I Can Cook!

We're having a potluck dinner in half an hour and I think I might have gone overboard. Signed up to make a main dish and ended up with all that food. Spanish rice, beans, ghetto-fabulous quesadillas, veggies, and chips/salsa. Went to both the grocery store and shuk to get my ingredients. The grocery store was mostly unexciting minus the fact that they actually had salsa. The Shuk was much more exciting. Not gonna lie, it was partially because all the guys kept hitting on me, haha. O well. Everything at the shuk was super inexpensive. For example, I wanted to buy 2 stalks of scallions and the guy didn't want any money for them! I was like "of course i'm gonna pay you mr. dudeman" and he was like "no, no, no" so I handed him 2 NIS and he gave me 1.5 NIS back. O well. I also bought eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, plums, nectarines, onion, peppers, and who knows what else. O, I bought some really good Bedoin style pita bread. It was the closest thing I could find to a tortilla (without actually making them myself) so I used that stuff to make my quesadillas. The don't even taste that bad! They totally look legit, I swear. I'm really excited to have the eggplants because tomorrow night I can use my leftover tomato sauce and make something fun with my eggplants and peppers. YAY COOKING!! The only problem with my newfound love for cooking is that I haven't started my homework and it's 7:30 pm and the potluck is at 8. And who knows how long that will go. O well. The plan right now is to bring my homework with me to dinner to try and do with Rachel while we eat. If not, I eat fast, so I can be done quick enough to come back to my room and do it after dinner. I really hope I get some leftovers from all my cooking!!