Monday, July 30, 2012
Cooking Adventures....Musings of a wanna be chef
It is wise that when cooking with very hot oil that one be very careful. Yes, this should be a common sense, already know and understand this type thing but apparently some people (ME!) need to be reminded of this. Today, my first day of fasting this Ramadan, I decided that I wanted to make sambusa. I proceed to make the filling with no problem. The princess and I wrap them, no problem. I start frying them and things start out great. Well, I don't know if it is because I am fasting or feeling rushed (because it's crunch time and I need to start getting ready to go to masjid) but things start to go horribly wrong. The metal tong things that I am using to flip and remove sambusas from the pan are coated pretty well with the popping grease. I go to flip some sambusa and as I put the tongs in the pan they slip and pop open and splatter burning hot oil onto the right side of my chest and arm. Imagine a boat paddle pushing aside water and it cause a big splash. Needless to say I am in pain. I have officially gained cooking battle wounds. I have always been scared to cook with hot oil. This seriously does not help the matter. :(
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Sooo, hmmm....
So, we are six days into Ramadan and I haven't been able to fast a single day. That makes me sad but I know that I am excused because it's "that time", but I still can't help but feel left out. That is my fault entirely though. I need to step up my ibadah that I am permitted to do during this time of the month. I need to be reading more Quran and need to start reading Seerah like we said we would be doing in my family for this month. I really need to get focused!
I also haven't been able to workout either. I am dreading getting on that scale. I am going to put it off until I have few workouts under my belt because I don't want to go into a downward spiral. Man, this weight loss journey is taking forever. I keep stalling and that is just frustrating me so much! I am at a point where I feel like I am going to have to starve myself to get more of this weight off. But no worries there, though, because I just don't have the patience to do that. I like to eat too much (obviously) so that wouldn't work. But, honestly, I don't know what else to do. I have truly changed my eating habits and am more active then I have ever been in my life, so why am I stuck where I am. I know that people plateau but why do I have to do so while I am still in the 200's?! I'd hoped that I could at least get to the 180's-190's before that happened. Crap!
On the brighter side of things, my knee does not hurt as bad as usual. That's a plus. That's pretty much it for now though.
Anyway, for anyway who may be reading this and are Muslim, Ramadan Mubarak to you all and your families. Please keep me and my family in your blessed duas.
I also haven't been able to workout either. I am dreading getting on that scale. I am going to put it off until I have few workouts under my belt because I don't want to go into a downward spiral. Man, this weight loss journey is taking forever. I keep stalling and that is just frustrating me so much! I am at a point where I feel like I am going to have to starve myself to get more of this weight off. But no worries there, though, because I just don't have the patience to do that. I like to eat too much (obviously) so that wouldn't work. But, honestly, I don't know what else to do. I have truly changed my eating habits and am more active then I have ever been in my life, so why am I stuck where I am. I know that people plateau but why do I have to do so while I am still in the 200's?! I'd hoped that I could at least get to the 180's-190's before that happened. Crap!
On the brighter side of things, my knee does not hurt as bad as usual. That's a plus. That's pretty much it for now though.
Anyway, for anyway who may be reading this and are Muslim, Ramadan Mubarak to you all and your families. Please keep me and my family in your blessed duas.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Stuffed Potato with Tomato Sauce
Stuffed Potato with Tomato Sauce This is the next recipe I am going to try, inshaAllah.
Cooking Adventures
Trying to be a chef musings: (i.e. Note to self....and apparently the world): 1) Invest in a large stock pot. All kitchens should have big sturdy stock pots. Obviously, if every tv chef has one, it must be an important part of the cooking process. Duh.
2) When looking off of someone else's recipe for the first time follow all directions. For instance, if they say use only 1/2 a pound of ground beef, use 1/2 a pound of ground beef instead of thinking "oh no, that is simply not enough imma make it a pound and then get stuck with so much stuffing that I have to now find recipes for ground beef raw rice mixture because I don't want to make mahsih for the third night in a row" DON'T make ingredient adjustments until after the first try. DUH
2) When looking off of someone else's recipe for the first time follow all directions. For instance, if they say use only 1/2 a pound of ground beef, use 1/2 a pound of ground beef instead of thinking "oh no, that is simply not enough imma make it a pound and then get stuck with so much stuffing that I have to now find recipes for ground beef raw rice mixture because I don't want to make mahsih for the third night in a row" DON'T make ingredient adjustments until after the first try. DUH
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Finally
Finally, after about 3 years, the baby mama decided to help contribute to raising this child and buy her some clothes. It is about damn time and pretty darn ridiculous that we have to practically embarrass her in order for her to do something. This woman has no problem buying new flat screen tv's, computers and high end clothing for herself, but buying clothes for her child, with money provided to her on a monthly basis no less, that's like pulling teeth. I'm really sick of this BS and am looking forward to something changing. Like that'll happen though.
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