Food post.

Bring out the munchies, you're about to need them.

Nope, I did not make these, but they are examples of cream puffs on plates decorated with chocolate squeezed out of a ketchup bottle, and raspberry coulis dabbed gently onto plates and made to look good by my chef.

My first ever lattice pie..

Matt's apple cobbler.

The blueberry pie I attacked with cookie cutters.

Chocolate mocha swirly cheesecake.

More plate decorating. I thought this one was genius...mom, you should appreciate playing with food.

Coconut cream puff as...a coconut. Pure genius.

Snake vs. Mouse. Less genius is sometimes better entertainment.

If the Queen of England were a pirate...

Seriously...

How do you refill one of these? Maybe it's just that I'm so used to all appliances being laughably idiot proof that when I was actually faced with a minor challenge...I was dumbfounded. There aren't any handy little latches or instructions posted on hard to see surfaces. It can't be that hard, I mean, the janitor does it every day and well..he's 50 years old and still a janitor for a reason.

If they would just give us reasonably sized rolls, the average person would know to just use the smaller roller, which as you can see, is also on the wall. A few trees might be saved as well. So, check out the picture, and see if you come to the same solution I did...

Let the roommate deal with it.

What I've Been Up To...

Well..since the beginning of this semester, my blog has been sadly neglected. Oops. Somewhere in the world of adultness homework comes before computer time. Anyways..Christmas break was peachy, and I'm going to sum up the last two weeks in pictures since I'm too lazy to be brilliant and I have a tutor student seeking my wisdom in an hour on a chapter I haven't read...

Here we have the results of the yearly challenge to get 8 people to all convincingly grimace at once...

On the way back to Seward from Christmas break I had a fantastic time with Megan and Brianna Aspelund. Here we are...3 hours early...for the 3D version of the movie Avatar. Fantastic, by the way. Totally worth the dorky glasses.

If Louis and Clark had been chefs...

If Superman had been a chef...

If the three little monkeys were chefs...

If the Thinker was sculpted by a chef...

Who cares about cowboys? Shoulda been a chef.

The latest disasters..

Kitchen quotes:
"It's not burned! It's cajun style." -Matt

"It's like a movie. Forgotten at 400 degrees."

My first lattice pie, pre-oven.

And all done...

Masterpiece, pre oven.

Martha Stewart status!!

That's a lottttt of pies...

Charlene (hiding behind the giant 60qt. mixer bowl)
Will, freaking out for unknown reasons
Lora, smiling because she's making a chocolate pie.

Patrick and Ashley.
Yes mom, typical.