recent food adventures

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includes: pesto, wheat dough, pizza with turkey/spinach/artichoke hearts/pesto, chai tea, mini banana bread loaf, daryl with our turkey friend, black bean burger.

and last night v and n joined me for dinner and we had tilapia with a ginger sauce (so tasty!), rice, and stir fry with mung beans, bamboo shoots, sugar snap peas, and onions. mmm mmm. :D

life is awesome. even though this week i have to read and study and write a lot for upcoming exams... something exciting is going on but i will post about it later!

most recent cooking adventures

roasted vegetables

pasta with chicken cubes, peas, oven-baked tomatoes, roasted garlic, olive oil (garlic & tomato), and feta cheese

my first ever attempt at fried chicken

Soon I will be attempting a new brownie recipe for some people that don't like the other desserts I've been making lately (mostly stuff with berries).

it's been a long time

I haven't posted in a long time. I withdrew from classes and just quit my job so I lead quite the leisurely life... which is driving me insane. Anyhow, I do appreciate the many opportunities I've had to fellowship with all my friends here. Just this morning I had a friend over for a yummy breakfast and another friend came over and we had fun eating carrots and chatting. I made some carrot cake cupcakes for a dinner I'm going to tonight and then I ... made a copycat of the Starbucks Salty Caramel Hot Chocolate!!


I really don't like the signature hot chocolate blend (it's... liquid chocolate; quite strong) so I don't make any fancy hot chocolate, but I add caramel syrup, put whipped cream on top (joey whipped some up for me), with some caramel, fine sea salt... and just a sprinkle of cinnamon, to be adventurous.

Lately I've also made delicious cranberry-lemon scones (fresh cranberries of course), and later today or tomorrow I'll be making a crustless cranberry-blueberry pie. And next week I'll try making a cranberry sauce. Mmm... cranberries = delicious.

Next semester I will probably take classes. I don't want to. I do want to read books and learn but I don't want to sit in three-hour long classes or write a bunch of papers. I wish I could find a job. Oh well. I am playing with the idea of returning to college for a BS, in nursing... but who knows. I entertain many ideas..

I read all of the "Twilight" books over break, after I saw the movie. I really enjoyed the first, part of the third, and most of the fourth, however, her writing is sloppy, the plot could have been expanded so much, and I got sick of the werewolves. They annoyed me.

misadventures in chinese food

I had a strange hankering for Chinese food so I decided to get some. I went to Hong Kong Restaurant and got sweet and sour chicken. It was very different than Chinese in Ohio because it was a clean place with a nice eating area; there were no screaming angry Chinese ladies.

Also before I went to the restaurant I stopped by a new Christian book/gift/coffee shop. It was pretty nice in there; I might have to go hang out sometime and drink hot chocolate. I hope they have that. I forgot to check the menu. I bought a Fernando Ortega CD too. I like his voice... it is like a soft squishy pillow to my ears.

Anyhoo, progression of eating Chinese food:







:) I am next in line for promotion at my firm! :)

roundabouts, cookies, and MEAT

About one hour before I got off work I thought that a DQ Blizzard sounded really awesome (it's hot where I work). I remember when I was in Ohio a few weeks ago I had a bit of Sarah's and it was so delicious. But then on the way home I couldn't decide if I really wanted one... so I just went around the roundabout a few times! I thought it was convienent... I ended up getting a thin mint blizzard. But it's not nearly as good as a Butterfinger or Heath bar Blizzard. I should stop getting gross flavors just because I always want mint-flavored things.

Also, there is a great deal out there for some cheap meat! I just got 8 3oz. Polish sausages, 6 4oz. burgers, a knife set, and a cutting board from Omaha Steaks for $1.98. Read up how to do it here. (Hmm I just tried to make another account to send some meat to my parents but I think they might have realized what was going on and stopped. But might as well try...)

I also applied to two full-time jobs today but both companies already emailed me back to say that they are filled... sad :( I'll have to try to find more jobs tomorrow... :(

oh deliciousness

those of you in WF reading my blog (not many...): go to Shish Kabob! It's in the shopping center with food lion and rite aid, next to subway. it's delicious. it seems like there are daily specials... today was $4.99 for a kefta gyro (lebanese meatballs of deliciousness), fries, and a drink. i also got a side of falafel. they make them! they are a bit spicy but full of tastiness. i'm going to go back ASAP...

yay cooking

I've been too busy and tired from work the last few days to even blog... wow. I can't do work like I did last week again because I was so tired I didn't get enough sleep and misses two classes (one of which meets only once a week so... it's kind of important to go, haha).

But,

1) I bought a printer... it should be here tomorrow. (meaning: i am going to go to wal-mart and get something like ten boxes of cereal for free... which will make up for the cost of the printer. yay. i mostly got it to print coupons though, seriously, because at school we can't install the proper coupon software needed to print most all internet coupons. so i have been missing out on serious amounts of awesomeness).
2) I got a couch and a dining set, which I am going to paint an offensively bright green
3) I get to cook today! Being a waitress is kind of lame because I always work during dinner so I don't get to cook. And on school days by the time I get home I'm pretty hungry so I just make something quick.

breakfast: eggs, toast with jelly, chocolate milk

lunch: grilled zucchini, stuffing, apple sauce, raspberry lemonade crystal light (which is so sweet that I more than double the amount of water the recommend)

dinner: I haven't decided yet... Debating between homemade tuna salad (it will be amazing because I have a lot of good stuff for it), or grands flaky layers... maybe I will serve tuna salad on the biscuits. :P Or I might go buy some grapes to make chicken salad. I have to been in a certain mood to eat tuna... and I don't think I'm there, haha. And I could probably get some plain chicken; right now i just have an already-marinated kind. which is really good.

dusty blinds.

My blinds are dusty. But that is for another day.

I am intensely excited about the rest of my church history classes (second half of church history, baptist history, and perhaps more). I am fascinated with denominations and how they came about, how they work, what they mean for the church, all sorts of things. I'm not sure how deep into that stuff they get into in a church history class; maybe it is in some other classes or I will have to read some books. Baptist history will be really interesting because so many people here and some other people that I know specifically identify as Southern Baptists. I do not. to some of them perhaps I appear a heathen with my dancing, tattoo-ing, card playing ways, and candle burning (I got asked if I was into seance the other day)...

I am also interested in the theology and evolution and everything else of worship.

-please pray for one of my professor's wives (am I wording that wrong? all of my professors only have one wife...) who is having surgery tomorrow

-please pray for the hearts of my boss and someone I met at a movie theater and that they would surrender their lives to the Lord

Have any of you read any books by Rob Bell? Every orthodox Christian that I know says he is a heretic. So... naturally, I want to read his books!

I am going to try to make sevichy fish... has anyone attempted this? I am scared :'(

I'm visiting a small group tomorrow! I haven't been to a small group here in WF yet, so I'm pumped. Also I am getting a loveseat tomorrow. Lord willing. So far he hasn't. And then Thursday I'm going to meet some awesome people for coffee..!! Meaning I will get hot chocolate or something, haha.

leftover meals and lameness (not related)

1) Seminary cookout was lame. It's a bunch of kids things (like one of those blow up rooms you bounce around in, a blow-up slide, and a kids rock climbing wall) with a bunch of families, and no one I knew... so I left.

2) For lunch I mixed leftover black bean salad (with corn and salsa and lime) with a rice/pasta cheesy thing that I threw chickpeas into. I got 10 servings of black bean salad from using one can each of corn and black beans, so I had to find things to do with it! And the rice thing was one of those prepackaged things, which are too salty and gross by themselves.

For dinner I had leftover mac and cheese with black bean salad made into a burrito. haha... it was tasty. i miss pj's. but not the price there!

i'm supposed to get a couch tonight but the lady hasn't emailed me back with her address. suck. double suck because a friend's roommate is going to go with me with his truck to get it and i don't want to inconvenience him. but i made him brownies. :P

hummus failure

I tried to make some hummus today, but it tastes and looks like throw up. I don't know why.

I used lemon juice, olive oil, roasted garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, parsley, and chickpeas.

I think it is important to use a food processor instead of a blender, also...

After that failure, I decided to make a smoothie! Mmm.



Yes, I sugared the rim of the glass!