Cold Spring Tavern

Possibly the most interesting restaurant in Santa Barbara, and DEFINITELY the best onion rings I've ever had in my life. Yum-o!

Endless Sunsets

Yet another wonderful time out on our balcony...

The Loop

You could say that the Loop is a rite of passage for any UCSB student... for those of you who haven't gone here, it consists of going to every place in Isla Vista and getting a beer, with a large group of people who are hopefully dressed like complete idiots. We did a much mellower version of the loop yesterday, but it was a total blast and we definitely fit the wardrobe requirements. See if you can guess the theme :)

The first of many holiday posts to come

I am ECSTATIC that it's the month of Christmas. However, I'm very poor so I've been trying to think of how to make extremely inexpensive Christmas gifts... hence the beautiful hat that Leigh is wearing below! I've taken up knitting, but I'm on my third beanie attempt and still haven't figured it out, so more on that later. Also, we went to trivia this week and lost... but still very fun. Probably the most successful of my recent ventures was the mini turkey burger dinner with Bryan, which was totally delicious and they turned out incredibly cute.

Thanksgiving and Pre-Birthday Festivities

The week or two before Thanksgiving was, well, amazing to say the least!! Filled with many trips to South Coast Deli (obviously), a night excursion to Lizard's Mouth, fishing again with Miss Bowen, an epic Thanksgiving feast with friends, and a lovely birthday brunch, cupcakes courtesy of the wonderful Emily Xiao. So great!

Making up for lost time...

Here are some photos of the last few months since I've been the worst blogger of all time... more to come!

Promises of Food

I said I would be posting about some food endeavors in my last update, so here goes! First, Leigh and I decided to make some delicious sounding cupcakes - "Carrot Cake Cupcakes with a Cream Cheese Surprise."













They didn't turn out quite as carrot cake-y as I anticipated, but they were still totally delicious and disappeared by the end of the day - a sign of great success, haha.













Then, yesterday, Bryan and I were trying to think of something a little more exciting than usual to make for dinner, so we started exploring what turned out to be the BEST cookbook of all time - Jaimie's around the world cookbook. We ended up deciding on Chicken Biryani, and after about 3 hours of seemingly endless grocery shopping to find all of the more eclectic ingredients (pretty sure the lady at the Indochine Market thinks we're idiots), we started cooking!













Not to toot my own horn or anything, but it turned out DELICIOUS. Plus, we only used about 1/4 tsp of every spice, so now we can make Indian food all the time! Like tonight! Next on the menu: Chicken Tikka Masala, yum. Here's the final product, although the picture would be more effective if you could smell it too :)