I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I actually haven’t been feeling very well lately. I had some kind of flu last week, and remnants of it remained this week. However I was able to pull myself together enough to go to all of my classes and take care of all the responsibilities I have otherwise.

I was able to go to the store and pick up everyone’s favorite holiday spices in preparation for some exciting seasonal baking. I also picked up 2 cans of canned pumpkin. I’ll probably use those too.

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bread, Food, fun, goes well with Nutella, snack, sweet

That’s right! Meatballs.

I am one of those people who really doesn’t like meat sauce on spaghetti. I don’t know what it is about the meat being ground into the sauce, but I just don’t really like it. I think it’s because it’s difficult to get a good serving of meat, sauce, and noodle on one fork.

Because of this I have developed a taste for meatballs. They aren’t really much more than ground meat shaped into balls and thrown into spaghetti, but in my opinion they really add something to an otherwise average dish.

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When I think of pretzels I think big and soft, not thin and crunchy. Which usually leads me to the mall. The mall is home many a pretzel shop. When I was but an adolescent, one of my favorite things about going to the mall were the delicious pretzels.

Today pretzels are enjoyed all over the US, not only in malls, but also street corners of large metropolitan areas in the NorthEast. This is another dough recipe, so grab your flour and left over yeast packets and get ready to get messy.

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Food, pretzel, snack, soft

I have lived in Norman for a little longer than 2 years now. There aren’t a lot of places to eat left that I haven’t yet visited, yet when my professor suggested eating at a pizza place I had only briefly heard of I was honestly a little nervous.

First off, I didn’t even really know where Hideaway was. Anyone who’s been to Campus Corner knows that you can’t just do the usual ‘drive till I see it’ approach. Parking up there is all kinds of awful at any time of the day when any normal person would want to park, but I had a plan.

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Campus Corner, Food, hideaway, parking, pizza