Saturday Cooking Spree Afterthought

With recession still in the loom, restaurant and foodcourt have been busy giving out promotions to retain customers but little effort  improving or maintaining the food quality and taste. Most of them is either busy cutting down food proportion or doing marketing to mislead general consumer that their food had improve but when you go to any of the restaurant and order their so called improved menu, you be won't surprised you don't get what they advertised.

I tried many newly open eateries and restaurants at Orchard ION but the food quality and taste doesn't not really live up to the franchise in Japan. There are a lot of food bloggers out there blogging on ION's restaurant and eateries so I won't dwell further in it. Cooking in home is not an arduous task as one believe. There are fast and easy way to cook without sweating. Microwave oven is one cooking device that can cut down cooking time as you can pre-cook certain food items and heat them up before serving and the person who consume it will believe you just cook it.

Cleaning is the next dreadful task one would shun cooking at home as seeing all the cooking utensil piling in the sink will enough to turn you off (even for "sex" lol). If you're skillful enough, you can cater some of the cleaning in certain time slot during the period of cooking like steaming or simmering which got long period of inactivity that doesn't need your personal attention. By the time the dish is ready, you have nothing much to clean and lot of times to enjoy your fruit of labor. The next dread is you do not want to stuck with the same food all day long, this can be easily resolve by rehashing the same ingredient with different style of cooking or serve it differently with rice or noodles.

I hope my cooking afterthought is enough to prompt those newbies in cooking to continue on. As in the long run, you will find the food you cook will even supersede those serve in eateries or restaurants at a fraction of the cost.