I do not know how to cook

[afuna]

And I have been scared to learn, so I am determined to do so at some point in this next week.

So far, I have:

• cut carrots (it looks easy! I did not realize it was possible to do it horrendously badly! But I did it anyway! (both the cutting and the horrendously badly!) )
  
  
• cut chicken into chunks (across the grain. or the, the, whatever you call the texture. I think I scared people with my knife. BUT. I did it anyway ahaha )
  
  
• mixed chicken in the thing you coat it in before cooking (in this case, dab of rice wine, black pepper, sesame oil, soy paste. Then some corn starch afterwards, to keep it tender, I think (sesame oil on my hands smells so very good) )
  
  
• rejoiced over not yet wrecking dinner \o/
  
  

PS. Have not yet touched the stove.

Comments

[amaliedageek]

Cooking is a good: you can eat meals you'd never be able to justify in a restaurant, you can be sure that the ingredients you don't like/can't eat don't show up in a dish, and there's something strengthening in difficult times about being able to walk into the kitchen and know that you can feed yourself/those with you.

And then there are days when you just want minions to bring you a pizza. That's okay, too.

Don't be afraid of screwing up. Don't be afraid of wasting ingredients. Like yarn, most of the time it's a hell of a lot cheaper than therapy and at the end of it, you've got something tangible to point at and say "I made that."