simplicity & armand

this last week has been positively insane. i don't like complaining about classes because i know that it'll all be over way too soon, but sometimes i feel like there is a conspiracy among all the professors at bowdoin to assign oodles of work all at once. anywho. my housemates started getting concerned when i hadn't really left my room by wednesday, and every time they came in my room i was in the same place they left me, sitting in the middle of a stonehenge of books, type typing all day. haha. good mental image. anywho needless to say there wasn't much time for cooking. finally on thursday, i decided that enough was enough and went to morning glory to find vegetables. seriously though, vegetable hunting is a great mental break. especially w/ bows, arrows, and slingshots. apparently i haven't recovered from the week yet, this post isn't making much sense. somehow i found myself buying salmon (decidedly not a vegetable, and not at morning glory) anywho, right then armand called (armand never calls. i was elated.) to say that we should have dinner. it all worked out soo well!

it was a bit of a whirlwind dinner - i work at the olc gear room at 6:30, so the mission was speed chopping, speed sauteing, speed salmon baking, but it was a very happy dinner. the combination of broccoli and rice is very warming (i don't need to mention that garlic was involved...) and i made the salmon the same way i always do (salt, pepper, oven) so there was nothing confusing/fancy involving sesame seeds, etc. the sad (sort of?) thing i'm realizing though is that i have a tendency to cook the things i know all the time, so when it comes to cooking new and different things (which is the fun part of cooking with gravling... well, part of the fun hehe) i don't know what i'm doing. (the result of which is chewy fish and boiled butter. hmm.) it's good to know though that you can rely on recipes that take very little mental effort and still have dinner with a dear friend be hilariously fun!

if you can mentally dedicate a meal to someone after the fact, then i dedicate this to my sister, who after reading our blog asked if gravling and i could set up a delivery service to budapest. j- i hope your halasz le keeps you full & happy, and when you are back in the us we can make salmon together!!!