Culinary Arts!

The culinary arts! Something that I have always desired to learn about, feeling incompetent not knowing the first thing about the kitchen, except obviously how to boil some noodles and scramble some eggs.  My mother has never been a chef and does not have a large conviction to prepare much food for the family, at least not on a daily basis. It has been every man for themselves for a long time. With this unfortunate predicament one would guess that each individual would have developed some sort of skill, but once again no such luck has struck, at least for me. Even some attempts of cooking from a recipe has not turned out as fortunately as expected. As anything in life, hard work is ahead in order to try and salvage a part of my womanhood.

From the start of my culinary career, which is only about since the beginning of this school year, a lot has already been learned. Such as there is a difference between mixing and folding items into batter. Almond Poppy Seed Muffins, from the box, require that the poppy seeds be folded into the mix and no mixed, the reason being that if you mix them the seeds will all congregate at the bottom of the batter instead of being evenly distributed. My best success other than the muffins has been no bake cheesecake! Easy and delicious! With simple ingredients of cream cheese, vanilla, sour cream, cool whip and sugar one cannot go wrong. Add some blueberries on top and you have a tasty treat for the next day. The baked cheesecake is yet something that will be experimented on later.

One major actual food success has been soy pizza! A strange thing to be called a pizza considering it has no cheese AND no tomato sauce the invention is delicious and something I can actually ingest without suffering! Yes, being lactose intolerant is an awful thing. An addition of olives, spinach, tomatoes, and two kinds of peppers makes the pizza even better. Taking no longer than an hours work a delicious dinner is on the table.

Hopefully with plenty of experimentation and time one day I shall know how to cook a variety of things, and have the actually be edible!