Mangi Amiamoci

Every Saturday Ashley and I go to Mangi Amiamoci. Mangi Amiamoci is a cooking class for kids.

We ride our bikes to our classes because we don't have a car. It's about 3 miles. The first time we went we made fresh pasta. We had to use only our hands, no mixers, or whisks. It was a green pasta. Instead of stripping it down on something, we cut it with a plastic knife in squares, and squeezed some spinach juice onto it. Our teachers speak English and Italian, but the other kids in class with us don't speak English. They only speak Italian. We also did a little bit of art and we played outside too. I had lots of fun.

The next Saturday it was supposed to rain so we took a taxi, but it ended up not raining. We made chestnut cupcakes the second week. You make them with chestnut flour, water, rosemary, clementine peels, and a little bit of oil. They had to bake when we were done. They are not sweet at all. While they were baking, we did a nature walk. We went by the aqueduct and a little creek. It was kind of muddy and wet.

We each made three chestnut cupcakes. We made two big ones and one small one. Here are the ones Mom hasn't eaten yet.

My class is fun!