Last night I spent quite a few hours online looking up recipes and trying to figure out what would be easy (and hopefully affordable) to cook here. Today my task was applesauce which seems to be completely absent from grocery stores. In Europe I think it is more of a dessert than something you eat with a meal. Anyway, I headed to the market to buy some apples (and oranges). Homemade applesauce is so easy to make! I couldn't believe it-and how good it turned out! I am very proud of it (if you can't tell) and I think I told at least six different people about it. Thanks to Claire Ariglio I also had the pleasure of enjoying tomato salad today (also soooo good!) since my tomatoes needed to be used up. Tomorrow I plan on attempting some creamy potato soup which I can hopefully eat for a few days.
(Applesauce and the French Toast I had for dinner last night)
Even though sometimes I hate that I have to cook, today I have just been simmering with excitement all day thinking about all of the foods I want to try to make.
Any suggestions or tips from you all would be fabulous! I am basically an amateur at everything to do with cooking, so any advice anyone wishes to offer would be greatly appreciated. At request, Alice Cunningham (via Sara Cunningham) generously donated her "Spaghetti Pie" recipe and I can't wait to try it! My main problem with recipes here is that meat is pretty expensive and I don't want to have to buy a ton of ingredients if I am only going to use them a few times.
Onto another subject. I went to the second class of Norwegian Life and Society. It was a bit more interesting than last Monday but still just an overview of Norway's history from the 1800's onward. I would have much more interested if we actually went into depth about anything. Afterward I attended an informational meeting about the special events put on by international student group. They do things like a cabin trip, museum tours, World Cup ski jump tickets, island hopping in June, scavenger hunt in May, etc.. Most things are free or at a reduced price to students. They also do coffee hour on Fridays (free coffee, tea and biscuits!) They show a Norwegian film (with English subtitles) every Monday night. I would have stayed tonight but I did not bring any food with me so I would have spent two hours being hungry and I wasn't in the mood to do that.
Tomorrow I have my first language course at 8:15 am! It's going to be hard to get up for that. And then I have an appointment to register with the police at 11:45 so I have to miss a bit of my first class (not happy about that but what can ya do..). I suppose I'll go get my things together for tomorrow and hopefully spend some time with Sarah tonight since I have not seen her much today.
Even though sometimes I hate that I have to cook, today I have just been simmering with excitement all day thinking about all of the foods I want to try to make.
Any suggestions or tips from you all would be fabulous! I am basically an amateur at everything to do with cooking, so any advice anyone wishes to offer would be greatly appreciated. At request, Alice Cunningham (via Sara Cunningham) generously donated her "Spaghetti Pie" recipe and I can't wait to try it! My main problem with recipes here is that meat is pretty expensive and I don't want to have to buy a ton of ingredients if I am only going to use them a few times.
Onto another subject. I went to the second class of Norwegian Life and Society. It was a bit more interesting than last Monday but still just an overview of Norway's history from the 1800's onward. I would have much more interested if we actually went into depth about anything. Afterward I attended an informational meeting about the special events put on by international student group. They do things like a cabin trip, museum tours, World Cup ski jump tickets, island hopping in June, scavenger hunt in May, etc.. Most things are free or at a reduced price to students. They also do coffee hour on Fridays (free coffee, tea and biscuits!) They show a Norwegian film (with English subtitles) every Monday night. I would have stayed tonight but I did not bring any food with me so I would have spent two hours being hungry and I wasn't in the mood to do that.
Tomorrow I have my first language course at 8:15 am! It's going to be hard to get up for that. And then I have an appointment to register with the police at 11:45 so I have to miss a bit of my first class (not happy about that but what can ya do..). I suppose I'll go get my things together for tomorrow and hopefully spend some time with Sarah tonight since I have not seen her much today.
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