Watermelon Carving

Exciting news everyone! I managed to grab the 'gingerich' username on Flickr (I tried for matt, but 210 people beat me to it... actually probably more than that, but matt211 was still available; also someone has majugi as well... grr).

Also, the reason I signed up for a Flickr account, after all this time, is because I don't want to put the entire series of awesome pictures I took of me carving a brain out of a watermelon on this blog. Here's one, though:

EDIT - Other crazy things I forgot to mention: I froze an egg while walking home from the grocery store today. I had noticed that one of my eggs was cracked, so I decided to fry it before it made a bigger mess but I ended up peeling away half the shell before I could 'pour' the egg into the pan. It is also now snowing (very lightly)!

...and the people I'm living with just filled four wine bottles with homemade apple cider (and I mean homemade in the fullest "pressed from apples grown on a friend's apple tree with an apple press built out of a car press and pieces of wood" sense — and the force required to press the apples was enough to shear the head of one of the screws clean off).

I'm Stupidly Full Right Now

As I mentioned in my last post, I was making pork chops for dinner. The grainy picture above, taken by my cell phone, shows the results. It was quite good and the actual cooking is really student friendly (it only has something like four ingredients) so I can officially recommend the recipe.

Rainy Day

It's Saturday evening and it's been raining all day. That's not really a bad thing; I've gotten some work and laundry done and a pair of pork chops are currently being simmered on the stove, so all in all it's been a decent Saturday.

Lots of Mayo

The above picture was of my brunch today. It's a tuna salad bagel plus some deviled eggs. I know it doesn't look particularly fancy, and compared to the stuff my housemates make (oven roasts cooked with wine, homemade chili, etc.) it's not that adventurous. However, I've had a bit of a phobia with hard-boiling eggs ever since I saw one of my previous roommates attempt it to disastrous results (yolk... everywhere...), so this is a something of a breakthrough for me. Also, it tasted delicious.

Ah, student cooking. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go cook up some noodles for lunch tomorrow (we ran out of bread).