So, yesterday's trip to the Metro resulted in the ingredients I needed to make a dinner I've been wanting to make since I got here: Spaghetti! This was the one thing I promised myself I'd find a way to make here, and I finally did.
The location for dinner was Januar and Shelly's apartment, because they have a real, actual kitchen. We needed a few items other than the food, however. They picked up a pot to cook the spaghetti in (they don't really cook, and didn't have anything large enough), and I went to find a can opener. My favorite spaghetti sauce:
Hunt's Four Cheese Spaghetti Sauce. Yeah, I know, my favorite sauce comes from a can.
The hunt for a can opener was an exhausting one. I couldn't find a proper hand can opener anywhere in the Vanguard. There was one kitchen accessory kit that had a crank opener, but it was 200RMB ($30). I finally found what was essentially a camping can opener (no crank, you just sort of wiggle it back and forth), and was on my way to their apartment. On the way, I stopped off to buy some yarn and knitting needles: I had promised Shelly I would teach her to knit.
After an hour or so of knitting practice, I set about making dinner:
Bubble, Bubble. Spaghetti is on its way!
Januar and Shelly don't cook much, so I think they took the minimal effort I had to put in to the pasta as some kind of miracle: They seemed very grateful that I was cooking for them and amazed that I knew how. The finished product:
Spaghetti! Woo-hoo!
I even found Parmesan! Awesome!
Hayden
awesome. yep, when i was overseas in a dorm room for 2 months, the thing i really missed was just making spaghetti
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