What a cultural weekend!

Quick update about my weekend (we don't have Econ today - teacher is sick - so I'll do a quick post before Spanish)...

So this weekend was quite the experience...a culinary tour of cultures if you may...

First, I had a lot of food shopping to do - I was taking part in a prestigious event on Sunday...we will get to that later!

Saturday was the highly anticipated International Food Night at the North Campus!!! There were many tables representing Franklin's ethnic clubs. The tables included Swiss (fondue and other cheese dishes), India (curries, veggies, and rice), Texas (jambalya, chili, chips and salsa, bbq chicken, cobbler...soooo good), Asian Club (spring rolls, fried rice, curry, sushi), Africa-ish (they had cakes and such...authentic?), German (bratwurst and Black Forest Cake...what more do you need?), Russian (again, desserts...oh, and vodka...stayed away from the Russian table), Arab Club (don't really know what they had - that wasn't really ready when I got there).

It was soooo good...soooo much though. Seriously...wow. Too much of a good thing = a really confused stomach. But in the end, Texas Club walked away with the People's Choice award (I, too, voted with them....) as well as a tie with India Club for the overall judge's first place. Congrats, guys!

Now for Sunday...welcome to the Schober kitchen! I spent hours slaving over a stove (and only - remember, my room comes without oven or microwave...) to get ready to participate for La Dolce Vida...fancy terms for "baking" contest! I was entered in two categories - cookies and misc. After numerous internet searches and hours at the grocery store, I came up with my recipes (sort of taking bits and pieces from other recipes) . I made:

Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal No-Bake Cookies

Homemade Cinnamon Tortilla Chips with a spoonful of Cheesecake-esque filling and a Banana-Cinnamon Salsa (for creative name points I named them "'Nacho' Ordinary Dessert"...cute, right?) (by the way...made this recipe up completely...no internet for this one!)

So at the thing, there were sooooo many desserts...it was kinda like...whao way too much of a good thing...gross. And, it was free to the students, so you could literally grab a plate and fill yourself sick. How fun! Some of the other things there included a Dr. Pepper Chocolate Cake from Paul (actually very good), some...interesting renditions of some family favorites (pies, cookies, cakes) that didn't turn out as...promising as the bakers would have liked them to, and a vast array of other good sweet treats including a Jaegermiester Cake...I kid you not...but it was well gone before I got to that table...tear?

When it came to judging, sad to say, Florida didnt win any first places (the only place that they read). However, our three desserts (my two plus a tiramisu) went very quickly. Yea popularity!

So what better to do on a Sunday night after eating waaay too many sweets then study for MIDTERMS!!! And that's what I did...or at least attempted to do...