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Welcome to my guided tour on my experiment of going from a college A S R U E I T A E M
student eating off sandwhiches to a college student creating his first home cook
meal recipe. However before we start let me tell you why I decided to focus my T T P M L T N R E T
attention on overcoming my barriers for cooking. S E L B A T E G E V
I grew up in an atmosphere where there was little family time for set
down dinners which led to many cases of fixing whatever was in the fridge such A T P A S T R Y E A
as sandwhiches or prepped meals, rarely did we eat as P N T K A N S Y T E
a family due to all of our busy schedules. Time contin-
ues to be against me due to my course load and extracirricular activities however Eggs Vegetables Poultry
I had the opportunity to make myself accostume to the idea of setting aside time Pasta Desserts Meat
to cook. Fish Cooking Pastry
This opportunitiy arrived when I lived with my host family in Fun Grains Tasty
Copenhagen, Denmark. Here I daily had two family meals: breakfast and dinner.
I loved it! When I arrived back home I wanted to stick with the idea of family
meals and even talked my family into doing it more often while I was home for
the summer. However when I arrived back at school I was back to square one:
How Cooking Makes Me Feel
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So I decided for this area I would set aside time to cook both
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breakfast and dinner over 5 days. This required me to have needed in-
gredients, groceries, and a guide to help me through this process. I pur-
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chased The Easy-to-Use Beginner’s First Cook Book and a garnishing kit
and began to read through the instructions and guides as well as selected
techniques and meals to cook over the next few days.
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The first morning I cooked scrambled eggs, bacon,
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and wheat toast with a side of “Adam” and added a little
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pep in its step. I later found that day that I had more energy
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and that the day just seemed better. I found this trend to
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continue during the days I cooked breakfast.
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Ideally I wanted to cook dinner for 5 days by setting aside time
however on the 2nd day I could not do it for 1 day due to time. At first
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I felt a sense of failure however I kept in mind that I have the next day,
luckly on this day when I returned home I had leftovers. In addition to
cooking I attempted to create decorative garsishments through a pine-
apple, apple, cucumber, and red pepper. I came to realize that although it
looks ease it is in no way easy or cheap. Once a technique is used on an
ingredient, in many cases it cannot be used by another method. Practice 6
is still needed in this area.
Over the next two days I started to notice a trend: enjoyment, ACROSS
1 Cooking in a little fat over high heat, stirring continuously
accomplishment, control, RELAXATION, positivity, and a sense of 3 Bring liquid to a boil, then reduce heat so it bubles less frequently
challenge. However I adapted the experiment to get away from the book’s recipes and to create my own and further 4 Heat liquid till it bubbles
Preheat oven to
6 Cook food in a pan, barely simmering in a liquid
375 degrees. my sense of accomplishment as well as to further test what I have learned from the cookbook.
I adapted the experiment to include creating my own recipe, one that cannot be found in a book. I started DOWN
with a recipe my step-mom made: enchilada ring. From this recipes I added a few things of my own to test my 1 Cook food over boiling water
recipe, which can be see above. The ending result was GREAT. I not only created a new recipe but also tried to show 2 Cook in some fat
some creativity by being decorative with the lettuce and salsa in the middle. I had a friend over to taste test 4 Using no additional liquids and placing in an oven
and to obtain their perspective analysis and they said I was very good and they look forward to future cookings. 5 Used to make artful food decoration
Such a comment made me feel really good and helped validate my work.
Overall this was a GREAT experience and I am glad I decided to do this experiment. I am excited and even
Spoon mixture more interested in the challenges cookings has before me. I look forward to continuing on with my cooking habits
over rolls. by establish a cooking routine that consist of making dinner 2x a week, one being something new. This will allow
me to continue to be OPEN MINDED and OPEN to new things.
Combine Arrange crescent tri-
meet, angles in a circle on Cut top of red pep-
cheese, 13” baking stone over per off in a crown Mound
Bake lettuce
veggies, crushed goldfish. Bases shape and place
20-25 around
and mayo. overlapping, points fac- in the middle. Fill Cut and serve.
mins pepper.
ing outward. with salsa.