OFF CAMPUS

Today, sadly, I didnt even get a chance to try and eat on campus! After my classes got out today at about 12:35 I decided to go out to lunch with two of my friends Emily and Lauren to lunch. We went to La Madeline which is right down the street from Trinity on Broadway. Boy was that good food!

I ordered the small caesar salad and got a small french onion soup on the side too. emily got some ham and cheese sanwhich which looked awesome except for the fact that I knew that I couldn't eat bread products for still another couple of days because of passover.. that made me a little sad.

Lauren had ordered a large salad but mixed meat and cheese in it, which I of course couldnt eat because it wasnt kosher.

Sometimes its so hard to try and keep kosher while im at school, but the school still doesn't find that a valad reason to let me off campus! sad day..

Most of the things that they offer here are either not kosher to begin with or have meat and chease in the same dish. The school will sometimes offer students coupans and stuff to stores off campus to get their desired dietary needs at, anything to keep us from leaving the "community". It seems kinda dumb to me honestly, if people want OFF campus.. let them off. It gives the school more room to accept a larger freshman class and make more money anyways, so i don't see the point in forcing the upper classmen to stay on campus.

Passover Food

This weekend it was a nice break from the food that we normally get at school. I went home to Houston for Passover and got to eat home cooked food with the family. Since it was passover though, we couldn't eat anything containing bread products so that was a little bit of a downer.

The plus side of it though was that I got to eat as much matza ball soup as I could possibly ask for.

The recipe that my grandma uses is from the food network and includes the following:

Ingredients
Matzo Balls:
2 cups matzo meal
9 eggs
1/2 cup kosher for Passover vegetable oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
Mix all of the ingredients together until evenly distributed (there should be no lumps). Cover with waxed paper and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll dough into balls about the size of a golf ball. To keep batter from sticking to your hands, rub them with oil or water as needed. Drop balls immediately into boiling water.
Cook the balls for about 20 minutes or until done. They will sink to the bottom and then float back up to the top as they cook and the water returns to temperature. The balls should have expanded to be about 2 1/2 times their original size (about the size of a tennis ball). Check to make sure that the balls are done by cutting in half. The center should look grainy and yellow.
Remove balls from pot and use immediately or set them in a pot of cold water and let cold water run over them until completely cooled. Set them in cold water in the refrigerator until ready to use. They may be reheated either in the broth or in the water.
Vegetable Broth:
1 tablespoon salt
3 carrots cut into chunks
2 medium onions cut into chunks
2 parsnips cut into chunks
3 turnips cut into chunks
12 cloves of garlic
1 leek thinly sliced
3/4 teaspoon tumeric
Pepper to taste
Handful of parsley and dill
Water
In a large stockpot, add all ingredients and water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 2 hours. Taste and adjust seasoning. Let cool. Strain vegetables out of the broth. Use immediately or it may be frozen.

You should try it sometime. Its pretty good :-)

but for the next week, I can't eat bread products so finding food to eat on campus is going to be interesting.