SED 2: Cooking

[lightofdaye]

The folks went to a dance tonight, that has food. So I was left to make my own tea. This means SED day 2 is devoted to my complete lack of culinary skills. Like thinking about how much ingredients will be needed before cooking. Or managing multiple hobbs/ the grill at once. Or not switched the bottom oven on as well as the top and roasting a couple of empty oven trays.

I was attempting welsh rabbit. Which is like fancy cheese on toast. melted butter, cornflower, bit of milk lots of cheese. Simply right? I have no figured the nack of adding flour to melted butter and it not ending up lumpy.

still that much cheese makes anything edible in my opinion.

Any cooking stories f-list? Greatest successes? Silliest failures?

Comments

[nutmeg-44.livejournal.com]

I have moderate cooking skills. I would call myself proficient. I basically wouldn't starve but I'm no great chef. I learned by trying to cook my favourite foods.

I think that would be a good way for you to learn. Make a list of your favourite foods and find simple recipes online for them (short prep time, small ingredients list etc) then just practice. That is literally the only way to get better. There will be lots of burned food and busted pots and pans in the process but when you finally get it, it's amazing. And never discount getting help from the store (canned sauces, pre-made pie crusts etc). They really help.

Funny story? I remember one summer, me, my step-sister and a 'cousin' were home during the day. I was about 18 and I was reheating some pasta+sauce that we had made the night before. Not sure why I didn't take the easy (microwave) way out but I was reheating on the stove. My tiny attention span completely forgot that it was there and it started to burn. That still didn't jog my memory and I remember all of us were making snide comments about the neighbours not being able to cook and burning things etc. Then I remembered I was hungry, went into the kitchen and saw the completely black pot on the stove... It was so funny and so shaming. Still my favourite cooking fail story.

[lightofdaye]

Thanks for the advice. Online recipes are how i learned my welsh rabbit. Though they sometimes come with incomprehensible amercian measurements :P like a cup. How much is a cup? :P

Ha!Whoops! I've burnt things to a crips before! Most often when accidently setting a microwave oven to microwave instead of oven when it had metal in. Oops.

[nutmeg-44.livejournal.com]

I assume you would prefer the measurements in metric (which I am terrible at) so in that case just find measurement conversions like this one online. Just google and convert. It won't be that bad.

I've learned my lesson after that pasta incident but it is still a learning process. My tiny attention span gets the better of me.