My life is brilliant

I managed to pull off my biggest cooking accomplishment yet! Dobos Torta. Actually it turned out nothing like this picture - in reality, it looked really disgusting as there was a very thin layer of butter that settled on top. And mine was square and fairly lopsided but mmmm.... vgood. I've been wanting to try and pull it off since July and finally I did! Luckily, Paul's roommate wasn't as thrilled, otherwise he likely would have wolfed down the entire cake much like he did with 15 chocolate fudge cupcakes that I made in ONE night!!

I've pulled off and created some pretty amazing recipes lately - tonight we had fresh Ahi fish that I picked up from the Farmers Market with this wicked marinade that I threw together. Last week was meatloaf but super good meatloaf. I think next week I'll try carrot cake but the downside is I've seriously gained 10 pounds in the past month. And my hands reak of garlic and onion. The grocery bill hasn't been the prettiest either.

Friday night I went to a Crayfish party with Paul and his friends and an entire Scandinavian club at Stanford. I never realized Swedish people we so hot! We had lots of fun.. most of the crayfish were good, I say most since I opened a few with eggs and globby green stuff. The Sweds told me that finding eggs is good luck - much like getting poo'd on by a bird? Sounds awfully unlucky to me and pretty grody if you ask me (grody to the maximum).

Saturday night Paul and I had a group of friends over after we went for all you can eat pasta (of course we all ate enough to make us want to throw up).. We played old school Nintendo - Super Mario 3 drunk with no warping til world 7. Ah the nostalgia.. we were like kids in a candy store.