Comida

"Don't give up.  Miracles happen every day." and "There's a silver lining in every cloud"


Is what I tell myself everyday as I head to the kitchen, I mean who knows maybe one day I'll wake up as a french chef one day like Alfredo Linguini from the film Ratatouille and whip up a storm. Anyways, I guess it's not a good idea to leave two college age interns responsible for cooking their own food.  There were some hiccups in the beginning but fortunately things have been working out. Usually for Breakfast we eat Brazilian style, light and inexpensive (I guess that's American style too except for cereal is expensive down here).  Either its a fruit shake, (banana or papaya) mixed with milk or bread with morta dela (which is a type of ham) Now for dinner (notice I skipped lunch, it's always a surprise)

Let's see Monday's dinner - spaghetti
Tuesday - Spaghetti
Wednesday - Spaghetti

wait it gets better!

Thursday - Spaghetti with sausage

okay i think you get the idea, this is about when we started to dream of Salt Lake and the training meetings where the food was heavenly and where the water tasted like milk with honey......(the silver lining to this situation is that at least we know how to make spaghetti)
we finally had a man council, we laughed, we cried, we argued, we despaired about our situation
and eventually we decided on a variety of meals if we were to survive 3 more months
Let's see we added to that list, yakisoba and we forced ourselves to learn how to make a Brazilian dish of rice and beans for the first time on Sunday! When I was in Salvador as a missionary, people would ask me "so what do you Americans eat for dinner"?  I would puzzle over it for a couple moments and respond, "I really don't know, every night it's different."  Unlike Brazil where meals tend to be typically the same everyday (rice and beans with other sides), I realized that it was pretty much a big debate point in America as to what would end up on the dinner table every night.  I mean how many times have I been asked by my parents or you by yours, "what do you want for dinner tonight?" I guess it's a genius idea if you could find a food  that's good, inexpensive, healthy, and saves you a bunch of worry and stress as to being creative every single night to impress the family.  Well the Brazilians got there before we did! (that is if you don't count spaghetti)