Look Mom, I really have been eating!

I swear.
And I have yet to give myself food poisoning!!!
I know, you're super proud.

here lies dinner options.

pasta, tomato sauce and bacon. I know, I was
shocked about the tomato sauce too,
but I was sick of plain buttered pasta.

more pasta, peas, onions, and this cheese sauce thing

I eat a lot of pasta, also chicken and asparagus

chicken, rice and baby corn

Hamburger! also sugar snap peas, cheese and fresh bread you have to cut yourself

Sometimes for lunch, I make sandwiches.

Peanut butter and banana sometimes its pb and j
(I've recently been using raspberry jam, its delicious)
but how many pics of sandwiches do you really want to see?

toasted tuna w. cheese

 and you know, cereal, yogurt, cashews, ravioli, carrots, cheese, various fruit, summer fruit came back and it's like the greatest thing ever. I will miss it. seriously. plums and peaches and these things.

YUM

Carnivores

 So we went to this place called carnivores as a very early birthday. omg. There was so much meat. But before we get to the fact that I ate half the animals I saw at the lion park here are some fun facts!

-I have one final left!
-Then we are going to Capetown for a few days. Getting transportation down there was a pain in the butt but we finally got some plane tickets. It will be nice to see another part of South Africa. A lot of people went during spring break and said it was really nice.
-It is getting hot here! The sun seems stronger here. But it is so nice to curl up in the sun outside. Yet, despite the time I spend doing this I am just as white as ever. Why do I not tan? Whyyyyyy
-I've gotten in the habit of walking around I-house sans shoes. Mainly because it's flip-flop season and I hate shoes.
-I calculated, I will be on a two planes for a total of 22 hours on the way back. and then airport time and getting to the airport and customs and layovers. SO MUCH TRAVELING. 


Vegetarians be warned. Although we dragged a vegetarian and a vegan along and they ate some. First off, they did not stop feeding you. Seriously. There was no wait time what so ever. It wasn't an order food place just a flat free but they served you. So this is what is was we sat down and pretty soon after the came over with (one at a time but like you'd get one and then before you finished then next would be getting put on your table)

• the most delicious bread.
• potato and leek soup, which was really really good. I've never though of myself as a soup person but I enjoyed this
• Salad (in salad form and then smaller of tomato, beans, corn, cucumber maybe more?)
• Pap and that sauce thing that goes with it.

Then the meat began to come. it was either skewered and they would push off a piece for you or a giant chunk on a skewer and they would shave off a piece for you. I'll start with the regular meats

• pork sausage -meh
• pork ribs -yum
• chicken- chicken like
• beef-I don't remember. There was so much meat.
• ham-at this point I was really excited to get a meat that tasted familiar.

Then the special meats.

• Kudu- it came in meatball form. It was okay, but not my fav. a little creamy and has a bit of spice to it.
• Impala-it was good
• crocodile-meh, it was okay. a little fishy which I am not a fan of.
• zebra-okay don't judge me here, but zebra was delicious.
• Gemsbok (antelope)- not a fan

Anyway, it was so much meat. I felt a little bad because I just couldn't eat eat it all but I wanted to try it all (except chicken livers) so a lot wasn't eaten. It was so cool though, I am glad I went. And there was a dessert buffet.

Baking in the microwave.

Oops, I did it again

This cooking thing.
Oh man.
Did you know if you leave onions and potatoes long enough they start to grow like sprouts or something on them?

At least they are not green this time. I think I'm improving. :)

Cooking in the kitchen

So this cooking thing.

Yeah.

I googled baking in a microwave, because I like to bake and baked goods are delicious. Plus my bananas were a wee bit brown so we made banana bread microwave style. For being made in a microwave it wasn't half bad. It helped that we had all the ingredients this time. And measuring cups and spoons. All of those things are very helpful. So Jenni and I went to work

Why yes, yes we did in fact use a pot as a mixing bowl.

Then it was microwave time (which took forever, the recipe said 7-9 minutes haha no. it took like 45 minutes maybe an hour. We in the international house don't have the highest functioning appliances...did I ever mention my hotplate kind of exploded? No worries though, I got a new one)

in it goes

TA-DAH

For being cooking in the microwave, it was good. It was a bit of an odd consistency/texture or something but it was yummy. As you can see it was devoured by those lucky enough to get some :)

Yes, we did eat in on the floor on outside my room, with a our hands and a lone knife.  But hey, at least we had a knife.

all that remained

All that I can make is PB &J

So question. I'm attempting to like, cook for myself. Does anyone have easy recipes that only need a microwave or hotplate, one pot and one pan? oh and a toaster-but the toaster only works if I hold down the push down to toast button thing otherwise it keeps popping back up, so preferably not to much with the toaster. 

I have made: peanut butter sandwiches, ravioli, tuna...yeah that may be it.

I also managed to turn my potatoes green.  Apparently putting them on a shelf was a bad thing. Now they are poisonous. oops. But everyone I've talked to had no idea either and ran off to store their potatoes in a dark place.

                                          









We did however get some fun games in such as juggle the green potatoes and play catch with the green potatoes and throw the green potatoes at our friends windows :P

Jenni Juggling

Anyways. Clearly I need help. Recipes would be much appreciated.