Cooking in an Industrial Sized Kitchen

Well, after the last post, I'm starting to realize that my time is potentially coming to an end in Guyan Valley and I'm already realizing things I'll miss. I spent two hours at the hardware store today. Only about ten minutes of that was actually business. My "mom" made dinner today. Down here, "dinner" is "lunch." I still get confused even though I've been here since September. Anyway, she made baked potatoes, pasta salad, corn bread, and pinto beans. When they found out I never had pinto beans before, they made me try them and "mom" said, "We're going to make a southern girl out of you yet!" The pinto beans were pretty darn good! The whole lunch/dinner was! So, I figured that, tomorrow, I should share with them some food that they never had.

I spent a few hours tonight cooking my favorite thing to cook: stromboli. I taught my roommate/coworker how to make it and she took pictures as I did it. Man, is it nice to cook in an industrial sized kitchen!! I have these super large baking sheets to cook on, a huge oven, a huge metal table to bake on and to rest my hot pans on, tons of storage space, and so much room to walk around. I really felt at home when I could smell the stromboli in the oven. It smelled exactly like Mom's kitchen in Springfield!!

Shelby (from Boston) loved stromboli. She had never heard of it before. I'm hoping the hardware store owners like it just as much tomorrow!!

Yummy!!