Wednesday, 10 March 2010

First Screw Up

Contrary to your belief that my cooking skills are perfecto mundo, they are not. Sometimes, bad things do happen and I had my first today.

Worse still, it is a very simple stir fry dish. An authentic China-Chinese dish.

Problem? It was a flop.

While I can easily blame it on my lack of sleep ( Woke up at 4am this morning ), I shall be honest in this account.

I blame it on my over-confidence. I blame it on my belief that some Chinese dishes can be cooked based on a formula that Kylie Kwong has introduced to me a long time ago and that I can easily replicate what my flat mate cooks.

In this case, my over-confidence totally seeped into the deep pockets within my brain, resulting a few, disastrous minutes in the kitchen. Fortunately, the whirlwind was conquered by my self-created stir fry honey pork recipe.

Strangely enough, this morning, I was writing about certainty and confidence in the kitchen. Words, when set loose, like a wild dog, never fails to bites back its master, eh?