Nothing can break you out of your finals funk better than a tasty, homemade treat.
With midterms just around the corner, and readings beginning to pile up, I decided to cook in the relative comfort of my own Raymond House kitchen.
It is no secret that for many people, the mere mention of the All Campus Dining Center (ACDC) evokes enough groans and complaints to discourage even the most ravenous of college students from wanting to dine there.
The frequency with which "eggs all day" appeared at the All College Dining Center (ACDC) grilling station last year sometimes drew complaints from the student body. Granted, Percy's omelets are nothing to shake a whisk at, but the excitement I have for the idea of breakfast for dinner usually hinges upon the amount of bacon that will be served with the meal.
Of Vassar College's three on-campus dining locations, the All-Campus Dining Center (ACDC) is without question receives the most traffic.
In the coming year, there may be times when the thought of another dinner at the All-Campus Dining Center (ACDC) will turn your stomach, everything at the Retreat will seem offensively salty, and Bacio's will just taste like Bacio's.
My Market II, the grocery store and deli that recently replaced the ephemeral Wrapsody Grill at the intersection of Raymond and Collegeview avenues, is committed to succeed where similar attempts have failed by providing healthful food options and excellent service to its neighbors in the Vassar community.
Meals under $20
How to end? The question of how to culminate this column had been rolling around my brain for a couple of weeks before the answer hit me. I needed a column of culinary proportions to put each previous issue to shame and make them irrelevant, obsolete, hamster cage-liners.
Meals Under $20
If there's one thing a good meal can do—besides nourish and sustain us—it's to take us somewhere. Food allows us to travel, to bring us back to our childhood, send us to our favorite vacation destination, give us a taste of a place we've never been, remind us of home.
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Also follow this recipe in a photoessay by Kelley Van Dilla on the Miscellany's photojournalism blog, Exposure. There still seems to be a misconception that cooking meat is inherently expensive and overwhelmingly difficult. So many people have approached me and told me that, while they're not a vegetarian, they basically eat that way in college because it's so much easier on the wallet and requires far fewer culinary skills.
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Fish can be difficult to master. Overcook it and it's tough and dry, undercook it and it's tough and unsightly. To get that perfect, flaky, melt-in-your-mouth succulence is always a challenge, and perhaps the biggest obstacle to cooking fish for this column is doing it for under $20.
Meals Under $20
Sometimes you really can't beat a classic. Four weeks into the semester, with midterms looming on the horizon and the ability to spend long hours in the kitchen dwindling, everyone could use a bit of simple comfort.
Meals Under $20
As someone who loves to cook virtually everything under the sun, one of my least favorite questions seems to be a favorite of just about everyone I encounter: "What's your favorite thing to cook?" Though I used to answer this standoffishly...
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