A few memorable University meals to date...

I have never been an abominable cook, yet since coming to University am met with a bizarrely overwhelming sense of pride every time I manage to produce an edible looking plate of food. Not entirely convinced about the psychology behind that little mystery, however! As a result I appear to have collected somewhat of a stash of pictures consisting of meals...I'm sure you'll recognise a few yourself!

This single snapshot adequately encapsulates the 2 week period that was Freshers; nothing less than a Boot-camp stylee regime of Bernard Matthew's nibbles served in a hazy state at 3am Vs excessive amounts of alcohol. Perhaps a picture of the SU bar would have summed up the fortnight more appropriately.

Mmm...DIPPERS.

  From one extreme to the next, after depriving my body of anything with any remote nutritional value during freshers, here arrived one of the least studenty meals possible. Taking advantage of my Hall's constant source of overpriced pre-paid electricity I felt it necessary to take full advantage, thus leaving my Jacket potato in the oven for a mighty 3 hours. Impressive.

So, technically not a solid meal...but the sheer size of this alcoholic creation should deem it as a meal in itself. Half a bottle of rum, sloshed along with vodka, malibu and anything else we could get our hands on teamed with a carton of orange juice...Ouch. Proof if proof needed, that there's a reason bar's don't serve cocktails from laundry baskets.

A cut above your bog standard student meal. Originally intended to be my Boyfriend's efforts to prove himself as a credible Chef, nonetheless ending in me preparing it after his struggling to cut the chicken breast in half. Potatoes dauphinoise (pictured to the right!) is probably the most pretentious way possible of describing what is essentially potato bake! Add equal parts of double cream to milk in a pint glass, and stir in some finely chopped garlic if you're living with people tolerant of kitchen whiffs. Pour over a tray of finely-sliced part-boiled potatoes, cover with grated cheese and whack in the oven...Proper posh hangover munch!