A documentation of my journey to improve my life
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After making possibly the best roast I’ve ever had, I was feeling pretty confident with my cooking skills. I mean sure my friend Drew saved me from destroying my roast and dinners for the next 3 days but I was the one who slaved away to make it work. Thankfully Drew’s American Test Kitchen cook book had done most of the trial and error for us so I just got to follow along and look like a pro. Now it was...
Over the last few days my cooking challenge has really started to build some momentum. After investing into some essential meal planning hacks, I spent my evenings in cultural exploration. First I got to prepare Salt Fish and Ackee, the national dish of Jamaica with my friend Daniel who grew up there. Then Brittney and I were treated to an amazing authentic Chinese cooking night with our friends David and Sophia who went all out with cool Chinese robes, samples of traditional teas...
Pan Fried Chicken, Risotto & Roasted Radishes Friday was finally here. I had survived my first working week of cooking and other than a few late nights, a lot of grocery runs and some hard relationship lessons everything had gone pretty well. This was the day I had been waiting for though. Up till now every dish I had attempted I had been at best winging it and hoping for the best. Now I was actually going to work with a...
Tuesday: Meal 2 – Greek Moussaka Having survived night one relatively unscathed I went into day two with much of the same approach (I’m a slow learner). It was late Tuesday afternoon when I decided it would be fun to make this week a cultural week. Upon hearing this my girlfriend decided we were having a Greek night so I went to work trying to find a nice authentic Greek dish. Since last nights dish was relatively simple (other than the...
