A Beautiful Day in Ireland

While here, I have realized that the weather is mostly the same almost every day: cold, rainy, and, occasionally, windy.

Here is a photo of what the sky typically looks like here in Dublin.

Cloudy Day in Dublin

However, there are times when the weather changes and the natural beauty of Ireland can be seen.

Here are a couple of photos that I collected around Dublin when the sun shone brightly for the day.

Partly Cloudy Day in Dublin

Sunny Day at St. Stephen's Green

Sunny Day at St. Stephen's Green

Also, after talking to a couple of people here, I realized that I have not been cooking at all. In fact, I think it has been two months since I cooked a meal. 

Hmm.. so, as shown below, I took some bread made by my roommate and made what I am known to do well: omelets! It is nothing special but it did feel great to be able to cook something once again. 

Cheese Omelet with Homemade Bread

On Wednesday, I wanted to do a brunch where I made an omelet with the tomato and cheese sandwich that I have been making during my time here. However, the bread that I had was all molded so I had to improvise. So I decided to make the following in the picture below. I call the creation 'Omelet Salad'. 

It is an omelet with cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese, and tomatoes. Underneath it is a layer of salad and more cheese. One of the eggs came out as sunny side-up and acted as a dressing for the salad.

When I usually do the arrangement, I have the salad cooked within the omelet but I can say that I enjoyed cooking it this way too.

Omelet Salad

Finally, I needed to figure out a dinner to make because I usually struggle with this dish type. However, after putting things together, I ended up cooking chicken with cheese, tortellini with spinach, uncooked tomatoes and tomato sauce. 

Dinner

Dinner with Tomato Sauce

To cap off this food edition, tonight, I had dinner with my friends from Valencia and Mallorca, Edu and Maribel. Yeah.. I'm not quite there in terms of making a dinner haha. 

I'm a little disappointed that I did not get a picture of it but the dinner consisted of: salmon, bread, potatoes, carrots, and broccoli. To cap it off, they created homemade apple pie with vanilla ice cream.

Yum yum yum.. they did a brilliant job cooking tonight and it was a pleasure hanging out with them too.