Cooking Adventures

I have started cooking to survive. This is because I am no longer with my parental units. Below are multiple attempts at creating edible foods within the past week.

Bok Choy:

Attempt 1: Success

1/4 bag of baby bok choy, fried with 1 clove of garlic. Add salt and soy sauce. 

Rated: 3/5 (edible)

Attempt 2: Fail

Same ingredients and procedure as attempt 1, only this time I added oyster sauce. Problem was that I did not cook for as long of a time so some of the bok choy did not fully cook. Later used to make fried rice. 

Rating: 2/5 (Can be force fed)

Chicken

Attempt 1: Fail

Baked in oven at 375 degrees F for ~1 hour. Then smothered in chicken broth hoping that it might taste good. Realized mid-way through that chicken was not fully cooked. Proceeded to microwave it in hopes of cooking it through. Did not work as intended. 

Rating: 1/5 (Not edible)

Attempt 2: Unknown

I intended to cook chicken some other way yesterday but I was lazy and went out for dinner instead.

Crepes

Attempt 1: Success

1 egg, 1 cup flour, 1 1/2 cup milk. Cooked in butter greased pan. Topped with strawberries, whipped cream, chocolate chips and honey. 

Rating: 5/5 (No leftovers)

Cucumbers

Attempt 1: Success

Half a cucumber fried with pork pieces. Added soy sauce and salt.

Rating: 4/5 (Ate it all)

Red peppers

Attempt 1: Success

Stir fried red peppers with onion and pork pieces. Added salt and hot sauce.

Rating: 4/5 (Will not last in fridge for another day)

Lamb Soup

Attempt 1: Success

Lamb slices (like the ones used for hot pot), baby bok choy, half an onion, ginger and green onion. And water. Added salt and soy sauce.

Rating: 5/5 (Must make again)

Let no one doubt my culinary abilities

So today was mother's day. Instead of spending money buying things my mom probably will never use, I decided to make her something really useful. Like a cheesecake. It's useful because it fills the tummy with cheesy goodness. And because I've perfected my cheesecake technique over the years of practice creating less extraordinary cheesecakes.

But today I created perfection! Not really but it looked really pretty:

Actually it was so nice that I became slightly obsessed with it for a few minutes. Taking some more pictures of it's beauty.

Then I realized I forgot the icing sugar I bought earlier, so I added that:

It didn't really look anymore impressive than I already was. Still I took more pictures.

Then my father started looking at me strangely for taking so many photos of this cheesecake. Sure I realize it's not the most amazing cheesecake ever made, but for those who've had my cheesecake before, they'll know that I don't usually decorate my baked goods. I always find that a waste of time since well... it was going to get pretty ugly when it's all in your stomach anyways.

But it was mother's day today, and I had berries. So I figured why not give topping the cake a try. Best. Idea. Ever.

Funny though that the actual cheesecake tasted the same (actually not really; usually my cheesecakes are plain, I added some berries to the base of this one), only having the toppings there made it look much better. And it did add a nice addition to hint of berry in the actual cake. Funny how food can look so much more appetizing with just a few final touches. I shall keep this in mind when I am entertaining guests in the future and/or making more cheesecake.

Next task: Oreo cheesecake. A recent trip to a little cake/coffee house has somewhat inspired me. Figure it won't be as good as the one I ate, but good nonetheless.