Ahhhh….I’m so excited about this contest (I only wish it was only open to College and University people) because I really want to win.

My most memorable college eating experience was definitely a girls night I had this year for valentines day. Due to the fact that none of us had boys in our life and wanted to still have a good time we decided to get together - JUST THE GIRLS. It was an amazing night! We each brought dessert and we spent hours talking and munching on goodies! Honestly, what is better than a night with the girls talking and eating dessert? I felt so loved and it was honestly the best valentines day I’ve EVER had! I made red velvet cheesecake brownies and they were so delicious. So hopped up on sugar we giggled the night away. Wish you could have been there.

I came very close to filing suit against my own college for not letting me out of their rather horrid meal plan. Does that count?

I tweeted! I’m STILL a college student, and historically my favorite food has been my comfort food, grown up mac n cheese. I make a big batch of it the Sunday before finals week every term!

http://ducksoven.blogspot.com/2010/12/grown-up-mac-n-cheese.html

I had the most amazing dining hall ever, especially after we moved to a new facility my sophomore year, and I think Cara will agree with me about our food. That said, my freshman year, we popularized the pita pizza. We grabbed a pita from the vegan fridge, tomato sauce from the pasta bar, shredded cheese from the salad bar, and roamed the dining hall for toppings (bbq chicken, artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes, you name it). This went into the oven, the microwave, or if you were on good terms with the cooks, into the brick over. It was priceless! I graduated this past May, and more than anything, I miss our dining hall so much.

We called it Commons (it is the only place to eat on campus), and my friends and I could spend hours sitting their. Accompanied by the NY Times, thesis pages, or just friends, it was not uncommon to stay in commons from breakfast until the close of lunch, or from 5:30 to meet for tea until the close of dinner at 9…

The best (and worst) thing to happen to me was the make your own sundae bar at our college cafeteria- haha!

My most memorable college eating experience (in a bad way) would have to be a most horrible breakfast in which we were served powdered scrambled eggs! I was so stunned to realize that such a thing existed.

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Chow mein surprise!

I love this site! I’m an undergrad student too! Too bad I live in Indonesia… that means I can’t join the contest, can I?

As a college student now, my friends and I try to escape the dining hall as much as possible by cooking in our room and inviting friends over to eat. A few weeks ago, we had a southern-themed dinner party with fried chicken, fried okra, hoppin’ john, mashed potatoes, biscuits, sweet tea, and pecan pie. Unfortunately, trying to make fried chicken in a dorm room kitchen resulted in an almost-fire alarm, and we ended up moving the entire operation from our kitchen to our friend’s kitchen across the hall. In the end, however, we were able to enjoy dinner (despite the smoke-filled room) and great company - a very memorable experience for all!

I love the idea! I’m a college student and I try to focus my blog towards college aged cooking so I’ll definitely be checking out the new site!

my most memorable college eating experience was the first thing my boyfriend taught me to make- biscuits and gravy. it started me cooking and introduced me to the food blogging world.

I’m a HUGE anything Kennedy fan, so my favorite dining experience is the time my roommate and I went to Martin’s Tavern (a historic restaurant in DC) and sat in what’s known as the Proposal booth. The proposal booth is the booth where John F. Kennedy proposed to his soon to be wife, Jackie Kennedy. It’s very common for people to call ahead and reserve this particular booth and some have even proposed to their future wives in this same exact booth!

Technically, I’m still a college student, albeit a paid graduate student. I actually just had a dinner party, with a Caribbean themed menu.

I was first introduced to the wonderful Sausage McMuffin at the cafeteria. Now…they are not quite so wonderful.

My absolute favorite college dining experience has to be Jerusalem Cafe in Kansas City, MO. It has the BEST pita I’ve ever eaten, and everything else there is to die for as well; the falafel is my particular favorite. And upstairs, they have a hookah bar. What better college experience could you want?

My friend and I would eat in the dining hall our first year (we’re in our last now) and he would almost always get sushi and french fries. He ate his french fries typically with mayo and ketchup, and I told him one time to mix some wasabi in. The look on his face was priceless, I will never forget how big his eyes got. Good times.

My most memorable “dining hall creation” was pretty hot.
A friend of mine would always get sushi and french fries - wasabi with the sushi, and the mayo/ketchup with the french fries. One night I told him to mix them together and eat it with a french fry. He did and his eyes pretty much popped out of his head, and he drank his entire soda in one gulp. Good times.

Going to tweet this on @bakerhi!

My most memorable eating experience in college was definitely one of the first meals I ever cooked fo rmyself after moving to an off-campus (and non-dining-hall supplied) apt-it was a total failure but it inspired me to take cooking classes from professionals, my mom and friends! And all that learning and practicing helped and today I’m a pretty good chef!

College sophomore here! My most memorable college eating experience was during the massive snowstorm that hit Baltimore last year. My roommate and I were essentially trapped in our tiny dorm room. Luckily, we had multiple boxes of mac and cheese and several cans of veggie hotdogs, which we made into the most incredible one dish snow day meal ever using a hotplate. We ate it for the better part of a week… that’s how long class was cancelled for!

I’m an undergrad now, and I’m super excited about the new section of the website. My favorite thing to make are dutch babies and french toast. My roommate was born in Indonesia and had never eaten french toast before, so I taught her how to make it.

even though i went to college in a pretty small town, we had really excellent thai, indian, and vietnamese food!

My favorite food as an undergraduate was pasta. Easy to make and cheap!

My most memorable college eating experience…
The friends I made in my dorm during my sophomore year of college and I decided that the following year, we would instate Supper Club, a meal cooked by one of us and eaten together once a week. I was working as a Mentor in the dorm and just as I was getting ready to head over to my friends place for dinner, I found out I was on duty that night and wasn’t allowed to leave the building until 7am. I called my friends and broke the bad news and proceeded to sulk in my tiny little dorm room. Not long after, I heard a brigade of people walking down my hall and smelled the comforting scent of macaroni and cheese. My friends had packed the dinner into tupperware and brought Supper Club to me! Talk about great friends.

Ha! My school was the same way. Glad you’ve been drinking good wine though.

My memorable college concoction was coke and milk. Sounds kind of weird but back in the early 80s, dorm food left a lot to be desired. Conversely, pizza was my outside the dorm staple.

I’m love your site - just discovered it a few weeks ago, but I think it’s awesome =)

My favorite college dining experience was going out to dinner with my boyfriend for our one-year anniversary. We went to this little French restaurant on campus (we go to a school in the middle of a city, so we have odd things like fancy French restaurants in the middle of campus), called L’Albatros. Quite simply, it was the most delicious meal I’ve ever eaten in my life. It was way more expensive than either of us would either normally spend ($20 for a dinner entree), but it was ENTIRELY worth it. I had “Roasted cod with toasted garlic spatzle, sauerkraut, creme fraiche, and cornichon mayonnaise.” WOW. Made me want to move to France

My best dining hall experience was my first year of college at UVA. Every once in a while the dining hall did themed nights. On my birthday my first year, they randomly did a Vegas theme. They had all kinds of candy, themed dishes, and the biggest salad bar ever. Normally, I ate salad and cereal for dinner because the food was not so great. This night made my birthday feel more special. One of best meals I had at a college dining hall!

Mystery Meat… seriously, that is what it was called. Amazingly, they didn’t give out the recipe, go figure?

A group of us would frequent a small Lebanese fast-food joint every Thursday after our “Islam and the West” history class. An upper-level course, we spent most of class time discussing themes amongst ourselves and with the professor (as opposed to sitting through a lecture), and the conversation would continue over falafel and shwarma. We were an odd group, all quite different and taking the course for different reasons. We were not exactly friends, but colleagues exchanging ideas and opinions. And the food~my first foray into the world of hummus and babaganoush, was EXCELLENT! Favorite college memory, and one of my favorite dining memories!

I am currently in college and my most memorable cafeteria creation was making an ice cream cookie sandwich. You would think people would have thought of it but everyone I ran into was in awe. People came out of their way to ask where I had gotten it. I started an ice cream trend.

I’m a fan of your college page and I tweeted. Fingers crossed!

As many college students do, I often found myself complaining about the offerings of my college dining hall. But after one too many trips to the Cellar, a nearby restaurant that probably was responsible for fully half of my expenses throughout college (incidentally: favorite food as an undergrad was definitely the seasonal burrata appetizer at the Cellar), I decided it was time to take a minor amount of control over my dining experience. If it wasn’t pierogi day (my other favorite food as an undergrad), I would order an egg sunny side up from the grill, slap it on a piece of toast, pile it with a slice of tomato and cheese (provolone is best), and nuke it. It’s way, way better than it sounds I promise.

Most memorable college eating experience? Probably eating an entire pan of brownies with two roommates in one night…

Oh, and I’m a fan of Breville on facebook.

My most favorable college eating experience has been living off-campus (since Sophomore year) and in turn creating my blog, Sprinkled with Love (http://sprinkledwlove.com/). Although I was blessed to have a father who worked in the restaurant business for 25 years, I did not know how to cook very well before college and have learned a lot through trial and error. I think my new favorite food has to be brussels sprouts roasted in the oven. I can’t believe I’m say it…my toddler-self is spitting out her tongue in disgust but it is true! I’m obsessed and love them. They say your taste buds mature with age so I’ll blame that. Anyway, this Smart Oven would be a lifesaver in my college condo OR in (*hopefully*) my NYC apartment this summer. Thanks BGSK!

My favorite college is was BGO breakfast bagel sandwich on saturday and sunday mornings. Dark toasted everything with egg whites, sausage, and cheddar!

I, like many college students, lived on ramen. So much salt. So much bloating.

My favorite college meal was definitely grilled cheese. I even bought a mini sandwich maker so I could grill them up in my dorm room! But the best ones were from the dining hall - you can’t compete with the giant vat of melted butter they had to get the bread nice and crispy-buttery!

Favorite food as a undergrad, had to be comfort food in the form of my mom’s cooking. Ham pot pie, mashed potatoes, garlic green beans, roast chicken and waffles, beef stroganoff… Those meals coupled with a clean (safe) laundry room was heavenly!

My go-to dining hall option was to go to the salad bar and stock up on as many veggies as possible. I would them bring it to the stir-fry line and hand it to the cook to put in my stirfry. DOing this you get so many more options and and can munch on as many wok’d veggies as you’d like!

My favorite college food was when one of the eateries had wing night on Wednesdays. There were multiple flavor choices and I would see everyone I knew when I was there. YumMy!

I remember making lots of cup of noodles soup, that was all i could afford!

My most memorable college eating experience was during senior year, when the only things that could be found in the refrigerator of the apartment I shared with three other girls were ketchup, mustard and beer. And so was born the ketchup and mustard sandwich. Needless to say my refrigerator is much more well-stocked than it was then, and my cooking skills have drastically improved, but I still have one of those sandwiches from time to time and remember the good ol’ days.

Once I moved out of the dorms sophomore year, I made chicken parm almost every Sunday and then once I moved into a house full of people I would make a new recipe every Sunday and all my housemates would get together and eat!

My favorite dining hall food was the chicken dumplings. Every other Tuesday, our dining hall would serve chicken dumplings with the most delicious Asian slaw. Six delicious dumplings would be sauteed to order right in front of you and them laid on a bed of slaw that was dressed in soy and rice wine vinegar. My sorority sisters and I would always go to the dining hall for dinner after our meeting and get serving after serving of these dumplings. It was probably the best thing served on campus!

My go-to food as an undergrad was definitely ramen noodles - but not the traditional way. I loved to experiment with different ramen creations (minus the chemically-infused spice packet), and I would usually end up with some combination of sautéed vegetables in extra-virgin olive oil, spices, and parmesan cheese!

Most memorable cooking moment in college:I wanted to roast a chicken. But I was a newbie and didn’t know the difference between “roasting” and “broiling”. The recipe called for me to slather butter all over a chicken breast with rosemary and then roast it for about 25 minutes. The piece of chicken I used was bone-in and had skin. So after 25 minutes it wasn’t done. So I cranked it up to “broil” and the chicken lit on fire. I smartly opened the open which did not help the cause and only fanned the flames! Then my roommate came running upstairs to see what I’d done and we both realized that we didn’t have a fire extinguisher. So we just turned the oven off, kept the oven door shut and opened a bottle of wine.She laughed at me and finally the fire went out.
You may ask: “Well did you eat your burned chicken?”
The answer: Yes. Yes I did. Not all of it. But it was clearly a little crispy on the outside, but very moist on the inside.
I now always have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen ready to go.

I subscribed and now liked you on fb (dana rachel). I lived on oatmeal in college-even when I had a brand new, full sized kitchen. Come to think of it, I still live on oatmeal, even though I graduated 3 months ago..Back to grad school in August though, so I would LOVE this smart oven!

My favorite food in school was the self serve ice cream! Ice cream for breakfast, yes please.

My best college food memory so far happened the Monday before Thanksgiving this year we got about five inches of snow (which is a lot for Seattle), canceling classes and shutting down most of our dining options. So after many snowball fights we decided to cook up our own dinner, deemed the “Family Feast.” We didn’t have an actual turkey, but bought a roast chicken and tied it up with stuffing inside. We also made squash soup, mashed potatoes, two kinds of stuffing, sweet potatoes, dinner rolls, green bean casserole, one semi healthy salad, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, brownies, and the lovely college invention we called beermosas. Basically a massive feast in which everyone consumed more food than we thought was possible, leading to many food comas before we even started the dishes. We even decorated our friend’s room with tissue paper leaves and hand turkeys and served dinner on two bed frames converted into dining room tables. I’m not quite sure how we fit 13 people into one room, but it was certainly a feast to remember!

The lettuce in dining hall salad bars never seems quite up to par with produce standards, so early in my college dining experience I began crafting what was later known to my friends as “salad pile” — a loose conglomeration of vegetables, proteins and other assorted items heaped onto a plate; hold the lettuce. The standards for what goes into my salads are pretty loose — scallions, snow peas and tofu from the Asian noodle bar; grilled vegetables stolen off of pizza; diced tomatoes on nacho day. The resulting pile rarely resembles conventional depictions of a salad, but it has always served me well.

Most memorable college eating experience. Late, late night a friends apartment after hanging out and doing things college students do we were hungry and started to talk about food. Good food, not Domino’s pizza style but Mom’s home cooking. I had worked in restaurants before but never as a cook and had cooked for a few of my friends before and they knew it. One looked at me and said I was like the professor on Gilligan’s Island, I could take nothing and make a gourmet meal. Challenge. Fueled by the beverage of the evening I set upon the pantry search, nothing. This was a college apartment but not even any ramen. It was 2:00 AM and nothing was open. There was some flour, egg, butter and a head of garlic. PASTA. I had made it before, easy. Made my dough but wait, nothing to roll it with. Where there is necessity comes invention. We had wines bottles. I rolled out fresh pasta on the kitchen table with a wine bottle. Cooked the noodles up and tossed in melted butter and garlic. It was the best meal ever and the night is still brought up on occasion.

Most memorable college eating experience was definitely learning how to make an awesome Goulash!

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My most memorable college eating experience was having my mother teach me how to make all of her famous Greek dishes - yummy!

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