Back from the weekend

I'm back from the weekend at my sister's. It was very interesting to b ein her house after having gone through eating my own house down to bare bones. She is a warehouse shopping addict! Her house has 4 jars of peanut butter, five large containers of various kinds of nuts, 8 bags of chips of various sorts, 6 boxes of boca burgers, 5 boxes of vegetarian corn dogs, four kinds of cereals, a refrigerator full of beer and Mike's Har lemonade things. That's all I can remember and that's not the half of it.

On one hand, It was really fun to have access to so much stuff. Most of what she has around is not really bad food if eaten in moderation. But having so much around meant that it was hard to walk through the dining room without wanting to snack on something. i worked hard at being good but had my moments. Others in my family never made it through without eating something.

For the Fourth, one of the dishes that we made was potatoes roasted in the oven with a little olive oil and herbs(one pan was rosmary, one was sage and onion, one was mint). Now, this i sthe easiest possible dish to prepare. In fact, roasting various kinds of vegetables with olive oil is something I do several times a week. So you can imagine how strange I find it that people are always amazed by the dish when I prepare it. It's incredibly cheap and easy and delicious. Really, the only hard part about it is having the patience to let it cook for long enough. Even then, as long as it's brown outside, you can alway microwave it to get the inside done.

I thought this was how everyone cooks!