Sunday, May 13, 2007

More food, cuz that's who I am

Hey, hope you all are doing well. I am doing just fine. Let's see, what have you missed?
My week of school was alright. We learned how to do an ECG. In case you were wondering, that's that thing you see on the monitors in hospitals and on TV, with the peaks and whatnot. We got to do them on each other and learned how to interpret them. It's pretty cool how they work and being able to sort of read them. Alas, it didn't work on myself as I was too hairy. Oh well.
On Friday evening I went to a party. This was a real fine-tootin' hippie party, lemme tell you. It wasn't med-related; rather, was held by the girlfriend (and friends) of my Australian friend from my previous trip, with whom I go to the market and went hiking, etc. Man, were these people hippies. No one wore a shoe. The house had all these finger-paintings on it and there was no window that worked. It was a strictly vegetarian household, leaning towards vegan. I talked to a guy with long hair and one of those alpaca sweatshirt things whom, under different circumstances, I would have accused of overacting a stereotypical stoner-guy, but he was all real. They even made a chocolate fondue with marijuana butter! Howabout that? Anyway, I hung out there for a while and then left to go play a board game. Yes, I left a bumpin' parrrty to go play Cranium with 8 people from Brunei. That's how I roll. It was fun, save for the fact that it was Aussie Version and so all the cultural-relevant questions I was more clueless than my Asian counterparts. I stayed up later than I would have liked but it was all in the name of knowledge...I guess.
On Saturday I woke up a bit late and immediately hopped on my ride to the market. I was carrying my customary crate on the rack. I bought some good shit and went over to my aforementioned friend's (Justus, let's just give him a name) house for some lunch. It was quite delicious, in fact: we boiled some corn and some sweet and normal potato. Then we mashed the two potatoes with zucchini, garlic, Garam Masala, cumin, chives, and salt. Mixed in some milk and flour and then semi-fried it in some butter. Then added some grated cheddar and avocado slices on top. Fuck it was tasty. Also ate with a salad. We ate and chatted a while and then I left to go study and then swim. Came home, made some delicious Korean fried rice and watched The Covenant, a terrible witch/magic/teen-type movie that featured the following lines:
"Harry Potter can kiss my ass!" (when a witch-guy is doing a cool move.)
"Oooh... witchy!" (said to a witch-guy being annoying.)
And the eternal:
"I'm going to make you my wi-atch" (said by one witch-guy to another witch-guy whilst kicking his ass.)
Sunday morning, today, I woke up and talked to the family as usual. Made some poached eggs and a smoothie (mandarin, grapefruit, plum, lime, custard apple, and strawberry yogurt) and then went to school to study for several hours. Came back and made some delicious fresh salsa, guacamole and Mexican rice and ate with some nice corn chips. Then I got ready to bake for my class tomorrow morning. I've already baked some stuff for them and I try to keep it fresh. I got this recipe from a girl who's cookies I tasted (that sentence came out...awesome) and they were good. Well, I made them and they turned out to be fuckin' good, so I'm reproducing the recipe here, free of charge!
Preheat oven at 180C/356F
Melt together:
150g (5.3oz) of dark cooking chocolate
180g (~1 cup) of margarine or butter (I used butter)
Mix:
2 cups of flour
1.5 cups sugar (I used white)
3/4 cup of cooking cocoa
Then add:
Choco-butter combination
3 beaten eggs
Mix together and add some chocolate chips.
Make into balls and space evenly on baking pan (I lined mine with wax paper)
Bake for about 10-15 min. Voila!:
Anyway, that's enough excitement for now. I must go to sleep and start a new week, as weeks are wont to do. Salud

1 comments:

Glotter said...

is that shit or chocolate? either way it looks mighty tasty. maybe ill make it if i find the time