway, but the first comic (which I hope to have done by Tuesday, though depends on if I get my other, more important, projects done first) will feature Japan teaching America how to make mochi/MOCHIMERICA! XD