Don't worry the post on Madrid is headed your way soon, but in the meantime here's a fun little story about a random Monday night! So while Ellen and I both might have dropped out of our cooking classes at the beginning of the semester (whoops) it doesn't mean we haven't picked up a thing or two about the culinary arts from our time in Italy, I mean after all I'm pretty sure this entire culture revolves around food (and with good reason!). Come Monday night and due to inspirations from my friend Kassi (who is a culinary genius, check out her blog ciaodownbella.blogspot.com) and in hopes of saving a few euros I called up Ellen with the announcement that I would be making dinner that night and to get excited! Her response? "You make it, I'll eat it." So I racked my brain to think of what ingredients we already had in the apartment, pasta and.... well nothing. So one trip to the fresh market, a stop at Meta (with a frantic call to Kait and Kassi to find out what the word for heavy cream was), 103 stairs, two pots, one pan and a slightly burnt wrist later, voila! Pasta with a vodka cream sauce (made from scratch!) and green beans (fagioli verdi) with garlic and pine nuts (pinoli)! Who knew?
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