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It’s (well, it was, at the time of writing) IAP, and all the dining halls except one are closed. Fortunately, we can cook!

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Unfortunately, we can cook.

Every day this past week, I’ve been cooking with my friend Henry J. ‘29 from East Campus. What I love about East Campus is that East Campus indulges my bad ideas >:)

They always have some sort of Bad Idea going on. In fact, every IAP, they organize something called Bad Ideas Weekend, which includes things like running up and down the Green Building⁠01 the tallest building on campus as many times as possible, building useless things for the Bad Ideas Hackathon (Ellie elaborate??)⁠02 hi Ellie here to elaborate. IT WAS SUPER FUN!!! Joy made juggling balls that embodied pain, fear, and frostbite. We also had people make a version of reddit that just glazes everything you say, and a wireless mouse that used a wired mouse that connected to a computer that sent info to a 3D printer that had a wired mouse taped to its head that connected to another computer. , and randomized hair dye.

Here are some things we’ve been cooking up! Some of them are extremely cooked (…well, I would hope so).

Cursed Stir Fry

After stir frying a pretty good dinner (with vegetables!! And protein!!), Henry and I decided to use our powers for evil. We grabbed the most random things we could from Henry’s closet and threw them in his wok, along with a lot of oil.

Here’s a fun challenge: take a guess at what we stir fried!

Did you get it? The list of ingredients were as follows:

Raisin bread
An orange (honestly, this wasn’t bad! It just tasted slightly oilier and warmer than a regular orange. I guess you can’t really ruin an orange.)
Green onion
Cornflakes
Graham crackers
Two hi-chews (this was probably hard to spot. I don’t even know where it went. We think it might have evaporated??)

Bread.

We thought the bread tasted pretty edible from our initial little experiment, so we decided to turn everything into bread. We (along with our other East Campus friend, Samuel R. ‘29), got a bunch of flour, egg, and crushed breadcrumbs. We slapped them on the table (literally),

And rolled them around in the mixture. I think we did it wrong, though (none of us had ever breaded anything before), because the flour tended not to stick and would fall off in the pan. Yum, fried flour! Later, we learned that we were supposed to chill the coated objects first.

Among some of the things we breaded were:

An entire bell pepper
A strip of lasagna pasta (some other people were making actual edible food in the kitchen next to us, and offered us a piece of pasta to bread).
Orange slices
A whole orange (unpeeled)
Bread (we contemplated crushing the breaded bread into breadcrumbs so we could bread more bread with it to make breaded bread breaded bread, but we were full).

Orange. Not to be confused with a lollipop.

Bell pepper!

Bell pepper, but in the process of making

Our first batch.

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