My Knife

My chef's knife is pretty much awesome! All I have to do to keep it in tip top shape is to give it some TLC by always ALWAYS hand washing it and sharpening it ever so often (it feels really nice to be able to sharpen my own knives properly thank you random guy at the store for showing me how!). But my knife skills sometimes fail me with those awkward circular vegetables! I can mince an onion like nobody's business but hand me a carrot to julienne and I start to lose confidence and usually end up slicing off a chunk of my nail ( I always manage to swiftly stick my thumb under cold water before it bleeds all over the produce I was working on). It sucks but thankfully its just my nail and I don't end up cutting into any of my vital parts.

I haven't posted any recipes lately because I've become so damn complacent in my cooking I sort of lost my experimenting and trying phase and have settled into the 3 week dinner rotation schedule. Which makes me sad since I'm only 20! I shouldn't be in such a rut about something that I'm passionate about. But with the my garden project and the past several days, its been really nice to head into the kitchen and whip up something new. Today was 7 cheese tortellini with a brown butter sauce and homemade garlic cheese bread. It was AWESOME! I love when a spontaneous meal turns out to be delicious. I've also realized that I am pretty insecure about my cooking, just because I put a lot of pressure on myself to cook well so when something ends up burning or being over seasoned, it depresses me a little. It only lasts for a few minutes before I get back on the everything's a learning experience! So what if I make a mistake here and there if I can realize that I'm doing something wrong now then it'll be much better for me in the long run.

I've recently decided to make it a goal to be happy. Just be selfish and look out for myself for a bit and get my life back under control. Because I spend so much of my day just looking after everyone else that I just lose myself in the role that I've chosen to fill. People can talk all they want about me because at the end of the day I'm the one that has to live with my decisions, forget the others!

Here's the being happy! Cheerssss