Cooking is not as hard as it seems

Recently I have been cooking at home.
My mom always complains that I cooked nice food (I took some pictures of my cooked dishes and showed her) in Kuala Lumpur (where I work, which are quite far from my hometown, Kedah) but not cooking for her whenever I am back to Kedah.

One of the dishes I cooked and sent the picture to my mom

Well, you know, when your mom is around you would just leave the cooking part to your mom because you miss her cooking so much!

My mom came to visit me yesterday, and I was so excited to cook dinner for her. So I planned out the menu and went to the grocery shop to buy the ingredients for the dinner.

I bought some beef brisket, thinking of making stew beef for my mom. Unfortunately, when I reached home, I realize the beef was spoilt! It turned black and it was smelly!

Spoilt beef brisket 😭

I was super disappointed because I was so excited to make this stewed beef for my mom 😔 I have no choice but to change my menu for the night.

Unlike my mom, she always has the menu inside her head (I bet that's the power of a mother, always know what to cook for your children).
Without the beef, I was a bit struggle to think of another dishes to replace that with whatever ingredients I have in the fridge.

Lucky me, I downloaded a recipe app on my phone recently. It's an app developed in China so most of the dishes are Chinese dishes. I opened up the app and key in some of the ingredients I had. I got the idea of what to cook then.

Look at the dishes that I cooked following the recipes in the app:

Fried Prawns with Egg

Appetizing Fried Chinese Cabbage and Black Fungus with Vinegar

Cumin Potatoes with Mince Meat

These 3 are the authentic Chinese dishes in China which we never thought of cooking in Malaysia (except the Prawns with Egg 😆 ). I cooked all that by following the recipes in the app.

Looks pretty good huh? It was delicious too! Let me know if you want the recipes for these dishes!

My mom was so surprised when I cooked these as she knows I can only cook simple dishes all the while. She said she don't even know how to cook the Chinese Cabbage and the Potatoes the way I cooked!

The common issue when it comes to cooking is that you do not know what to cook. "What to cook" was the everyday topic that me and my housemates discussed about, all of us were scratching our head thinking hard for the menu of the day, and repeat that every single day! 😂

I was super addicted to it when I came across this app, and I bet if you like cooking, you would too. I have tried to cook 5-6 dishes following the recipes shared in this app, and it was super simple to follow and it's super yummy! Let me know if you are interested to know which app is it 😊

The app is in Chinese, yet I bet there are a lot of English recipe app around too! One of my Favourite is an app name "Tasty". Most of the dishes are westerns. I use "Tasty" app to look for dessert recipes most of the time.

Thanks to the internet, I think it's fairly easy for us to cook with all the recipes available online, some even have videos in YouTube teaching how to cook a certain dish or how to make certain dessert. We just need to follow the steps. It might not be perfect when you cook for the first time, but when you get the gist of it, you will get better!

Even my 19 years old sister can cook really well nowadays following the recipes too! So who said cooking is hard now?

If you have never cook, or failed in cooking before, I would encourage you to start / try again. Cooking has so much fun! When you see others enjoying the dishes you cooked (especially your loved ones), the satisfaction you have is hard to express with words.