Bait and Switch

B and I are trying to buy tickets to Florida, and it's proving to be an exercise of immense frustration. What typically happens is that we go on to Travelocity or Expedia, and search for flights to various cities, and eventually find what looks to be the lowest ticket price we're going to get in the post-Christmas rush. And we click on it to buy. And we get a message like this:

We're sorry, the price of this flight has changed from C$440.91 to C$1,071.14

$440 to $1071. Incredible.

Forget reading; I've got cooking

I've noticed that cooking is slowly creeping in as my major hobby. I don't even do that much of it, but it seems to be the thing that I think about the most when I'm not thinking about school. It amuses B to no end when we come across a dish in a magazine or show, and I decide we should try to make it ourselves. He doesn't enjoy following recipes, but he's very good at following any directions I give him, though I think I'm undermining his confidence in the kitchen. He made French toast on Sunday, and came in twice while I was in the shower to ask how for instructions. I need to do something about that. I also feel slightly guilty because before we starting going out, he was on a very simple, long-life diet featuring lots of plain steamed vegetables and nuts with minimal meat and carbs. Very nutritious, relatively easy to cook, and terribly boring (IMO). The food I make is tastier, but I don't think it's quite as healthy.

I didn't make any spectacular dishes this weekend. Friday night we ate out, Saturday we took advantage of the relatively nice weather to grill steak, and Sunday we made a basic stirfry and a rather odd version of Thai Spicy Eggplant that involved vinegar and no fish sauce. (I have a good Thai cookbook, but it was at home and I wasn't, so I searched online and that was the recipe I came up with. I was also somewhat hampered by the fact that B didn't want to buy either fish sauce or red pepper flakes.)

I think I need more cookbooks.