Monday, August 29, 2011
Sometime life will give you really ugly sour lemons
Oman brings out the cook in me. When I’m here I hardly ever feel like cooking. My mental status has a lot to do with cooking. When I am happy I cook. When I am sad I just bum around, sleep, and watch A LOT of nonsense. The other reason would be that I have all my utensils back home and it’s so much easier to cook in a kitchen you are comfortable with. But the biggest reason of them all would perhaps be my student budget :D My dad supports me a lot when it comes to cooking. He basically has gotten me everything I’ve ever asked for, for which I’m so very grateful. Ingredients are the core to any good food and without my dads willingness to spend and take me around looking for tiny minute things I would not be able to make most of what I do.
This summer I had a few hits and misses; a few recipes that I will keep in the bag for later and some that I am slightly afraid to try :S
My friend Simone and her sister Cherisse were in town staying with me for a while and I decided to take up the courage to make lasagna; something I don’t remember ever making in my life; something that I am really really afraid of.
Surprise surprise it turned out horrible. I honestly don’t think I understand the whole concept of lasagna. If I used a no cook/no bake lasagna sheet how do I get the top most sheet to cook while baking? Grrrrr and plus I made a fish lasagna, which was relatively mushy. Sigh so one miss there! Thankfully Sim and Cher were nice enough to eat it. I did however make pumpkin soup which has always been the tastiest and easiest soup to make, ever since Sim and I made it earlier this year. Pumpkin soup will always stay in the bag :D
The other HORRIBLE miss was pumpkin and spinach rotolo. So I was having some friends over and I wasn’t content with searching only paella so I decided to make the rotolo. It was very RISKY! I knew it from the onset. I had never made pasta from scratch and I was making a vegetarian pasta dish for a bunch of guys. So I started rolling the pasta and it was horribly dry and tough, so I thought ‘ok you don’t want to screw this up. Start over’ so I redid the dough and it was the same again and this time I was thoroughly confused. I continued and it became worse. By this time I was behind schedule so I rolled it and put in the pumpkin, spinach and ricotta rolled it and put it to boil. Well as you’d expect, it was a FAIL!! The pasta did not cook AT ALL! I cut it and it was tough and disgusting which was really really depressing because I had people over. Anyway Marie salvaged it by cutting them up and sticking them in the oven. The dough was tough but atleast it was eatable. I don’t think it went down very well with the
crowd as well. They didn’t seem to like the filling.
I really do wish I could go for a pasta making class. I frantically want to learn how to. Rotolo…. Yes I want to try it again but the filling I loved (Im a big pumpkin and ricotta fan) Ill definitely used that again for cannelloni or something.
This summer I had a few hits and misses; a few recipes that I will keep in the bag for later and some that I am slightly afraid to try :S
My friend Simone and her sister Cherisse were in town staying with me for a while and I decided to take up the courage to make lasagna; something I don’t remember ever making in my life; something that I am really really afraid of.
Surprise surprise it turned out horrible. I honestly don’t think I understand the whole concept of lasagna. If I used a no cook/no bake lasagna sheet how do I get the top most sheet to cook while baking? Grrrrr and plus I made a fish lasagna, which was relatively mushy. Sigh so one miss there! Thankfully Sim and Cher were nice enough to eat it. I did however make pumpkin soup which has always been the tastiest and easiest soup to make, ever since Sim and I made it earlier this year. Pumpkin soup will always stay in the bag :D
The other HORRIBLE miss was pumpkin and spinach rotolo. So I was having some friends over and I wasn’t content with searching only paella so I decided to make the rotolo. It was very RISKY! I knew it from the onset. I had never made pasta from scratch and I was making a vegetarian pasta dish for a bunch of guys. So I started rolling the pasta and it was horribly dry and tough, so I thought ‘ok you don’t want to screw this up. Start over’ so I redid the dough and it was the same again and this time I was thoroughly confused. I continued and it became worse. By this time I was behind schedule so I rolled it and put in the pumpkin, spinach and ricotta rolled it and put it to boil. Well as you’d expect, it was a FAIL!! The pasta did not cook AT ALL! I cut it and it was tough and disgusting which was really really depressing because I had people over. Anyway Marie salvaged it by cutting them up and sticking them in the oven. The dough was tough but atleast it was eatable. I don’t think it went down very well with the
crowd as well. They didn’t seem to like the filling.
I really do wish I could go for a pasta making class. I frantically want to learn how to. Rotolo…. Yes I want to try it again but the filling I loved (Im a big pumpkin and ricotta fan) Ill definitely used that again for cannelloni or something.
This is what the rotolo was SUPPOSED to look like ;
:(
BUSY BEE
I've been really busy.
I was hoping on cooking alot and taking lots of pictures but as usual; i ended up cooking but didnt take any pictures. i dont quite understand why i constantly do this!!! So as lousy as it seems im going to have to tell you about what I’ve done without any pictures L
So this summer was my brothers wedding… in Sudan. Had the best experience ever and ate some amazing food! I had no expectations going there and I had the time of my life.
I had some really really good feta too!!! :D i really didnt want to embarass myself with my cheese addiction but it was almost impossivle to stop eating!... (im salivating thinking about it) plus i had these pickled olives with this crumbly feta that was perfect.. not too salty ohhhhhhhhhhh... it was brief heaven!!
I was hoping on cooking alot and taking lots of pictures but as usual; i ended up cooking but didnt take any pictures. i dont quite understand why i constantly do this!!! So as lousy as it seems im going to have to tell you about what I’ve done without any pictures L
So this summer was my brothers wedding… in Sudan. Had the best experience ever and ate some amazing food! I had no expectations going there and I had the time of my life.
I had some really really good feta too!!! :D i really didnt want to embarass myself with my cheese addiction but it was almost impossivle to stop eating!... (im salivating thinking about it) plus i had these pickled olives with this crumbly feta that was perfect.. not too salty ohhhhhhhhhhh... it was brief heaven!!
In other news im in my final semester and as much as i love the thought of finishing up with uni for a while im haunted with whats next... work?study?where?how?WHAT WILL I STUDY??? Should I be completely psychotic and do something in culinary??Sigh if only. I really wish I could ditch this entire architecture thing and do something that I really would feel happy doing. Questions questions… never answers. I suppose in someway I know the answers myself. I’ll probably have the courage to quite something I spent 3 years doing and completely redo my degree again in something completely different.
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