My first cooking experience!

I am really sick and tired of hotel and restaurant food. Have you guys lived in hotel more than 3 months and eat the restaurant food every day? At first, it was very exciting , but it dies very quickly!!


I did my first cooking yesterday

I was so scared of fire, but I finally managed to learn how to use the stove ...hahah...what is my first meal?  boiled corn and eggs!!  

but..but....[shadow=Green,left,300]It is the first step! [/shadow]

Yes Mimosa.  I have been there and done that!
There is nothing like a home cooked REAL MEAL!
Before we moved into our home we lived in the car for a few days until I couldn't handle it anymore then motels.

Even restaurant food delivered was getting gross!
Even cup-a-soup noodles was very appealing!


Bren :)

I know..I can not stand restaurant food anymore..nothing tastes good. I sort of miss Mommy :-(

anyone wants to teach me how to cook?
I can only boil egg and corn

any quick tip?

Mimosa

Buddhafly wrote (01/30/02 at 16:55:09):

author=Buddhafly link=board=chat;num=1012433500;start=0#1 date=01/30/02 at 16:55:09

How about using slow cooker to cook some soup or cereal?

Non-veg food

Corns or lotus or black beans and some pork meat using slow cooker.

Veg food - breakfast

Five grains rice using slow cooker

........... ::)


om-mani-pedmi-hom
Ileria

I dont have any slow cooker at hotel. I dont want to buy a lot of stuff :-( because I do move around..how can I carry the cookers with me all the time  ???

but...you gave me a good idea...vegetable soup.....

what's about fish? or meat? how do I cook them with water???

Mimosa

I do not know what I would do without my rice cooker!
Meats and fish can be fried!
What I like to do with rice is add any veggies to it.  My cooker has a steamer incert in it so I can cook rice and steam veggies at the same time.  

Then if I feel to I can add fried stir fry beef, or chicken.

Plus to make the rice more tasteful I can add beef broth, or chichen broth instead of water...These usually come in cans.
Also apple juice, orange juice, pinapple juice can be substituted for half the water.

Mine is called the rice cooker plus.  Made by Salton

Brenda

If you have ham, macaroni and cheese, you can make a simple but tasty meal... unless you're lactose intolerant, of course.  ;D I do that as an alternative to instant noodles. I can cook but I don't spend enough time doing it... just like my origami.  :P

mimosa wrote (01/30/02 at 20:53:27):

author=mimosa link=board=chat;num=1012433500;start=0#4 date=01/30/02 at 20:53:27

for fish , you can sauteed it with chicken stock. this should taste better than water. You can buy those canned chicken stock from the supermarket. Same goes for any meat.
Try beef , fish or chicken stock to add favour .

At the same time, add some vegetables to the stock...such as califlower, asparagus, peas, this should make a very
balanced meal for you.

Just need to slow boil everything for 10-15 minutes.  ;)

In Singapore, we have very spicy taste buds, so i prefer to use Thail Tom Yum stock....yum...yum......

::)
Hm...

Steam your fish in the rice cooker placing a small bowl with fish inside.

Cabbage rice or mix veg or seasoned meat rice

May want to add red boxthorn seeds to rice( good for the eye)

Brown rice is good.

Soup

corns n pork/chicken (may add red dates)
old cucumber n pork/chicken
ginger n tomato n fish (may want to use ikanbilis as the broth)
ginger n red dates n chicken

Desert

white fungus n lotus seeds n ginko nuts    or
green beans soup       or
red beans soup

Om-abeila-hom-kanchala-soha
Ileria
;D

I am only a novice cooker :-( Are you guys making it too hard for me...

I still cant tell if an egg is ready to eat or not. I keep opening up the lid and checking..seriously..how can I tell if the egg is boiled?

Mimosa

why are you at a hotel for three months? I know nothing about cooking. I wouldn't know what to do if I had a whole gourmet kitchen to myself!  :-/

I live in hotel because my job requires me to travel.

today, I got my egg boiled right :-) hahahah

taste good!!

Mimosa

Do you have a microwave in the hotel?

yes, I do have microwave.

my dinner now was popcorn :-(

I really dont feel like eating anything anymore...

Drinking water while working on my translation...
maybe, I should boil another egg....

Mimosa

Oh my oh my, this is so unhealthy!

Why dont u try

sandwich - chicken/pork/pork floss, tomato, cucumber, letus.

salad - celery, corns, apple,.....with thousand island/french dressing......etc.

Steam egg with micro oven (beat up the egg and put some pepper and sprinkle a little meat/mushroom/slice of carrot).

Is it better now?
:D

I know so I think that I will die very soon from being picky about food.

I went out today to play computer game with a freind and then
I went to cheesecake factory. have you been there? they do serve good food!

I had a good dinner..

I cannt really do what you mentioned..I check in/out hotel often..like next week, I will check out hotel again and go home for 3 days..and then come back....

cannt keep food in the hotel :-(

Mimosa

Ooooooooo! CHEEEEEESECAKES!!!  ;D  Me love cheesecakes. Boston, New York, as long as it's rich and yummy! What flavour did you try?

today there are so many microwave dinners! Why don't you just eat those. THey come in so many varieties, like salisbury steak, chinese food, turkey pie, lasagna, pasta etc. They only take 5 minutes in the microwave.

you see!! that is my problem! I dont like greasy food. to me, microwave food is too greasy...
yuck!!

I think that I just have to get used to the disguesting food....

Mimosa

I tried the coffee cheesecake! you know! cheesecake factory also serves excellent oriental food!! I had Tai food at the cheesecake factoy !! haha

then, I had French Kiss  (some kind of drink)

wonderful!!

Mimosa

Mimosa,

So my suggestion does not work, ya?

How about eating carrot/ tomato/ shitake mushroom uncook.
U need the vitamins and mineral of these food. Moreover, these food can be eaten raw and gives u a best nutrian  when uncook.

Tell us what u do not like.

Ileria
Om-abeila-hom-kanchala-soha

Ah! that will do it!! Yes, it will be very plain! I think that I can do it!!

good suggestion!!

I am going home for Chinese New Year, and then I will be back again! I will take your suggestion.

maybe,  I can put all the vegetable together for soup???

Mimosa

Cooked carrots give you 7 times more nutrients than raw carrots.
The reason is that cooking breaks down the cell walls which would otherwise be difficult for our stomach to digest.

However, do not overcook.