important food questions

1. Should I make pork chops with apples and onions again or chop up the pork chops and use them for fried rice? I only have two pork chops left and they are seriously tiny, I probably could have cooked all five of them last night and been fine, but I didn't.

2. How...um, how does one eat a peach? I got two peaches from this farmer's market that sets up at Tulane every Friday (new this year!), and I...have never eaten a peach before, so I'm not really sure what to do with them. Does one eat the fuzzy skin? Should I peel them and chop them up and make a mini cobbler or something out of them? Should I just eat them?

3. This one is not a question. Man, I feel like I am cooking more Asian food than ever before, probably because I am -- I have so much rice! Because we always have rice at home, and it's so nice, to just make rice once a week and refrigerate it and pull it out throughout the week to make sushi or add as a side dish or fried rice or something. And soy sauce! And nori! (Which really freaks people out, for some reason; I'm all, "It's just toasted seaweed!" and they go, "But why can't you just say toasted seaweed?") And I picked up curry mix, so now I can make curry! Although I still have to buy potatoes and some kind of meat and also salt&vinegar potato chips, but yay curry! (Japanese curry: totally my comfort food.) So I am not having as much Asian angst as I usually do.

4. I have two cucumbers, for reasons that we shall not discuss; what should I do with them? One will probably be used for sushi, what should I do with the other one?

5. Does anyone have a good cream pasta recipe? There are a couple of restaurants around campus that do very good pesto cream pasta with chicken recipes, and I want to do it on my own! But for some reason it's surprisingly hard to find recipes.

6. I really need to pick up a small casserole dish, so I can make macaroni and cheese. Man, I should have bought cheddar cheese at Walmart today.

(no subject)

I have made Two Real Meals today! I am so impressed with myself, y'all. Pork chops with apples and onions for lunch (I oversalted, which I have a tendancy to do, and I don't think I quite get the concept of "deglazing", but OM NOM NOM) and pasta with tomato cream sauce for dinner! I don't usually like tomato sauces, but it was pretty good. I also did two sinks full of dishes. (I am the greatest roommate, y'all: not only will I do my own dishes, but I will also do your dishes! I usually like doing dishes, though, so it's usually not too much of a bother for me. Also seeing dishes in the sink makes me twitch.)

I want to bake these cinnamon roll muffins, but I should really be doing reading for class -- oh my god, I am so behind, I hate my life -- but then I would have muffins... I spent most of yesterday hanging out with isweedan, so I didn't get anything read; I'd done thirty pages in the morning, and in the evening I checked my syllabus to see what other reading I had, only to realize that my professor had photocopied THE WRONG PAGES OF THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF IRAN VOLUME 2. So my reading didn't even count! It was barely even relevant! Which means I had to do that reading today -- it's on the internet through the library, I didn't want to check out the actual book because it's huge and I only have to read, like, twelve pages -- and I hit information overload last week and can't get myself to do any of my reading. Which is kind of bad, because I have a paper due this week. From here on out, I have at least one paper due every week except for three weeks, two of which have midterms. My favorite week is the one where I have three papers due in three days. (Though none on the same day, thank Athena, I have no idea how I got that lucky.)

( cut for talk about weight and clothes )

Also, I kind of want a fancy vintage-style apron. Not that I wear aprons, but I could...