• Easy Campus Cooking When You’re Not Feeling Well [Intro to Cooking]

    Easy Campus Cooking When You’re Not Feeling Well [Intro to Cooking]

    Around here, the end of January looked like colds and sick days. I could rarely muster the energy for showering, let alone cooking. This simple modification of my favorite flavor of Ramen noodles was a perfect alternative: effortless and just spicy enough to clear my sinuses!

  • Intro to Cooking: Easy Potato Soup

    Intro to Cooking: Easy Potato Soup

    There is almost nothing as comforting as potato soup! It tastes slightly like mashed potatoes combined with the deliciousness of a baked potato – sour cream, bacon, cheese. Mmm. Is there anything more homey than that?

  • Into to Cooking: Quick Chicken Florentine Pasta

    Into to Cooking: Quick Chicken Florentine Pasta

    There is something about Fall that makes me crave pasta. Maybe it’s the fact that temperatures are cooling down, I’m wearing more clothes that in the summer, and the holidays are coming up. Or maybe I just really love pasta. Either way, I’m always looking for ways to make pasta dishes healthier, and this is one I dreamed up after enjoying a delicious (but calorie-heavy) Chicken Florentine at a restaurant.

  • The Weekly Ten: Comfort Food

    The Weekly Ten: Comfort Food

    Everyone has those days. Everyone has those days.
    You know, those days? When all you want to do is curl up in a ball in your sweats, sleep, watch some terrible Netflix movies and ask yourself why life can’t be like a Julia Roberts movie. (In fact, I’m having one of those days right now.) But those days are never quite complete without that pint of Ben and Jerrys, that pizza with pineapple, or tortilla chips and salsa.

  • Intro To Cooking: Monday Night Chicken Pot Pie

    Intro To Cooking: Monday Night Chicken Pot Pie

    Mondays suck, we know this. The harsh reality of the work/school week are a slap in the face after innocent, lazy (but completely misleading) Sunday. When you come home exhausted and hungry on a Monday evening, you crave warm fuzzy comfort food, but your body is angrily demanding that you go to sleep as soon as Gossip Girl is over.

  • Tales of a Senior: Trying to Handle Stress (and Failing)

    Tales of a Senior: Trying to Handle Stress (and Failing)

    “Is it supposed to be this hard?” I whined to my mom in an email on Tuesday night. I remember in year…

  • Frozen Dinners Are Not Always Disgusting, I Promise!

    Frozen Dinners Are Not Always Disgusting, I Promise!

    Yikes, that doesn’t look appetizing.
    Let’s be honest: when I get home at the end of a long d…

  • Grilled Cheese Is Genius

    Grilled Cheese Is Genius

    I apologize to the lactose intolerant, this may seem a bit insensitive. But I love me a grilled ch…

  • Loneliness is a Bitch. How NOT to Deal.

    Loneliness is a Bitch. How NOT to Deal.

    Loneliness doesn’t just suck, it blows. I know this because I have dealt with it first hand. The e…

  • I’m an Online Dater

    I’m an Online Dater

    It has been a few months since breaking up with the ex and while he is out telling the world that I am…

  • Duke Dude Does Dorm Dining, Shuns NC Cuisine

    Duke Dude Does Dorm Dining, Shuns NC Cuisine

    Does the food at your cafeteria suck? Want to make some extra cash? Can you cook candied olive cru…