Things I'm Not Going to Miss... Much Longer

I've been MIA for a few weeks now and thought I'd put one more post up before heading back to the States.

It's been fun, it's been real, but man, I am ready to go home.

In no particular order here are the foods I can't wait to eat:

• brownies
• Andrew's [In]Famous chocolate chip cookies*
• ranger crispies
• my family's chicken fried steak
• my dad's augratten potatoes
• lasagna
• fried okra
• fried catfish
• cake (just give me real, honest to goodness cake!)
• vanilla/chocolate Blue Bell ice cream
• tamales
• ribs
• chili cheese dogs
• turkey sandwiches (who would ever have thought there aren't turkeys in Europe**!)
• Andy's breakfast burritos
• my family's hamburgers
• my dad's gumbo
• sausage (the Dutch don't know sausage)
• twice baked potatoes
• Andy's chicken alfredo pizza
• my mom's pepperoni/sausage pizza
• Andy's spinach calzones
• Andy's mushroom white sauce stuff***
• quesadillas
• pb&j sandwiches
• tuna fish crackers (with Saltines!)
• 45 Minute Cream Cheese Cake

Maybe I'll have enough time to drop a few more things I can't wait to do (like drive a car for the first time in 5 and a half months) or places I can't wait to eat or just things I can't wait for in general.

*These were once a Calvert House specialty. Alas the baker took a job working for some fancy shmancy NYC law firm, and now the only thing I have recourse to are my own unworthy version of his recipe.

**Yes, yes, I know [knew] there aren't turkeys in Europe, but I never thought about it meaning no more turkey sandwiches. I actually gave up eating sandwiches, because I couldn't take it anymore.

***It's amazingly good and the original recipe (now modified by Andy) was from Wolfgang Puck.