Eat Your Vegetables / Come Tus Verduras

PEANUTS ARE A healthy vegetarian staple, which means Tuesday night we had a vegetarian main course (soup) and a vegetarian dessert (chocolate peanut butter cake). The cake looked and tasted like a giant Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. The soup was made by our friend Kathleen’s aunt Francesca from her sister’s (Kathleen’s mother’s) recipe. Artful, hearty, and delicious. The soup was so good, the cake was almost not necessary. But only almost.

Note:
Cake in Norwegian is kake, which sounds just like caga, which is another word for shit in Spanish. Many of our Spanish friends get the giggles when San Geraldo serves them Norwegian “kakes” at Christmas time — like kransekake and krumkake. However, peanut in Spanish is “cacahuete” and none of our Spanish friends find THAT funny.

LOS CACAHUETES SON un alimento vegetariano saludable, lo que significa que el martes por la noche tuvimos un plato principal vegetariano (sopa) y un postre vegetariano (pastel de chocolate con cacahuetes y crema de cacahuetes). La tarta se veía y sabía un gigante Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (Reese’s Copa de Mantequilla de Maní). La sopa fue hecha por la tía de nuestra amiga Kathleen, Francesca, de la receta de su hermana (la madre de Kathleen). Ingenioso, abundante, y deliciosa. La sopa estaba tan buena que el pastel casi no era necesario. Pero solo asi.

Nota:
Cake en noruego es kake, que suena como caga. Muchos de nuestros amigos españoles se ríen cuando San Geraldo les sirve “kakes” noruegos en Navidad, como kransekake y krumkake. Sin embargo, “peanut” en español es “cacahuete” y ninguno de nuestros amigos españoles LO encuentra gracioso.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER I SAID: “LUKE, DON’T TOUCH THE CAKE.” KATHLEEN THEN SAID: “EASIER TO JUST MOVE THE CAKE.”
INMEDIATAMENTE DESPUÉS DE QUE YO DIJE: “LUKE NO TOCA EL PASTEL.” LUEGO, KATHLEEN DIJO: “ES MÁS FÁCIL SIMPLEMENTE MOVER EL PASTEL.”
HE LIKED THE VEGETARIAN “KAKE.”
A ÉL LE GUSTA EL “KAKE” VEGETARIANO.”

Author: Moving with Mitchell

From Brooklyn, New York; to North Massapequa; back to Brooklyn; Brockport, New York; back to Brooklyn... To Boston, Massachusetts, where I met Jerry... To Marina del Rey, California; Washington, DC; New Haven and Guilford, Connecticut; San Diego, San Francisco, Palm Springs, and Santa Barbara, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Irvine, California; Sevilla, Spain. And Fuengirola, Málaga..

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