Tomato Asparagus Soup

It seems I'm running out of food. My apartment's pantry is getting bare, and my refrigerator is looking more desolate every time I open it. I didn't really have many fresh ingredients sitting around, so I decided to use up as man of them as I could in a single dish. And that dish was a soup!

Can't beat soup for simplicity and taste.

Science: Asparagus Revisited (With Bonus Urine!)

In my previous recipe, I mentioned my love of asparagus. I was talking to a friend online as I cooked, and he told me that although he loved asparagus, he hated how it made his urine smell. I've heard people mention in the past that asparagus gives their urine a distinctive sulfurous stench, but I personally have always been unaffected. So, why does asparagus make your pee smell? And why does it happen to some people and not others? The answer, it turns out, is more interesting than you might think.

Pseudo-Caribbean Chicken and Crunchy Bananas

So, I wanted to try making something with a bit of a Caribbean feel to it. Note that I don't really know anything about how to actually cook a Caribbean-ish meal, but I had a concept in my mind and had to work towards it. I went for a marinated chicken dish, and had a flash of inspiration and decided to do something interesting with bananas for a side dish. I couldn't figure out what else to do with the meal (No rice! No beans!) so I rounded it off with asparagus because, well... I just like asparagus.

The successful product of utter guesswork.