Anyone who's struggled with a budget knows what "A Student Kitchen" means - pretty much, you've got most of the basics, and are missing most of the tools and utensiles. Which makes cooking impossible...right?? - Well, remember, cooking was happening long before the potatoe masher, the spatula, and even the electric stove were invented. My motto in the kitchen is "If the pioneers could make this, then I can too!" All you need is some ingenuity!
I'll let you in on some food projects my friends and I have undertaken in our student kitchen:
1) Making meatloaf with no loaf-tray. Solution: cook the meat in an all-metal pot, in muffin-trays, or in carefully-shaped aluminum-foil; yes that is possible, trust me.
2) Mashed potatoes with no potato-masher. Solution: Use the bottom of a clean glass. Works!
3) Home-Made Icecream without a mixer for the whipped cream. Solution: Three girls, one wisk and two forks. It's a good way to vent frustration and build some arm muscles. Maybe the whipped cream wasn't quite whipped, but it thickened enough to make some killer home-made icecream!!! :)
5) Hummus, sans blender or food processor. Here again, we mashed up the chickpeas, along with everything else, with the bottom of a glass. It didn't look as smooth as it could have, but taste was not compromised. (we did that one today!)
And then there are the usual- pots instead of salad bowls and mugs instead of cereal bowls. Never be afraid to cook as a student because you're not equipped like a pro. Remember, the pros learned from their teachers, who learned from their grandmothers, who learned from their grandmothers, who would have laughed in scorn at the idea of a garlic press or a lightbulb in an oven.
The Life&Times of our Student Kitchen (minus a few minor fires of course) is pretty darn awsome. :)
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