Today my roommate Kat and I decided that we had an unsatiable sweet tooth and were going to make some desserts.
After a delicious lunch of lentil soup (lentajes) and fish sticks, croquetas and chicken nuggets, we went into the kitchen with a handy recipe off the internet for how to make Hasty Chocolate Pudding in the microwave. With just a few modifications, we popped it into the microondas (micro) and after several intervals of stirring and heating we had ourselves a quite delicious chocolate pudding! We also introduced this delicious phenomenon to one of our Spanish roommates, Tana. She loved it just as much and tried it with some mandarin slices - actually quite delicious! Citrus and chocolate go well together (as does a few drops of fresh lemon juice in hot chocolate)!
Then, after a hearty dinner of roasted chicken and potatos, we ventured once more into the kitchen to make cookies. Earlier in the morning we had ransacked the nearest grocery store, SuperSol, to get our ingredients (flour, butter, eggs - not refridgerated in the stores!!!, two bars of dark chocolate; also, liquid vanilla extract does not exist here in Spain. Only powdered, but upon researching I discovered that powdered is an exact substitue and in some high temperature cases works better than the liquid version) that came to an astounding total of...4.50 euros. Upon setting our ingredients out, however, we discovered that we had accidentally bought breadcrumb flour instead of normal all-purpose flour. Though in our defense, Spain has a different type of flour for every kind of baking and frying need...it was hard to keep them all straight!
To continue with the adventure of baking in Spain without measuring tools, with the wrong flour and with several subbed ingredients, we mixed all of our eyeballed measurements into a bowl, took a small taste test - not bad we thought, crunchy but not bad - and set out to starting the gas oven (which we are technically not allowed to use...shhh! It'll be our little secret, hmm?). We had to have each of the Spanish girls help us figure it out, but eventually it warmed right up, we slid our cookies in and waited. In the meantime I expermented with cooking a cookie in the micro...Does not work, btw. It just melts down into a layer of gloop...though it does cook, it does not retain it's form! And in just a few minutes our cookies were done! (A bit burned on the bottom and a bit mushy on the inside...but thoroughly cooked nonetheless.)
Several of our roommates reservedly tasted our creation and agreed, much to their surprise, that they didn't taste bad at all! Weird because of the breadcrumbs...but tasted fine!
I forgot to take pictures of the process and the completed products, but I promise next time there will be photographic evidence to go with the testimonies.
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