Saturday, September 24, 2011

Kitchen Adventures, Part 3: Ridiculous Pasta

Ridiculous Pasta:

One box of Pasta Roni(r), Angel Hair Pasta With Parmesan Cheese Flavor
One pear chopped into little chunks
Some frozen peas (to taste and whatnot)
Nutmeg
Cinnamon


Okay. Prepare Pasta Roni as directed, of course, but somewhere in there, add the chunks of pear and the peas.
Once it's done, sprinkle nutmeg and cinnamon on top.

Pasta for texture, sauce for savory-ness, peas for protein, and pear for awesomeness. Plus spices because cooked pear without cinnamon? Come on man, you must be joking.

Seriously. It's ridiculous and delicious and I'm doing it again. I wonder if Pasta Roni(r) is holding a recipe contest.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Japanese

Junior year is kicking my butt!


I know, I know, excuses. But I'm honestly terrible at Japanese, and I'm taking three classes in it, all on the same days, each of which assumes that it's the only Japanese class I'm taking so it had better cram as much larnin' as possible into my head and quiz it all as often as possible, so I'm constantly overloaded with readings and writings and testings and fillings-out-of-worksheets. And that's without even counting the other (phonetics) class I'm taking. Sigh! And I'm bad at time management or I wouldn't be writing this. Clearly. At 4:40 am.


Oh,
I figured out what that science-fiction-y stone is...prehnite, also known as green (or grossular, sometimes) garnet, with rutile inclusions. Pretty nifty.