Doing It Right First Time

I watched Masterchef the first time, but did not like the winner as she was so nasty in her attitude about her competitors. I suspected that someone like her would sabotage the other competitors and might not be that good running a restaurant. Maybe they have improved the show and talked to the competitors. So i will see . Anyway with stew it have trouble with the seasonings. I can't have much salt and yet I want it to be flavour able. Then there are the vegetables I tend to get the proportions wrong or add too many.

Which Masterchef and what season is th I know there are a lot of people very selfish and sabotaging others so that they can win the competetion. But in the kitchen, they cannot really be selfish because everybody should be accountable in every dish. A good restaurant kitchen have a good chef who can work together in order to achieve the desirable outcome. I just had no idea how to make good stew. I watch it a lot of time on TV and yet I couldn't even understand it. I think unless I try to make it, then I will understand it.

Have you watch Master Chef? It is about someone like us compete in a cooking competition and trying to give the wow factor to the judge who are professional chef. You should watch it. The show give me inspiration to become a better cook. Stew is something quite difficult to make right. we need to make the meat tender and yet it shouldn't spoil the vege we use to cook the stew.

Well, I think you have to make the recipe a few times before you can start to revise it. I have done some creative different versions of Oatmeal cookies, but then again I have cooked them so long that it is easy to add this or that to the dough and have a different variation of the cookies. It depends upon what I am cooking. If I am making an easy dish, I can throw this and that together with a little creativity. I recently came up with my own version of hot dog chili. Hot dogs, pork and beans, chili powder, garlic powder, red pepper flakes, black pepper, and onions. Yummy! For me it comes down to the comfort area, the better you know the ingredients the better you can mix them up together. It is about pairing ingredients that will go together well. That plus if you are the type of cook that can taste something and decide what it needs it helps with mixing up ingredients. I kind of have learned to cook this way. In addition, I have learned how to substitute different ingredients for some when you do not have something. Then again, this is all in the comfort area of recipes that I have cooked on a regular basis. If it is a completely new recipe, I would be totally crazy to try to change it especially if I did not know how it was supposed to come out in the first place. People that do not use recipes much are those that have cooked those dishes many times. The reason they can do it is because they know what will go together well in the dish.

I never easy to do it right for the first time. But even after we do it right first time, I always beleive we can improvise and do better the next time. The beauty about cooking is we can always improve ourselves and the dishes.

You shouldn't be surpirse. There are a lot of great chef which are man. There are most of the time when the male chef is better than the female chef. I think only in amateur category where female is better than male. I never try making pizza but I like to try someday. My passion come when I saw cooking show. There are a lot of male great chef. They are better than female in my opinion. So I when I live alone away from my family, my passion for cooking getting stronger as I had to do my own cooking.

It must be wonderful to bake a cake and eat it afterward as soon as it cooked. My wife love baking but not me. I also found it is good to experimenting a new recipe. It will give us more diversity in our cooking.

I love watch cooking program as well. It just an inspiration to me to improve my cooking skill even further. What funny is, I like to experiment in my cooking when I cook for a special occasion like people come to dine in at my home. Whenever I do that, I really hope that I make it right and it is according ton their taste. Sometimes it didn't turn out well.

My creativity in cooking come when I live alone few years back. For me it is easier to experiment on some recipe and cook something new when only myself is cooking. Once my family are with me, I found my cooking are really constraint/limited in what they also want to eat. In the end, I only cook something that I feel others will like to eat.

I would not say lucky if we get thing right first time. We should applause ourself and give a pat on our own back. I take good judgement and more than just a luck. Like you, I also like a simple dish but yet delicious and flavourful.

I also find it is difficlut to find all the ingredint for the interesting recipem on the4 net or tv. Most of the time, I like to walk around the fresh market and get something I think will be great for cooking later. There are time when I didn't have the inspiration, I'll watch the cooking TV and get some idea for my next cooking.