Cooking again

Well yesterday was my first attempt at cooking here at Rue Ancienne 15. We went to the Migros store that's a block away and got all our daily groceries for CHF 57, which works out to be about 48 USD. That covered coffee, bread, jam, filled pasta and sauce, and then 2 smallish steaks, new potatoes, and peas for dinner. Not too bad for around here. Apparently everybody here goes to France for their groceries (if they're on a budget) because it's much cheaper. However, that's about a 45 minute bus ride each way, so maybe we'll stick to shopping locally.

Cooking here is interesting - it's nice because we have a 4-burner gas stove. We did have to find instructions on the internet to decipher the strange symbols on the oven - it's a convection/traditional oven, so there are some funny settings, but it roasted potatoes like nobody's business.

Today we're off to explore the neighborhood. There's a bigger Migros about 3 blocks away, so we're going to see how it is in terms of selection and prices. They also sell budget mobile phones, so we may get a couple of those for communicating when Joy's working downtown.