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Mint tea makes me very happy.

Recipe #3: Veal with sundried tomatoes and goat cheese, roulade style (this is like a roulade, but not a true one)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Drizzle baking pan with a little extra virgin olive oil. Lay out veal cutlets on pan. Place an even layer of finely chopped sundried tomatoes creating an even coating for the veal, sprinkled with just a little fresh chopped basil. Next sprinkle crumbled goat cheese on top of the sundried tomato layer and roll up the cutlet. Feel free to tie with a little piece of string to keep it together. Sprinkle the outer layer with a little salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Place in the oven for about 10-15 minutes (until cheese is melty and veal is cooked, but still tender).
Remove from oven and drizzle with fresh pesto sauce.

Recipe for pesto sauce (giving only the components and the process...I always do it to taste each time I've made it, so I can't really give specific measurements):
Roast at least 1 whole clove of garlic. In blender/food processor pulse mixture of roasted garlic, fresh basil, fresh parsley, olive oil, fresh grated parm, and pine nuts, and a little salt and pepper until it reaches sauce-like consistency. Now it's ready to drizzle over the veal!
To change into pasta sauce form, heat a little whipping cream or whole milk over the stove until very warm. Stir in pesto sauce. Toss with pasta. (omg side dish?)

Sara's Modified Chicken Cattiatore (real chicken cattiatore involves a whole chicken, and I just use breast meat due to personal preference. recipe works if modified to include the whole chicken)


Cut up chicken breast into bite-sized pieces. Mince 4 cloves of garlic. Start cooking over medium heat in about 3 tablespoons of olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add yellow onion, semi-juliened, and chopped red and yellow bell peppers, sprinkle with a bit more salt and pepper. Cook together until chicken is cooked through. Add dry white wine, such that veggie chicken mixture is up to its ankles, so to speak. Reduce to medium-low.
chop up mushrooms (i prefer portobellos, because I don't like the texture of the other mushroom varieties) and 1 clove of garlic. saute in a little olive in a separate pan. when thoroughly cooked, transfer to the rest of the mixture. Add 1 can tomato paste. Add simple tomato sauce (ie containing nothing other than tomatoes, garlic, and olive oil, if possible) and fresh chopped basil and oregano. Bring to a gentle boil, to allow most of the alcohol to boil off. Season with additional dried herbs to taste. Serve over rice or pasta.

Woo...22...That rhymes.

I am sitting here at 4 in the morning counting in Dutch. It sounds really weird, but I'm kind of getting the hang of it, slowly but surely. Today we learned the alphabet and the counting numbers as well as long basic introductory phrases. The teaching method seems to be to just teach a few key words here and there and then let us figure out more by the context when using them in sentences.

So, Labor Day weekend is coming up soon. Lauren should call me, because I lost her number (and my everyone else's) when I got my new phone over the summer. I'm thinking about going on a road trip. <3

Other than that, there's just me getting over being sick.

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I went to Argonne National Lab today. We were shown that. It made me so ridiculously happy. :)

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It will change your life. :)

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving on a cruise with my family. I'll be back on Monday.

Until then, just assume I'm having a great time and all is well.
I'll tell you folks all about it when I get back.

I'm so excited!

I'm 18.