I love cooking. Any time I'm in a situation in which I have to list my hobbies, cooking's right up there (with gaming, of course!). I cook five or six nights a week, make fresh baby food for the little one, and I love hunting down new recipes. I rarely stick to them, though, so agreeing to undertake the Cooking Guide's instructions with no alterations was the real challenge for me.What sort of cook am I? The kind with a lot of stuff. My spices take up more space than my glassware (minus stemware); they fill an entire cabinet and spill out across the counters. I have six different kinds of salt. I don't go in much for making the food look pretty, though. I'd never have the patience for something like this. But then again, I feel like making the bed is pretty futile (just gonna get back in!), and that pretty much tells you everything you need to know about me.
Chris and I did some things differently; for instance, I skipped making the green beans that were part of the Chicken Teriyaki recipe; I figured that since our other recipe was for green beans, these were unnecessary. He also didn't have to convert all the measurements, and he has no idea how easy he had it. Thank goodness there's a unit converter on the Mac dashboard. I ran back to the computer a lot (as there was no room for the laptop in the kitchen with ingredients spread about). I also made an extra side dish -- rice -- because, well, rice is tasty and goes well with Chicken Teriyaki.
Otherwise, we faced some of the same challenges (cookies were impossible to find), as well as some of the same choices (as we both used all white meat chicken). The results, however, were somewhat different ... though probably not as different as you'd think.
Start here to read the full story of the meal, step by step, or jump into the gallery anywhere below by clicking one of the pictures. Oh, and the meal itself? It was quite delicious. Definitely a thumbs-up on the Guide, if we were measuring on these recipes alone.
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