Last night Brad and I tried another meet up together entitled “Under 30.” It was at a Canadian bar, which was nice and supposedly has extremely strong drinks. Brad and I decided to stay away from that and went with the usual wine and beer. Unfortunately, we did not meet anyone that we will think we want to hang out with, but that’s okay and we will definitely go again as you never know who will be there next time.
This morning I cleaned our bathroom and Brad made our first American breakfast. We had bacon, eggs, and pancakes (Brad had syrup/butter and I had nutella/strawberries). But while Brad was making our delicious breakfast, I was tackling the bathroom. In Munich, the water comes fresh from the Alps and is amongst the best tap water in all of Europe, which is great because a Brita Water Filter will not fit in our refrigerator. But it does contain a high level calcium or kalk, which can cause the bathroom fixtures and tile to become damaged if not cleaned often and properly. So I had to buy all these special cleaning supplies last week, which smell awful once they touch the steal fixtures and spend an hour anhalf on this project. Now I know why bathrooms in Europe are small.
After our delicious breakfast together, I decided to make cookies for the first time. I know I mentioned in a previous blog that I was unable to locate chocolate chips or the type of brown sugar we find in the states. But this past week, I did in fact come across what appears to be brown sugar and decided to just buy it. I opened up the package and sure enough it smells and feels just like the kind we have at home. Hurray! I never thought I would be so excited about finding brown sugar, but it is really rewarding when you find something that you thought was not here. Still no chocolate chips, but that is okay as I bought bricks of dark chocolate instead and chopped them up. Yummy! I decided to only make three cookies today (for Brad and I to try) and would save the rest of the dough for Thanksgiving. Plus I am not sure how the oven works and want to experiment with the temperatures. Also, another thing that is pretty fun is that I can only make five cookies at a time since our oven is small and only a round pie pan will work as a cookie sheet.
While the cookies were baking, Brad started to make his homemade Spaghetti sauce. I love when he makes a large pot of this as it is yummy to eat, but also it makes our whole apartment smell so scrumptious. The only thing that was hard to find was the right type of sausage and we probably spent at least 20 minutes just in the meat selection trying to figure it out. But once Brad started to make it, he was very pleased with what he bought and the sauce began to simmer. My cookies were done and it was time for us to taste them. They came out average and I am so glad I only baked three this time as I think I had the oven on too high as they we shaped like a dome and too hard around the edges. Oh well and at least I still have plenty of dough left for Thanksgiving.
Off to eat my husband’s amazing sauce, I love our Sundays!
vermisse euch alle. – die Gauntletts
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