Blogmas – December 2nd
Advent Activities – Cook Something We All Love Together
The activities are a surprise for me as well. When I started, I planned to write them on little pieces of paper and let the girls choose one blindly for each day. I kept the weekend and holiday ones separate, as those usually take longer.
So today I was just as excited as they were to see what was next, after the hot and cold start of the month. Luckily, it was a food-related one—cooking together a dish we all love. Olivia, the meat lover of the family, immediately suggested pasta with sausage. It’s a recipe I found in A mesa puesta by María Gálvez Enseñat, and it’s a hit with the whole family.
I absolutely love this cookbook by the lovely lady behind the Goudthestia Instagram account—her recipes are so easy and tasty.
The girls were given the task of taking the meat out of the sausages, something I did many times as a child and thought they would enjoy too. But surprise—they were completely grossed out by the feeling of raw sausage! I think it really changed their perspective on a food they usually love. Things became even funnier when Zoe found out what keeps the meat of the sausages together. I told them how my grandparents and parents used to clean the casings and prepare everything from scratch, and how I loved helping as a child.
It never crossed my mind that she would be so disgusted by that. Thank God my parents called at that moment—they were immediately welcomed with the same question:
“Is it true that sausages are made with…?”
When my mother saw Zoe’s face, she quickly explained that nowadays everything has evolved and synthetic casings are often used.
Luckily, there weren’t many sausages to prepare, so they finished quickly and we could move on to more exciting tasks—like tasting the food.
I have to say that even though I’ve made this recipe before, it never tasted this good. And Olivia was the happiest of all, because Zoe was so grossed out by the sausage story that she refused to eat them. So it was a double portion for her sister.