Flatmate Food Night, American Style

Posted by Kalie on October 19, 2009

My meal was a success!  It was a bumpy road getting there, though.  First off, I don’t consider myself a very good cook.  At all.  Since I’ve been here, I’ve managed to burn noodles.  (I know, I’m not sure how that’s possible either.)  I can bake desserts with no problems, but actual meals are a different story.  Anyway, I went to the supermarket with the intention of making coleslaw, fried pickles, cornbread, BBQ chicken wings, scotcheroos, and Kool-Aid…An hour later, and my meal plan was beginning to change.  I couldn’t find many of the ingredients on my shopping list, either because they were known by a different name or they simply weren’t available over here.  I looked all over the store for certain things (specifically cornmeal, butterscotch chips, Kool-Aid, and corn

syrup), asking several workers for help, but had no luck.  So I ended up buying things I thought would be equivalent and hoping they would work.

When I began making the food, I had to jump yet another hurdle.  The metric system is used here.  My recipes were for the American system.  I didn’t have any US measuring utensils.  So many Google searches for things like, “4 cups flour to ounces” later, and I was set.  I managed not to burn anything, and I think everything turned out okay!  Because of a lack of certain ingredients, my final menu consisted of coleslaw, fried pickles, frozen grapes, BBQ chicken wings, chocolate chip banana bread, and Coors Light (with the cool color changing bottles).  There were no leftovers, except for the Coors.

Cheers!

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