I can definitely say I've grown a lot while living abroad for the past two months. I cook all the time now and the things I make actually taste good. I realize that making chicken breast and veggies or boiling ravioli or making brown rice is no where near exciting or hard, but before paris I had never done it before. My mom is an amazing cook and thus ironically it is hard learning how to cook in her kitchen. I'm just glad that I was able to teach myself the basics just by watching her for the past fifteen years. I feel special being able to say that my first set of homemade meals were made in paris.
(My uncle asked me to send him pictures of what I've "cooked" over a month ago, sorry amu, here you go.)
The true cooking in paris test will be this thursday, thanksgiving thursday. I am honored and so excited to have my cousin sima visiting me next/this coming week! She couldn't get much time off work so I begged her to come during thanksgiving so that she would only miss a few days but be able to spend about a week with me. Surprisingly, it only took a day or two of me begging and a few weeks of her begging her work to be able to come. She's going to be my first and probably last visitor from home so I'm going to treat her like a tourist princess.
I've already have semi-planned our activities for the week, aka where we're going to eat on what day. The week's biggest event is going to be the thanksgiving dinner we are both going to attempt to cook. We've never really helped in the actual thanksgiving cooking part besides placing marshmallows on top of the yams so I'm excited and nervous. I decided to not go crazy so instead of an actual turkey we're going to cook slices of turkey breast which basically look like chicken breast. We're also going to have ham, our favorite part of thanksgiving, and what better country to have ham in than france?! I'm hoping we will be able to make some sort of yam dish, some mashed potatoes, some veggies, some salad, pieces of baguette instead of dinner rolls and an apple tart tatin with ice cream for dessert. Quite a task but I know we can handle it and I cannot wait.
So before her arrival I'm spending half my saturday washing my linens, vacuuming the apartment, cleaning everywhere including bathroom and moving furniture (dorene and I got a remodeling craving while I was vacuuming.) Speaking of cleaning, I also can say that I did my first load of laundy in france. Again, how cool does that sound?
I've already have semi-planned our activities for the week, aka where we're going to eat on what day. The week's biggest event is going to be the thanksgiving dinner we are both going to attempt to cook. We've never really helped in the actual thanksgiving cooking part besides placing marshmallows on top of the yams so I'm excited and nervous. I decided to not go crazy so instead of an actual turkey we're going to cook slices of turkey breast which basically look like chicken breast. We're also going to have ham, our favorite part of thanksgiving, and what better country to have ham in than france?! I'm hoping we will be able to make some sort of yam dish, some mashed potatoes, some veggies, some salad, pieces of baguette instead of dinner rolls and an apple tart tatin with ice cream for dessert. Quite a task but I know we can handle it and I cannot wait.
So before her arrival I'm spending half my saturday washing my linens, vacuuming the apartment, cleaning everywhere including bathroom and moving furniture (dorene and I got a remodeling craving while I was vacuuming.) Speaking of cleaning, I also can say that I did my first load of laundy in france. Again, how cool does that sound?
I still have a lot of clothes to fold and dishes to clean before she gets here tomorrow morning. We're going to disneyland paris on monday, random I know but I'm too excited about it. I think "excited" is the word for today. Be back soon, so excited!!
How could you have been in Paris for so long and just now be doing laundry? did you just keep buying new items?
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