I’ve cooked three meals (1, 2, 3) already and as good as they’ve turned out they also caused me and my girlfriend Brittney a lot of stress. The first couple nights I was scrambling to run around town to get ingredients last minute (some speciality items taking me over an hour to find) and cooking took between 40 mins and almost 3 hours! I wanted this month to be fun and instead I’ve been causing myself anxiety and causing Brittney and I to fight a lot due to serious ‘hanger’ issues (a hangry woman is a dangerous one).

Last night I learned how to cook an awesome Tofu Pad Thai at my friends Justin and Alex’s house and it was a whole new world of cooking. We laughed, had a few drinks and made an amazing meal. The stress and chaos of scrambling to get a great recipe cooked was gone! This is how I want the rest of my month to look like. Good time, good friends, and some great new cooking skills.

Cooking Challenge Call to Action

This is why I’ve decided to make a ‘Cooking Challenge Call to Action’ for my friends and family. Who has a good recipe they want to share, who wants to do some cooking together and teach me some of their pro home cooking skills?

This week I’ve been trying to do a Cultural week (different recipes from different cultures everyday), next week I’m planning a Budget week (easy recipes that taste good and don’t cost too much), and the following week I’m hoping to do a Healthy Eating week.

Please reach out, comment below, or post or tweet me on social media and lets make this a social cooking month where we all learn to how to be better cooks.

Sincerely,

Ryan Lancaster
Life Upscaler