Title: Butchering Garlic
Pairing/Characters: Romano/Fem!Romano/Spain/Fem!Spain
Rating: PG


Antonio loves it when they all make dinner together, though it hasn't been happening much lately. Antonia's been working nights a lot more the past few weeks, something she whines about a lot because, "All the kids are asleep and I miss you guys!", Romano has taken to coming home from his job as a waiter, saying he's already eaten, and going straight to bed in a huff, and even though Lovina doesn't have any night classes, she's more likely to just want to order pizza and pair it with a bottle or two of wine after dealing with lectures all day. It is a Saturday, though, a blessedly rare Saturday where none of them have work or school or homework they can't put off until later, and Antonio has prepared for this glorious day by buying all the ingredients to make a lasagne, because Antonio loves it when they make lasagne together.

"Oi, stupid, you're butchering the garlic, not mincing it. Give it to me. No. Give it here, your garlic mincing priviledges are being revoked."

"Antonio, you bought romano cheese again. I told you to get parmesan, seriously it's not a funny joke anymore. Yes I know it's like my name. I'm not stupid."

"Lovi, I think the mozzarella goes on the lasagne, not in your mouth!"

They don't work very well together all the time, not at all, and even if Antonio buys all the ingredients listed on Nonna Vargas' Top Secret Super Delicious Lasagne Recipe and follows those cooking channel instructions for cutting everything to a tee, Lovina will still complain that she likes the sauce with less onions and Antonia will insist it tastes better when they put more Italian sausage than ground beef and Romano will still let everyone know that sure, canned crushed tomatoes are okay if you don't care about how anything tastes and Antonio stop eating all the romano in an obscene manner it's not funny anymore.

Whether the sauce is too onion-y, the sausage to beef ratio is off, the tomatoes aren't as fresh as they could be, or there's a romano cheese shaped hole in the wall from where somebody decided to throw it, Antonio still thinks that when they work together, they make the best tasting food there is, because it's always made with lots and lots of love.