Loving Life

Hope everyone is doing well :)! I am loving life<3 It's the happiest I've been in a very long time! I keep getting 90% or higher in math or my kitchen classes! It's amazing here! I love it so much and I am making so many friends! I am meeting people from so many other cultures! It is one of the best experiences I could imagine happening. I couldn't imagine my life without it! It's weird to say I love going to school, but I do! I love everything here!!!!!!!! :D! I miss my family bunches, but I try not to think about it because then I would be sad all the time! I miss michigan fall and sitting around my house watching football, which I can do here, but it's not the same.  But I hope they don't only think about missing me, I want them to enjoy life in Michigan without me. Hope all is well in the world for the rest of you, if not keep your head up :). Everything turns out ok in the end, if it's not ok, it's not the end.

Peace & Love
-Meg

My first meal

My first meal here was incredible! I had steak with mashed potatoes and vegetables! It was amazing! Here is a picture, it looks really rare, I promise you, it was perfect! I miss my family too! I want to go visit but I know I have to stay here. I have met so many great people and friends! Everyone here thinks like me, I love it! Food network is always playing, in every building, it's heaven! Today I watched someone make french fried while I biked( surprisingly I haven't gained weight!) It's amazing how you can walk down the halls hear and usually you would hear gossip, or just chatting, here you hear what the best salmon you have had or what method would you cook this kind of meat, or what is the best thing you have ever made. It's all about food! I feel like I fit right in. I am so happy to see the second chapter of my life! I have been blessed with all of the people of my past, but now I need to see what my future holds, nothings holding me back, and I won't let anything hold me back. So lets not dwell on missing family or friends, or be sad of the changes in our lives from people we have come to love, instead lets smile and celebrate the good times we have had together. Let life bring on its new beginnings and happiness for all of us. My family will always be my family and I will love them and thank them for the rest of my life for everything they have done for me. I will always be there daughter I just am living in a separate place. I am your daughter and I always will be.There are more changes with people who were like family to me. I will always love and respect you forever and always. Changes can be hard, but sometimes holding on is harder. God bless you all, I love, cherish, and miss you all so much, and I hope you all can be a part of my second chapter of life.

Peace & Love

-Megan

The Culinary Institute of America!

Hey sorry I have not wrote in a while! I have been so busy getting ready and now I am here at the Culinary Institute of America. I will continue to blog, but it will be a lot less, but I will be making great food! I am making french onion soup and beef vegetable soup this week! I will upload pictures if I am allowed to take any!oh and If your wondering how I am doing, I am doing amazing!!! I love it here! It's like disney world for me! But it's school! I have some pictures I will upload :)

Baked Pastas

Lately I've been into baked pastas!I made a pasta with a cream sauce, with artichoke, then just crisped it up in the oven simple easy and Delicious!

Regis and Kelly

As I was watching Regis and Kelly the other day, I heard a great story. It was a man who told the story of a women he saw in a resturant. The women was weaping because the food she ate was the best food she has ever ate. Could you imagine having the power to impact someone by food that much?! I hope one day to do that to someone. If I could do that, I would be overjoyed!

Salmon Sushi Roll

I found a recipe for a salmon sushi roll. I was so excited for it,until I tried it! It was nasty! It is seaweed, cream cheese, sushi rice, cucumber, and salmon. I found it online and thought I should try it. I think I will stay away from random sushi recipes because now all I have is left over grossness! I am going back to my American cooking ways! I have left over chicken from the other night and today I think I am going to make pasta with some of the chicken and I don't know what else! Also send me any ideas or recipes you have! If I like it, I will try it and you will see it up here :)

Baked Italian Sausage Pasta

Now the picture doesn't do this justice. First, I made my somewhat known pasta sauce. It starts with onions and garlic sauteing in olive oil. Then I add about a cup of white wine to add richness to the dish. After the wine reduces add tomatoes to the mix to finish the sauce. I barbecued some Italian sausage until they were almost done. I threw them into the sauce to finish cooking in the sauce. This makes the sauce get the juices and flavors from the sausage and lets the sausage pick up the flavors of the sauce. Add not fully cooked pasta (about a minute underdone) to your sauce in a large pan. Add cheese over top and bake for about 20 minutes. When it comes out, it is so good and rewarding for all the work put into it. I must say it's one of my favorite dishes to make for myself and others. If i were to recommend anyone to make any of my dishes, this would be the one!