TL;DR: IT WORKS!

How?

After the drop in my regular meat consumption I started to feel like no matter how much I eat, it never seems to soothe my hunger.
The solution was obvious, I just had to cook some meat.
Yet, there was one particular issue I had no idea how to deal with:

I’m Horrible at Cooking

If I manage to make scrambled eggs without setting the kitchen on fire, I’m more than happy with the result.
The lack of experience severely limited my ability to make a decent lunch/dinner, but we came here to do things better than we did in our lives before, so it’s time to put on all the safety equipment available and stay in the kitchen until you come out with a tasty meal.
I would rather not go in detail about the amount of struggle I went through during the procedure, since you’re here to pick up a little encouragement for your own journey, but I must say the 4th rule of being human was proven to be irrefutably true.

A lesson is repeated until it is learned.

The 9 Rules for Being Human

If I had a dollar for every time I burned myself with the splattering hot oil, I would be able to pay rent for the next 6 months without ever going to work.
In case if you happen to be a newbie at cooking as well, carve these words deeply into your brain: Hot oil and meat juice don’t mix.

There are a few other things in this post already, but if you only walk away with this one I’ll consider that a huge accomplishment.

Closing

The food ended up completely edible.
Honestly, considering the mistakes I made during the entire process, it’s still a miracle that the final product that landed on the plate turned out to be actual chicken, instead of cute little pieces of spiced coal.
I’m not gonna lie, the taste was far from what I expected, but there is plenty of time to improve that.

It took a week of ham&cheese sandwiches to realize the hidden potentials of cooking, but we managed to pass the exam with flying colors.

I believe there is a lot more to the art of cooking than a rookie like me could imagine, though if we decide to step a little further each time, adding just a small twist to the process, we’ll eventually end up making the most exquisite dishes with considerably less effort.

You know what?
Come back in 5 years and you might see me open my first restaurant.


PS: The outcome (~2 hour 15 minutes)

Take care,
Erik

28.01.2019 – Day 7