Thursday, February 28, 2019

Learning How to Cook

Being somewhat incapacitated today, I asked my lovely daughter if she would make dinner. On the menu was sweet and sour meatballs and rice. When she exclaimed that she didn't know how to make the sauce, I told her the recipe is really quite simple.

First you open the can of pineapple and put the pineapple and the juice in the pot.
Next you take the ketchup and go bthffthphth (ok, so I googled how to spell the sound of a raspberry and it is up for debate, and possibly not even possible). Then you add about four shakes of soy sauce, three big spoons of brown sugar and one glub of vinegar. Cook it with the meatballs on 8 while you microwave the rice.

She looked at me earnestly (or maybe it was judgmentally) and asked me to repeat the recipe and I obliged (bthfffthphth, shake shake shake shake, one-two-three, glub). She repeated back to me,

1 can of pineapple and juice
4 seconds of ketchup
4 shakes of soy sauce
3 big spoons of sugar
1 glub of vinegar

I let her know that you taste it, and if it is sour add sugar, if it is sweet add vinegar, and so forth. She made it and it was perfect. Never mind that I have shelves full of cookbooks, sometimes you just need to learn to go off the page and add a dash of this and that until it tastes just right.

She even made dessert, which after what sounded like a heated argument with Google, also turned out perfectly. She made absolutely divine armpit fudge.