The Cooking has Begun

I finally got some cooking done!!! In the past two weeks I made several things: ratatouille, paradise cheese salad, spinach quiche, baked parsnips and baked salmon.

I made the ratatouille first. It was a bit of a struggle since it was my first time cooking by myself and this was probably the hardest thing I made during the two weeks. I followed a recipe I found on the internet but made a few changes since I didn't have some of the ingredients on the recipe. While cooking, I found out that you can peel the skin off a tomato. I didn't think it was possible but my mom told me how to do it. I also experienced the pain of cutting onions; it makes your eyes hurt so much and that part was not very enjoyable. But overall I had some fun in making the ratatouille and it tasted good.

The next time I was in the kitchen I made baked salmon and baked parsnips. This was very easy. I don't really know if this counts as cooking because all I did was add herbs and garlic on the salmon and put it in the oven. And with the parsnips, I cut them and mixed them with olive oil and put that in the oven too. I feel like this was a little easy to be counted as cooking but the food tasted good.

The paradise cheese salad is a pineapple jello dessert and it was probably the second hardest thing after the ratatouille but this was pretty easy too. It starts with some lemon jello and then you had sour cream, cream cheese and pineapples to it. My mom had made this in the past and I loved it so she taught me how to make it myself.



I cheated quite a bit with the quiche because on time. I used a pre-made pie crust and just put some eggs, spinach, cheese and onions in it. I then put it in the oven. I didn't do much with this.

I feel like I haven't gotten much actual cooking in since I have been so busy between school, track, and soccer. Hopefully I can make something a little more advanced in the coming weeks!!!

Kohki