Penne Pasta

Alex made Penne Pasta a while back. (I realize I haven't updated this for awhile and I'm sorry about that!) Anyway, he made up this own concoction of pasta and I thought it was really good :]
*more later :)

Typical College Meal

Egg drop Ramen Noodle

1 pkg of Chicken Top Ramen
1 egg

Cook Ramen according to directions on back. Once you add the flavorings, crack open an egg straight into the pot. It adds a little variation to your typical college meal. I've also heard adding meat to it..but I don't know haha.

Spanish Rice with Corn

Megan made this a while ago and I still remember how it taste like...really good! it was just right! the corn wasn't overdone and the rice had just enough spices :)

***Pictures and more updates soon :)

I think it's like Thanksgiving..but General Conference style.

For Sunday afternoon's General Conference Session, most of us roommates ate at Jenny's house in St. Anthony. Her parents made some delicious homemade food! Mom's cookin' beats college cooking any day. This was definitely a special treat :)

First of all. Let me just say her house was gorgeous! haha :D

Here is what we had...
















Above left is baby spinach salad, almonds, bacon bits and a special dressing called "Lauren's dressing" I'm usually picky about salad actually especially spinach salad because (at least for me) it's hard to find something that really compliments the taste (for example, I don't like Caesar dressing and spinach salad together) ...but this was good! Spinach is also less 'crunchy' (in a vegetable sense) compared to iceberg lettuce that everyone is used to. The dressing, which mainly consist of onions and sugar fits perfectly with the bacon bits and almonds and the light taste of baby spinach.

Jenny actually planted the corn herself so that was ljitt straight from the backyard handpicked good stuff! Corn is always good with butter so no complaints there :) Even without butter, you can tell the corn was definitely fresh tasting compared to the ones you get in a grocery store or can. (of course)

Next we have Slow Cooked Lasagna!
I never had slow cooked lasagna before! It was great because it wasn't salty or too meaty or too saucy. (Maybe a little watery/oily from slow cooking?) I thought it could have used more cheese, but that's my opinion. It didn't have that cheesiness like the ones you get at Olive Garden. (I love cheese :D) Of course, it doesn't taste like your traditional baked lasagna, but the good ol' flavor is still there. It's easy to make, no hassle so if you're in a hurry this one's for you!


Last, but not least, we had Pumpkin Spiced Cake! This was amazing! When Jenny brought it out, I thought it was carrot cake actually. It almost tastes like carrot cake? Maybe? It was nice and moist and it was a nice finish to the lasagna. The cinnamony/pumpkin spice smelled so good too. yummm. Cream cheese frosting made it 10x better :)

"Life-changing Cookies"

"Oh man, these cookies are so good...I'm going to change my major"

These are quite the cookies! Martin came over for General Conference Saturday afternoon session to bake some of these cookies. What surprise me was that he and his roommate or friend made these up themselves!






I loved the cookies straight from the oven, it practically melted in your mouth. I had it with vanilla ice cream and it kind of reminded me of brownies and ice cream. It was the chewy 'chocolateness'. The yellow stuff you see in the middle was named, "Man-Jar." It's a sweet caramel center that took four hours to make. It was well worth the wait. I liked the "Man-Jar" a lot because it did not have the stickiness of caramel, but it had the essence of traditional caramel. After the cookies settled, it tasted like regular chocolate cookies....just with the caramel center.

Overall, I enjoyed this cookie, but I would not make it often. It's still super sweet, and unless you really love super sweet stuff, I would save this cookie for special occasions.

That's quite the truffle!

Today Megan and Erika made these awesome chocolate truffles!

But they were so good...that it went out fast!

One bite of these chocolate truffles will have you wanting more. Seriously. It's impossible to have just one.

I love the hard chocolate shell. Once you bite down you have this nice chocolately melt in your mouth sweet chocolate part. It is soooooo good! It's one of those recipes I would save for special occasions. If I made this every week I'd surely get fat haha. I'd probably have major cravings for this when I get pregnant lol. I'm just saying, that's how good these are.

They do remind me of my friend Faith's cake balls. In fact they look the same, except Faith adds cute little white chocolate drizzle on the top. Also, the insides are different. Faith uses something different inside the chocolate ball than what Megan and Erika used, However!! They are both equally good in their own way.