happy halloween, SHARK STYLE

this year, i carved a shark. you cant see it, but he has some fearsome teeth and a terrifying looking tail! but greg and matt said he looks like a dolphin. eff that. dolphins suck. "vanessa!?!" you might cry, "dolphins are intelligent and friendly!" to which i would reply (to quote cartmen) "yeah, intelligent and friendly on rye bread with some mayo"

stupid dolphins.
matt's pumpkin was much more fierce. not in a 'project runway' kind of fierce (go christian!) but in a IM GOING TO EAT YOU AND SUCK THE MARROW FROM YOUR BONES kind of fierce. it's SHARK X.

shark x comes from a long-standing tradition which was started by jon soto. while i may not approve of his lack of a flat-top hair cut, the man knows how to start a bad-ass tradition.



For dinner we ate shitake mushrooms sauted with olive oil AND butter, salt and pepper. After about 5-10 minutes of that, i threw in about 3/4 cup of white cooking wine. once that bubbled down a bit, i added some salad greens that were hanging out in the fridge and about to turn into salad-green-soda (gross).

all of that over noodles. i loved it. it was delicate. YUM. matt wished there was some sort of sauce. maybe next time i will take the stems from the mushrooms (which you dont want to really put in the dish because they're pretty tough) and make a broth-y sauce with them. cook em with some water and more butter and some seasonings. but that's all for next time.

and o man you guys. we made pumpkin seeds by soaking them in buffalo wing sauce and then baking them. it was brilliant. wait until we fine-tune the recipe and then BOOM WE'LL BE DRANKIN ALL THE MILKSHAKES OUT THERE.