Somehow, despite the million times I've made them, I can never seen to get them right. Or maybe I just plain fail at cooking. No matter HOW many times I make them, I always seem to mess them up. Hmmm...
Don't get me wrong. They're edible. And they taste good as well. But I tend to add too much sugar, lose count on how many cups of [whatever] and it looks all goopy and just plain weird. Then when I stick them in the cups and bake them...and wha-la! Perfection. :D
You know how every recipe has a secret ingredient? I'm wondering what mine can be...maybe it's the whole cluelessness and the inability to measure properly. How I got an A in Foods last year is a wonder to me. ^.^
With me and baking, it's a simple math problem. Me+Kitchen=Disaster. Isn't it brilliant? I mean, last time Rain and I made brownies, we totally forgot sugar. I mean, that's like the main ingredient. How can we forget the sugar? However, we conjured up some magic powder and they tasted great. We even have food critics as well. ^.^
Next, our Mandarin Cooking show. Rain and I were making Wonton (and soup) and mango pudding. We made the mango pudding first, because it needed more time to set. (You know, it's jelly-like so it needs to sit in the fridge). Anywho, the gelatin was lumpy and looked like poo. Yes, POO. You know, the ones in the toilet? Yes that. (Not to mention that the pot looked like a toilet as well. xD) Well, turns out they tasted great. :D Can you believe it? No parents' help whatsoever. All done by ourselves. ^.^ And kinda without the recipe as well...seeing that we lost it in the middle of chopping mangoes. O.O
Wonton Soup. Now THIS is a GREAT story. We made a HUMONGOUS pot of soup. The wonton making is pretty simple. We basically tossed everything together and wrapped it in the dumpling skin. (Except instead of having chopped shrimp, we turned it into shrimp paste. xD If only you saw...)
The soup was the hard part. You might be thinking, how hard can soup be? Well, apparently very. We used chicken soup and because it might be too salty, we added water. Lots of it. And guess what? It turned bland. REALLY really bland. It was awful. So me and my brilliant mind, decided to add some salt. It tasted better, but something still tasted weird. And so we added basically everything we could think of.
"More salt!"
"More onions!"
"More water!" ...still not good. So I said, "Fine. If we screwed it up, might as well try it." In went sugar. NOT just regular grandulated sugar. Because we ran out of sugar halfway, guess what went in? Not brown sugar. Not even close. POWDERED sugar. The whole half bag of it. :D It was funny because powdered sugar is usually for dessert. We used it for soup.
So, end of story, since I'm pretty much boring you. Success..once again. Man, am I blessed with an ability to cook despite not knowing anything? :D That would be pretty awesome, though I'd rather have the ability to manipulate things with my mind. That would be better, but hey, you can't have everything, can you?
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