13 Days Late

While eating my dinner of pistachios and chips & salsa I realized something. I can't cook. If it comes pre-assembled or pre-packaged, I'm all over it. If I have to come up with something on my own, I'm TERRIBLE. There are a couple things I know how to make (Italian chicken and homemade mac & cheese) that actually turn out edible.

Can I interest you in a burger, extra well done on the outside & practically raw on the inside? No? How about loaded mashed potatoes that are so thick you might as well eat paste? Runny pancakes? Chicken with too much seasoning???

Don't get me wrong, I've tried. I would LOVE to cook and cook well. I just don't see it in my future. I love the thought of cooking. I actually like to cook. It just so happens that 95% of my food the dog won't eat.

One of the first things I "learned to cook" was grilled cheese. Everyday in middle school I would cook a grilled cheese sandwich, make tomato soup & watch Fresh Prince. One day, I was heating up the pan and getting out my ingredients (and by ingredients I mean bread, butter & american cheese). With my back turned I caught a whiff of something and turned around. The stove was on fire. I turned on the wrong burner and a tupperware bowl had caught on fire (who knew this was even possible?) I tried to smother the fire with a towel, which caught on fire. All I could think was "Stop. Drop. Roll." I knew that stopping, dropping & rolling wouldn't do shit for the towel & bowl on fire so I grabbed a cup and drenched it. Then I started flipping out because I knew I was going to get a "safety in the kitchen" talk from my mom as soon as she walked in the door & smelled the kitchen.

So aside from the mac & cheese and chicken, the only thing I've successfully made in the kitchen was a small fire and food my dog won't eat.

Sam teases me all the time about it because I'd be fine eating cereal for dinner. He doesn't consider it a meal unless there is meat (which is another thing, I was a vegetarian for a long time and although I eat meat now, I can still go without it). It's a good thing that not only does he love to cook, but he's really good at it. He comes up with these great ideas that actually turn out.

While writing this post, I just decided that my New Year's Resolution is to learn how to cook edible food (okay, maybe not my New Year's because I should have done it 13 days ago.) I want to learn to cook from recipes that don't come on the back of a box, but actually from a book.

Wish me luck. I better find a fire extinguisher.

<3,
Rose