Hope: Summer!

So finals are finally over and I'm back at home rereading Harry Potter (2 down, 5 to go). But although Harry Potter is lots of fun, my main goal for Stir Crazy is to learn to cook and to learn to eat more foods, especially local ones. Somehow this year I ended up reading two books about organic and locally grown food (In Defense of Food and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle), which were both really good and inspired me to expand the very limited number of foods (esp. fruits and veggies) I eat. And I started! Yesterday my parents and I went for a picnic at Stone Mountain and we had a fruit salad-type thing, and I tried honeydew and cantaloupe (whoa spellcheck just told me that has a u in it; who knew?). And while cantaloupe was pretty gross, honeydew wasn't half bad, so I think I'll try it again. I'm also planning on going to the Athens Farmers Market once I'm back there and seeing what I find. The farmers will probably think I'm an idiot: "Oo what's that?" "That's an asparagus." "Oo is that a fruit or a vegetable?" Also, although I, like Emily, am going to be on meal plan next year, I want to be able to cook some stuff (this will include the assorted vegetables I plan on trying since my idea of cooking vegetables is taking them out of the can and putting them in the microwave). Other stuff I want to learn: pecan pie, macaroni and cheese casserole, and spinach dip. I feel like there's more, but that's all I can think of right now.

I hope everyone's having an awesome summer!