This past semester, my friends Jess and Brian and I got together in the St. Tom's kitchen for cooking lessons every Monday night. I cartooned some of the recipes we made -- they're designed to introduce basic cooking techniques that can be varied to create a whole bunch of cheap (yet healthy and nommy) grad student meals.

Cooking with Mel: Jess & Brian edition by Mel Chua

The recipe cartoons caught on, and I ended up drawing more of them for a service project this past May. A group of us from St. Tom's helped the kids from the local urban ministry cook a St. Patrick's Day dinner for their families. The last recipe comic features all the Purdue students who participated (yes, I actually polled people on their favorite fruits). Recipes from this sheet are from John Mohoric; I'm just the artist.

Dinner recipes from St. Tom's ESTEEM 2014-2015 by Mel Chua