Thursday: I become a woman/member of society

     So, Thursday nights my bf's group of friends gets together at someone's house and that person makes a meal for everyone.  Good food, camaraderie, and stuff abound.  This week was my bf's turn and he was all, "you wanna cook something?" and I was all, "uh...k."  I've never cooked for 10ish people by myself before and didn't really know what a main dish designed to serve so many people required in quantity of ingredents. 
     My fallback for food is soup (I will probably post a blog devoted to soup later on.  Soup is kind of a big deal in my life.).  However, I was specifically asked to make not soup so that left me drawing a blank.  Ran a few ideas by my parents and by our receptionist at work who were all very helpful and very excited that I was cooking for a large group of people (Am I becoming a woman?  Do people think I'm a lonely hermit who never interacts with people?  Not sure.) and finally settled on shrimp alfredo (With peas because you should always add vegetables!).  Because it's good, you know?  So, back to the the problem of how big is food that feeds 10 people.  Dad advised me to go to food.com which was VERY helpful because I could just find a recipe and type in that the number of servings required.
     So, Thursday came and went.  Between the bf and I, we had some of the ingredients (I walked around with parsely, basil, and lemon juice in my backpack that day.  On an unrelated note, when parsley comes up I get "Scarborough Fair" stuck in my head because of the line "parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme." Back to blogging!) and picked up the rest that evening.  We set to chopping and boiling and stirring and everything and the food was ready for consumption when everyone arived.  Food was eaten and most people took seconds which is a good sign.  Between that and the garlic bread no one went away hungry that's for sure.    All in all, a general success.  Stole another serving for lunch that day.  Eating shrimp alfredo (with peas) makes looking at biomass statistics better (I look at biomass statistics at work.  It's part of my job.)

*Note the awesome pasta scoop.  Called the "Pastasaurus" it is basically a more awesome way to scoop your pasta.  Also, note the real person stove.  This is my bf's stove, not mine.  My stove is one of those itty bitty college person stoves for college people.  I'm going to be a real person someday and that will probably mean I have a real person stove.