My kitchen adventures

Staying alone has meant that I have had to do a lot of things by myself, including doing the laundry, the dishes, cleaning the house and of course cooking! I've always been an armchair cook -- meaning, I've always had a theory on how to cook certain dishes -- but I've never got down to making them. Now, living by myself has given me a chance to try my had at cooking. Here are a few things I've tried my hand at

1) Bread and eggs: This is a basic meal. I've made this back home at Bangalore too. A nice, quick, basic meal.

2) French toast: Nana used to make this for us every evening after we got back from school. Making it brought back memories of my childhood and made me emotional. It also made me trip the fire alarm, cos I had forgotten to turn on the electric chimney. Hearing the damn fire alarm ring made me jump out of my skin!

3) Fried chicken: This was something I had never made before. I had bought some chicken during my last shopping trip to Loblaws with Jason, and it had been more than 2 weeks since I had bought it, and I was yet to cook it. The reason I was delaying it was that I wanted to buy some spices. But after putting it away for so long I finally decided to fry it. So I used some Tandoori mix I found and salt and fried the chicken. It came out pretty well, if I may say so myself :-), except for the excess salt that I had put :-)). All in all, it was a good learning experience and a tasty one too.

4) Rice and chicken curry: On my second trip to Loblaws, I picked up a sack of basmati rice and a premixed curry. So yesterday, I cooked the rice (rather, overcooked it, cos I put more water than needed) and stir fried some chicken pieces and added the premixed curry. It came out pretty well :-). Today, I am going to try one of my theories and cook chicken curry :-D. Lets see how that goes.

Damn, all this talk of food and made me hungry and its just 5:50 am!