we're a part of the world, you guys!!

by caitlin

the internet can be so overwhelming! especially sometimes when you listen to electronic-y music and you just feel like.. whoa.. technology and science are everywhere, flying around my head. okay. so that's why its taken a little while to get started for me. somehow i have all of these emails piled up in my inbox and homework to do and i even have a cooking obligation to attend to for monday afternoon. i might need to enlist some help for that one.

so i intended my first post to be about the arancini (mozzerella stuffed rice balls) i made the other night, but its been 3 days since then.. i don't know if that still counts, but they were pretty delicious. the recipe called for brown rice, so we could be healthy, but i was really hungry when i was cooking so i just used white rice to be quicker (although apparently there is now quick cooking brown rice, which is really exciting!). joan came over and i made some whole wheat pasta, too, with a tomato alfredo sauce (not homemade, unfortunately).


devon was also taking pictures of me in the kitchen that night for prattonia. here's me enjoying a beverage while preparing the dinner. i'm just going to say it: i like beer. everyone knows it.

so anyway, that was sunday, i think, and i haven't had much time for cooking since then. today the only thing i cooked was instant grits in the morning and some coffee.. i was at my internship for most of the day so the only thing i ate was some amy's no chicken noodle soup from brooklyn's natural. but after my plant morphology class (in which i drew orchids!) i enjoyed a true myrtle avenue tradition, eating lo mein from kum kau and drinking 40 oz of the champagne of beers (from a pom glass, like a lady) while watching america's next top model with aleks and devon. everyone has guilty pleasures, get over it.

also, pat wants me to make some food for his opening on monday, and i haven't really thought about it at all, i may have to wait until next time, but if anyone has any suggestions for easy hors douvres to feed a crowd, let me know. i just have so many things i want to say to everyone!

i'm thinking: "something in the deli isle makes you cry, of course i put my arm around you and i walk you outside, through the sliding doors, why would i mind?" its nice to like things. these days it feels like everyone's finding just what they need.