Cooking, cooking, cooking!

I'm having so much fun cooking! I'm finally feeling brave enough to cook and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I especially feel accomplished when I cook a traditional Mexican/Latin dish. I told some of my friends that I almost feel like a Girl Scout who is earning her badges.

Several weeks ago I got the Bean Badge. I cooked them from scratch and days later I blended them to make re-fried beans.

I also earned the Beef Fajitas Badge although those were reeeeally easy and aren't traditionally Mexican.

Today I earned the Huevos Rancheros Badge. Yummy and yaay! I've had the recipe on my fridge for a while and was scared to try it but my ex-boss convinced me it was okay to change up the recipe the way I was thinking about doing it. So I did it and it was awesome! Just like my momma's!

The next badge I will work to get is the Chilaquiles Badge. I'm also working on the Rice Badge but that's a work in progress. :-) I made rice when I made the beans but I think the rice could've been better so I will make another attempt.

I have cooked other foods but they've been too easy and I can't consider them as badges earned. Not that the badges above were really hard to earn but I think that latin dishes are so much more intimidating. You have have a specific memory as to how it should taste and any variation is not good enough - a failure.

So when I cook pasta, fish, or steak in modern American fashion I feel like they don't count towards my badges. I know, I'm being dumb. lol....

The only con I can think of to all of this cooking is the dirty dishes. What a drag.... :-)