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I had a fun Valentine's Day. I guess it was sort of UnValentine's since there was no smooching, or romance involved, but it was still fun. My friend came over and we made Fondue. I have never made it before, and it is really easy to make. But, it takes up a ton of cheese. So much cheese you wouldn't believe. Also, lots of wine. I kind of made up the recipe based on about ten things I saw online. My cheese fondue had cheese in it (duh) lots of white wine, butter, salt, nutmeg, lemon, garlic, and I don't remember what else.
Did you know fondue means melted in French? Which is very appropriate. Since the cheese was quite melty. Liquidy, even. Yum.

We also watched the last few episodes of Season 1 of the Office, and a couple of episodes from Season 3. I have seen them all before, but I love watching them again with someone new to see their reaction. There will be a new episode on tonight. It will be good, I am sure.

Apparently the east coast is covered in like 50 billion tons of snow. Ha ha ha ha. Yay! This is much better than January when we were getting hail and my parents were telling me how awesome the weather was and how they were fishing and wearing short sleeved shirts.
Hail is for the birds. Atleast snow is very useful. You can make a snowman. Or throw a snowball. Or make a snowangel. Or do many things that start with the word snow.

Who do you think would win in a fight an adorable bunny, or a scary monster from space? I think probably the scary monster, but bunnies can hop. So, I am not totally sure.

This week I made Minestrone Soup. I got the recipe from the Moose cooking book that I found in my kitchen. It's a pretty fun book, it's also were I got the recipe for Eggplant Parmesan that I made with my friend at some point last week. This time I was on my own for cooking, but that was ok. If I hadn't been, I wouldn't have realized how much a garlic press would come in handy. SO, the next time I am at the store I will pick one up. Anyway, this recipe was pretty tough. The only difficult thing was having the patience to wait for the garbanzo beans to finish soaking in the water. Everything else was pretty easy. You had to cook the garlic and the onion together for a while to smell up the kitchen. (I cheated and opened the window. But, I still cried while cutting the onions. You would think it had something to do with the onion gases, but I was thinking of lost loves and that episode of the Love Boat were Captain Steubing had to sell his daughter to pirates.) Then you added lots of other things like salt and pepper and tomato puree (Which I didn't know was different than tomato paste until the last minute, so I had to improvise) and the cooked beans with all of it's beany water. Then you let that cook for a while, and added zucchini (which I like to call Zukes) and chopped up green peppers. THEN you let it cook for a while more and add tomatoes. And then when it was close to done you turn up to a massive boil and add noodles. Also, somewhere in there you add basil and red wine. It's too bad I have a lot of basil and red wine left over. I think both of those things go bad. Oh also celery was in there somewhere.

Well, the broth tasted excellent and all of the vegetables were excellent as well. But, I hated the beans. Hated them a lot. Next time I think I will add extra something else and skip the beans, because I did not enjoy them. In fact, as I was putting the soup into the tub to put in the refrigerator (Which I like to call the Fridge) I took each and every bean out and threw it into the trash can so I would never be bothered by them again. Even with the sadness of beans I think it was really good soup. And perfect for how cold it was here.

And here is what it looked like:

OH. The bread was fantastic. It was from the vegetable place over on Milpas, well they sold it. But, it was actually from Our Daily Bread. I had thought about going over there to pick up bread, but my day was getting long and I figured I would just use Trader Joe's Bread. But, I didn't have to because I found this stuff. So delicious!



Also. I thought parsley was a garnish. But, the recipe told me to put some of it on there. And I did. But, ew. Never again. It tasted like eating grass in the bad not a good salad way. Maybe my moose friend meant it as a garnish as well? Well, they should have made that clear.