I really wanted to cook for him last night, and I think I went a bit crazy with it. (Turned out really well, though!) In college my idea of making stir-fry was chicken pieces with one of those frozen bags of vegetables, and I’m happy to say I’ve moved past that.
Last night’s menu included lettuce wraps, chicken skewers in citrus marinade, peanut sauce, and cucumber salad. Dessert was red bean mochi ice cream bon bons.
Is your mouth watering? Good.
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Experiment: Take a geeky urban girl to a cabin on a ranch miles from the nearest town where her mobile phone barely gets a signal (much less web access!) and see what happens.
This is almost on the scale of when the gals I used to go dancing with decided it would be a great idea for us to shoot paintball in a remote patch of the Santa Cruz mountains one weekend. Lemme tell you, girlyish girls against commando twelve-year olds who play every weekend is no contest, especially when the kids disregard the rules and shoot you at close range. I had several bruises six inches in diameter over the next week that REALLY HURT!
Anyway, I don’t own hiking boots or a Nalgene bottle. (I used to think these were standard issue for residents of Portland.)
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