Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Tag: food

  • Pi Day! (with pictures)

    This week included March 14th, or 3/14, the holiday in commemoration of a certain special number celebrated by geeks and nerds everywhere. The homophony with pie provides instructions on how said day should be observed. Our Pi Day party featured a spread of six delicious pies: Blueberry, apple, peach praline, key lime, chocolate pudding, and…

  • Melted Spoon

  • Free Pancake Day at IHOP

    Free Pancake Day at IHOP

    We heard that IHOP was giving out free pancakes yesterday. Being grad students, a whole group of us went, got the free short stacks, and ordered little else. Delicious!

  • Date Night

    Chicken pot pie has a lot going for it. When you’ve got creamy chicken and vegetables inside a warm flaky crust, what’s not to like? Peas, as it turns out. They’re all but universally included in pot pie. Couple that with peas’ number two spot on my allergy ranking and pot pie winds up on…

  • Operation Turkey Cook

    Operation Turkey Cook

    Let’s start with the news you were dying to hear: Operation Turkey Cook was a success. In addition to preparing a delicious bird, Rachel and I created a sumptuous feast that is bound to have us eating leftovers for a week or more. While listening to This American Life, we made cranberry sauce, asparagus, cornbread…

  • Mouth-Watering Barbecue

    A bunch of us in my class wanted to have a post-test celebration, but since the exam was on a Monday we had school and lab obligations all week. Thus, our Post-Test Party was a kind of extended lunch at the creatively-named “Korea House,” a Korean barbecue forty minutes away from Loma Linda. I’d never…

  • Highlights from Crossing the Southwest

    Highlights from Crossing the Southwest

    On Friday we left Texas and crossed all of New Mexico to end up in Flagstaff, Arizona. We weren’t as efficient as on some of the other days as we made a number of stops. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it ended up one of the better traveling days despite the extra hours on the road. I filled…

  • Numbing the Mouth

    Last week Rachel and I went with some friends to the Red Pearl, a new Chinese restaurant in Columbia. Our server, Ben, was able to immediately tell me which dishes contained peanuts—an excellent start. Even with so many peanut allergies this is a rare trait; most of the time they have to go back and…