Earlier in the week, I was telling my host Mom about Thanksgiving in the US. She suggested we have an American Thanksgiving here for me. I could invite my friends here and they would invite theirs. Perfect!! This made my day, because I thought I was going to have to eat my Thanksgiving "dinner" out of a Hungry Man TV dinner box....I don't even think they have those here. But anyway, I was going to be able to have a real Thanksgiving meal in Germany. (The don't celebrate Thanksgiving here. ---Why would they?) Everything was glorious until later when Corry informed me that I will have to help cook because they don't even know what Americans eat. OH CRAP!! Everyone knows I can't cook! At all really! I think the "Cooking for Dummies" book would be a good investment for me. Anywho, she asked me how to make a turkey. This was my response, "I don't know. I think it's frozen, and you set it out first. And then it makes for several, several hours. Something like half a day or something." She stared at me in disbelief, and said, "I think this is a perfect opportunity to learn how to cook." CRAP! So, I emailed my Mom and being the saint she is, she graciously typed up some Thanksgiving recipes for me. Only problem, she didn't tell me how to make turkey or any of those other simple things...like mashed potatoes. How do you know how long to cook them for? I have just learned when pasta is finished. I was always told if you throw it against the wall and if it sticks it's done. I think maybe that was a funny guideline...not something you're actually supposed to do....
Anywho, you can see how I am not the world's best cook (or hopefully not the worst either ;) ) With the Thanksgiving recipes I told my Mom to include some cookie recipes too, because I miss having cookies. Sweet bread or rolls just aren't the same. The only problem was....that everything needed to be converted to metric. Ugh! The US should have got with the program years ago and converted to metric....or like any other American's view...the world should have converted to ours ;) I told Corry that we should make cookies sometime too. She said that we would make them today, Sunday, Halloween.
That sounded like a perfect plan...until I woke up this morning. Too much fun last night, let's say. I woke up after about 3 hours of sleep, ate some breakfast with them...somehow. Corry said we would make cookies in a half hour. I went back and laid on my bed...and of course fell asleep. Somewhere along the line, Corry came in and I think she said there was water all over the bathroom floor so we would do it a little later....or maybe I imagined she said that. That sounds like an absurd thing to say. I told her to wake me when she's ready. Before I fell back asleep, I heard them explaining to my host brother, Thimo, what a hangover is and how Laura needs sleep. HAHA! I almost laughed, but it hurt to aha.
Well, when I finally woke up for real it was probably 2. Corry and I decided to make brownies, because she had bought the ingredients for those. We were too busy to convert the units earlier in the week for the cookie recipes. The only kind of brownies I've ever heard of are box brownies. I had no clue brownies from scratch even existed. Who even came up with the recipe?! But they do, and that's what we made. It was a lot of fun...like a true Mom...teaching me how to cook. Oh, and I like my brownies just a little gooey still - not raw or anything, just hot out of the oven gooey. And they like theirs done....well done...like toothpick has no brown at all. I gave in and let her determine when they were done. We had made a double batch, so we had so many!! It would take forever to eat them all!
They tasted so good! I was quite impressed with our nice brownie making job! And the true taste tester, Thimo, said we succeeded! Yay!
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