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It's graduation weekend!! Really, for me it's my fake graduation, since I'm not actually getting a diploma. But all of my undergraduate requirements are done and I passed all my classes. I'm now officially a graduate student. So it's graduation weekend!

The town is positively FLOODED with people, so I decided that it was a good night to cook for myself. I'm also desperately trying to eat up whatever food I have remaining in my apartment since I need to pack up and get out in just a few days. So pasta it was!

I decided to make Moosewood's broccoli pasta sauce since it doesn't require a lot of extra ingredients. But I had some orange bell pepper and red onion already, so I just needed to grab a crown of broccoli and some grape tomatoes and I was good to go. I also got a ball of mozzarella cheese to cut up and include in the sauce instead of parmesan because it's more hearty. The result was a beautiful sauce on some yummy spaghetti that was both filling and really delicious. My only complaint was that the sauce isn't really seasoned at all. Other than salt and optional black pepper to sprinkle on the top, there are no spices called for. It's not bland by any means because there are so many vegetables and garlic/onion. But I still think I should've sprinkled in some dried basil or something, just to jazz it up even more.

My apartment is basically completely packed up so my kitchen stuff is kind of limited right now and in different places around the apartment. My cooking rhythm was totally off, but I managed somehow. I'm convinced that they did something to the stove because it heated up in no time when it usually takes 10 minutes just to boil water. It's going to be kind of a weird couple of weeks as I transition out of this apartment, spend some time crashing at a friend's while I take summer classes, and then go back to my parents'.