Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Pictures!
Why Hello. Here are some pics from my recent trip to California--in the Tehachapi area. The LA area just isn't as photogenic, so I didn't take any from my week there. I'm back in the Boston area now, and I've started my internship. I just got to meet and eat lunch with the other interns today. They were pretty cool. One guy brought Hummus, which is a great idea . . . I am making efforts to obtain some.
This summer I'm participating in a food co-operative with 20 other students. The deal is for a flat rate, which is rather low, you can a cooked dinner every night and breakfast and lunch food to prepare for yourself. I cooked dinner last night -- Rosemary Chicken for 20 people! It was quite a time. I had two helpers, which was nice. I set them on cutting up the onion and garlic, and worried myself with how to defrost over 13 lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts! We were supposed to eat at 6:30 and at 5:30 they were all frozen! Oops. I had planned to bake them, which takes an hour from the dethawed state . . . so we improvised and did a combination of cooking them in pans on top of the stove, and keeping them in the oven to dethaw while they waited for open space. It turned out well, though. In general. We also had an entire bag of potatoes to bake, which I planned to microwave. So, since I didn't think to start those until the chicken was happily cooking, we farmed them out to different dorm-room microwaves. I was the QC on the chicken, so they were all cooked through, but some of the potatoes were a bit underdone, including the one I ate. But hey, there was butter, so it was all good. I rounded out the meal with frozen vegies. There are plenty of those left over, but in all fairness, I left about half of them in the microwave on accident, so people didn't know that we had more.
Well, I start at 7:45 tomorrow, so it's about bedtime -- I'm only up past 10:30 because I got a nap. Wow, how life changes :). I got up before 6am this morning. Well, I tried, I made it at 6:05, so we'll work on that. I didn't foresee this!
This summer I'm participating in a food co-operative with 20 other students. The deal is for a flat rate, which is rather low, you can a cooked dinner every night and breakfast and lunch food to prepare for yourself. I cooked dinner last night -- Rosemary Chicken for 20 people! It was quite a time. I had two helpers, which was nice. I set them on cutting up the onion and garlic, and worried myself with how to defrost over 13 lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts! We were supposed to eat at 6:30 and at 5:30 they were all frozen! Oops. I had planned to bake them, which takes an hour from the dethawed state . . . so we improvised and did a combination of cooking them in pans on top of the stove, and keeping them in the oven to dethaw while they waited for open space. It turned out well, though. In general. We also had an entire bag of potatoes to bake, which I planned to microwave. So, since I didn't think to start those until the chicken was happily cooking, we farmed them out to different dorm-room microwaves. I was the QC on the chicken, so they were all cooked through, but some of the potatoes were a bit underdone, including the one I ate. But hey, there was butter, so it was all good. I rounded out the meal with frozen vegies. There are plenty of those left over, but in all fairness, I left about half of them in the microwave on accident, so people didn't know that we had more.
Well, I start at 7:45 tomorrow, so it's about bedtime -- I'm only up past 10:30 because I got a nap. Wow, how life changes :). I got up before 6am this morning. Well, I tried, I made it at 6:05, so we'll work on that. I didn't foresee this!
a flower? Here?
These flowers grow by the roadside between Mojave and California City, which is quite possibly one of the dryest areas in California (ranking near Death Valley I am sure). And they just are so green and so white when everthing else is light shades and such.
