I over salted the soup. It was the first dish in my life which didn’t go well. The reason for it was so simple like the math work in the 1. class in school. It happened so fast I didn’t even think about doing something wrong, but I keep going to spoil everything. What happened, I’ll tell you.
I saw lately Jamie Oliver and how I went to Italy. He did some finger licking dishes there and some gorgeous dessert. Well I was a kind of on the 7th cloud at that moment, everything what I tried to do yet did go right, although it might didn’t look like it should be but still it was delicious at the end. But to today, today is the first day in my carrier as a cook as something didn’t work as I thought. So what happened exactly? Like I already mentioned I saw the TV program of Jamie Oliver and he’s a kind of a genius. Simple and delicious cooking. So he did this amazing Risotto, which made me suffering of hunger late in the night. And it really look not that tricky, honestly it isn’t. It is really simple and actually everything went like it should be. The Risotto had a creamy condition and it looked good. I was really proud of myself; I thought it’s going to be impressive. So at the end of all the stirring and stock putting into the pan I tried my master work. And it was horrible. Really salty, was my first thought which popped into my mind. Does it have to be like that, and will it be better at the end. Well to defend myself, at that point I never tried to cook that and I never watch how to do it in real. So I wasn’t sure about all and I kept going. Even if I wanted to, I was already at that point that I couldn’t change it anymore. It was close to dinner time and I had to be on time. There is no other change to make a second one, because some of the residents are going to go to a kind of a club afterwards. So I was really good in time. Everything was, seen from the time table, perfect. I had mushrooms in the pan next to the Risotto pan and I had to keep going otherwise something would have burned in. I dished up everything. It looked really impressive to that time; it was a tiny bit too little though. Finally we all sat down and I tried it at first. The first thing what I thought was, oh my god what have you done. It was still over salted. I looked around and everybody shared their minds with me together. We were all in a kind of punishment, who would say something at first. And finally Jorlanta did. The sentence was kindly but still it smarted. What could it be, was all what I could think about during eating. Why is it so salty I didn’t put that much salt into it? So I tried to remember every single step which I have done up to the dishing up. And then, after few minutes brainstorming with my friends in my head I figured it out. On the back of the stock powder stood: for each liter stock 4tsp! Well that meant to me 4 tablespoons =) so I added 6 of them, because I had 1.5 liter water to be used as a stock. I know it sounds stupid and that a normal cook should know that it would be a way too much powder but I didn’t think at that moment and afterwards I thought everything is alright. But it wasn’t. Well to solve to riddle. 4 tsp each liter of stock means 4 teaspoons for each liter of water. Teaspoons, not tablespoons. I could hit myself for that mistake. Now it is pretty obvious why it was so salty. What does that means for me? Shall I leave cooking, or shall I just never try Risotto again. Certainly none of both. It means, that I have to do it again as soon as possible and improve it. I want to know how good my Risotto can be if I do it right. So we had this week a really salty edition of grilled mushroom risotto with porcini and chestnut mushrooms. I think about next time maybe a tomato-garlic-basil risotto. Might be good, might be worse. What’s the worst thing that can happen? Even more salty than the last one, ha-ha I’m pretty sure that will never happen again. I learn out of my mistakes.
But are those things really mistakes? I can’t say yes, and agree with that. In my opinion the first time when you do something not expected or not right. However you want to call it. I don’t agree that it is straight away a mistake. It is something else. I love to say: life hasn’t got any mistakes in it. Why? Because everything what you did “wrong” taught you something. To summarize that, all your “mistakes” made exactly this person out of you. So would you call it mistakes, or would you call it like me “things that changes your life”. Think about it. There are some mistakes in our world and of course you can make mistakes. But what is it, which makes the different. Well it is simple the thing that a mistake is a thing which you already made wrong and you should have learned about it in the first, but you didn’t. Does that mean you are stupid? No it doesn’t. It means only and nothing more than you weren’t rife enough or not ready yet for learning this lesson of life. Of course there are some stupid people in the world and to be pretty honestly we are all blind and stupid in our own ways. One more, one less. At the end of the day it only counts what you think about your mistakes and if you realize that you are doing some. So if I wouldn’t have done all this mistakes, whatever it was in my life. Well maybe I wouldn’t be here were I am right now. And maybe I wouldn’t write those lines ever in my life. And, yes, maybe you wouldn’t read it and you wouldn’t start to see you mistakes in another way. Well finally it really makes me thinking, what actually a mistake would be. I even can’t find an answer. Everything has his reason why things happen to us. It is my way how to look at the world. Some believe in God and make him responsible for everything worse that happened to them or their friends or neighbors or the cat, etc. etc. Sometime they even make him responsible for good thing, can you imagine that. Good thing, which god made. Yeah some people really believe in god, and to be honest I guess they need it. God is good, and bad in once. He is good because he makes people to keep on hoping, he is good because he makes people thinking about what is wrong and unacceptable, well in the basics. Nevertheless god is bad on the other side. He is the reason why we have some wares. He is the reason why some people use the weakness of others to make money. And so on, and on. You all should know about what to believe. I don’t want to change your minds after reading my blog, but it should at least makes you thinking about these things what I’m talking about. I know, most of it is rubbish, and the other half is already mentioned by someone else. Back to my point what I wanted to tell you. I was talking about that everything has his reason. It is a kind of already prepared life. Sounds stupid and boring, but it isn’t. There is no fixed end of your life in my imagination. But everything has his reason. Everything taught you something. It is only you who can try to make the best out of it. You could call it god. I call it destiny. But we shouldn’t trust it. We should be sure that at there is a destiny which actually affects your life and the entire environment around you. If you do so, it wouldn’t be the same. It is like a magic trick, it only works if you don’t know how. Now, you might think just now, how can he talk about destiny and believe in that, but on the other side he says that you shouldn’t trust it and you shouldn’t depend on it. Well that is tricky, but I try to explain it as short as possible. Long story, short. If you act as though the destiny will fix it and it will be all alright and you stop to think about stuff. Well then it won’t work, because it wouldn’t be magic anymore. But if you sit down sometimes and think about stuff and all your life, your past, your present and your future. Just try to find some connections, why things happened to you and where did they lead you at the end. Isn’t it stunning? Well in my case, it is. I wrote now approximately 1600 words. It started with an accident, and ended up in one of the foggiest parts in lifetime. Thanks for reading it up to here. I hope I didn’t bore you. I would love to read some comments. Comments for a writer, is the air which he breaths. So take a moment think about what I wrote, and tell me the truth of what you are thinking about it.
Til then, cya