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I moved back home for the summer on Friday morning. Even though there were times where I thought I'd go absolutely nuts during the year and times where I wanted to just get out, there were also times where I really did enjoy myself and our crazy antics. I think, in retrospect, that I probably did make the right choice. :)

-We engaged in our traditional Thursday night ritual from first semester: eat everything in the fridge. We made stir-fried veggies and giant salads -- Roomie#1 drank cream corn straight from a can while gnawing on a cucumber, Roomie#0.5 polished off most of the salad, while Roomie#2 and I just held our stomaches, feeling sick from vegetable-overdose.
-The best way to finish off whipped cream is to spray it into every available mouth, apparently.
-We sat around and mocked Roomie#0.5's Digimon chapter books (Digimon chapter books? Wtf, I say.) Some of the content in there is so not appropriate for young children -- there was canonical Patamon/E-something-mon slash, I kid you not. (There were pictures too!)
-We had our last midnight-Tim-Hortons run. Not particularly eventful, but I did cram two cookies down to join the over-abundant vegetables in my stomach. Yum!
-We wandered around Bloor Street and around campus, laughing inanely. That may very well be a ritual now for me -- last year, the night before I moved out of residence, I took the same route, only with a different friend.

We're most likely all moving back together again, so the next few months will be more like a break more than anything else. I should rest up while I can! XD

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So this year, one of my major accomplishments is that I learnt how to cook. Well, improvise with food, more than anything else, really. Here are a few interesting "ghetto recipes" that we've come up with. ;) You can find all the necessary ingredients at your local supermarket for fairly low prices!

Homemade hamburgers:

-Ground meat (the nice thing about buying a big bag of ground meat is that you can break it down into good-sized chunks, wrap it in cling-wrap, toss the unused blobs of cling-wrapped meat into the freezer, and then eat it weeks or months later!)
-Toasted toast (because toast is probably more easily found in a household than hamburger buns. Remember, you want to ghetto it up as much as possible!)
-Random veggies and condiments

Fry the meat with vegetable oil in a pan. Make them as pattie-shaped as possible with a utensil (preferably a spatula XD;). After the meat is un-pink, put it on your toast and top it off with whatever you want/have. Open mouth, bite, chew, swallow -- rinse, lather, and repeat! This is a perfectly acceptable meal because you have your carbs, protein, and vitamins, yay. :D

Homemade sushi:

Okay, so this is where it gets really ghetto. (If you want to see pictures of the process or of the result, feel free to ask. XD;)

-Leftover rice
-Some sort of vinegar
-Some sort of vegetable (we used canned corn and fresh cucumber)
-Canned tuna
-Seaweed wrap (this is optional. Ours were a touch stale...)

Mix the rice with a bit of the vinegar. It will most likely not be sticky enough. That's okay. Dump a bit into a small container (such as a shot glass!). Place some random vegetables in, and top it off with more rice. Up-end the container on to a plate and try to wrap the seaweed around your most-likely-collapsed concoction to the best of your ability. Eat it in one go or you will get rice everywhere. If you eat enough of them, you'll get sufficient carbs, protein, and vitamins for a meal! :D

Homemade bruschetta:

-Toasted toast
-Diced tomato
-Shredded pieces of green onion
-Kraft cheese
-Salt and pepper

Pile everything on top of your toast. Microwave until the cheese melts or the whole thing collapses. Eat! :D

*Disclaimer: I have (less than) one year's worth of cooking experience and I have never taken a nutrition course. I hold no responsiblity for anything that goes wrong!