I'm always guilty of looking at pictures of good food during random hours of the day. Now this time, it wasn't really my fault because my friend, Amanda, who is also a lover of good food forwarded me a list of 100 must-try Chinese foods. It was quite an amazing list..best foods ever! I guess it's fair to say that Sharples and I aren't lovers...(yet). I've heard a lot of different opinions about it and yes, I am probably one of the biggest complainers but it really isn't all that bad. I regained my faith in Sharples when my friend who attends one of the top-public universities in the country told me that Sharples food was amazing (granted this was during pasta bar). But she also told me that her school messes up pasta. I didn't think that was possible but hey, what do I know?

I think one of the reasons why I haven't gotten accustomed to Sharples yet is because I had eaten primarily Chinese/Asian foods for the first 18 years of my life. It's not such a big deal but I'd never thought about eating fried potatoes (who knew there were so many variations of fried potatoes? tater tots, crisscut fries, seasoned fries, shoestring fries, thick fries, etc) and hot dogs with every meal. White jasmine rice was my staple! Examples of problems..many people eat raw veggies but I prefer mine cooked. My solution? I use the woks at Sharples to drown my vegetables in hot water and pepper. I like my mac & cheese less cheesy than the average person. My solution? I get pasta and cheese from the salad bar and allow the two to be nuked in the microwave.

I do have to credit Sharples with increasing my creativity in food preparation and the kinds of foods I eat. Newest tasty creation: cucumber peanut butter sandwiches! Tastiest creation of the summer that can be replicated in Sharples(courtesy of Aheli of Bryn Mawr): melted banana split in half, filled with peanut butter, marshmallows, and chocolate chips! And until Sharples, I had never tried baklava, mozarella balls, fresh apple cider, and other foods before.

I hadn't intended on writing about food for this whole entry but I was just feeling especially hungry today.
As for my life beyond food, it's busy as usual..there is still way too much reading, planning to do for Swat's Novice Debate Invitational in 2 weeks, planning for Village Education Project this year, applications and essays to be written, and sleep to be had.