Throughout 21 years of my life, I have learnt to cook instant noodles, rice, vegetable soup, spaghetti bolognaise and carbonara, fry eggs with bacon, and er, bake with Sharon once, and used to occasionally help my aunt bake cakes. It isn't much because I never really bothered or had the need to cook, until recently. Lol.
I have wasted much time this holiday and am sort of saving for a bigger cause :p, so, I was finally desperate enough, to stir-fry my own brunch today! The beginning was: oh man, the middle was: oh no oh no, and the ending was actually not too bad. Haha.
Note: I was all on my own with no supervision whatsoever, and NO RECIPE, equipped with only the few cooking theories I have learnt:
1. Hot oil in contact with water POPs
2. Use small flame to cook meat and eggs to get to the insides, also avoids burning the outer layer
3. Fry onions in oil first
4. I think you have to heat the pan first
I decided to do a Chicken-Corn-Mushroom Combo, because I like all three >_<. Absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into.
The start:
Had hell of a time chopping the chicken. No idea how to get through the bones. But managed in the end, not too bad I must say. Though, I should have just used the breast meat and leave the wing and drumstick alone >_<.
Prepared garlic
Couldn't find onions
Salt
Water
Corn
Button Mushrooms
It was time to light the fire, heat up the wok, and put some oil in. But when I did that, the oil left a big black mark on the wok. I got nervous and off the fire. Thinking whether I should continue after that. swt.
After much thinking and consideration, since all the ingredients had been prepared, I decided to try again, and thought that, maybe the wok was too hot HAHA. I cleaned the wok and dried it and started the fire again. This time I told myself, I'm just gonna go all the way! Fingers crossed to whatever the dish will turn out to be. As long as it's not burnt, it's edible. lol.
So I poured in the oil right after starting the fire, phew! No black stain.
I threw in the garlic and ginger and fried it for a while, turned the flame smaller and waited a bit.
Okay, I think I smell the garlic and ginger... looks hot, hmmm..
Okay, seems like time...
I threw in the chicken pieces..
Looked dry, fear it would burn, so, added water, hoping it wouldn't splat.
To my delight, it did not :D.. It was then that I remembered the dishes mum used to cook were a bit starchy, so I threw in some corn flour lol.
Stir fried, added some salt.. waited a bit..
[The whole process sounded like I had everything under control. But while I was doing it, I was nervous, doing each next thing as it pops into my head, one after another >_<.]
The chicken seemed to turn white already, I had no idea how long I had to wait, so, after a few more minutes, I took a piece out, used two forks and spread it apart to see the inside. Oh, not cooked.. Put back in, fry more.. After repeating the process a couple more times, I threw in the corn and mushrooms. :D
After a few more minutes, I decided it was done. :D
Put the Chicken-Corn-Mushroom Combo on 2 plates. It looked, not so nice. >_<. And I ran out of spring onions, so, no nice greenish deco.
I took my first bite, to my surprise, it tasted just right! Wasn't tasteless, wasn't salty!! :D Proud of it, I ate a breast meat cube.. Wow! Tasty!!! It had just the right amount of garlic taste I wanted :D
Just as I was beginning to feel proud of myself, I took a bite out of a bigger piece of the chicken: the drumstick which I didn't manage to chop into smaller pieces. It was still reddish inside and the meat still slightly pale-ish. T_T. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy.....
Oh oh, before the bf ate it, I put it in the left overs in the microwave, and everything turned out perfect again! no reddish meat inside! :D and he said it was not bad :D
Hence, that was my first stir-frying experience. I must be talented in cooking LOL
See, not bad right? ^^
