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Filed Under: What I Want to Learn
Now that I've finally decided to fulfill a New Year's Resolution by starting to cook (here's what happened last Sunday when my sister and I cooked dinner for the family), there are so many things I need and want to learn. It also helps that people have been so encouraging and supportive, and offering recipes left and right.
Cooking Adventures Part 1: The Sunday Dinner Experiment
Two Sundays ago, my newlywed brother, Chuck, volunteered to cook Sunday dinner for the family. In tandem with his wife, Anna, and the supervision of our amazing chef of a mom, he was able to cook pesto — his favorite kind of pasta — from scratch.
This gave our mom a bright idea. Since she's always wanted to see any of us take over kitchen duties (unlike the rest of us who never really expressed an interest in cooking, she was cooking and baking as a child; she even put up a cookie business for about 10 years when we were kids and still continues to accept orders for her cookies, her one-of-a-kind apple pie, turkey, and more), she challenged us to take turns preparing Sunday dinner.
Chuck and Anna had already done their part. So the following Sunday, which was yesterday, my sister, Cooky, and yours truly were on deck.
Initially, I wanted to do another kind of pasta as well as chicken parmigiana. But both recipes were tomato-based. Mom suggested to make a pasta salad instead, and a rice meal to complement the chicken parmigiana.
So yesterday afternoon, after coming home from church, my sister and I immediately got to work on prepping the salad since it needed to be chilled. This was the recipe we followed.
