Did you know that taking two egg yolks, mixing them with some mustard and salt, and eventually adding some cooking oil will leave you with a cream sauce equivolent of mayonnaise? It works, it really does.
Tonight, with little in the fridge, David and I set out to make some food. As he pulled out the ingredients, I wasn’t sure I wanted to know what he was envisioning. I began to help and could not figure out what these simple ingredients and a huge time investment would provide us with. But mixed with some potatoes and onions, we had a fabulous potato salad.
As I sit and write, I am surrounded by cement walls (as most houses here are made of) and somewhere inside the cement comes a small sound of something rattling around… I was almost too afraid to ask David what it was, for my assumption was confirmed, mice.
Last Friday night, I stayed in the village, Marga with my friend Alina (who I met last summer) and my new friend Ema. As Alina and I went to our room, a little mouse scurried across the floor and back into his hiding place. We thought we were safe, but about the time Ema came to bed, it was time for the mice (now 2) to come and play. A few minutes after the light was off, Ema asked for someone to turn on the light as she exclaimed, “A mouse just ran through my hair.” Alina was relived as she was sure a mouse had just been in her hair too. At the same time, we heard one in a plastic bag across the room, which now confirmed multiple mouses…mice!!! Immediately we summoned our hero in the next room. David came to the rescue and moved us out of the “mouse” room for the night. And finally, the girls got a good night sleep - mouse free. (I woke up to find one of the mice “baked” to death on my clean shirt drying on the radiator. We smashed him with a shoe to make sure his life was over and I rewashed my shirt before wearing.)
WELCOME TO ROMANIA!!!
November 12th, 2006 © allthis
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