Today, I learned how to make Southern sweet tea. REAL Southern sweet tea. There was this recipe online that looked sweet enough and employed the hot tea + sugar trick rather than putting the sugar in after the mixture has cooled. If it's hot, it makes the drink almost syrupy before adding cold water, which is why Southern sweet tea tastes so radically different from Northern iced tea (other than the fact that we add like five times the amount of sugar the North does).

Cooking really is a chemistry thing. And I love chemistry, so naturally I love cooking. It's almost enough to convince me to change from political science/economics double major to chemistry.

ALMOST.

Not completely.


Anywaaaay...

Like middaymoon, I have a magazine coming out. Well. Ours is coming out after his school's, but it should arrive in about three to four days. A few of us are so excited--mostly the literary magazine veterans from last year. That's understandable. I mean, once you've invested two years, it's imperative that the magazine improves and flourishes. The people who are just coming in still have another few years to start really investing, for the most part. I hope they'll take advantage of what they've learned and return to help out next year's magazine. It's like I have this special place in my heart for this relatively new entity trying to take precedence in a school devoted mostly to sports. It's hard even to get students to believe that this could be cool.

Anyway.

I bought a bike.

It's a Schwinn Delmar Cruiser, if you're interested. The cutesy little pink one.

I don't know how I'm able to go out and ride this thing around in the daytime and still come home to beat the crap out of my punching bag. It's like I'm split in half.

So that's today. I think I might clean y room then make a shopping list full of vegan supplies, so maybe this time my veganism can survive for good.

It doesn't take away from cooking. It adds to it. Having limited usable resources and high expectations for good taste makes cooking more enjoyable, not less. It's when creativity actually comes out.

oh my GOSH...I went to Texas for a workshop once and sweet tea was all that people drank! And it was SUPER sweet like you said...man, that took some getting used to
» The-Muffin-Man on 2010-05-19 03:45:58

vegan AND a cook? but cheese is so good... you've given up on cheese!
» thaitanic on 2010-05-19 04:08:27

I need this recipe!
I haven't had REAL *good* sweet tea in AGES.

I'm thinking of investing in a bicycle. About how much does a modest one cost these days?...
» invisible on 2010-05-20 02:32:07

Mmm, tofurky.
» Mockiller on 2010-05-21 02:20:20

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