Thursday, October 8, 2009

Saving by cooking

My partner and I cooked almost all of our meals when we were living in Newbury because eating out was very, very expensive. I even skinned a whole chicken once and took photos as proof :-) as that was my one and only time.


To make it interesting, I did my best to keep the whole skin and whole chicken intact. I did it by looking up instructions on how to skin a chicken from the web. I like my chicken soup to be not so oily therefore the skin and fat must go.

Now, I no longer cook as I do not like to cook. After 4 years of cooking, I have had enough. Perhaps one day, I may discover the joy of cooking. When that happens, I will of course blog about it here but I do not think that day will come.
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12 comments:

  1. APRIL TAYOctober 8, 2009 at 5:45 AM

    hahahaa!!! i can;t believe u SKINNED off the chicken.. i happen to like to skin... i dunno how to eat chicken without skin.. =.=.... got a lot of scolding for that habit though...

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  2. munOctober 8, 2009 at 11:50 PM

    Hi April, you mean you like to eat the skin? If so, I'll keep the whole skin for you the next time I skin a chicken. :-)

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  3. Elizebeth D.L.October 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM

    Good skill [skining the chicken]!!!

    Don't treat cooking as a boring chore. More correctly, just cook when you have mood. I also only just cook 2-3 times in one week only.

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  4. munOctober 9, 2009 at 10:48 PM

    Hi Elizebeth D.L, thanks! Ya, I'll take your advice and try not to see cooking as a chore. But almost all the time I have no mood to cook.

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  5. APRIL TAYOctober 9, 2009 at 10:49 PM

    ... hehehe.. i like steamed skin particularly... cuz i like the salty taste... always kena scold by my parents one cuz they say it's unhealthy.. T.T

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  6. sdovellyOctober 11, 2009 at 8:19 AM

    I only cook once in a blue moon and imagine how rare is that! and still very much at the infant stage, all ingredients are pre-prepared. I wouldn't say cooking is my hobby but perhaps one of my trial and error projects. hehe...added you in my blogroll :)

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  7. RedbabeOctober 11, 2009 at 9:45 AM

    somehow, the picture of the skin makes me go... "EWWWW....".... I can imagine the touch, the smell & etc. LOls...

    I tried to like cooking but failed miserably. So nowadays, I just cook whenever I feel like it. ;) At least this way, I'll enjoy it.

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  8. Elizebeth D.L.October 12, 2009 at 6:22 PM

    think like this -- your hubby enjoyed your cooking very much, he enjoyed your soup, your dishes, this is the motivation to keep us wife to continue cooking! hehehe...

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  9. Family FirstDecember 28, 2009 at 4:55 PM

    Thanks for dropping by my blog. I once said to myself too that I hate cooking to much and will never do it. Its much cheaper in KL to eat outside! But it all changes just magically once I had my son. I just felt like learning and cooking and baking for him and my hubby. Strange huh?

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  10. LilianJanuary 27, 2010 at 10:35 PM

    Very pro the way you skinned the chicken! I've never done this and I cook quite a bit :)

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  11. LilianJanuary 27, 2010 at 10:36 PM

    It does look like you stripped the chicken which looks very naked now...haha!

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  12. munJanuary 27, 2010 at 11:58 PM

    Hi Lilian, I did it once only. Haha, the poor chicken looks cold without its skin. :)

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