not much going on....except some dinner

so i dont have much to report besides the fact that i leave for london in less than a week. this is what my life has been reduced to....counting down the days until i leave. Its not that i dont love being home (cause i totally do) but i cant wait to be doing something completely different and new.

Last night i became inspired because i was looking at different cookbooks trying to figure out some easy recipes i can make for this upcoming year in a dorm kitchen cause i dont have a meal plan and I decided that i was going to make dinner tonight. I asked my mom if she wanted to cook dinner with me which luckily she did cause i was really ambitious. Needless to say this is a dinner i WON'T be making at LSE, though it was still a lot of fun. I ended up making a mushroom tarte and though it sounds sorta nasty--trust me its not! We then made this really delicious chicken friccassee which basically is chicken in an amazing and super flavorful sauce. YUM! the low point of the meal turned out to be the dessert. For some reason my mom and i decided that lemon mousse was a good idea. We were in the process of making it when we realized we would be eating A LOT of raw eggs. not so good, you know with salmonella poisoning and everything but we made it anyway cause we were already half way done. VERY IMPORTANT: read the entire recipe so you dont make something with raw eggs too! When it was finally done and after three hours of chilling in the fridge we took a bite. for some reason the mousse had separated in two. I dont know what separated but it was disgusting! so we threw it out and ate ice cream drumsticks instead. haha.

but cooking this dinner gave me a great appreciation for how much work it is to make a good meal...and i had my moms help! Its not that i haven't made dinner before cause i have many times, but mostly ive made things like pasta or salads. While those meals are totally delicious and i know i will be making myself plenty of those dishes, its also nice to know that i can follow a recipe and have the food come out tasting good. I know that my meals this upcoming year aren't going to be this elaborate; but i now know that i can manage (with maybe one or two mishaps) and that makes me feel that much more confident that i can handle this year.