Confession: I've been living on a diet of cereal, toast, chocolate and tea. Sometimes I throw in a little broccoli or cheese to spice things up but otherwise, that's pretty much it. And you know what the worst part is about all of that? I'm the one doing the cooking! That means I should be eating loads of food because it's my own food. But it's not. It's different. Their ingredients are different and usually I can't even find all of the ingredients so I just have to make strange substitutions all the time.
I'm so bummed about it! All of my comfort food recipes are doing me absolutely no good. Baked spaghetti--all wrong. Beef stroganoff--all wrong. They just don't taste right! The only thing that I actually thought was quite wonderful was the Shepherd's Pie I made the other night but that doesn't even count because it's not one of my favorite recipes that I brought with me, it's just the only thing I could make with the ingredients that were in the house.
I need to figure this out. I need to figure out how to cook and cook well with what they have here. I'm so used to always being surrounded by good food that I just don't know what to do with myself. I've never had unsuccessful meals before! (okay, probably not never) But seriously, I couldn't even make tuna casserole if I wanted to because their mac and cheese is strange. Fortunately, everyone here thinks my cooking is fabulous and it's probably fine, it just doesn't taste the way I want it to. It doesn't taste like home. What's the point of eating if it doesn't taste that good? Of course, maybe it would be better for me to eat something that doesn't taste that good rather than having 4 pieces of toast and 2 bowls of cereal and 8 pieces of chocolate a day...
I have to work on this.
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