This weekend has been consumed entirely by writing and revising, with a short break in between to cook dinner. I’m trying to finish off a fellowship application by Sunday, but I also wanted to cook, something I haven’t done for a long time. I decided I’d make my standard spaghetting meat sauce (mushrooms, multi-colored peppers, hamburger meat, and tomato sauce base) for spaghetti that would hopefully feed me a few times in the coming week. I also made garlic french bread (burned, as usual) and onion potatoes. These potatoes are really great, my mom has made them a few times. Basically you marinate some cut up potatoes in onion soup mix and oil, then bake them for about half an hour until they are soft. I couldn’t find the onion soup mix that I usually would use, but did find some “onion consume” which worked, but the flavors were a bit weak. Still, they were pretty good.

Anyway, it was nice to take a few hours off from writing to cook and have dinner with Tai and Aya. I would like to cook more often, but I’ll have to learn some new tricks if I do. I’ve already made curry a few times, and Gyuudon would be expensive here. I might try Oyakodon soon though.