arrived in Brazil!

We made it to Brazil! What a beautiful sunset. More coming soon!

Yummy dinner

Enchiladas!

Also our view of the fireworks from the 4th of July

Pretty good for just sitting in the middle of the street!

Pizza on the roof from last night

It was delicious!

I cooked again!

The other thing I cooked was calzones. Here are all the ingredients laid out (sorry the picture is sideways):

I made the sauce and the fillings:

I think that avocado is hiding underneath the bowl:

Mixing the fillings:

The dough came pre-made, but I did have to separate it into three pieces:

The extremely even three pieces:

I didn't do a great job getting them closed with no holes:

They exploded a little in the oven, but they still look delicious:

And here's the final presentation, with the extra sauce for dipping:

Delicious! So I cooked twice, if you can even believe it!

I cooked!

In the first week of January, we got a free week of food from Blue Apron from a friend. I cooked 2 of the meals, and here's the first one: cauliflower steaks. They send you all of the ingredients, and here they are, all laid out nicely:

Here is some evidence that it was actually me cooking:

Partway through, the greens all looked nice:

Cauliflowers turn out to be very pretty, like trees, when you slice them vertically:

The range of colors of scallions (sorry, I don't think there's a way to rotate the picture in Blogger):

In prep bowls, so fancy:

Making the coconut curry sauce:

The fanciest part of all was the black rice, which was really cool and very tasty:

Adding the lime zest:

Making the individual servings:

A close-up before toppings:

The process of adding toppings, observed by a skeptical friend:

The final product:

It was delicious! We've even made it again since then, and it wasn't easy because we had to find somewhere to buy black rice. Mmmmm!

My view from work right now

This was my day

Double rainbow, glass blowing, and delicious dinner!

Look what I made!

Zucchini a la my mom's style.

I'm cooking!

Lunar eclipse!

My camera can't really do it justice, but we're watching the lunar eclipse now and it's really cool!

In other news, Sam and I went swing dancing this afternoon in East Boston and it turns out there are really beautiful views of the city from there.

Look at my dinner

I am a lucky person to have such a lovely dinner made for me!

We went to Wisconsin

I played Dominion with Sam's family and didn't win. Also we swam in the lake and canoed!

Look what I made!

Pretzel challah, thanks to the recipe from Auntie Mindy!

Our railing garden

It gets sun in the afternoon, don't worry!

Basil, parsley, cilantro, tomatoes, mint, yum!

Second dinner

Watermelon tomato feta mint salad

Mmmmmm!

I went outside without a jacket today!

Maybe spring really will come!

Some pasta we ate

A new post for my mom. Hi Mom!

A lot of snow from a couple weeks ago

A yummy idea

Ice cream sandwiches with frozen Thin Mints as the cookies and mint chocolate chip ice cream. It was delicious!