SCAMPI.

Last night, Michael and I decided to cook up some jumbo prawns that he bought on sale from the butcher. After having tried Alton Brown's Scampi v 1.0 we figured we ought to try Scampi v 2.0 from the same book. This book is awesome by the way, especially for anyone scientifically minded. I think that the taste and texture of 1.0 is definitely better than 2.0 but 2.0 took about half the time and was still ridiculously delicious. We paired the shrimp with rice and a steamed broccoli and cauliflower dish cooked with panko crumbs and hardboiled egg. It's another Alton Brown recipe, and though I was skeptical at first (hard boiled egg, really?) it is also fantastic. All together it only took about an hour to cook, and even less time to devour.


Does that not make your mouth water?

We walked it off on our stroll to YOGURTLAND, where we promptly stuffed ourselves again (I should add that Mike usually eats twice as much as I do, so actually he was still hungry). Having the new Yogurtland near campus has exponentially increased my yogurt intake, and I am a little worried for my health about the new Yogurtland opening less than a block from Mike's place... well, just a little.

Sick days

When I used to get sick as a little girl, I remember my grandmother would make me this gelatinous concoction to make me feel instantly better. She gave my mom jars of this stuff for storage- puffy dehydrated balls that would get boiled in water and turn into mush. To this day I still have no idea what the heck that stuff was (ancient Chinese meth?) but nothing has been able to fix up a flu quite like that.

I had been meaning to blog about SFLX! but early this week I was stricken with a bout of sickness. Unfortunately, dancing from 8pm-2am three days in a row is probably not the best for one's health. One of my two roommates was sick last week, so there was a running joke in our apartment that it was contaminated with Swine Flu.


As you can see, Melanie didn't really stand a chance (except she did, actually).

I hadn't taken a sick day in a while, but it was kindof nice to sleep in bed all day, drink hot things and get behind on classwork. I always thought it would suck to be sick away from home- there would be nobody to take care of me, do my dishes, or feed me but I guess that ended up not being the case. Brendan left me a dozen chocolate muffins on my doorstop, Michael made me chicken noodle soup and Mel put up with my senseless rambling. No ancient Chinese meth necessary. :-)

Haircuts and Things That Are Orange

Yesterday I finally cut my hair for a long-overdue hair donation. Back in high school I used to run the hair drive for Locks of Love, an amazing organization that makes hair prostheses for financially disadvantaged kids suffering from hair loss. This cut is by Katie at The Shampoo Lounge, one of the generous stylists who takes a day off every year to volunteer at the drive. This is my fourth donation to the organization, but definitely not the last.


I definitely prefer having my hair short like this, even though it means no cute 40's dos.

Now for things that are orange...
Today I pulled out this beautiful orange and yellow fabric that my friend Kelly's grandmother gave to me a while back. At first I was going to make a bright and borderline obnoxious pencil skirt but the fabric wanted to be an apron instead. I needed an apron for my new kitchen, so I guess it worked out.




And it has pockets!
Underneath is a dress that I also made this weekend. I loved the bodice detail and such and such but none of it is really visible since the print is so busy.

To end on a completely different note, I am SO excited for SFLX!