noodles&mushroom...avocado&spinach!
last week we (armand, taylor, becca, i) finally had our second dinner of the semester all together! time is short these days and my carnivorous friend didn't show up in brunswick till much later so veggie pasta and salad it was. (but not pasta salad. yuck.) i was looking to make something with mushrooms, that was my only criteria & after gathering all the ingredients at home i realized that pasta looked rather promising.

is it wrong that we ate tomatoes and avocado in december? it seemed a bit un-natural. i think this is more of a contemplative post than a report. i (retrospectively) also wonder why i picked spinach. i think of spinach salads as being a summer thing. maybe i'm just dreaming. who knows!

the picture of the pasta doesn't do it justice. in addition to mushrooms it had olive oil, garlic, red onion, parsley, basil, and tomatoes. spice-wise just salt, pepper, and a tiny bit of paprika. if the ratio of quantity made to quantity eaten is any measure of taste, i think it came out ok! aah yes. and we also had bread. haha. armand hadn't had the whole oil/balsamic before (i know, sacrilege!!!) and he voted favorably. i'm glad taylor was healthy enough to stay for dinner this time!

next time: i want to make the pasta too. that was my goal for the last time gravling was up (after thanksgiving) but for numerous reasons that didn't happen (key among them being the plethora of josie-bits that remained. i'm very sick of turkey.) but really, next time! i love making pasta dough, its like a science experiment! my apologies if this post is boring or grammatically problematic, it is only 3:40am. :-)