What More Could I Do?

My recipe for making delicious food!
What More Could I Do?

Since I'm really good at cooking, and working as a server, and at reception too, and since I have to stay home and this coronavirus has made me absolutely sick of it, I'm telling everyone my recipe for making delicious food. I do it the way they do it at the restaurant and at the hotel—I plan out the menu. That way for the whole week you can shop right and buy what you need and what you're missing. Otherwise how do you do it? Since I've been home I've made two recipes three or four times: lasagna and ring cake. But I've written down a list of everything I like. Meanwhile I set the table and clear it too. Maybe I'll wash the dishes and glasses and silverware and pots. But right now I really don't want to. Maybe I'll dry them. But I don't think I feel like it. To make ring cake you need 3 eggs, flour, baking powder, sugar, a chocolate bar, a little jar of seed oil, and one of Dad's yogurts. Then you need the oven on and that pot with the hole in the middle. For lasagna I need egg pasta, béchamel, mozzarella, parmesan, tomato sauce but I want to put pesto in it because I like that better. Anyway I have the list of what I need. Since I'm the one cooking I eat first. I feed Mom and Dad too. And Grandma. Right now I can't invite anyone over. But I'm the one who decides the portions because I'm the cook, the server, and I do reception too: what more could I do? I did something really fun with my friends. The four of us made ring cake together on the chat on our phones and we kept telling each other all the things to do. I put my phone in front of me in the kitchen and they watched me while I worked. It was really really fun. The ring cake is very good especially because I put chocolate in it but the crust is hard and I eat almost only the soft part inside. Otherwise I hurt my teeth and I have to drink water because the ring cake won't go down. But the lasagna is better. I like it much more. If there's any left I decide who eats it because I'm the one who cooked it. And I always decide that I eat it.

Benedetta Mattei

Benedetta Mattei

Born in Rome on January 1, 2004, Benedetta Mattei is a first-year student at the "Gioberti" hotel institute in Trastevere, with the goal of working as a receptionist and waitress. She leverages her…

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