Culinary and Food Science Club

Did I ever mention on here that I started a club on campus this semester? It has been so much fun, I just thought that I would share it with everyone.

It is called the Culinary and Food Science Club, and we tour food production facilities, farms, and restaurants. We have different "food of the month" items and provide different recipes for each item. At every meeting, we play a food related game. The first meeting, we had a bunch of unlabeled bags of spices, and in teams of three, members had to guess which spice was what. At the last meeting, someone made Baba Ganoush and the members tasted it and guessed what ingredients were inside.

It is a lot of fun. Just recently, we toured the campus bakery and food production facility. They had little games and activities for us at each place. At the food production facility, we had to try to recreate a pasta salad by taste alone (my team won :-) The bakery had us decorate cakes. It was so much fun! Here are some pictures:

The Chef, Carly, Me, Rachael, Audrey, The Manager, Another Chef

Creating "mayo delight"

Our small group

Audrey and My cake

At the bakery


We also went to tour a cheese factory earlier in the semester, here are some pics:

Annie, Me, Cara

It was like "how it's made..."but live! This is the final rinsing of the fresh mozzarella logs. The best part of the tour was immediately after this, when we got to have samples!


The group at The Burger Lounge tour
Mandy, Natalie, Leslie, Salina, Cara, Me, Vanessa, Rachael and Carly

Here is a link to our website: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~cfsc/index.php

Halloween Post

Hi Everyone,

I know it has been forever since I blogged. September was a rough month, and then October and November have just been busy busy busy! I am working back at Dr. Bressler's office after a brief stint at two other practices. It feels good, and I feel like I am becoming myself again. Jeff is still trekkin' along. I keep trying to convince him that we should record a Christmas song, but so far it is a no go :(

I have a couple pictures from our Halloween night. I was really sick, and so we didn't really do anything. We ended up watching Beavis and Butthead DVDs and carving pumpkins and going to get pizza at Mazara's, the Italian restaurant down the street (it was really good!) When we got back from that, we roasted the pumpkin seeds and watched Defiance with James Bond.

It wad a nice quiet evening. I bought some Reeses in hopes that we wouldn't get any trick or treaters and Jeff and I would have to polish the bag off, but we ended up getting a large family who whiped us out! Below are pictures from our pumpkin carving.

We leave for Utah for Thanksgiving next Friday, a week from tomorrow. We are both pretty excited. The night before we leave, my mom and I are going to dork out and go to the Twilight/New Moon double feature at 9pm an midnight. Should be a lot of fun!

Me Carving my Pumpkin

Me and Jeff

Jeff's Pumpkin - Jack Skellington - The Pumpkin King
My pumpkkin - Started out as Paul Stanley from Kiss, but then I messed up so it became shapes.