Missing the Kitchen - Amanda

So we've now been here for 3 weeks and we've started to torture each other in the evenings by listing foods from back home that we are craving. I even had a dream about the French toast from Pescara last night (thank you Alex for introducing us to that deliciousness).

I miss cooking/baking at home. I miss the opportunity to go home after work and make what we feel like, especially our popcorn nights. Our meal prep game was on fire too! We made this amazing taco salad with a salsa/yogurt sauce that was scrumptious. It was one of the things we did when we got home, we'd make dinner together (I'm a pretty good sous chef), and I miss it immensely. Now us making dinner together consists of making ramen noodles with the hot water from the electric kettle we bought. It isn't quite the same. Though for your information, the small packages of ramen over here are pretty good. They aren't as salty as the ones back home and the flavors are better.

Over the past few years, baking has become my stress reliever. It's been over three weeks since I last baked and I miss it. I wouldn't have time to bake here anyway with the amount of prep we have to do, but maybe I would be a titch less stressed if I could bake a batch of chocolate chips cookies or some banana bread. Be warned, when we come back I'll be baking up a storm.