I love to cook.
However, I have very little experience actually cooking. I have watched a lot of people who know how to
cook and I have learned what I can from those people.
In coming to Ireland I decided to just go for it and cook whenever
possible. I thought I would share a few
of my successes and failures with you.
Day 1: we made pasta with tomato sauce.
The pasta is easy. Or
so I thought… There were two important
things that I forgot. 1: you have to stir noodles or they clump together. 2:
pasta doubles in size when cooked. To be
honest it could have gone worse, the first day of noodles were great. It was the leftovers that were pretty much
one solid mass. Cooking noodles really
is pretty easy, you just can’t totally forget about them, as I did.
The sauce is the fun part, so here is what you do. You start with oil (I used olive oil but vegetable
oil works too) on low heat(3 out of 10 was the setting that worked for me) and
chopped up garlic (I use about half a bulb but I love garlic so you can change
that by your preference). After say five-ish
minutes, you add chopped onion, I used a little over half of a baseball sized
onion. You let that simmer (stirring it occasionally)
and as you are doing that you cut up 3 tomatoes. The tomatoes should be cut up fairly well, no
bigger than a piece you would put on a salad.
After adding the tomatoes, you can pump the heat up (not too hot, medium
hot-ish is good I went 7 out of 10.) You stir that a lot as it cooks. Then I added a little sauce from a jar (just
for color… I think.)
If there is a message to be gained from this story it is
this: don’t get so caught up in the new exciting things that you forget the
fundamentals that you rely on.
As usual, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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