Cooking

Ok. Junior year of college. Some people take this year to travel - see the world, become fluent in a language, eat weird food, broaden their horizons - I'm staying on my nice rainy SUNY campus, in my comfort zone, and I am still just as overwhelmed as if I were in a foreign country. I've chosen to deal with life by having an amazing boyfriend and a lot of hobbies, instead of going abroad (not that any of the above are mutually exclusive).

So, hobby number one I'm adding to my repertoire, now that I live in an on-campus apartment with a full kitchen: cooking/baking.

I'm in an a cappella group at my school, along with my aforementioned boyfriend and two of the girls I live with. Two other girls in the group and the ones I live with (which, including me, is 5/6 of our group's female population) have decided that we will alternate apartments every Sunday night and cook dinner for each other.

To avoid every single one of these dinners including pasta and cheesy bread, my personal specialties, I've given myself the goal of cooking at least 5 new dinner recipes in the next month (I know that doesn't sound like much, but I'm a college student. I eat a lot of sandwiches and leftovers) and 4 new desserts (desserts go slower. I'm trying to be realistic here).

I'm going to try to post with a picture of each food, the recipe, and my success/failure with meeting my goals. And I might come up with goals in other areas of life.

Just a disclaimer: I did like the movie Julie and Julia, but what really gave me the idea for this whole blog thing is a friend of mine who is posting a blog about being abroad. Hopefully, if I keep up with this, I'll be able to look back on the year and think that staying home in lovely central New York was somewhere near as interesting as her year in the DR and France. Hopefully. So I guess I plan to post this as though thousands are reading it, but expect that my real audience consists of me and my conscience.

So. Today is September 8, and I will be back in school (I'm on a short Labor Day & Rosh Hashanah break at home) cooking with my friends on the 12th, so my "month" will be September 12-October 12.

Thank you and good morning.