RESPEKT: REgina SPEKTor

My favorite musician is Regina Spektor. She was born in Rusia but she emigrated to USA when she was six years old. She learned to play the piano when she was a little girl and in USA she continued doing it. When she was 20 years old recorded a disc in her home that one important person listen to so he help her to integrate a new music movement in New York: the anti-folk. This movement takes things of Folk but without the dogmatism and the solemnity. The antifolk have lyrics whit social sustenance, critic acidity and avoid the drama. Regina Spektor takes some of this characteristics and mix it whit jazz and pop rhythms; the result of it is a music that takes you heart but only using simple stories. In personal I loved Regina Spektor because her voice is undescribable. When I hear her music I feel that the time stop and the only thing that I can do is listen it. Another thing that I like about her are the lyrics of her music, it represent little stories that say a lot about life, whit it you can imagine and travel in the time or in the space. My favorite song is Samson. This is a love ballad that talks about a love story that never will be in the History but besides it they are enough for each other. Regina Spektor is my favorite musician because she makes me think and even "talk" whit her about some situations that she say in her songs.

The television

My favorite piece of technology is the television. I just love it. A television, like everyone know, is a screen where you can see all kind of images. The name of this images is programs of television. I have it since I was a little kid. I use it to inform and relax me. I see programs to learn different things like cultural information, how to cook some kinds of food or animal behavior. To have a time of fun I see programs of fashion or cartoons. I use it everyday because I need to inform me, I see the news or just to foget all my worries. I like it because is easy to use it, and in some times you don’t have to think so I use it to rest from all the thoughs of the University. Also I like it because you can learn about differents topics of the world, one day you can see how the people lives in South Africa or how the people make chocolate in a factory in USA. The life would be nothing without it because I am used to it, you can do everything whit television. You can listen music, see a TV series or a movie, watch a cultural program or a fasion program. For me the television is a world of information.

Lasagna for all the people!

My favorite dish is lasagna, it is origin from Italy and Greece. This dish consist in a type of pasta that goes on plates that are intercalated with a “boloñesa” sauce and “bechamel” sauce. I like this dish because my mother make it very well, I freak out when I eat it. I love the way that all the ingredients are mixed perfectly and the color that we can create. The flavor is incredible because the sauces mixed are great together. Now I am going to write how you can do a great lasagna in your home and have a funny time with friends and family.

For the “boloñesa” sauce you need: 400 gr of minced meat, 1 onion, 1carrot, a glass of white wine, 5 tomatos, 25 gr of butter, 70 gr of grated cheese, salt, pepper and olive oil. Then for the “bechamel” sauce you require: ¾ liter of milk, 40 gr of butter, 1 onion, flour and salt. And finaly you have to buy the most important thing: a box of lasagña pasta.

The preparation goes like this: first, in a skillet saute the onion and the carrot diced samllish in olive oil until this became golden brown. Then add the meat and cook it till it see golden, add the glass of wine and let it evaporate. After this add the small diced tomatoes, add salt and pepper and let it cook for 20 minutes. Later in a pot with boiling water and salt put the lasagna pasta for the time that shows the box, then separate them to prevent sticking. For the “bechamel” sauce saute the chopped onion in butter, then remove from the fire. Next add the flour and the milk, beat it until thick. Here goes the funny part, put in a bowl a base of pasta, then a layer of the “boloñesa” sauce and then one of “bechamel” sauce. Make it until the bowl is full. Finally sprinkle the grated cheese and put the bowl in the oven for 20 minutes at 200º. Now you have ready your lasagna!