Today I invited my friends to my rented house for a dinner.
I am nervous because this is the first time I invited friends to my house and I have to cook a proper meal. I never invited others to my place because I am not good in cooking, and my house is super messy. So I wake up at 8am today to clean my house (usually I wake up at 12pm in the weekend). I think today is the cleanest day for my house!
I bought a lot of food ingredients from the market, but perhaps I bought too much. >.< I couldn’t decide if I should cook the Western or Chinese style dinner, so I cooked both. I am very terrible in measuring portion of meals. I have only 2 friends coming but I have cooked 5 person meals! I also bought many snacks, fruits and wines.
Cheese baked salmon with mushrooms. Chinese style spicy beefs, eggs tomatoes and vegetables (served with rice):
My friend bought me two bottles of my favourite Southern Comfort! (liquor with 50% alcohol) I really love them as I like sweet alcohol.
Dinner is ready, but unfortunately one of my friends is unable to make it due to the bad weather. I am glad that one friend has come, so two of us have a very very big meal!
My friend said the standard of my dishes are ‘pass’, so I am qualified to marry (to be a housewife) >.< I am quite happy, though I do not have a man to marry now, haha.
I do not cook at all in my home country. I started cooking when I came to New Zealand two years ago. I learnt to cook different kind of dishes from various people; some of them are backpackers who I met in the hostel. I am satisfied that I am able to cook a simple meal now as opposed to zero cooking experience two years ago.
I realised that it is not easy to cook a good meal. It took me about 10 hours preparation (including cleaning the house) for a proper dinner. I often go to other people’s house for dinner but I didn’t know it took so much of preparation. Now I have learnt to appreciate more for the efforts from others for cooking a meal for me.
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