Mmmm...

A quick foreword: on Conference weekends, I like to cook.  A lot.  So this is a collection of all the things I cooked this weekend, after my uber-successful trip to Winco.  I forgot to get a picture of it, but in addition to all this stuff, I made kugen (yum!) on Sunday morning.  All of my roommates were gone except for Kristin, so I ate most of it by myself.  I have no regrets.

Not pictured: Tapioca pudding, Saturday morning.

Pectin.  Not liquid pectin like it was supposed to be, but I made do.

This was the jalapeno I chopped up to put in my pepper cheddar biscuits.  They're frozen unbaked in the freezer for the next time I have chili :)

Jalapeno jelly!!  I made four jars of that size.  Three are frozen.  This jelly is delicious.  I eat it on crackers daily, and if I ever start eating meat again I will put it on that, too.

Batter for buttermilk pie (see below...:)

My pie crust-making station.  I made two pie crusts and froze one.

Then I decided that since I already had the floury tabletop I would make some cheddar-pepper biscuits and a galette dough to freeze too.  I am such a Mormon.

I read about chocolate-dipped mangoes with curry powder on them.  So of course I made some.  Pretty delicious.  I enjoyed trying them.

Some of my peppers from the farmer's market.  These are the ones left over after my jelly-making jamboree.  I think I'll make some more jelly with them (red jelly!), but I'm contemplating freezing them until some of my little jars are clean so I have some place to put it all...

The fruit section of my pantry collection.  As you can see, autumn is slowly sneaking in, but summer is still hanging on!

This is a little blurry, but I'm super-excited to have my own turmeric.  I'm pretty sure that's the sign of really being an adult.

Yummy yummy black bean soup.  You can find the recipe here, and make sure you add a few splashes of hot sauce!

My buttermilk pie.  Isn't it scrumptious?  I made it on Saturday, and was going to have people over on Sunday to eat it.  Long story short, I didn't. 

Instead, I had it for dinner on Monday.  With boysenberry syrup, no less!  It was delish. 

As you can tell,

I liked it a bit.  I also had it for dinner tonight :P

Well, I don't really have time to write anymore right now, as I have LOTS of studying to do and I'm holding my first review session in 50 minutes.  Wish me luck!

<3
Eliza

I have the best doctor ever and other exciting stories

Strangely enough, this was one of the pictures that came up when I searched google images for "best doctor ever."

Stories of the day:
1. My new doctor at the Student Health Center, Dr. Fors, is amazing.  Today she sent me an email about my blood test results, telling me the results and explaining them.  She told me that I needed to work on one (my A1C, which was 7.0).  She also CALLED me, asking if I'd gotten the email and telling me to call her back if I needed anything.  How awesome is that?  My doctor last year got mad at me for not scheduling two appointments in a row to give him enough time, and then gave me the nurse manager's card to call if I wanted to know my lab results.  What a difference.

2. I would like to brag for a minute.  I got the 2nd-highest score on my physiology test.  Out of two classes.  I feel pretty awesome.  What am I doing in the political science department?  Anyways...  I also did fairly well on the scantron portion of my OB test, which was exciting.  However, I'm not sure about the written portion.  We'll see.

3. I am becoming way more popular as the first exam approaches in Intro to International Relations.  I'm getting emails all the time from anxious students.  And then tearful thank-yous for reassuring them they'll do fine.  It's pretty cool to be able to help them out!

4. I went to the farmer's market again today and got cherry tomatoes and the ingredients for jalapeno jelly.  Probably my favorite part, though, was the huge number of samples available.  I got half a peach, honey butter, raspberry jam, jalapeno jelly (2 samples because I love it!), and half of a turkey burger with apple-dried cherry chutney, because dining services sends a chef over to demonstrate cooking (but he mostly just gives out samples :)  Kristin went with me and it was awesome.  We've really bonded this week, especially since we've had a common enemy (the flu!).

5. The flu.  We (Kristin and I) have determined that if we haven't got it by tomorrow morning, we're home free.  However, we both think that we aren't going to get it, because we cleaned so much and because if we were going to get it, we should have gotten it already!

6. Dinner tonight: grilled cheese sandwich with muenster cheese, caramelized sweet onions, corn, tomatoes, cooked red pepper (in the microwave, is that even allowed?!), and a final layer of pepper cheddar.  YUM.  I was going to take a picture, but I couldn't find my camera and I wasn't about to let it get cold while I looked for a camera.  So you'll just have to dream about it... :)

I love you all tons!  Talk to you later.

<3
Eliza

P.S. do this: go to physics.byu.edu.  Then press your keys in this order: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a.  This cracked me up.