Dinner at Sarah's

Short Update today, sadness :(.

We actually only checked out one place (Catacombs of the Basilica of Costanze) and were not allowed to take photos. Although the content was great, it not something I can easily share. The trip was fun however, and we even got to ride the bus again which was a good time. Their bus system is much more efficient then in the US, you buy a ticket ahead of time board any bus (and they come often to) then put your ticket through a machine and board, fast, simple and cheap (1 euro only).

Also Sarah (Stroupster) invited us to her room tonight to help out with dinner and eat it as a group. We’ve been wanting to kick I with her food wise for sometime but she had always been busy. For desert I made a flan from scratch and am crossing my fingers everything will come out well. We’ve been cooking and eating as a group about 4 times now. The first night I made pasta, the next pineapple chicken, then since we could only get tomatoes we made pasta again and last night I made bacons, chicken, broccoli fettucini alfredo. Jared been cool enough to make some great bruschetta for every meal and everyone in general has been really cool. I’ll list everyone thats helped as a shout out and grazie for their work. If I forgot something let me know:

1. Sarah Lee

Clean up and Powering through her final.

2. Hai Nguyen

One of the best Sous chefs, diced bacon and garlic, did grocery runs, cut fruit and overall helpful.

3. Vidang Nguyen

Clean up

4. Donna Onevanthana

Clean up and helped with grocery shopping

5. Reyna Rollolazo

Clean up

6. Sara Scanez

Clean up

7. Danielle Talley

Sous chef, cut up fruits and helped with bread prep

Fatoumata Trawally

Clean up

9. Jonathan Wagner

Great job grocery running

10. Jared Watson

Great Chef and food connoisseur, made Brushetta and stuffed zucchini both delicious

11. Va'eomatoka Valu

Best cheese grater bar none, did grocery runs and helpful in the kitchen

Funny story about getting the flan ingredients. Although open air markets are fun they don’t always carry the ingredients you need. Today I had to get ingredients for flan but they had none in the market. So I decided to walk to there super markets which are like our corner stores since they are so small. After walking 3 miles and visiting 4 so called super markets I finally found a market with my lat ingredient, condensed milk. Well as I was checking out two old guys (60-70 years old) started yelling over who was inline first. Instead of just saying w/e its only one spot so forget it. They began going crazy and swing at one another in the store. Finally, me and another guy got out of line pulled them apart and gave them our spots in the front of the line. It surprised me how childish they were over who not going to be last. Either that or they do this to get to the front.

So I’m back from the dinner, it was a great time. The food was good, the people were great and the music was fresh. My flan went well, I was worried since I make flan differently and it lacks the eggy taste normal flan has (not a fan of the eggy taste). We also went on another gellato run and it was delicious as always. Pictures are shown HERE and photos of the Dinner are above.