Tortellini with Grape Tomatoes

Here's my lunch for tomorrow:

Well, half of it anyway. The other half is apples and grapes. I'm not sure if I'll reheat it or not (I don't think the plastic container is microwave safe) but either way it'll probably be good.

Okay, pretty much everyone knows how to make pasta in a hot pot, so that's what I did with my tortellini. After that was done, the tomatoes were harder. I poured a layer of olive oil onto the bottom of the hot pot, put some salt, oregano, and minced garlic onto that, and waited for it to heat up. The tomatoes took forever, but eventually I figured out that I could leave the tomatoes on the heating element and check at five-minute intervals and move them once they'd burst like good stewed tomatoes. Then I let them cook for a little longer, added in the tortellini and mixed it all up again. It took almost a whole hour, but it'll probably take a lot shorter next time considering I'll know what to do with the tomatoes and I have tortellini now in my freezer.

It was kind of funny, people walked by my hall and kept commenting on how this floor smelled like good food all the time.

If you want to make this on your own be very careful with the oil. I'm pretty sure hot pots are not made to cook oil and you don't want to start a fire.

Grocery Shopping Week 1

Grocery shopping for this week:

Strawberries, sharp cheddar, granny smith apples, baby corn, koala cookies, tupperware, iced tea, olive oil, tortellini, grape tomatoes, minced garlic, and oregano ($34). Most of this is for my lunches this week -- well, pretty much all of it. Tonight I'm going to try to make some cold pasta. I'll post on that later.

Part of the experiment here is to see how long food will last, especially fresh fruit. Apples usually last quite a while. I'm not sure about the strawberries, but they'll probably all be eaten before they go bad. I still have some grapes from last week's shopping trip, and they still seem decent, but I don't want to keep them around for too much longer.

So, we'll see how this goes.

Introduction

This is a blog about dorm food.

Okay, not really, because it is edible.

But, it's similar to dorm food in that it is made in a dorm. However, unlike the food in the dining hall, this food is made by students with tools readily avaliable in the dorm rooms or at the hall kitchen.


Watch us as we fail to make delicious food with such limits forced upon us.