Monday, July 15th

I asked Mom to let me cook dinner for the family last night. I told her I'd cook something easy so she agreed. We usually eat Asian food like Chinese, Korean, or Japanese, but I decided to make something different. I chose an Italian food-spaghetti (意大利面) with meat sauce (酱) .

Spaghetti is easy to cook.

I put enough spaghetti for everyone in my family into a big pot. I cook it for about ten minutes. But before this I made the meat sauce. I wanted the meat sauce to be really delicious. I cut an onion into small pieces. I put a little oil into a pot and added the onion pieces. I fried (油炒) the onion in the oil for a few minutes.

When the onion was soft, I put some beef into the pot with the onions, and fried them together for a few minutes. Then I added a can of tomatoes and some mixed herbs. Finally, I added some tomato juice and cook it on a low heat for about an hour.

When the spaghetti was ready, I put it into a large bowl. Then I poured the meat sauce over it.

There was enough for everyone and we all put some cheese on top of it.

Everyone enjoyed it and Mom said she would let me cook something else another day.

I'm going to read a cook book and find something really interesting to cook.