Need to learn to boil water
So my work is having another pot-luck lunch tomorrow, and it’s also the kris-kringle, secret santa, gift exchange deal. Anyways, we had a max limit of $20.00, and I ended up getting the person who I know the least, who really doesn’t socialize or ANYTHING with ANYONE so I didn’t know what to get him. Actually I first got some girl who I didn’t know at the time but got to know quite well in the past few weeks, but traded with the girl I sit beside because she didn’t want to get the computer programmer guy and I didn’t really know anyone at the time.
Either way, I only spent like 7 bucks on my gift for him which sounds cheap and cheesy but really, I know he’s a “Brown guy” (so like, Middle-Eastern somewhere) and they have all sorts of dietary restrictions so the easy way out of “Chocolates” didn’t work. He ended up with a tube of caramel popcorn.
Onto the pot-luck. I cheaped out and did the same thing I made last time, pasta salad, just with different veggies this time. And I was wondering why my pot of water wasn’t boiling fast enough, and finally realized it was because I had set the heat to medium. Oops. This time it took longer because of that. I also sort of blanched my veggies by throwing them into the pasta & water for the last 30 seconds to cook before I drained and cooled everything off. I think it worked out better.
Again, I made twice as much, but this time for a good cause. I have another pot-luck to go to on Thursday for Unicycle club and the Christmas party, and I’m bringing the remains there. See, I’m a thinker.
