I had the comment earlier in person, "your blog is like a minute by minute discussion of what happened each day" and yet I have been missing the thing that comprises most of my time - and it's not cooking, or studying unfortunately.
I spend most of the day cooking or purchasing food for cooking. Above is a picture of one of my many accomplishments (you'd have to taste it, to know it), it tastes much better than it looks. When I started, I paired it with a nice Carmel Ridge Red, 2007 (an apt decision considering it was the only bottle I had on hand). When that ran out pouring my first glass, I had a 2006 Argentinian Cabernet Sauvignon (I ran across the street for that one to the little corner store - it's a pretty boring wine all in all).
No picture on this one, but earlier I had a first course of some pasta, cooked al dente (of course, best way to have pasta!) with some homemade pasta sauce using the tomatoes I bought at the shouk earlier this week. Also had mushrooms, onions, garlic, spinach, olive oil, and a few other small things. I have some garlic as well that was roasting, and will probably finish up with some tea. My tea recipe is below (in the morning, I prefer some milk, though having only bought chocolate milk while here,there hasn't been much milk and tea while in Isreal):
A perfect cup of tea (at least how Jonathan likes it!)
1 spoon full of loose black tea
1 lemon wedge, squeezed into the mug - I like a clear mug so I can watch it all mix up - reminds me of an engineering lab from Swarthmore on fluid mechanics and dynamics
1 sprig of fresh mint
1 small spoonful of sugar, preferably brown, but we have white at the moment, alternatively try some honey.
a teacup of boiling water. Mix with spoon, let tea settle, enjoy (preferably with something like chocolate or a biscuit and of course, most importantly, in good company.)
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