I'm cooking dinner right now (9:16 pm). I know. It's quite late for me to still be cooking at this time. But we had a really late lunch so we're having a really late dinner too.
I noticed that chefs on TV (especially Curtis the Take Home Chef--he's sooo yummy! I mean, NO--not him but the dishes he cooks. OK, that's a lie. LOL) make it look like cooking is fun and easy. I mean, it is ... IF you have people to cut, chop, crush, peel, wash and do stuff for you. In my world, in my kitchen, that is not the case. I do everything.
It's actually not the cooking that's tiring. It's the side-jobs that come with it and after. Certain dishes have several ingredients in it. This would mean washing and preparing these ingredients as well. I use two chopping boards--one for the meat and one for the veggies. I use only one knife though but I wash it every time I use it to cut another veggie. Sometimes, when I'm not in a hurry, I wash the veggie board in between cutting veggies.
I place the prepared/chopped ingredients in containers which I wash immediately after I'm done with it. Don't get me wrong. I don't love washing. I just hate to see the sink piling up--it's far easier to deal with washing when there's less. If I'm cooking 2 dishes at the same time, that'll necessarily require the use of 1 or 2 more pots/pans. So, yeeeeyy, more pots/pans for me to wash.
There. I should have a wash/washing counter for this blog. LOL. OR, I should just change the title ...
