Amanda's visit and home-made goat cheese and ricotta and chive and mushroom ravioli and goat cheese potato salad New York Times style

Walking about at the Fell's Point Festival




Later that night!




First time making pasta!
Making up the dough:




Action shot!




Stuffing:




Dough is getting firmer! Chives added to cheese filling:




Ball of fresh pasta!




Stuffing all done: mushrooms added!




Goat cheese warm potato salad with mustard seeds:




Rolling out the pasta:




Ravioli and experimental tortellini awaiting cooking:




Buttermilk sauce with bits of tomato and ham:




Ta-da!

I'm sorry for abandoning you, blog.

"im secretly very jealous of your facebook relationship"

It's true, I am in high demand. Which is why I have accidentally abandoned my blog for almost a month. Well, not actively abandoned, more like, passively abandoned. In the interim, I've sworn off running for about a month because of my knee injury, and subsequently gained 5 lbs. I have since started a diet, in which, although I have not lost any weight yet, I have curbed the exponential trajectory my accumulation of fat was following.

Anyobsessionwithweight, Amanda came to visit, which was a smashing success! We ate lots of good food and drank mojitos! I had a month-long working "vacation", but mostly I dealt with EMIG stuff and volunteered at the clinic place where I test people for HIV. GET TESTED!

To be honest, nothing interesting has happened in the past month, so don't worry, no one has missed anything.

Look out for food pictures coming soon though :) mmmmm

Starting a new project

It's not complete and only a very rough sketch of what the final product will look like, but here is the preliminary mockup of the mural I will be painting. The plan is to make it look more like hair, or water; something much more detailed and intricate, but to be honest, how much detail can you create with blue painter's tape. Also, the roll is about to run out, so once it's used up, I'll start painting. The plan is to paint in black only.









I was going to apologize for the quality of the photos, but then I realized I wasn't sorry.

Amanda's coming on Saturday! That is in Two Days.

Aw man, forgot to take pictures...

of my deeelicious tomato-egg dinner! Aw man.... I haven't been good about the pictures lately. BUT, I will be embarking on several projects in the upcoming weeks:

1. Experimenting with cooking with my rice-cooker! (Bimbimbap, anyone?)
2. Sam bui gai
3. Another painting, subject to be determined
4. Mural for the apartment, subject determined, but need to muster guts to start drawing on my walls