Burnt Toast (About this Blog)

"I did it," I thought to myself, "I set my house on fire". I ran through the living room into the kitchen to the source of the foul smelling smoke, the toaster oven. I flipped the knob every which way, trying to make it ding, the ding that meant this horrible machine was turned off. I couldn't even see my breakfast, it was gone, the horrible machine beast had eaten it, I was sure. I opened the door of the oven, letting out more foul smelling smoke. There was my toast, the toast I only had meant to reheat (who wants to eat cold toast?), it was pitch black. No nice golden brown marks that taste so savory with butter, oh no, this toast was burnt like ash. What was I going to do with it? Throw it in the trash? Surely not. I did what any other sensible person would do, I grabbed the nearest pair of tongs and ran the said pieces of burnt mass out into the cold and threw them in the snowy garbage can. As I was fanning the smoke from my house, I realized, "How bad of a cook am I if I can't even reheat toast?"

Sadly, this is only one of the many instances that I've had with not being able to produce delicious food. I've tried to make pancakes when the stove wasn't on, I've tried making spaghetti without boiling water, and the list goes on and on. I hope to not only share some of these stories with you, but also to share my journey in learning how to cook. There are recipes that I have made up that have gone well such as Pineapple Guacamole (more on that later) and countless others that haven't. Maybe together we can learn to cook sophistically, and share recipes and techniques that are and are not successful. Tell me what you have tried to make and what you have always wanted to make. Tell me your favorite dishes and the worst thing you ever made. I will certainly tell you mine. I know I'm not a lost cause on cooking yet, there's still hope for me as long as there are people like me out there that can still burn the bread out of toast.