Cooking
22/08/08 20:31 Filed in: Daily Life
When it comes to cooking...it’s a rather complicated, mixed feeling. I don’t hate it but I rather not have to do it. It takes a lot of my sewing time away and that is just for one meal alone. I spent about 1-2 hours cooking one meal and yes, by the time I finished, I am usually starving.
Before marriage, I don’t need to cook because my dearest mother does a wonderful job for me. She always nagged at me and told me I need to learn for my own good but quite honestly, I thought I wouldn’t get marry until either late 30’s or ...never. Plus if someone else is already doing a fantastic job of it, there is no motivation for me to try. So, of course I suffered the consequences after I got married. I remembered for the first month or two, hubby and I ate out all the time and most of them are fast food like burgers. Needless to say, our weights went up the scale.
I realized to avoid looking like a sumo wrestler when I have no intention of having a career path in that direction and to save money, there is no other choice but to learn to cook. This was after one year of marriage. From knowing how to cook cup o noodles to steaks, chickens and even some veggies, I am rather proud of myself. For rice, hubby usually was the one that helped me out with our rice cooker but last month I learned how to cook rice without the machine and use simple pots and gas. I followed the rice instruction on the back of the rice bag and that’s just say I almost wanted to kill whoever wrote it. Two cups of water with half of cup of rice my axx! My rice came out all gooey. I was laughed at by my younger sister when I told her because she said she doesn’t know any Asians who can’t cook rice. Well, I proved her wrong. But I succeeded after my third try and now my rice came out perfect (tears~~~).
I think I still have a lot to learn when it comes to cooking....although I still prefer to have someone cooking for me.
Before marriage, I don’t need to cook because my dearest mother does a wonderful job for me. She always nagged at me and told me I need to learn for my own good but quite honestly, I thought I wouldn’t get marry until either late 30’s or ...never. Plus if someone else is already doing a fantastic job of it, there is no motivation for me to try. So, of course I suffered the consequences after I got married. I remembered for the first month or two, hubby and I ate out all the time and most of them are fast food like burgers. Needless to say, our weights went up the scale.
I realized to avoid looking like a sumo wrestler when I have no intention of having a career path in that direction and to save money, there is no other choice but to learn to cook. This was after one year of marriage. From knowing how to cook cup o noodles to steaks, chickens and even some veggies, I am rather proud of myself. For rice, hubby usually was the one that helped me out with our rice cooker but last month I learned how to cook rice without the machine and use simple pots and gas. I followed the rice instruction on the back of the rice bag and that’s just say I almost wanted to kill whoever wrote it. Two cups of water with half of cup of rice my axx! My rice came out all gooey. I was laughed at by my younger sister when I told her because she said she doesn’t know any Asians who can’t cook rice. Well, I proved her wrong. But I succeeded after my third try and now my rice came out perfect (tears~~~).
I think I still have a lot to learn when it comes to cooking....although I still prefer to have someone cooking for me.
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