Oh @Ruby26 i have a track record of many kitchen mishaps, despite being considered a good cook by my friends 😅🤣. They are not mutually exclusive haha, so i hope that can be an encouragement for you also.
I have chronic fatigue whivh makes it especially hard to cook. I take a chair into the kitchen to sit on whilst at the stove, chop everything sitting down, etc. Everything i use has to be able to be dishwasher-safe for me to buy it now days too, not hand-washing because i cant sit down for that.
Pretty much this dish on Thursday had a fee hiccups you may be able to empathise and laugh with:
- needed to use cheese before expiry, hence the need to cook it
- went to shops on way home from outing to buy ingredients. But didnt have a recipe yet. But knew i needed onion so bought 3 onions. Knew i had spinach already.
- got home, found a recipe and read what ingredients. Realised i didnt have tomato. Also realised my cashews were over 2 years old. Very luckily my mum had tomato puree, and my cashews tasted ok still lol. Saved!
- then saw my cheese was 1kg and the recipe only needed 150g. Oh dear because i need to use all 1kg of cheese because its beyond the date by 2 days already. Ok, lets see how many multiples of the recipe i can make.
- spinach... well i only had about 3x the amount needed. And the onions i only had 3x also. The tomato puree i estimated at 4x. But the cheese... 6.6x recipe amount. Oh well, make do with what i have!
- spices... hmm i dont like whole spices because then i get a mouthful crunch on one 🥴. So ill use ground spices. But i have no conversion knowledge of how much to use 🤣 so i just gestimate the amounts and proportion to each other. Except cumin, i dont like cumin, so it just has a pinch only.
- onion. Cant be bothered to finely chop. Rouch chop will be fine. I dont care. Usually i do suoer fine chop with a pull-cord chopper but cant be bothered for one onion only (which later turned into all 3 didnt it!)
- hmm need to blend cashews and spinach... only have a hand pull-cord chopper. Ok that will have to make do. Not quite puree but good enough lol.
- oh, i used my saute pan like the recipe said. But.... then i made it a 3-4x batch and so it was overflowing and making it really hard to not get messy when stirring to prevent sticking and burning. But no way im making an extra dirty dish by getting a saucepan!
- ok cooking all done. Phew. Then the rice. First rice - weevles ewwwyyyy. Second rice, never gooded long grain basmati before so guestimate water level and time. Oopps not enough water, need to do some more after but all good got there eventually.
And tada! A successful meal despite the unpreparedness and chaos of not having all the ingredients in proper quantities lol.
