Spaghetti Carbonara

Last weekend, I was very hungry. It was Saturday night and my friend and I had been given the task by his mother to cook dinner for the whole family. We considered just ordering a pizza, but I was craving spaghetti and that's pretty easy to make. But he didn't want to be boring with plain old red sauce with spaghetti, so we found a recipe for spaghetti carbonara. I usually only make pasta with red sauce, so making this meal was a big change. Not only did I learn how to make a new pasta, but I discovered what cloves are. Originally I confused them with capers, but then when I was given the task to mash 4 cloves of garlic, I was considerably confused. After that was figured out, I got to use a fun tool where you peel the skin off of the cloves and cut the ends off, then put the clove into a little tool that mashes them. It was very fun to use. After all the mashing and bacon cutting, boiling and egg cracking, we had a lovely dinner. It was awesome. -Meagan F