maybe i should try cooking french food...

i went to trader joe's, so i bought a lot of frozen food (gnocchi, burritos, lasanga) but i realize if i have frozen food, i'll eat it almost immediately.

but i redeemed myself on wednesday and made some sort of eggplant curry. something like that, but with peas, and the spices already mixed.

we'll skip ahead now to the incredible dinner i had friday night. my lab group went out on the company tab to new york to the french restaurant artisanal to treat a visitor from japan and say goodbye to a temp leaving. after some confusion with the french language (gougeres? what?), i broke my lenten vegetarianism to try oysters (and um, a scallop and some tako) assuming that i wouldn't get to have free oysters again. they were actually pretty good. not, of course, that they're spending much time on one's tongue. (and anyway, if i was catholic, it would have been ok since it was st. patrick's day...and shellfish besides...) then, after staring at the lemoned fingerbowls for a while, we moved onto fondue, which was very good. then, perhaps the best creme brulee i've ever had. (granted, i had had at least 5 glasses of extremely good wine by this point. i wish i was rich.)