In the past I've made pizza for Marudo's family, including crust made from scratch. They really enjoy it & I've been wanting to make other dishes for them to try. Last week I had the perfect opportunity to do so, it was the mother's birthday. I offered to make dinner, which everybody willingly accepted.
To start out I e-mailed my mom asking her for a couple recipes the night before. The next day I went to the supermarket to pick up some ingredients, luckily they had everything I needed. Then to the kitchen, I started out making banana bread. While that was cooking I mixed up a chocolate cake because it seemed appropriate for the occasion. Then onto the main courses.
In addition to making pizza, I wanted to try something new. I decided on Lasagna. I made up 2 types, regular meat lasagna & vegetable lasagna. For the pizza's I made 2 types I hadn't before, Hawaiian (pineapple & Canadian bacon), and a cream cheese vegetable pizza.
In total I made:
2 loafs of banana bread
1 chocolate cake
2 square pans of regular lasagna
1 square pan of vegetable lasagna
1 Hawaiian style pizza
1 cream cheese vegetable pizza
It might seem like a lot of food, but considering that there are 10 mouths to feed at Marudo's house, its not really. Everybody really liked the lasagna, it turned out really good. They were a little leery about the Hawaiian style pizza at first because of putting pineapple on pizza, but after trying it they loved it. It was a lot of fun cooking for the whole family, but a lot of work!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
schreeech crunch!!!
The grandfather is the source of a lot destruction, especially to his own car. I think he has crashed more than Evel Knievel has in his career. Its kinda scary to think that he is still out there driving.
His main problem is that he doesn't really look around enough, he just merges or backs up without really checking to see if he is going to hit anything. He has backed into the garage & many other things, because of this his car's back end has been rebuilt countless times. He also has a problem judging distance & speed, he recently pulled out in front of a speeding car, which ended up hitting him. He lost his rights to put his car in the garage too, mainly because we're afraid he'll back into one of the support pillars. But also because he ran into the garage door while trying to get his car out without opening the door all the way.
We often contemplate taking away his driving privileges, but we're afraid that if we do he'll end up going crazy or turning into a vegetable cause he can't get out of the house. Honestly, he doesn't really leave the house that much, but when he does he usually winds up in an accident. Seriously, when he leaves there is about a 70% chance that he is going to run into something. Those aren't good odds, so remember, when in Japan watch out for the cars with the balloon shaped yellow & orange stickers on them. That is the elderly mark for cars, its kind of like a warning to other drivers. There is also a mark for new drivers too, green & yellow arrowhead shaped sticker, but thats story for a different week.
Well... at least they have markers for elderly drivers in Japan.
His main problem is that he doesn't really look around enough, he just merges or backs up without really checking to see if he is going to hit anything. He has backed into the garage & many other things, because of this his car's back end has been rebuilt countless times. He also has a problem judging distance & speed, he recently pulled out in front of a speeding car, which ended up hitting him. He lost his rights to put his car in the garage too, mainly because we're afraid he'll back into one of the support pillars. But also because he ran into the garage door while trying to get his car out without opening the door all the way.
We often contemplate taking away his driving privileges, but we're afraid that if we do he'll end up going crazy or turning into a vegetable cause he can't get out of the house. Honestly, he doesn't really leave the house that much, but when he does he usually winds up in an accident. Seriously, when he leaves there is about a 70% chance that he is going to run into something. Those aren't good odds, so remember, when in Japan watch out for the cars with the balloon shaped yellow & orange stickers on them. That is the elderly mark for cars, its kind of like a warning to other drivers. There is also a mark for new drivers too, green & yellow arrowhead shaped sticker, but thats story for a different week.
Well... at least they have markers for elderly drivers in Japan.
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