MARGARET'S COOKING EXPERIENCE...none dead (yay)

So i have officially NOT killed my host family

for those of you who have honestly, GOODNESSTLY tried my cooking, i belive you know what i mean.

so i finally made lunch (lunch is the big meal here...like our dinner) for my family, oma, and opa, and it went a lot better than i thought. naturally, they all said they liked it, but to be honest with you, i just can't really ever tell.

here's me before i started cooking. "YAY IM SO EXCITED. this is going to be SO EASY! yah cooking for 8 people is never hard!" alex- i wore the shirt you gave me...yah, the one that says "GO FOR IT!" haha i thought it was appropriate. now, though, instead it most definatly smells like meatloaf instead of your lecker smell, but whatever. i know you'd be so proud...

ok so then i stepped into the relms of the kitchen where i made meatloaf and cooked bacon for the first time EVER in a skillet. WOOT WOOT let's hear it for figuring it out ALL by myself! i told my host mom she wasn't allowed in the Kitchen. baha. and did you know the German stove doesn't have high, medum, and low? NO it's on a scale of 1 to 10. please tell me, on which number is one supposed to fry BACON?! i chose 8 then went down to 7 then to 5

i wish i had a picture of my meatloaf, because it looked pretty good if i do say so myself, for never having made it before, it also tasted pretty RADICAL. woot woot. so then i decided to make dessert which= banana pudding. ok so the recipee in the US calls for cool whip, sour creme, vanilla instant pudding, bananas, and sandy patties (the cookie). in Germany, they have no cool whip, the sour creme i bought had CHIVES mixed in, and no sandy patties. Therefore i decided on a little variety. instead of cool wip, i made my own Sahne with that milk stuff and a mixer, instead of Sour creme i used QUARK. hahaha quark, and instead of sandy patties i used "Eier Kekse." that means egg cookies, but they're a lot like those little vanilla wafer things, so no worries. LECKER. hahahahahhahahahahhahaa so basically all germany has is bananas. oh well...opa had two servings, and so did everyone else. OH! and opa ate three meatloaf slices (??) so you KNOW thats a good sign! (and sorry for the rapid change of picture size, my computer decided to wig out on me)

so finally, it was time to put it all on the table. then Petra decided to smell it, so that's in the picture, too.
so then we ate, of course, and so now here's a picture of me AFTER the fact..."please, let me shoot myself i never want to cook an entire meal for anyone but myself ever again. when i have kids im getting a maid." BUT HEY let's keep up high spirits for all those moms to be out there...GO GET EM! so anyway, see that thing in the backgroud? that's my project! those are all (well not all but a lot) of the cool cards from Berlin and Pictures of my friends and YAY

so the end. i cleaned up the kitchen, too. i hope they understand my true thanks. but it was also quite fun, something to occupy me for what, like 4 hours?! YAH MAN! crunk.