Julia Child famously called out "Bon Appetit" after concocting one of her French dishes. Her joyous command inspires us all as we watch her show, but it has another meaning for me and the other 1800 students that attend Macalester College: our food service here is Bon Appetit, and the food at Cafe Mac is soooooooooo good. I can't get over it. I want to be a grown up and get off the meal plan and like, have my own food in my fancy shmancy dorm room (or, to complete the grown up image, my very own place), but I can't imagine not reveling in the plentiful and tasteful cafeteria here.
There are stations for all different types of cuisines and the salad bar is simply inspiring.
I like to mix stations. Sometimes making a noodle dish is the best way to do this. I take noodles from the salad bar, go over to the burrito station and get some shredded chicken or pork, go to the "IRON GRILL" and get some steamed broccoli, dob some cottage cheese on it, and mix in some beans from the salad bar or maybe even chili if it's good that day (what am I saying? it's allllways good!), and then microwave it. [There's a microwave. Rockin.] Sometimes it feels like I'm making my very own hot dish!
Some favor the curry bar, but as I find myself unable to tap into the glories of curry, I stay away from that station in the cafeteria until it's morphed, once monthly, into the jewel in the crown of Cafe Mac: the a la mode bar. I'll tell you about that when it happens.
And that brings me to my purpose for all this blathering about (and tempting you with) all these cafeteria delights: the induction of my first weekly feature (and the fourth colon so far today): Bon Appetit?/!
Check back next week for the first installment, and get ready to be blown away!
Lillie
i never ate at the curry bar. i think it's because we NEVER ate things like curry when we were growing up.
ReplyDeletei used to make something like your concoction but with cereal raisins peanutbutter, cinnamon sugar, bananas and any topping available at the fro-yo station. SO GOOD. i would like to eat that right now.