Food Preparation

When I prepare food, I like to multi-task. I don't cut up all ingredients first and have them sitting neatly on the side as I slowly add them in the pan. For example, one meal that I like making is chicken teriyaki with onions and mushrooms, mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese. Usually I will set the chicken into marinade for 20 minutes before I begin cooking and cut up some onions and put them in the pan with olive oil on low heat. As the onions start to cook, I take out mushrooms and cut them up to throw on the pan with the onions. At that point I'll flip the chicken in the marinade also. Sometimes I'll add some marinade to the pan for the onions and mushrooms to soak up. Once I put the chicken on the pan, I turn up the heat and put the mashed potatoes in the microwave. The rest of the process is simply checking the chicken, mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese (mashed potatoes and macaroni are both microwaved so they require switching/stirring often).

When I'm cooking with my boyfriend we work as a team! It's almost ridiculous how well we work together switching duties and watching each other's portion of the meal so that nothing burns. It's fun to know that we can cook so well together, it's definitely important!