Hello, my friends!
Today I'll be talking about cooking.
Lately, I've been helping Mom make food. Sometimes I even make it. Often I just do little things, like shredding cheese or cutting olives. But then of course, when I make the food, I do everything, asking Mom for help along the way.
In my opinion, cooking is very fun and confidence-boosting. I enjoy helping my mom with the food and knowing that a little of my work went towards feeding everyone else. It's most confidence-boosting when I do it by myself. When what I made comes out well, it just makes me happy and proud of my work.
Cooking is more than just fun; it's a life skill. When I get older and live on my own, without my Mom to make my food, I'll have to either buy all my food ready-made (that'd be expensive) or I'll have to make the food myself. But the good thing is, I'll know how to cook...! And if someone comes over, I can make food for them. So by learning to cook now, I'm ensuring that I'll be able to make it on my own.
My failures in cooking, like any failures, help me learn. A few days ago, I made cookies using a chocolate-chip cookie recipe, without the chocolate chips and putting on crushed mints. While I was making it, I ran into a few complications: it called for brown sugar, but we didn't have any, so I mixed sugar with molasses. Also, our mixer was ruined when Mom tried to make marshmallows (yeah, we'll just buy store ones from now on), so I had to mix the dough by hand. I was using the smallest bowl and quickly running out of room in it. My hand was starting to ache, but I still needed 1/2 cup more flour! I decided, "Ehh, we'll live without it."
Without the flour, the dough was a little runny once it got in the oven. I had accidentally put too big of scoops on the cookie sheet, and they ended up running together. We ended up with huge, flat cookies. Then, when I put in the second cookie sheet, the cookies wouldn't cook. Mom ended up microwaving the two that wouldn't; they were very crunchy... Thankfully, they tasted good...
So, I learned from that experience a few things: Make sure your bowl is big enough. Make sure you have the right materials. Make sure you have the right ingredients. And make sure you use the right amount of the ingredients.
That's all for today! Bye...! ^.^
This has been submitted to the Christian Home eMagazine at The Legacy of Home under Young Adults
Cooking is more than just fun; it's a life skill. When I get older and live on my own, without my Mom to make my food, I'll have to either buy all my food ready-made (that'd be expensive) or I'll have to make the food myself. But the good thing is, I'll know how to cook...! And if someone comes over, I can make food for them. So by learning to cook now, I'm ensuring that I'll be able to make it on my own.
My failures in cooking, like any failures, help me learn. A few days ago, I made cookies using a chocolate-chip cookie recipe, without the chocolate chips and putting on crushed mints. While I was making it, I ran into a few complications: it called for brown sugar, but we didn't have any, so I mixed sugar with molasses. Also, our mixer was ruined when Mom tried to make marshmallows (yeah, we'll just buy store ones from now on), so I had to mix the dough by hand. I was using the smallest bowl and quickly running out of room in it. My hand was starting to ache, but I still needed 1/2 cup more flour! I decided, "Ehh, we'll live without it."
Without the flour, the dough was a little runny once it got in the oven. I had accidentally put too big of scoops on the cookie sheet, and they ended up running together. We ended up with huge, flat cookies. Then, when I put in the second cookie sheet, the cookies wouldn't cook. Mom ended up microwaving the two that wouldn't; they were very crunchy... Thankfully, they tasted good...
So, I learned from that experience a few things: Make sure your bowl is big enough. Make sure you have the right materials. Make sure you have the right ingredients. And make sure you use the right amount of the ingredients.
That's all for today! Bye...! ^.^
This has been submitted to the Christian Home eMagazine at The Legacy of Home under Young Adults
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