A cooking experience
I love to cook, but unfortunately with my school, work and homework I don’t have the time to do it as often as I would like to. But when I do have the time I love to spend a whole afternoon in the kitchen cooking. Most of the time I manage to make something good, but sometimes it doesn’t go quite as planned.
My favorite dish to cook is meatloaf with baked potatoes, carrots and onions. It’s a very tasty and also easy dish to cook, and after making it so many times I really improved and by now I’m able to make it with no flaws.
I remember my first time making the dish. I found the recipe on the internet and assumed that we had all the ingredients needed. In the recipe it said to start with mixing the meat with salt and pepper, but to my big surprise I found out, that we were out of salt. I couldn’t just overlook such an important ingredient as salt, because I knew for the fact that too much salt in a dish can completely ruin its flavor, but so can lack of salt. So I had to run down to the nearest grocery to buy some. I had to hurry, otherwise I wouldn’t be finish at time.
When I arrived back home, I added the salt with the rest of the ingredients into the dish, and placed it in the fridge for about ten minutes. Meanwhile I peeled the vegetables, and cut them in halves and then placed them on a baking sheet. The next step was to take the meat out of the fridge and shape it to an oblong ball, and after that to place the meat on the baking sheet next to the vegetables, and then to place the baking sheet in the oven for 45 minutes.
While the meatloaf and the vegetables were in the oven I went out of the kitchen to watch television. I don’t remember what I watched, but I got so caught-up, that I forgot all about my meatloaf in the oven.
All of a sudden I could smell something burning, and I jumped out of the couch and ran out to the kitchen.