Dine #3

Sorry for my late blog, but you didn't miss much at dinner last night. I mean, if you had the manicotti you would know what I am talking about. I don't fully trust what the TV menus say as advertising can be very deceiving so I usually look at the food before I decide to take it. I quickly passed the Crave and then saw what I thought was lasagna. I went up and asked for meat and she gave me what looked like a big slice. I didn't really pay attention to it though because I was focused on moving through the other people milling to get milk. Keep coming out of the UC wishing I had eaten more so I went to the taco line as well. I got a soft shell, ground beef, and half servings of rice and beans. I then got sour cream, salsa, the dry powdery cheese (I am blanking on the name - I asked a DS chef once) and lettuce. I decided I would skip the cilantro as it was still attached to the stem.

The taco was good - but over stuffed with meat. Last year I would always ask for a half serving of meat, I should've last night as well. The Spanish Rice was starting to clump but it had good flavor. The Black Beans had a consistency much like refried beans, too thick in my opinion. Overall, it was taco that was fine but didn't really stick out in quality. The Cheese Manicotti with Marinara though really stuck out. The cheese used both in and on the manicotti was just slightly rubbery. Cutting into the noodle the ricotta cheese shot out of the end. It didn't spill out but shot out in a little rubbery tube. Rubbery discribes both look and feel. The cheese would break up if you applied enough pressure but the rubbery texture never fully left. The noodle was the best part of the manicotti, a friend actually stole mine after removing all the cheese. Did I mention that I didn't notice any marinara sauce at all? Maybe I was distracted by the cheese...

I also had desert last night. Two huge tubs of a mass of chocolate stood before me. On top of a perfect gooey chocolate sauce lay a brownie/chocolate cake top that looked ever so inviting. Lava Cake. I took a whole bowl. This was a mistake or maybe I spared more people from having their hopes raised and destroyed. The cake was dense, moist, and bland. The chocolate sauce wouldn't have been too bad had it not been for the grainy texture of the undissolved sugar and the random globs of congealed chocolate gloop. The best description I heard was that if you went to Candy Land and started eating the mud - this lava cake is what it would taste like. One friend said they could have made this in an easy bake oven and  still have it come out better.