I'm tired of reading articles about chefs who cook a single meal for under $25. My weekly grocery budget is $25. Which is why I made fried rice out of my leftover Chinese food and why dried beans, sweet potatoes and cabbage are always on my shopping list. End of rant.

Tonight I was going to make sweet potato pie after reading a long article about pies of the Triangle. Alas, I didn't have enough butter to make a crust...so I ended up making cinnamon spiced mashed sweet potatoes. I added a hint of lemon juice for a little zing.

I still have two or three more pounds of sweet potatoes left, so I am trying to be inventive. Possibly sweet potato latkes for Hanukkah? There was an interesting lime-flavored sweet potato salad on Serious Eats earlier...Sweet potato biscuits? Or I could revive the sweet potato gnocchi recipe from summer!

Finals are nigh which means...I cook a lot instead of studying. Good times.

My current list of food projects includes

+baking bread
+opening the scary door into making candy with caramels (need to buy a candy thermometer)
+start a jar of vanilla extract, which means...a trip to the liquor store!
+roasted cauliflower something