Improve my cooking

My intention is to cook real well through xmas and test all my new cooking skills out :). I want to cook Indian food, I want to make lasagna, macaroni and cheese, different pastas, make desserts etc. I want it to be a celebration of a years’ worth of improving my cooking!

I’m doing well :).

Cooking is finally becoming a more natural thing that I can do with greater ease and skill.

Made Macaroni and Cheese, with cauliflower.

Boiled macaroni
Cooked cauliflower, added macaroni to it
Then made the sauce and put everything together in the cooking dish and cooked it!

Need to knead dough better!

Cook with a smile on my face :)

I cooked pasta and mixed dal.

I need to sit and piece together stuff more. Making pasta:

How much?
What sauce?
How soft or hard should the penne be?
What veggis to place in it?

When making dal – leave the dal uncovered for 10 minutes after placing the butter, salt and haldi inside!

Pleased to say that the rate at which I can cook meals is increasing! Made macroni and cheese this weekend and then mixed dal. Becoming stronger, faster and better!

It was fun to make.

I made a dry paneer dish yesterday but used butter instead of olive oil – by mistake :( – it tasted good but not very healthy for my parents who are blood pressure patients. I’ll call it a learning experience.