I Be Cooking

Deep Fried Cauliflower.

Pesto Spaghetti

This year's self-improvement theme—aside from the continuing last year's theme of becoming a pro at air travel—is cooking. I've been regularly making food since coop summer and started doing the "Wine Dinner" thing senior year. This 2011, however, I'm turning up the heat (har har).

This weekend required new techniques and stuff that I can actually say I'm more comfortable doing again when I need to. (A lot of this was a first attempt on my own, and I was honestly a little scared of deep frying stuff.) The deep fried cauliflower required use of my new whisk and tongs, both of which I purchased not even two weeks ago. The pesto spaghetti required the use of a blender for the sauce.

I suppose I'll get a little more serious into food photography as I try to get better at both cooking and making photographs.

Check out my Flickr set 'Food and Cooking'.

Cooking on a Sunday

Yesterday, I had said I cooked the "most elaborate dinner I have cooked for myself this summer." Today, I claim to say that again. I spent two hours on it today. It was okay ...

For breakfast, I had potato hash with egg and buttered whole-wheat toast.





For dinner, I had chicken and green beans with rice. The marinade was made with water, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, green onion, and corn starch.

Chicken and Broccoli

This is so far the most elaborate dinner I have cooked for myself this summer. It came out really well. Take a look:

ESC Year End Banquet 2008

Tonight, I attended the Engineering Student Council's year end dinner party. It was quite fun. Free food from the Statler Hotel, so what could go wrong? There was fancy chicken, salmon, and steak, and fruit, etc. I did not photograph the food as I usually would have. This being a higher class event, I did not feel comfortable doing so. I did snap a few shots, here. In the above photo, from left to right: Tracy, Kevin, Eric, Ojus. Tracy and Ojus were my co-chairs for Diversity Dinner 2008. Eric was the head of events, and will be next year's ESC president.

Today's POTD came from here too.