Cooking without a recipe.
I love cooking. My mum is a super-pro cook and one of my happiest memories of childhood was eating homemade meals (still is). Cooking in general is fun because you get the instant reward of eating it, but what’s even more fun is that you can do whatever the hell you want… within acceptable limits. Cooking by a recipe can be fun, but going by feel and changing around stuff is even better! And best of all, you can make your own recipes.
What I find the most fun regarding cooking is that you can get creative with various ingredients and see how it turns out. It could be you’re making something from scratch, or trying to recreate a meal you had somewhere else. I mean seriously, it’s like Lego that you can EAT. How much better can it get? Sometimes I look at the limited supply of food in my fridge and take it as a challenge.
For example, you can go from easy things like fried rice where you can pretty much dice up whatever and toss it in a pan:
…to more complex things like sweet & sour chicken, which I always have fun experimenting with (it’s really not that complicated tbh…):
But of course nothing beats the joy of making…
FRIED CHICKEN.
