![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Little candle 12 that we had to go indoors to light because it started pouring rainĪnd lighter to make a wish for my birthday. We got ice cream from Emack & Bolio’s afterwards, where my friends presented me with a We had a larger group of people, so we opted to get a sushi boat :0 We ended up going to Bangkok Bento on Newbury Street because Asian food, specifically sushi, is my favorite food. The last day of IAP was February 2nd, which is also my birthday! My friends ~mysteriously~ told me the week before to make no plans for this evening to celebrate. Overall, we ended up with six omelets, pasta with chicken, sautéed kale & spinach, heart pasta soup, quesadillas and a clean pantry!įebruary 2: End-of-IAP & Birthday Sushi Bangkok Bento Heart-shaped pasta 11 an impulsive but welcomed Trader Joe's purchase There are other, worse, less efficient, dangerous (again, don’t ask) ways I discovered to cut an onion. If you were curious, you should look up how to cut an onion (especially the Gordan Ramsey video). I have no natural cooking talent, so I cut *every* onion. Many onions 10 friend comment: *many* means multiple for every meal. After taking inventory of what was left, we had: Weekly grocery store trips, 09 friend comment: 30 minute treks back from trader joe's in wind and snow took years off our livesīut we inevitably ended up with strange amounts of random food. We did a pretty good job detailing what ingredients and how much we needed to buy for our They tasted better than they look i promiseįebruary 1st was the last day before IAP officially ended, and we wanted to clear out all the leftover food we had accumulated. Who would’ve thought? 06 friend comment: they are a cultural staple! i am backed up the internet: I wasn’t sure what makes a cookie a ~Southern Illinois~ one, but upon asking my friend, I’ve learned that a cookie becomes Illinois-ified if they’re from a local Illinois bakery. One of my friends also brought back Southern Illinois cookies for us to try. So much so that leftovers were packed for everyone, and we still had more. 05 friend comment: three pounds of penne and fun! We were cooking for six people, but we ended up making We opted to make a college staple: pasta. In the spirit of being unconfident freshmen with cooking, 04 and in an effort to reduce the amount of jetlag we were all feeling from flying back to campus Roughly thirty meals later (and two months late…), I wanted to share some of my favorite memories from cooking over IAP! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food we wanted to try to make, as well as organize our cooking schedule. In an effort to both improve our cooking skills and spend more time with each other, we decided to make a cooking group together! I’m much more of a baker than a cook, and my friends also didn’t have a lot of cooking experience. Spent an abysmal amount of time making pasta, 03 foreshadowingĪnd ended up dropping the turkey. We cooked together once before for Friendsgiving. We also had two other realizations: 1.) we still had to feed ourselves and 2.) we had an abnormal amount of free time on campus.įor some background, we are 100% self-admitted poor cooks. Simultaneously, my friends and I realized in late December that we were just a few days away fromįinishing our first semester at MIT 02 !!! time is going by alarmingly fastĪnd entering IAP. If they choose, students can opt into different independent learning and research opportunities. IAP, 01 Independent Activities Period is a four week period in January where students don't have traditionally-scheduled classes. I got slightly sick of dining hall food after a while, though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for I didn’t cook often and pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for lunch and dinner. I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience.
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