Another cooking night! It's been a while

Ah, a blog.  One of the only places where you get crêpe recipes one day, dissertations and drawings of plastinated human bodies the next day, and then more talk about food the day after that.  The contrast is a very comical one, I have to say.

Today was printmaking and it actually wasn't normal class hours today because our teacher is out of town.  So we only did open lab, which went from 1 to 6.  I got home at 6:45 with my brain (and body) feeling like mush.  I was like, "Must . . . eat . . . food . . ."

Marni and Indra, quite comfy in the kitchen after dinner.  (Lemon
bread was already almost gone by this point . . . don't underestimate the
appetites of three college girls! We surprise even ourselves sometimes.)

I had just turned on the oven and was getting ready to get out some veggies to roast when Indra and Marni came in with a big sack of groceries.  I was so excited because we had talked about having another cooking night, but I wasn't sure if they were still able to do it.  Thankfully they had gone to the store and gotten all the stuff we needed, and they were free for the evening.  So we all got to have dinner together and then draw and listen to music, like we had been doing earlier in the semester before we got so busy!  It was super fun to do it again.  Marni stir-fried vegetables and ground beef with some olive oil, avocado, and spices, and she also got goat cheese and pocket pitas so we could make our own mini-döners.  A döner kebab is something that is really popular in a lot of European cities, and especially in Hamburg.  It's basically fast food, Turkish style.  The kebab is made from meat shaved off a big vertical rotisserie, and it can be served in a pita like a gyro sandwich, on a salad, or with other side dishes like french fries.  Usually they're fairly inexpensive.  You see döner places all over Hamburg (there are two of them on the street just around the corner from our house, near the grocery store and drugstore), and I saw a lot of them in Paris and Berlin and a few in London, too.  Anyway, these were sort of a homemade version and they were absolutely awesome.  We each ate two pocket pitas full, and then finished off the leftover meat and veggies still in the pan.  (Printmaking really works up an appetite for me, apparently.)

Indra made lemon bread, which has a similar consistency and flavor to cornbread except that it has a lemon-zest base and is not made with cornmeal.  We had one loaf of it for dessert.  Marni and I actually ate more than Indra did . . . we had the munchies even after our pita pockets.  I washed the dishes since there wasn't a whole lot for me to do during the cooking part, and threw in a couple of euros to pay for the groceries.

Marni and I worked on homework drawings (and Indra just hung out) until around 10.  We listened to Indra's iPod first and then to mine.  Playlists tonight were Harry Potter, Tron, and The Curse of the Black Pearl soundtracks.

Found another international student who can use my ticket to Vienna this weekend!  I would be happier if I could actually make a profit off the ticket . . . but it costs 60 euros to change the name (no cheap or free changes to a flight because it's a budget airline) and that's all this guy can afford to pay.  So at least I'm not losing money by transferring the ticket to him.  But I'm not gaining any back either.  Oh well, there was no way I could have foreseen having to cancel the trip, so I'll just have to roll with losing the money I paid for the flight.  C'est la vie, as the French say . . .