Pizza Plus a Movie

Tonight was Pizza night at my house, well at least for me and my friend. The rest had Stouffer's that my mom cooked since I didn't get home until late from school.

Papa John's - oh how I love it - original crust, pepperoni, and cheese (of course). I asked for the garlic sauce... I guess I'll be gargling Listerine tonight!

The movie was "Breach" with Ryan Phillipe and Chris Cooper. It's a good movie - a nice drama. It's a true story about the greatest spy case in American history. Took place in 2001. My friend had not seen it and she enjoyed it!

Design wise today...

I worked on putting together an Annual Report for fun. My classmates think I'm sick. I'm designing the report from Castle Brands, a wine company. Here are some screen shots of it.

Subway - Eat Fre... Yuck

Ok. The Mama and The Papa and the two lil bears ate Subway. I detest it. So, no big cooking plans for me. Maybe a simple cereal. I dunno. I'll whip something up.

A funny story :

I was sitting at my computer station at school when this guy leaned over and told me I was being blamed for taking a Subway sandwich into the computer lab. (You heard me, right? I detest Subway). So I was like, "What? I hate subway. If you ask my family, 'What is a restaurant she's least likely to go to?' They'd say, 'Subway.'" He went on to say that he didn't think it was like me to do it, because in addition to bringing the food in, I had an attitude with the monitor who came in. It took me no time at all to remember what had happen.

When I went into the lab, I signed in then went to a computer. Another girl came in, who I'd seen before, holding a SUBWAY sandwich. I didn't see her sign and shortly after the monitor came in and told her to go out side. She put up a fuss and I don't remember the end result. Putting pieces together, I'd think the monitor read the sign in sheet got my name and accused me. I'm down with that I guess, but I went to him to clear my name because it went all over the faculty for the Art and Media Depts. FOR eating a SUBWAY sandwich. I found it quite ironic.

So, there you go. Even though I didn't make dinner I was able to share a story mixed with food and design!

God Bless

Breakfast for Dinner

So, tonight I couldn't think of what to make. I looked for the main dish ingredients in the freezers (we have two fridges) and found pork ribs, chicken breasts, chicken thighs, and bacon. You guessed it! I chose bacon (and the eggs from the fridge).

In addition to that, I thought of pancakes so as to do an all out yummilicious breakfast. I recruited my lovely sister to help with the cooking. She chose the pancakes, so that left the bacon and eggs to me.

The bacon was hard as a rock - frozen. So, I had to defrost it. While that was going on, I cracked about eight or nine eggs into a large salad bowl. Once I finished with the eggs, I poured an unknown amount of milk into the bowl. My sis was working on the pancakes, therefore she had the whisk. I broke out the silverware drawer and got a fork. I headed back to the bowl of eggs and started to "whisk them up." I soon found that the bowl was far too small, because all the fluids were getting all over the stove. Upon hearing the news that my father was around the corner, I decided to just pour them into a empty clean pot that was sitting there just for me.

Ok, back to the bacon. The microwave beeped. They were still in the plastic, so I took the cooking scissors and cut them in half. Yeah, well, that didn't turn out all that good. Bacon grease ran down the front of one of my favorite shirts - "I 'heart' 'Command' Z" (In the style like "I 'heart' NY") (It's a graphic designer's thing). Anyways, I hope the Dawn I put on it cleans it up - yes Dawn the dish cleaner. Takes the grease right out - no joke. I cooked some bacon burnt and some not - purposely for those who liked it their way. Bacon's down. On to the next.

I poured the eggs into the skillet (a big one). It took a while for them to start cooking and solidifying. I started to think maybe that unknown amount of milk was a too much amount of milk. Well, they cooked fine. I went to put them in a bowl and found soon after that you can't hold the skillet with one hand. So, the dogs got some "breakfast" as well - only a lil bit. : )

My sista did her thing with the pancakes and they were nice and fluffy. She thought they were burnt, but I thought they were fantastic! Even if they were burnt, I told her that that's how we learn to cook. We won't do whatever we did the next time.

Mom and Dad loved it. "That was SO good." It makes it all worth while.

God Bless!

Something Simple to Start Savoring

Well... I only cooked some burgers in the electric frying pan. My mom said they were really good and yes, she is honest when it comes to my cooking. She knows I like being critiqued so as to make me a better cook. I thought I might go all out on my first go round on the cooking side of things, but I didn't have much time. Also, the house isn't stocked yet for the food that I need. Plus, I haven't meal planned. So, I guess there's a bunch of stuff for me to do to start out this work week.

Design-wise I learned how to create an functioning slide show in Adobe Flash today - all with working buttons. The slide show had three categories in it: trees, bushes, and flowers. That's all I could think of in the seconds I had to get nine pictures, edit them in Photoshop, then import them into Flash. It took the entire class period to go through all the steps, but it was fairly simple at that. I'm glad I was paying attention, because I can use the one I made in class to turn in. Hoorah! I will hopefully be able to retain this knowledge and use when creating another website.

This is it for now. Hopefully something more interesting for dinner... or else left-overs.

God Bless!