cooking

So as you all know I am trying to cook for myself more. I'm glad that I started trying now because i am no good at it at all. I'm glad that I at least have a kitchen that is big enough for me to try things but not too big for me to clean. Which I have to do about 3-4 times a day. thank god I don't have kids. I also take forever. My kids would starve before I finished making dinner. Take last night as an example.

Last night I decided to make a few things. I had time (thank god) so I decided to make some raspberry tarts and steak with some roasted veggies. I had found a recipe for raspberry tarts on N.E.E.T magazine online, of course it did not have a time on it. I thought I would start the tarts then while the dough for the crust was in the fridge I would reduce some balsamic to put on top of the tarts. Then while they were in the oven I would start the steak and while the steak was resting I would roast the veggies. Sounds like a good plan right? little did I know that if I started this at 6:30 I would not be eating till around 10. Now I don't know if this is because I am new to this whole cooking thing or am just particularly slow. I'm sure it shouldn't have taken that long. The steak and veggies turned out nicely but the tarts were a little lackluster. Just not a ton of flavor. I'm going to have to play with the recipe some more and see if I can improve on it, but we will see.

As you can see I need to figure out how to cook so that I don't have to have 3 snacks before dinner is done cooking. That's my goal for my 3 week break. So that once work starts again I can make, eat, and clean up from dinner and still get to bed at a decent hour.