After seeing this movie for the second time, I believe I should say that everyone needs to go see Ratatouille! I love everything that Pixar puts out, but I think they really, really outdid themselves this time. Or perhaps it just hits the spot for me because it's about the life of food service ^_^ Oooh I love cooking. Anyway, the story is fantastic, and of course the animation is superb. Go see it before it leaves theaters!

Speaking of cooking, I'm doing a little experiment called the Cooking Mama Challenge, where I'm trying to make all the dishes (80 of them!) from the game Cooking Mama DS. The recipes in the game aren't really accurate - they don't give any amounts or times or temperatures, so I'm trying to figure out everything from scratch, using their ingredients. So far I've made pan-fried vegetables and pork curry with rice, and both attempts were pretty tasty! Though once I go back to school, I won't have my parents to help, so wish me luck in trying these out, and good luck if you're one of my taste testers ^_^;

But I'm not just sitting around cooking and eating food! I'm also sitting around knitting and finishing a 1000 piece puzzle and teaching myself some more Chinese and working on websites and a friend's senior photos. What a productive summer!