Exams!

Well exams are just two weeks away and I can say that I am ready for all of these tests to be over. That is one thing I will not miss about school is the times when you study 6 hours a day for an exam and then its over in just an hour.

Here are some pictures of the garden right now. everything seems to be well underway but the squirrels are going crazy about my corn. They managed to kill 10/12 plants. I replanted all of them. Its weird, they just broke the stems they didn't eat any of the plant.







very soon I will be on summer "vacation" however I will be working full time. Im really excited about being away from school for a while. I am going to miss seeing everyone during the day though.

Garden!

So the days of Mario visiting are winding down. He will be leaving soon and it becomes harder and harder to go to school and work for me. Currently he is working hard in my backyard while I am at work. The weather is so amazing today that i would rather be there with him than anywhere else.
here are some photos of our garden.






I would like to do a wine bottle border on every little garden plot but i cant. there simply are not enough wine bottles in my grasp. I have considered talking to some local restaurants but I have not done that yet. Also in a way I feel like i would be interfering with their busy day somehow.
happy spring!

garden

I have recently taken on a very ambitious garden project. I bought 13 different seed packets. Including watermelons, cantaloupe, and eggplant. I have a feeling i will have more food than I can ever eat. Pictures will be posted soon.
:)

Arrivals

So some good news. Not only am I one week away from spring break I am 2.5 days away from seeing Mario! My boyfriend Mario arrives on Monday and we haven't seen each other since January 11. That is in fact the shortest time we have been apart since I left spain, but it still felt like forever. Hopefully we will get some much needed paperwork finished while he is here.

Above is some graffiti we did while roaming around in Tarragona.

wedgiedom..and other things

This wasnt really supposed to be all about the foods I am eating, so here are some other things going on in my life right now.
I got a job in a lab, of course, working with mice. I got to see 2 litters of baby mice on my first day and i have to say they look like aliens. I mean human babies are pretty rasin-y and gross when they pop out but mice are reallllly gross.



This is a picture of my desk. I have to say i have had 0 desks in my life and this one though it may be modest is AMAZING. and not to mention the computer is nicer than anyone i have ever owned.



So here are some potato wedgies I made. I coated them in an egg mixed with olive oil. a bunch of red pepper, salt and normal pepper.



So then after an intense workout I went to Otherlands with my friend and she got this sandwich called the "bagel sandwich thing". it was good. I had a bite. We also appropriately ended our workout with a huggee slice of carrot cake that we are now addicted to.



spinach, feta, avocado, tomatoes, pear, olive oil...thats all I need to say

tofu-1 amanda-0

So in my attempts at becoming a semi-vegeterian I have tried to dabble in tofu. I read on a few websites that you just marinate it in your favorite sauce and then fry in the skillet. Well that didnt workout so well.



here is a picture of my stove looking a complete mess because I had no idea what I was doing. The tofu turned out horrible and tasted like the bottom of a shoe. I believe it also had to do with the sweet and sour sauce I bought. That was supposed to be my saving grace. If it tastes like crap pour the sauce on it. well the sauce also tasted like crap.



So you may be wondering what in the heck is a semi-vegeterian...well if someone gives me free food and it happens to have meat in it.. I cant say no. Im in college i cant turn down free food.

anti snow day pizza

So there was more snow. This winter so far has seriously been one heck of a snow storm. The Northeast is getting pounded and here we are a little ole southern town and I have to de-ice my car before i got to school. All those global warming skeptics are probably drinking champagne and buying hummers.

Here is my front yard with the recent dusting. It wasnt enough to cancel classes but it gave everyone a scare.

In honor of the snow day i decided to try a recipe i found for eggplant pizza. basically its eggplant, cheese, pesto, crust, sauce, 8mins at 450.

Why dont they make eggplants smaller? With all the genetic engineering you would think they could make a single serving eggplant......

Here is the crust. I used prego spaghetti sauce for the base.

I added motzerella, provolone, and cheddar cheese. Today i re-made the recipe and I would suggest doubling that amount of cheese. its way better with more cheesey goodness.

Here is the final product! it is beautiful, and it tasted beautiful.

snow days are amazing but somehow i find it incredibly hard to do schoolwork with all that winterwonderland going on outside. probably i shouldnt move farther north