College Food

This weeks adventures were pretty typical. On monday I tried to make some filling for burritos with peppers, onions, tomatoes and pinto beans. I prepared the peppers and onions, then poured in a can of "chipotle flavored diced tomatoes". Along with a can of pinto beans I was good to go. The result was chile. I couldn't believe it, I had just made chili, except it wasn't so thick because it hadn't been stewing all day. I shrugged, and placed it in my tortilla anyway. It reminded me of chili cook offs back in the homeward, but it was that wierd chili that tastes like someone else made it.
Something I also really enjoy doing when i'm hungry is spreading peanut butter on a tortilla, folding it in half, then grilling it in a frying pan till it's crispy, like a quesadilla. Something about crispy, peanut buttery-ness hits the spot everytime. And when it's a special occasion I throw in a few chocolate chips too.

Good story of the week

So today, in honor of our presidents and american culture, my roomate, her sister and husband and I all went out to Red Robin. Yes it sounds rash and expensive, but it gets better. First I realized that Red Robin has free bottomless fries, all you have to do is ask. So we were eating fries (which are better then most I have eaten), and the waitress asked if we would move tables because they needed to use ours, and if we did we would get free dessert. So we're like " yeah of course" (we would of moved even if we didn't get a free dessert for sure). As we ate our various plates we discussed what we could of done to recieve such good fortune.

After a burger and fries we were all quite full enough. But in good american fashion we requested our free dessert. What did we order? The "mile high mud pie". The picture looked quite small really, not nearly a mile tall. But what we got was huge, probably seven inches tall, with whip cream. What it was was chocolate icecream, vanilla iceream, and peanut butter things, and fudgy things, and cookie crumb things. It was quite good, for a while... Soon we were groaning, taking spoonful after spoonful, but we had to finish it, heck we got it for free. As we left the resturaunt, totally overloaded and in real physical pain I realized, this wasn't a blessing, but a lesson, learned the hard way. I need to eat less like an american.

Pancake's Day

You may or may not know that today (february 12th) is pancake day. Well I am not sure if it is official, but thats how most food holidays in my life tend to go down. Take May 10th-pudding day. It started in 7th grade, a friend of mine was eating chocolate pudding, I don't know how it started but Lucy was in a particular fiesty mood, and pudding ended up on Julia's shirt. There was a chase scene, and from that year on May 10th was a holiday in our lives. It started out with making pudding, or going to the park and having pudding fights, then gradually turned into just mentioning and the occasional pudding cup.

Back to pancakes though. In honor of pancake day IHOP (international house of pancakes) gave away a stack of free pancakes to anyone who asked (which means I didn't make up this holiday). My roomate Heather and I partook of this golden opprotunity, gathered ward members and went on a trip to Springville. Cleverly (and correctly) we had decided that springville would be less full of hungry anxious college students, it turned out that we were one of the few groups there partaking of free pancakes.

Moral of the story? Food should be celebrated annually, and if you want free pancakes go to the IHOP in Springville, the line isn't as long.

The Avocado

As my roomate and I were sitting at the table eating the fresh guacamole I had just prepared, a thought came to me. Avocados are the best fruit ever--yes they are a fruit. Not only are they a wonderful color, but they are creamy, delicous, and healthy. My absolute favorite way to eat avocado is in homeade chunky guacomole, not made from a package, but real onions, lime juice etc. In honor of the avocado that made my weekend I have some fun facts about avocados provided by www.avocado.org.

• Avocados are sodium and cholesteral free, with only 5 grams of fat.
• two mature avocado trees can provide enough oxygen for a family of four
• 43% of US households by avocados
• there are 7,000 avocado groves in California
• The avocado is also called an alligator pear.

Yeah, I know right?

So whats your favorite way to eat an avocado? Or do you just hate the blessed fruit? Tell me, or not.