Long story short

[aesmael]

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

Made food today. It did take a long time, with many relative travails. Slightly incorrect ingredients (the wrong fish), accidentally used all the prawns instead of half, when other half was intended to be used by others for cooking. Lots of mess made, and the sause refused to thicken.

And yet... it turned out to be a rather tasty dinner. Hoki instead of whiting, shrimp paste and sauce, couple of vegetable sides. Enjoyable to eat despite many, many misgivings. But I'm not making it again.  There would be photos if I hadn't lost my camera, and that's a shame.

Despite how long it takes me and the mess needing cleaning, it does feel good to be making food again.

Comments

[coniferous_you]

Sounds like chaos but, for what it's worth, I've never followed a recipe directly. I often am a bit more strict with baking, partially because I'm less sure about it and partially because you can only mess around with flour amounts so much, but when I'm cooking I just add and replace whatever I want until I get something that tastes good. Initially, this just came from making good recipes be vegetarian, but now the hammer can pretty much fall on any ingredient.

Of course, this method is terrible if you like a concoction and ever want to make it again.

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

I tend to panic lots when cooking, but so far things nearly always come out well even if they don't seem like they will. Which is relieving, very.

I try to make recipes vegetarian too if they're needlessly not, but not with so much commitment as to turn meats into non-meats, mainly only extends as far as turning meat-based stocks into vegetable ones if nothing else in the recipe violates vegetarian conduct.

Ah well. I hope I am getting a feel for cooking by doing this.

[coniferous_you]

I can't take all the credit for becoming fully invested in cooking. When I was 17, I had to learn how to cook vegetarian so that I would be allowed to be vegetarian.

Anyway there will always be mishaps and burnt soup, but getting a feel for cooking will serve you well when you are living on your own!