An Italian Dinner!!!

Today I made a things in the house easy meal dinner. My grandma comes over every Thursday so we cook. I like cooking and she likes cooking too. We made pasta with pasta sauce, broccoli, and Italian turkey sausage.

1. I cooked the sausage first. We browned it on all sides were brown with a little bit of olive oil. We then added and sauteed teaspoon of fresh Thyme, a 1/2 of a chopped onion, and 1 large clove of mashed garlic.
2. Then we added the sauce and cooked it for 10 min. We used three different kinds of sauce that we had in the fridge, onion garlic, marinara, and sockarooni.
3. Then we made the pasta. We used 8 ounces of pasta covered in water until just right.
4. We put it in a big pan and then we added that cooked for 10 minutes. Then we added the sausage. We also made broccoli. We then boiled the broccoli with 1/2 cup of water and added salt and pepper and cooked for 5 to 6 min. We also made.
5. Then we served it. We added ptarmigan cheese to top it off.
6. There is a lesson. You don't have to buy food if you can make a dinner with the food you have.

So Super Saraghina!!!!

Not long ago I went to Saraghina. It is in Bed Stuyvesant. I was going to visit my mom's friend Allison on our bikes. She lives in Bed Stuyvesant. My mom, Allison and I went to Saraghina because we wanted something to eat and Allison said it had great pizza. We went in and saw that it was small but it does have a outside area. The inside had lamps on the ceiling and a fire place to cook the food. The walls were wood and there was a sign that had numbers on it. the inside was like a maze weaving in and out. We got seated and I looked at the menu. It had: Marinara, Margarita, Ortolana, Capocollo, Prosciutto & Funghi, and more. I had the Margarita, the crust was so soft and I ate every last bit. My mom and Allison had the market salad that came with an egg and toast. They both loved it. I really want to go back sometime.

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Texas Fish Taste Reel Good

Today I made an adventurous Peruvian dish called ceviche. The first time I made it was in Maine and with my dad when I was six. Ceviche is made with fish, lemon juice, lime juice, and a lot of other stuff.

But before I made the dish I had to catch the fish. I am staying in Texas with my Aunt Kathy, my Uncle Robert and my cousin Arielle. Robert set up a fishing day for my mom and I on lake Texoma. We went with a really nice guide named Mike. We caught 19 striped bass and the limit of fish is 20, 10 per person. The fish were a little big and hard to reel in but I held up.

Now that we had the fish it was time to make the ceviche. Here is the recipe:

One pound of fresh white fish

One half cup of fresh lemon and lime juice mixed

One half a red onion chopped

One cup of chopped tomato

2 teaspoons of salt

A dash of hot sauce.

Mix it all up in a bowl and put it in the fridge for at least an hour. The lemon and lime juice "cooks" the fish.

It was delicious! Arielle had some friends over and they all tried it and also liked it. A three year old girl, Zoe, loved it too. The dish was a success.