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Slytherin Fox 
"Yes, of course you have a really good point, Iris, and I'm just not able to break the groups down any further. I do recognize there are four separate styles of cooking involved, actually far more than that, but we are only going to be worried about the one dish today. It's just an example of the different types of cooking that are available here in the U.K., just a cooking exercise, really. Does that make sense?", Antonio asked. "If I had my way I would let you all make haggis and such, but unfortunately I just can't do that today. However, if any of you are really craving that, my wife knows how to make it pretty well!"
"All right, we'll leave the cajun booth for right now. I will put the ingredients list in there, and if any of you want to experiment in making the dish, you can. For right now, we'll concentrate on the five main dishes we will be preparing. Each of you will find all the ingredients you will need to make your cuisine of choice. And here are your recipes."
Antonio sent a cookbook flying to each station, which contained -
Italy - Spaghetti and Meatballs
Spaghetti and meatballs with a homemade sauce.
Ingredients:
Meatballs:
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
3 slices bread, crumbled
2 pounds lean ground beef
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 clove garlic, smashed, minced
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
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Sauce:
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon dried leaf oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried leaf basil
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 large can (28 to 36 ounces total) crushed Italian tomatoes
2 cans (6 ounces each) tomato paste
16 ounces thin spaghetti
Parmesan cheese
Preparation:
Recipe for spaghetti and meatballs
Make meatballs. In a medium bowl, beat eggs lightly; add milk and bread and let stand for about 5 minutes. Add ground beef, onion, parsley, garlic, salt, and pepper; mix gently until well blended. Shape into about 24 meatballs, about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Place meatballs in a generously greased large shallow baking pan. Bake meatballs at 450° for 25 minutes.
In a Dutch oven, in hot oil over medium heat, sauté onion until tender and just begins to turn golden. Add remaining sauce ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes. Taste and adjust seasoning, adding more salt, if necessary. Add meatballs; cover and simmer 50 to 60 minutes longer, stirring from time to time.
Cook spaghetti according to package directions; drain.
Serve spaghetti topped with meatballs in sauce; sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese.
Spaghetti and meatballs serves 6.
"All the ingredients are there for everything you need, I made sure of it," Antonio said. "You may all begin working on your recipes. We can easily multiply the food if it isn't enough, you will all be able to sample the food. If this goes well today, perhaps we will make desserts at a later lesson."
Right cooking. How hard could it be, just because he'd never tried cooking before, that's what the house elves and servants were for, it couldn't be all that difficult. Walking over to the Italian Station Reid quickly read over the recipe, trying to decipher what to do. In the end he just gave the book a confused look before grabbing the ingredients he'd need for the first part of the book.
Placing the medium sized bowl in front of him Reid grabbed two eggs and cracked them expertly. He may not be able to cook but for one role he had to pretend he did and so they'd taught him how to crack eggs since in the shot you saw his face and his hand. Therefore this part was no problem. Grabbing an egg beater, an electronic one at that, he slowly began to beat the eggs lightly, at least he hoped it was lightly and that he was doing it correctly. Figuring that he was done with the beating he leaned over for another look at the cook book.
Alright grabbing some milk and a measuring cup he quickly transferred the milk into the measuring cup before slowly pouring it into the egg mixture. Just then a thought came to him. Should he have poured the milk in while he was mixing so it all mixed together.
Oh well too late now. I guess I'll just have to see. with that in mind he quickly grabbed up the three slices of bread and crumbled them over the bowl. Done with the first part he stood back and looked at his watch waiting and counting down the minutes until he could begin again.