Restarting my cooking adventure!

I am pretty adventurous in the kitchen. I love to come up with some good ideas for food. For example: Yesterday, I had four brioche buns with pulled pork. But before I could eat, I had a brainwave: What if I put the buns in the oven for about a minutes time? Maybe that will improve the experience.. It did! The buns were just on the light crispy stage, that I consider the sweet spot! Lemme tell you, it was amazing! It made me think about what else to make. I had some chicken strips in the fridge, and I have a one-person meal of a dish we here call svensk pølseret. Translated to English, it's 'Swedish sausage dish'. It's VERY tasty! It has sausages (obviously), potatoes, onion and a special sauce that's so damn tasty! Anyway, I was wondering how chicken would taste in that dish, so I cooked up some chicken strips, and threw them in the fridge for tomorrow. I will then take half of the chicken and mix it into the sausage dish, just to see how it will taste. I am NOT going outside tomorrow, since I did some food shopping today. I bought enough food for five days, so I am good! And yes, I also bought some more to drink, since I was running low.

Now I just need to figure out what to eat the rest of the week. I have a frozen meal that I can eat one day, and I have some fish and chicken in the freezer, that I can cook up. I also have a bag of hash that I can cook up. For those of you that don't know what hash is, it's a culinary dish consisting of chopped meat, potatoes, and fried onions. The name is derived from French: hacher, meaning "to chop". It originated as a way to use up leftovers. In the USA by the 1860s, a cheap restaurant was called a "hash house" or "hashery.". Put some ketchup and a fried egg on it, and it's just to DIE for! Well, not LITERALLY to die for, but you get the meaning. I hope. Finally I also have a very Danish dish, that consists of rice, meat balls and a curry sauce! Great comfort food, particularly these days where it's cold and the weather is bad!

I have never really been a good cook. My parents never really taught me to cook. I had my first real cooking experience when I moved to Scotland in 2014. It was a HUGE wake-up call for me. Suddenly I had to do everything myself. I guess I was a pretty oblivious person, now that I think about it.. Anyway.. I mainly lived on frozen food, at least for the first five months. After that, I thought 'I don't want to eat frozen food things forever', so I upgraded to nuggets and fries, and then I branched out to steaks and fries. Lots of fries, for some reason. They are cheap and everyone loves them. Did I eat veggies? Of course! But not as much as I should have done. It's the same story now that I am in Denmark. The last time I ate any sort of vegetable, was when I had cucumber on my lunch last week. Wow, I really need to just eat a salad at some point.

My roommate is, according to himself, an EXCELLENT cook. I beg to differ! For instance, when he cooks pasta, he puts oil - yes oil - into the water. When I suggested that the only thing you really need to cook pasta is water and salt, he was ADAMANT that it was wrong, and his way was the correct way that all the chefs cook pasta. I know a few Italian people who would go 'Mamma mia' if they saw how he cooked pasta. But each to their own, I suppose. If he wants to use oil to cook pasta, then that's what he will use. The pot just gets VERY greasy and yucky after cooking with the oil in, whereas my pot will just be wet. I also finally learned how to cook rice - because I use boil-in-bag rice . Just follow the instructions, and the rice will be perfect every time.

I'm sorry this blog is a bit long, but sometimes I have a lot to say. Mostly about nothing, but today was about food! By the way, if you have any suggestions for recipes, please let me know in a comment. I'll then cook it and let you know how it was. Just don't make them expensive or super tricky. I am still a novice in cooking. Somewhat.