"What's the interest?" you may ask. Well, it's cooking. Through out my whole life, I've seen friends with outstanding creativity in arts. I just envy them. I LOVE beauty, but i can't make any. Heck, my mom's an artist and she used to have her own galleries. I had a friend who can really make beautiful boards out of scrap, a friend who can craft writing pieces into a warp to another dimension, i have a friend who can write poems and literature as if she's Shakespear's reincarnation (exaggerating here), and a friend who draws like nothing in the world matters, yet her paintings made the world stopped a second. I mean OMG, why can't i be like them? What did my parents thought me when i knew nothing of this world? What skills do i really have? I WANT TO CRAFT BEAUTY..!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, after deep thinking (which happened a couple of years ago), i think i know what beauty i can make out of this God given B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L. world. Allah showed my burning spirit a lead. And two things i can show my art of beauty are PhoToGraPhY and COOKING....
I don't wanna talk much about my hobby on photography. But one quote took my interest.
"Photography is the Art of Painting with Light"I wanna talk about my fondness in culinary arts (hahah...nicely put).
Ever since i was a little boy, i always wanted to cook. I still remembered the time when i see myself in the future as a military chef. One that fights and kills and die and COOK for the country. I mean, what a nice thing to dream of.
Then i start to cook a bit. The first thing i cooked was plain rice. A good start. I started at 8. Something that most of my female friends couldn't do at the age of 13. Then it was omelette, sunny side up, American Breakfast set and so on. But it's usually light. Not so much of the seriousness. When ever i watched Junior Masterchef on telly, i'd be jealous of them coz i can't do what they did when i was the same age as them. Well, i do understand my family's economic crisis at that time. Pity my parents. May be good, may be bad.
Then, the hobby that's about to peak came to a halt. MRSM (a boarding school, which i attended for 4 and 1/2 years) gave me the big read STOP sign to such an interesting thing. Rather sad. But, what can i do? I can still occupy myself with crafting poems (which i had a whole book on my poems. People said that i was quite good at it, but i know it wasn't enough. No, u can't have it. It's private and confidential) and deciphering songs from The Beatles and Pink Floyd (Man it's HARD).
Every holiday, every chance i have to get home, I'll help out my mom and sometimes my grandmom. From there i knew how to cook some dishes like sambal and curry. I really cooked it for myself. But it was nothing really. I like to watch cooking shows aired at AFC or LTC. It's interesting to watch pros cook. They look so calm as if the pans, oil, fire, ingredients are their good friends. As if those things are themselves. And the techniques, BRiLLianT....!!!
So, last Saturday (11th August, 2012) was my first serious cooking. I cooked dinner for the whole family. It meant a lot for me. The things i cooked was these (the pics are from the URL where i got the recipes from. My cooking did looked the same, at least 85%)
Chili-Lime Chicken Skewer
Cherry Tomato Salad
Potato Cheese Salad
And my mom cooked baked macaroni and cheese that night. Well, it was tiring, but fun and meaningful for me. My next stop would be Lime Butter Salmon Fish n Chips with Homemade french fries of salt and vinegar.
These are Macaroons. Nice aren't they?
Now, still at home, i'm planning with my mom to cook Macaroons. They look so nice and colorful. Grande' chocolate filling Macaroons to be exact, the ones i want to bake. Maybe this Wednesday, InsyAllah.
So, that's my story on cooking. I like to use herbs, lemons, and lime in my cooking coz it usually tenders the oily taste, making eating much more heavenly.
If i happen to cook any, and u saw me doing so, just drop by and as for some. Usually i don't mind, unless there's something super special about it.
