11/14/08

It’s sunny! I had a busy day of sleeping in until 2ish and then watching 3 hours of tv til I was good and woke-up. I ate some toast for lunch, charged my pod and got some exercise on the stairs in the building. Oddly, not as fun as the stair machine at the gym that can distract me with it’s buttons and bright lights. I wonder if there is a casino gym somewhere? You could play slots and other electronic gambling games while you work out, that would be awesome. I bet they are in Nevada. I’m totally making a note of that. So yeah, then I got ready and went over to Mel’s house. I was 20 min late, oops. She started cooking before I got there. The apartment smelled so good when I walked in. She had ground beef on the stove(the ground beef here is like no fat at all maybe like 1-2%). Mel cut up carrots, tomatoes, onions and I cut up green pepper. She seasoned the meet with oregano or some Italian seasoning and salt, added a little tomato sauce not much though, it didn’t turn it red. Then let it simmer til the veggies were soft. Then we mixed up the panqueca batter in a blender. It was 2 cups milk, 2 cups flour, 2 eggs, and a teaspoon- a tablespoon of olive oil blended until mixed thoroughly. She got a nonstick fry pan and turned it on high, she put a little drizzle of olive oil in the pan. Mel poured just a little batter in the pan and turned the pan in circles to spread the batter evenly along the bottom. Each one took like a min to cook, they were thin and kinda crunchy in some spots. I filled each one with the meat and veggie mixture, rolled it up, and set in that pink dish you saw. When we were all done assembling Mel added some water to the meat mixture and spooned it all over the top of the panquecas. The moisture in the meat absorbed into the now super soft and fluffy panquecas and it was soooo good. We ate them with parmesan cheese sprinkled on top. MMM, yummy! Mel had also made some juice ahead of time. It was mango and a little carrot, blended with some water, and chilled in the fridge. It was really good, too. Then, came the dessert. I have to admit I was very frightened of it. The creepy looking black seed that resemble frog eggs and they were seeds. I took a bite and holy crap! It was, da bomb! So delicious. It reminded me of the rice pudding from Maduban, but if you put anise seeds in it and a little more tart flavored hints. The dessert was maracuja(All these spellings are assumptions) mousse. Holy fuck. It was soooo good, but it’s so bad for you and we don’t have the fruit in America so I am going to have to miss it for the rest of my lift. Maybe I could buy it on the internet…Anyway. Its made from the maracuja fruit which is yellow and inside is seeds and brighter yellow goo and fruit. You take it all out and put it in a blender, reserving some for a garnish. You add sweeted cream and the cream here is hard core, you carry it too rough and it turns solid, and put in some gelatin and let it sit in the fridge. It was the yummiest thing I have eaten here. The whole dinner was so good. I want to eat it everyday! After dinner mel and I walked back to my dad’s house and were supposed to go to a party, but the people never called and that didn’t work out so I tried to knit my hat again and screwed it up again… I gotta figure out how to start it.