Today’s Rose Scholars event was a cooking workshop. It was fun to be in the kitchen and it was a nice break. With the dining halls on campus, I really have no need to cook during the school year. However, during the summer I will be cooking and eating without a dining hall which means I will need to cook. Last summer I was in the same situation and my cooking left some to be desired. I mostly cooked extremely simple meals. My cooking kept me full, but it could have been tastier.

The cooking session made me realize that cooking is not too hard. The key is planning your shopping to have the needed ingredients.

The session also reminded me of my high school cooking class. My friends and I were usually good at following the recipes and making good tasting food, but occasionally we would mess up. Once we realized we messed up we would all scramble to correct our mistake before the teacher realized. Sometimes this was a difficult task, but it made for some good fun. Unfortunately, sometimes we would mess up a recipe so badly that we did not think we could safely eat the resulting food. However, if we did not eat the food at the end the teacher would know that we did not successfully follow the recipe.

Overall the cooking workshop went by quickly and we were rewarded with a nice lunch afterwards.