Week 4

Monday:

To kick off this final week (of half week) we decided to take our culinary exploits on the road. Hoping on the highway and heading west we arrived at our final destination Cleveland’s precious Westside Market. There is no better place to go in Cleveland to basket in the culture which food brings and share our love for it. Our time at the market was spent well where we got to heckle and talk to venders, try samples, and learn that the crepe chef does not like getting his photo taken. We also invested in some great food such as crepes, bread, fresh fruit, and pirogues which inspired our cooking endeavors for Tuesday. Once we returning from an exhausting day we realized how behind we had become on our cooking blog and took the rest of the day to attempt to get caught up.

Tuesday:

Feeling inspired from our trip to the Westside market we decided to make some pirogues of our own. Spending all day mixing, rolling, pinching, and boiling the pirogues we finally arrived at a product that was edible. Then we decided it was time that we put our culinary skills to the test and boiled the pirogues we had purchased from the Westside Market. To our surprise and slight disappointment because two of the three pirogues we had bought broke in the water we reached the possibly biased conclusion that our pirogues tasted better. After a long day of cooking we enjoyed our finished product and decided to plan our final meal realized that Wednesday was our last day on project.  

Wednesday:

We woke up to a mixture of feelings this morning as we realized our journey as 2 Blondes and a Mixer had reached its last day. To celebrate this final day we decided to showcase all the skills which we had learned with a final meal. After determining that both our favorite meals we occasionally breakfast we decided what a better way to kick our final day off with a huge breakfast. The trick with a final meal is that you needed to serve it to someone. Therefore, we took one last visit to the project that was making the shed and prepared them full plates of our fully cooked meal. It was a great way to see how far we have come and enjoy each other’s company over several plates of food. That’s what we’ve come to realize about food is that it is a way to bring people together. Even though we may have burned the bacon and taken an extra half hour to get all the food on the table once it was out the real purpose was that we were enjoying each other’s company over food.