cooking for mi familia

Last night I made an American meal for my host family! I made meatloaf, mashed potatoes, blueberry muffins, and a salad. I was a little nervous because I had to convert the temperature from Fahrenheit to Celcius and I did not have any measuring cups to use to measure the ketchup, breadcrumbs, salt, or pepper for the meatloaf. Luckily I did not over pepper the meat and everything turned out really well!

I did not think that I cooked that quickly but everyone kept saying "Caroline cocino muy rapido! Mas rapido que nos madre"

Everyone seemed to like the food a lot! I asked mi madre if she would like the recipe for the meatloaf and she said YES! So last night after dinner I translated the directions into Spanish. I had to use my dictionary for some of the words-I am really hoping that I wrote it correctly.

Little known fact: Blueberries are not widely available in Costa Rica...I bought a mix and that is how I was able to make the muffins. At the dinner table mi familia kept asking me what was in the bread and I tried to tell them. Paola, mi madre, y mi tita could not think of the word for blueberry in Spanish. This morning when I tried to ask my Spanish professor she was not able to give me a word for blueberries either.