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Mar. 8th, 2008 01:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisLOL at how I just (or, you know, half an hour ago when I originally wrote this) spent a good 2 hours cooking stir fry-ish goodness to eat for dinner. The veggies got sort of double steamed because I forgot to drain them before dumping them in the pan, so it took forever for the water to boil off, and that was after ages of boiling some of them, chopping others, opening cans of stuff and deciding it was old/gross etc. And then I ended up throwing it in with my salmon and rice anyway (those being what I was cooking the vegetables to eat instead of) because it was too salty by itself (fail, Alexandria, at remembering soy sauce is saltttastic), so I could have totally just saved the time and blown off the veggies and simply had more salmon and rice. But it's really good when rice/salmoned up to cut the saltiness, and it turned out to be enough for two batches (even without the fish/rice), so I've got some for tomorrow too.
Plus, my celery root was in the microwave trying to get soft enough to be mashable for more than an hour. It kept boiling down, I'd add more water, it'd boil down again, and no mushyness like I expected. I finally accidentally let it boil down too far so that it scorched in the middle and I had to give up, or I'd still prolly be messing with it. So that didn't work so well, but I'd never tried it before, so there may be some trick to getting it mashtastic that I'm missing or I may be expecting it to behave too much like potatoes and cauliflower when it won't actually mash up any farther than it did or some such.
But yay, cooking. I've been doing a lot more of that lately, which is good. Before, I tended to get into the habit of soup or salad for dinner, made almost the exact same way (can of soup with possibly extra broth added, salad of lettuce and italian salad dressing with mild variation of extra stuff--cheese, chicken, other veggies, etc--depending on what we had), every evening when I came home from the gym. I wasn't cooking until 12:30 am, though, which was a plus for that side. And it's not like much of what I'm cooking is all that varied (I can sum it up in one word--vegetables), but still. I've got a bunch of recepies I pulled off of the internets that I want to start trying--usually I just make things up as I go along, so it'll be interesting to actually try some different stuff.
The whole cooking thing is really due to the fact that I realized that I'm at a point in my life where I need to try as many different things as possible, because I feel like something about nowish with my brain is making me really open to trying new foods. Idk, I realized that not that long ago (while roadtripping for that scholarship interview with my dad, to be exact). Does anyone else ever get like that? It's odd, but not unappreciated.
Plus, my celery root was in the microwave trying to get soft enough to be mashable for more than an hour. It kept boiling down, I'd add more water, it'd boil down again, and no mushyness like I expected. I finally accidentally let it boil down too far so that it scorched in the middle and I had to give up, or I'd still prolly be messing with it. So that didn't work so well, but I'd never tried it before, so there may be some trick to getting it mashtastic that I'm missing or I may be expecting it to behave too much like potatoes and cauliflower when it won't actually mash up any farther than it did or some such.
But yay, cooking. I've been doing a lot more of that lately, which is good. Before, I tended to get into the habit of soup or salad for dinner, made almost the exact same way (can of soup with possibly extra broth added, salad of lettuce and italian salad dressing with mild variation of extra stuff--cheese, chicken, other veggies, etc--depending on what we had), every evening when I came home from the gym. I wasn't cooking until 12:30 am, though, which was a plus for that side. And it's not like much of what I'm cooking is all that varied (I can sum it up in one word--vegetables), but still. I've got a bunch of recepies I pulled off of the internets that I want to start trying--usually I just make things up as I go along, so it'll be interesting to actually try some different stuff.
The whole cooking thing is really due to the fact that I realized that I'm at a point in my life where I need to try as many different things as possible, because I feel like something about nowish with my brain is making me really open to trying new foods. Idk, I realized that not that long ago (while roadtripping for that scholarship interview with my dad, to be exact). Does anyone else ever get like that? It's odd, but not unappreciated.
