Cooking!

This post was intended before the post on my Dad but due the happening's then, this was delayed. Then, some bloody technical problems that caused the pictures not able to upload (grrr.....) after numerous tries further delayed this. Hope it works today (*crossing fingers*). Anyway... here goes.....

Date : Saturday, 28th Oct 2006
Mission : Cook up a dinner for 3

Being together for almost 7 months, my babie Steven and I have not really tasted each other's cooking before. After bragging about how great our cooking skills are (the bloody egos....), it's time to put our culinary skills to the test.

Things didn't start off quite well. The third person - my dear collegue Pat - bailed out last minute leaving only the two of us too cook for ourselves. Well, there goes the judge.....

First up - groceries shopping!

My favourite part. We went over to Carrefour as it has everything under the sun to cook up a storm and it's cheap and it's near my place. The shopping itself started kinda weird. Steven went over looking for a trolley and guess what he ended up with? He got us a trolley with a a small colourful orangey buggy car attached to the front meant for shopping with a kid-in-tow. Obviously we got stares from everyone. Two guys, with a trolley meant for shoppers with a kid-in-tow, bickering while shopping over what to put intp the trolley, what size to buy... did we just announced to the world that we are gay?

Now, Steven can be quite a pain in the arse when it comes to shopping. Every island that we moved to, he wanted to put something into the trolley. And everything has to be in size XL.... we were cooking for two, not for a whole refugee camp!!! In the end after putting and exchanging of the stuffs of various needs and sizes, the damage - approximately RM60++.

Next - preparation.....

I'm gonna save the gross part of de-boning, shelling, cutting and cleaning... By the way, I have forgotten what dishes we were about to cook. Here's the menu of the day :

- Sweet and Sour Fish (I cooked this!!!)
- Broccoli with Prawns (I cooked this!!!)
- Chicken with Mushroom thingy (Steven cooked this....)

Here are the pictures of the raw ingredients :

The fish - all cleaned up.

The broccoli and some green capsicum all soaked up taking their nice bath....

The shelled prawns (my hands smelled like a dump-site after shelling them - blerghh).

Not pretty ain't it? The chicken in a pool of marinades (i.e. curry

leaves, sesame oil, soy sauce, chinese cooking wine, pepper, etc...)

I like this picture :) ..... Some tomatoes, onions, garlic and lemon (for the juice of course).

The end result......

An hour later after getting the whole kitchen smoky and lotsa spillage and getting ourselves dirty - the result :

Broccoli with Prawns (this one's nice!)

Sweet and Sour Fish (by the way, the fish was hidden under all the onions, tomatoes, coriander and sauce).

And finally... the Chicken and Mushroom thingy (Steven cooked this!)

Nice! These can actually stuff 3-4 persons - overestimated :P

20 Minutes later.....................

We still have half of the chicken thingy left in the fridge growing mould (hahaha!)

Conclusion - I am a better cook than Steven!!!!!! And you end up with two over-stuffed gay guys.....