Cooking
is something that requires a little more effort than I'm usually
willing to put in: an hour spent preparing something that I'm going
to eat in 10 minutes flat seems a pretty unfair trade. But when
you're bored of the same food, it's a necessity.
On
the 20th I tried out Hoisin Chicken Lettuce Cups from
Jamie Oliver's 5 Ingredients book. The principle of this book is that
you can create a full, tasty, healthy meal with only 5 ingredients.
Nice and simple, how I like it. Only I still managed to do it wrong,
and cut the chicken before I'd marinated it. FFS.
I
found the most difficult part of cooking it was making myself go into
the kitchen and laying out the ingredients: the thought of cooking it
was more painful than the process itself. I always expect things to
be more difficult than they actually are. Overthinking is a problem
that transcends many areas of my life: even my kitchen, it seems. For
example, including the spices, there were definitely more than 5
ingredients, and this irritates me more than the process of cooking.
It makes me wonder if I'm doing it right.
The
hoisin and mango sauce was delicious. Everything else was a bit bland
and separated, though.
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