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I had an epic potluck fail on Friday. I wanted to bring something Mauritian. There are these appetizers, (well, Mauritians also eat them for breakfast) called gateaux piment, and I've never made them before. My MOTHER has never made them. But I'm ambitious sometimes. To my detriment.
I went by a recipe in my mom's Mauritian recipe book, and by this one as well.
Nothing would keep together. It all fell apart. Literally and figuratively.
So I went to the store, bought hummus, and went to my potluck.

So yesterday was Julie's Pie Potluck. And again, my ambitious self was going to make pie.
For the first time. Pecan pie, no less. (My first food post ever, I said I would eventually try Pumpkin Pie). But pecan is up there as well. So I begged my roomate to teach me how.
Saturday morning, we started. J. has a pastry board. It's this really cool thing you can roll the dough on so you know how big it has to be to fit in your pie plate. So cool. We used Julie's recipe here.
J. made a lemon pie at the same time, so I in essence made the whole thing myself, with her assistance.

Fulfilled

The world's greatest meatballs. I found them here.

It seems that this has got to be the greatest food ever, or she just takes really good pictures.

So Mandy and I got together to try this out. And I was dog sitting, so the dogs got to run around and play for four hours straight. It was a good time.

Frenzied

So I had my folks over for dinner.
On the menu? Guacamole and hummus as appetizers and Pad Thai for main.
I had bought avocados on Monday, anticipating that they would be ripe by the time Friday rolled around. Not so much. Total fail.
So I crushed them up best I could, and put them in the refrigerator.

Feeling pleasantly Sour.

I've finally found some time to cook. And there seems to be a theme to this blog. Mostly it seems that all I ever cook are noodles or pasta. Well, I do eat other things. I just don't blog about them. And my roomate is a great cook, so I only really do new things when she's not around. Which generally tends towards pasta, because it's easy and doesn't take a lot of prep.