Weekend of Feb. 15-17 HEAVEN

Friday night I escaped school campus, and despite a battle with the stomach virus that has been going around, went over to a friend's house to make Japanese food. Perhaps this may not seem like the best choice, but surprisingly I felt much better after consuming something edible and pleasing. We made sushi with crab meat, avocado, and cucumber. By the way, make sure when you buy the avocado its fresh and not brown when you cut into it; very important for the proper creamy avocado texture and taste. Also, trust me, its worth it to buy real crab and not the imitation stuff. Along with sushi, we made rice cakes- this is very easy people: take some rice and mix it with Japanese rice seasoning- and terriyaki chicken. Absolutely amazing! I wish I could say I coupled all this with some high class saki, alas, college students have a budget and we settled with coke a cola.

Saturday brunch- I ventured into the city with a Spanish friend and went to a Spanish/Catalan restaurant called Mercat. In Spain, 1pm when we were at the restaurant, breakfast is still served, so we ordered from the breakfast menu. I had an omelet that was bigger around than my head and at least an inch thick; it had onions, potatoes, and bacon. Accompanying this I had to slices of toast with olive oil, tomato, and garlic smeared on it and I split a plate of potatoes with sauce with my friend. The meal only stayed on my plate for 20 minutes. My friend even told me that the restaurant wanted the plate back, so I should restrain myself from eating it also. Of course at the end of all this I had to make a little room, so I let one notch go on my belt...and maybe I unbuttoned my pants to for a short time. The bacon had a delicious apple-smokey flavor that I could not get enough of.

Sunday was not the most exciting day of the weekend for my stomach, but it was still better than eating on campus. After spending the afternoon supporting the men's tennis team, who won 8-1, coach ordered everyone pizza. I had three slices of pizza from the place down the street, Pizza Mia. I had slices from the peppers and sausage pie. The sausage had just the right amount of spice. Not so much that the sweat shows visibly on my forehead, but enough that I needed to have some water with it.

After this glorious weekend of binge eating outside food, I was not looking forward to another week of the commons...but I forgot, today, Monday, was sushi day! Hooray, edible food for one more day. I prefer the Alaska Roll: salmon, avocado, and cucumber. I still have something to look forward to though, Friday I am making spaghetti carbonara. I'll let you know how it goes.