Under the Skin

On Thursday this week, my American Christianity class was about Anabaptists. In the lecture, my professor said something that I really liked: "I am going to say something that you will probably never hear an LDS religious historian say again: Why did the mobs hate us and why were they justified? We like to believe that they were working under Satan. But really, they were just scared, and happened to be fulfilling Satan's desires in their fear. Because when a guy jumps up, claims he's a prophet, says that God speaks today, that there are miracles today, that there are apostles, that every person can receive revelation and that the heavens are open, and they start playing around with polygamy, the European protestants are programmed to scream, 'ANABAPTISTS!' And when those neo-Anabaptists start amassing an army, they scream, 'MUNSTER- 1534!' and that scares the heck out of them." I thought that was an interesting take, and I like it. I was never qu...

Today's issue of Cooking for College Students is going to be slightly different. We are going to discuss, instead of a recipe, the basic techniques of college student cooking. If I had to give one piece of food advice to college students everywhere, this is what it would be: Don't decide what you want to make and then go to the grocery store. Look at the grocery store ads, see what is on sale and then decide what you think you could use. Now, I'm not saying buy something just because it's on sale. Last week, there was a massive sale on rice. I would really rather eat mashed potatoes. I don't dislike rice, but I know that each night I would say, "What carb tonight: rice, potatoes or pasta?" and every time I would choose potatoes or pasta. So, I didn't buy any rice. There was this huge sale on baked beans. I despise baked beans, basically. So, why would I buy them? However, cater your cooking to the sales. People have criticized me that I ne...

WARNING: THIS POST MAY BE INTERESTING TO YOU. IT MAY JUST BE A THERAPEUTIC THING OF ME TRYING TO RECONCILE MY YEARS OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISSONANCE WITH MY CLASSMATES IN HIGH SCHOOL. TAKE IT FOR WHAT IT IS We are all aware that I do like to read. One of my favorite books is The Chosen, by Chaim Potok. Today, I tell you something about my love for this book. My disclaimer is this: If you have never read this book, and would like to read this book, I might spoil parts. I promise nothing. So, in high school, I was once reading it for the third-or-so time during lunch. Some of my friends came up to me, saw what I was reading and said, "That's a great book!" I told them that I agreed and that it was one of my favorites. They then said, "Really? I don't know how someone as religious as you could love a book about someone realizing the falseness of religiosity!" This began a very intense debate between us, as I don't thi...

I invented another one tonight! Unnamed chicken chopped olives chopped bell peppers chopped onion paprika parsley dab of olive oil pasta You know what to do! That's right, cook the pasta. Put the rest of it in a skillet. Cook that up. Put it on top of the pasta. AMAZING