Last week in Egypt and then we are off to India!!
This week was a relatively low key week. It was a week full of studying and preparing for our AUC final as well as preparing a paper and presentation for Professor Olaf's class. Many of us used the gym as a procrastination technique as well a way to find an excuse to get moving and have different scenery besides the all too familiar kitchen/ living area of our dorms at AUC.
Monday night we watched Slumdog Million air at our professor's family's apartment. While we were watching the movie Laura and Myself (Katherine) made cookies. We didn't have the full pantry of cookie making supplies so we put our minds together and used what we could find in the cupboards. The cookies turned out great and we all loved them! Here is the recipe if you'd like to try them out for yourselves. Warning: you may have a better time making them due to surplus of cooking ingredients and cookware.
Global Cookie Recipe:
2 large eggs
2 sticks of butter
2 cups sugar (1 cup to replace the brown sugar which we did not have)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3ish cups flour (gotta eye it a bit, we had no measuring cups)
2/3 cup cocoa powder (or until it tastes good)
m&ms (add as much as you would like)
Directions:
Preheat oven 190C or 360 F
Mix eggs, butte and sugar ideally in a bowl. If you do not have a bowl a cake pan works quite well we found.
Once mixed in add in salt and baking soda. Then begin to add flour and cocoa powder until you reach desired consistency.
Then, ideally, use a cookie sheet to bake the cookies on. if you can not find a cookie sheet move the cookie dough to a cereal bowl, clean cake pan. Oh do not forget to grease the pan.
Bake 10 minutes. Once you take them our of the oven put the m&ms on top! Let cool and enjoy!!
Tuesday day was very similar to Monday. We all worked on presentations, papers, and final studying. Becca has a friend here in Cairo who invited us out on a fuluka boat ride and then wanted to show us around Cairo. So all of us students went down town Cairo for a good part of the night. We started on the boat ride on the Nile river. We continued to have a very delicious dinner of food I could not tell you the names of. So pretty much I really did not know quite what I was eating. All the food though was super good!!! After a dinner of unknown street food we then had these doughnuts called Zalabya also very good!!! As Michael says "Your dessert stomach is separate from you regular stomach;" I very much agree with this. We then walked to the Cairo jazz club. We were not there very long due to many of us getting very tired!
Wednesday was again a very similar morning and afternoon. Study, study, study and prepare. Though in the evening we were able to sit in on a class at AUC as well as talk to the students.
Thursday was our last and final day for preparations for our AUC final, which is tomorrow. So nothing really exciting happened except maybe finding out it is WAY easier to toast bread in the oven then on the stove top. We do not have a toaster here in the AUC. Oh yeah, we went to the campus store for ice cream.
Friday, To day is the day!! Its final time, here goes nothing...(2 hours later)... well thats done with time to continue to work on an last minute changes to our presentations. The first round of presentations is also today. I enjoyed listening to the presentations and all the different topics people in the group are interested in as well as learning more about Egypt. Oh, also because we leave tomorrow we are all trying to do last minute laundry.
Saturday. Our last day here in Egypt. So many of us decided to go to a market in Old Cairo. It was very crowded and busy, but we worked hard to get rid of the last of our pounds! Once back to the dorms we all did a bit of last minute packing before we had to go the our professor's apartment for the second round of presentations. Laura and I (Katherine) also with the help of Christy (professor's wife), made pancakes. Which were delicious!!! I highly recommend putting chocolate chips in pancakes, I have recommended this since I was little. :-) After delicious pancakes we quickly made our way back to the dorms and grabbed our bags and headed for the bus. Off to the airport for that glorious red eye that will bring us first to Oman and then India!!!!
Pancake Recipe:
1 cup oats
2 to 2.5 cups milk
(soak oats in the milk while you get other ingredients ready)
1/2 cup butter (melted)
2 eggs beaten
1 mashed banana
2 tsp. vinegar
mix dry ingredients together and fold into the rest of the mixture:
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
baking powder packet (we only had one, so in multiplying the recipe, just increase baking soda)
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch cinnamon
vanilla packet (probably a teaspoon or two)
Make pancakes on stove top. Enjoy!! top pancakes with what ever you wish. Turn oven on to keep them warm before serving.
This week was a relatively low key week. It was a week full of studying and preparing for our AUC final as well as preparing a paper and presentation for Professor Olaf's class. Many of us used the gym as a procrastination technique as well a way to find an excuse to get moving and have different scenery besides the all too familiar kitchen/ living area of our dorms at AUC.
Monday night we watched Slumdog Million air at our professor's family's apartment. While we were watching the movie Laura and Myself (Katherine) made cookies. We didn't have the full pantry of cookie making supplies so we put our minds together and used what we could find in the cupboards. The cookies turned out great and we all loved them! Here is the recipe if you'd like to try them out for yourselves. Warning: you may have a better time making them due to surplus of cooking ingredients and cookware.
Global Cookie Recipe:
2 large eggs
2 sticks of butter
2 cups sugar (1 cup to replace the brown sugar which we did not have)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3ish cups flour (gotta eye it a bit, we had no measuring cups)
2/3 cup cocoa powder (or until it tastes good)
m&ms (add as much as you would like)
Directions:
Preheat oven 190C or 360 F
Mix eggs, butte and sugar ideally in a bowl. If you do not have a bowl a cake pan works quite well we found.
Once mixed in add in salt and baking soda. Then begin to add flour and cocoa powder until you reach desired consistency.
Then, ideally, use a cookie sheet to bake the cookies on. if you can not find a cookie sheet move the cookie dough to a cereal bowl, clean cake pan. Oh do not forget to grease the pan.
Bake 10 minutes. Once you take them our of the oven put the m&ms on top! Let cool and enjoy!!
Tuesday day was very similar to Monday. We all worked on presentations, papers, and final studying. Becca has a friend here in Cairo who invited us out on a fuluka boat ride and then wanted to show us around Cairo. So all of us students went down town Cairo for a good part of the night. We started on the boat ride on the Nile river. We continued to have a very delicious dinner of food I could not tell you the names of. So pretty much I really did not know quite what I was eating. All the food though was super good!!! After a dinner of unknown street food we then had these doughnuts called Zalabya also very good!!! As Michael says "Your dessert stomach is separate from you regular stomach;" I very much agree with this. We then walked to the Cairo jazz club. We were not there very long due to many of us getting very tired!
Wednesday was again a very similar morning and afternoon. Study, study, study and prepare. Though in the evening we were able to sit in on a class at AUC as well as talk to the students.
Thursday was our last and final day for preparations for our AUC final, which is tomorrow. So nothing really exciting happened except maybe finding out it is WAY easier to toast bread in the oven then on the stove top. We do not have a toaster here in the AUC. Oh yeah, we went to the campus store for ice cream.
Friday, To day is the day!! Its final time, here goes nothing...(2 hours later)... well thats done with time to continue to work on an last minute changes to our presentations. The first round of presentations is also today. I enjoyed listening to the presentations and all the different topics people in the group are interested in as well as learning more about Egypt. Oh, also because we leave tomorrow we are all trying to do last minute laundry.
Saturday. Our last day here in Egypt. So many of us decided to go to a market in Old Cairo. It was very crowded and busy, but we worked hard to get rid of the last of our pounds! Once back to the dorms we all did a bit of last minute packing before we had to go the our professor's apartment for the second round of presentations. Laura and I (Katherine) also with the help of Christy (professor's wife), made pancakes. Which were delicious!!! I highly recommend putting chocolate chips in pancakes, I have recommended this since I was little. :-) After delicious pancakes we quickly made our way back to the dorms and grabbed our bags and headed for the bus. Off to the airport for that glorious red eye that will bring us first to Oman and then India!!!!
Pancake Recipe:
1 cup oats
2 to 2.5 cups milk
(soak oats in the milk while you get other ingredients ready)
1/2 cup butter (melted)
2 eggs beaten
1 mashed banana
2 tsp. vinegar
mix dry ingredients together and fold into the rest of the mixture:
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
baking powder packet (we only had one, so in multiplying the recipe, just increase baking soda)
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch cinnamon
vanilla packet (probably a teaspoon or two)
Make pancakes on stove top. Enjoy!! top pancakes with what ever you wish. Turn oven on to keep them warm before serving.
Also side note, here is the one of the many AUC campus cats. His name was Cow.
Until next time, and on behalf of Global Semester,
Katherine LeClair & Sophia Buchda
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