A November Food Recap + Black Friday

Well we set a new record for time elapsed between posts: 20 days. Our last post was about Thanksgiving, so you may be wondering what we did (besides law schooling) during the rest of November. We have some pictures and other fun tidbits to share with you that should help fill in some of those gaps! Obviously, it mostly involved food.

Danielle and I wanted, a few weeks back, to make pumpkin rolls. We were skeptical that it would work, but we wondered if we could basically take pumpkin filling and cake mix (the recipe for our pumpkin muffins), semi-bake it, then roll it around some cream cheese frosting. It didn't work, but the resulting "layer bar cake" was delicious. I can't remember the dates of any of these food stories, but they must've taken place between November 5 and Thanksgiving.

That being said, our next culinary adventure (which may have actually been before the pumpkin cake, I'm not sure) was a stir fry and homemade egg rolls! We don't have any kind of fryer, but we had a pan and some oil. The pictures might not show it well, but they thusly turned out pretty flat...more like egg squares than egg rolls. Apparently we just don't have much luck with rolling things around here. Everything turned out deliciously, though, for real. We love making stir fry; I particularly like it because it is so easy! Just throw a bunch of stuff in a pan and turn up the heat!  


Lastly, Danielle and I hit up one of the local
Ethiopian restaurants nearby on Baltimore Ave. The name now escapes me (of both the restaurant and the food), but the takeaway was that for me it was like Indian food: fine, but I don't expect I will ever crave it. In case you have never had or seen Ethiopian food, the gist is that you basically eat it using this spongy, super-thin bread. The food is generally pretty saucy, though, so it sometimes ends up being like eating with your bare hands. The meal was chicken, mashed chickpeas, spinach, and stewed cabbage and carrots. The tables were about 18 inches tall, but it was all part of the experience! We had a lot of fun.

So that about covers our adventures in food for the month. Beyond that,...

Today we had some fun shopping at Target and Ikea, and fixing up the apartment a little bit! It has been a challenge to do homework at home this semester without having desks (e.g., see Danielle's pictures of me writing my memo all over the living room a few weeks back). So today we got one more book shelf, some desks, and some homy Christmas decorations, all on the cheap. Black Friday is definitely good for some things! Afterwards we got some mediocre Vietnamese food (I really enjoyed the spring rolls, but the entrees were meh), and watched about three movies while assembling the Ikea furniture, cleaning the apartment, and feng shui-ing the place. With our desks and proper shelving now in place (not to mention a little Christmas in the air!), we are ready to face our first law school final exams with clear heads and bright eyes! Hope you enjoy the photos:

All our best,
Rory and Danielle