St. George Down Under

Cleaning, Sculpting, Cooking

March 8, 2009 at 10:13 pm (Uncategorized)

Today was chill but incredibly fulfilling. It was my cleaning day so I vacuumed, swept and mopped. I also worked on my Hip-Hop mix for Mona. I’m sculpting a masterpiece of a mix, i really am. I selected a bunch of my favorite hip hop songs, about 80 in all, and I’m listening to them and chipping away (deleting) the ones that don’t make the cut. When I’m all done, I should have about 20 songs that make up the sculpture. I’m the Michealangelo of mixes!

Also, today was my cooking day (Heat cooked Japanese food the first wknd he was here, and Jenya and Vasya cooked Russian the next.) I had stressed a bunch about it, and didn’t know for the longest time what I would cook. I asked all of you about it, and got a great response, but my mommy is actually the one who I took the advice of. She recommended I do pasta and pesto. GENIUS. SO easy and SO good! And it only took me about an hour to make everything. Jenya helped me a tad (pretty much helped me decide when the pasta was ready). I asked her what I should do for a side dish, and she recommended my dish of tomatoes, mozarella, kalamata olives, onions, and balsamic vinager and olive oil (made it for them the first week.)

It was SUCH a fantastic meal, was vegetarian, and man, i kicked butt cooking tonight. I took it very serious, which made it fun. Warmed up the pesto, sliced bread and warmed it up to sop up the extra olive oil and vinegar, as well as pesto. Jenya told me about putting olive oil in the pasta so that it wouldnt stick together, I’m learning things every day! Even though I put waaay too much in!

Vasya was amazed at it, loved it so much. Jenya was talking to him and he said, “I can’t talk right now, I’m just eating.” It was funny. He LOVED the pesto and how healthy the meal that I, and AMERICAN, made! haha. Heat also put some of the salad that I made in the pasta and pesto, and that looked interesting! We ate so much bread, and drank a bottle of white wine that was fantastic (my fav alcoholic beverage is wine. It’s tasty, and healthy!) It was so relieving and made me SO proud and SO happy to see them digging in, loving it, and eating it all. Vasya asked about the pesto and where I got it, I think he’ll probably make it in the future. He and Heat had seconds…I made a ton, and there was none left when dinner was over. Mom, you pulled an Antony and hit this one outta the park!

It was also vegetarian, which was awesome. It wasn’t even a conscoius thing either, it just didn’t need meat!
Sparked some intense convo afterwards about religion, as well as animal cruelty and welfare. Jenya was talking about how she felt the eating of monkey brain was cruel in the way that they harvested it, while Heat was defending the cultural aspects of it. I interjected and said that I would probably try it to experience the culture. It was interesting!

My dinner!

All in all I think I represented America well, even though I made a purely Italian meal. Whatev, it was fantastic. I really am changing here, rapidly. It’s pretty amazing. And its all for the better!