At first, I didn't like cooking by myself at all. I have only one hotplate, not one single centimeter spare place to work on, the gas stinks, some restaurants out there are impossibly cheap... and I won't even start about the junk the previous tenant graciously left me as so-called cooking stuff and that I mostly kicked in the trash bin on my more enterprising days. Imagine my mood when I discovered filthy ubercheap frying pans (that I tried to scrape for about ten to fifteen minutes before I finally threw in the towel - or in this case, the sponge), half-melted soup bowls (don't ask me, just... don't. I can't even imagine how that one happened!) and spatulas, some of the "melted spots" even looked like claw traces (...there are no words!), plus the unwashed rest. I love the girl that left me such a pleasant note to contact her whenever I have any questions or need an advice more and more with every day that passes and the more I decide to clean up my room once and for all.~♥
On the other hand, throwing away every tiny little teensy tidbit that reminds anything remotely eatable (olive oil with a date of expiry until may 2007, bottles with a few milliliters left, or my very favorite: an open package of pan cake mix powder with (hopefully just) flies happily building their nest in it - still wondering why I threw everything away without even looking twice in the end?) has an interesting side-effect as well: With no supplies left at all, you suddenly get the irresistible urge to fill your meager storage place up with those many yummy things you can find in your neighborhood supermarket!
...or, uhm, well, I guess at least I do...
No wonder that today, with a shiny new frying pan and all, I decided to expand my culinary experiments that basically consisted of spaghetti with japanese mushroom sauce, spaghetti with tuna sauce (one of the few leftovers from that lovely girl I ate up after all), spaghetti with tomato sauce, scrambled eggs, spaghetti with carbonara sauce... and instant miso ramen. Uhm, one single hotplate, remember? You can say I perfected the spaghetti-with-sauce-on-a-single-hotplate-technique, not everybody can pretend that![/childish pout]
ANYWAY.
I'm not too unhappy with today's result in Culinary Adventureland although I'd prefer not to mention that I basically only cooked the fry-some-vegetables-then-add-a-ready-to-serve-sauce version of a meal, and as an absolute premiere since my arrival, even the rice cooker played along nicely and produced me some hot and completely eatable well-cooked rice. Will try again the same receipt tomorrow, eggplants and carrots and minced meat plus spicy sauce on rice.
Even better: my very first self-made okonomiyaki!~♥ For some reason okonomiyaki always had that "undoable" feeling for me once, but when I stumbled upon an okonomiyaki package special promotion at our local supermarket with Claire (the other one from Paris) earlier this evening, we didn't hesitate for long and decided to have our first joint cooking evening. And lo, okonomiyaki isn't that hard to make, it's basically just mincing cabbage, mixing in the special powder mixes and the raw eggs, then frying all of that in a frying pan (when you don't happen to have a hot plate) in the best pancake shape you can manage, that's all. Plus cooking with and for two people is so much more fun than all alone for yourself in your tiny dark room, I'd love to do that again!
And now, it's definitely sleeping time, and instead of getting my sleepy ass up to send away one paper to that one professor over in France (the deadline would be today...), I'm pondering about next days menu and daydreaming over the pots and pans I could buy for even more japanese food. *headdesk* Oh well, tomorrow's still another day and we heard about that paper and deadline only very recently after all, so I guess it should be okay to be one or two days late...;>_>
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sayonakidori) wrote,
cheerful
