I cooked dinner today. I didn't start the rice early enough so we had to wait a while, after everything else was ready, for the rice to finish cooking before we could start eating.
I was going to use a large knife to cut the steak and, not wanting to dirty any extra knives, I used it to cut everything else as well. I'm not so used to the large knife so everything ended up being cut more coarsely than usual -- the ginger, the celery, the carrots. Whoops.
Instead of cooking the steak first and then putting in the onions, I did it the other way around, onions first.
When making the stir fry, I had the oil on pretty high when I put the meat in the pan, along with the marinade, causing a lot of hot splashiness. Whoops.
In the end, the meal was fine. And, with all the mistakes I made in the process, I got a great cooking lesson too. Experience may not be one of the kindest teachers, but it is one of the best.
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