Cooking as STUDENT

As a student, sometimes you need to be creative with cooking. You can only survive off of fast food for so long.

I actually love to cook, it relaxes me and I feel very accomplished after cooking a delicious. Luckily I was blessed with a roommate that has taught me a lot about fresh ingredients, PLUS I had a mother who always cooked homemade so I had some knowledge of how to put something together. 

To cook well as a student, is to use up your ingredients as best you can! 

One day, my fridge almost was empty and my wallet was not doing so well either (I'm a student!), but I felt like cooking something and was not in the food for fast food or kraft dinner. The ingredients I had on me were the following:

1. Goat Cheese

2. Hummus

3. Chicken Bacon

4. A few veggies left (onion, Tomatoes, Peppers)

5. Minute Rice

6. Pasta Sauce

Maybe some of you can look at that list and think of something yummy to cook but I couldn't, I needed some extras. I went to the store and bought Pita Bread (99 cents), Tofu (1,99 I can't really remember), frozen spinach (1.99) and I decided to make Pita Pizzas.

I used Goat Cheese instead of the traditional Mozza, and I used the pasta sauce as marinara . I was able to make 3 different types of Pita Pizzas

Boyfriend Style Pizza

Marinara spiked with Sriracha, Chicken Bacon Bits and Cheese (I stole my roomies cheese, he was not in the mood for goat cheese, or veggies, or anything healthy for that matter)

Tofu Pizza 

Goat Cheese, Spinach, Tofu, Tomatoes

Running Out Of Ingredients Pizza

Tofu, the rest of my veggies, both kinds of cheese, hummus mixed with marinara, spinach.

Anyways, my mission to cook succeeded and it was a fast and cheap meal. It was also my first time cooking tofu and only my second time eating it. I can definitely improve with that ingredient...

My other half is moving to Australia

Something some people may not know is that I have a twin. A life Partner. A second me but with better hair and a larger iTunes library. The cooler one of us varies now and then, since she has grown her hair long recently and is moving to Australia, she, by default, is the cooler one. For now. That may change if I get another tattoo.

Anyways, my twins name is Jeri. Together we are Jeri & Jessie.

She did an exchange last year in Australia and obviously I hated her because I wanted to be in Australia. She fell in love with it (who wouldn't?) and is moving back in July.

I have heard through the grape vine that people have mixed feelings about her decision.

"Why would you leave your family???", "Once you move there you wont come back!", "You need to finish school and work" blah blah blah.

I personally am SO happy for her. A lot of people ask me if I will miss her.Obviously I will miss her. But she is happy in Australia which makes me happy.

See, when you have a twin, everything they feel, you feel too.

When we were in grade school and she had to go in front of the class and present or talk, I felt so nervous. I felt the sick, disgusting feeling you feel when you are speaking in front of the class even though I was sitting comfortably in my seat. If she is crying, I am crying. We also have this really contagious chuckle that is more of a bounce that when one of us is laughing we sit there silently and move up and down in our silent but hysterical laughter. The more she laughs, the more I laugh and in turn she laughs more. Ten more minutes of this and our stomachs will hurt.

We share the same fears, have had the same dreams, and yes, freaky twin things do happen and yes, it is awesome.

I feel like a little part of me is moving with her and I can't wait.

It will be weird to have my other half permanently living on the other side of the earth. It will take getting used to but I am so excited. I am nervous that if she gets her heart broken, or feels sad or needs something I will feel helpless because she is so far away.

But that sisterly anxiety will probably soon turn to typical sisterly envy when I see her new profile picture that shows her on the beach looking like a tanned hippy that gets over 100 likes.

I'll miss her!

Jessica R