bake-a-thon '07

Our new house has 2 ktichens: a clean kitchen, visible to any "company" and a dirty kitchen where the "helpers"/student cooking team for that week actually cooks. The day before the fall'05 class left the philippines for good, we made so.much.food. Crazy and oh-so-good Indian dishes fed approx. the 30 people we had over for dinner that night. plUS. an afternoon/evening worth of baked goods for them to take as snacks on the plane! It was so fun, and such a good way to officially break in our kitchen.
Heather and Lois basically did the whole dinner by themselves, although i was there, helping. Lois told me how to make chai tea from scratch...then i fell asleep on the couch and forgot about it! haha, good thing Lois was on top of it nOT burning.

and THIS is Hannah (an intern that is here for 3 weeks) and Jenny, a classmate, making cream-filled sugar cookies. Jenny is a master baker. She also made 3 loaves of banana bread that day. Tiff made oatmeal fudge bars and I made best-ever cream cheese brownies and chocolate chip-peanut butter-coffee cookies.


Once again, the computers come out, and spaces are claimed for doing homework in and amongst clinical, birthroom, class, cooktime, and playtime. We've actually had it pretty easy this past month...but they've already warned us that once we're back from our break the "break" is over and the intense workload will resume as per usual.