When Hobby Turns Into More Serious

Right now, cooking has always been in my mind when I already finish my daily job. I would say that every day, at least I’m looking for ideas or recipes that could make my mind learn a lot faster and fuel me with so many ideas. Yes, because I don’t cook every single day to create recipes or explore taste and plating but I usually cook on the weekend instead. Two of the reasons are I have a full-time job and I realized that having cooking as a hobby is somehow unfavorable in terms of the timing when you want to cook at home – I’ll explain in the next few paragraphs.

I was starting this cooking journey as a hobby, and as time went by I realized that if I want to build up skills I really should put a lot of time for me cooking in the kitchen, whether to work in a professional kitchen or cook in my own kitchen at home. The second option is making more sense since I don’t have any background to work in the kitchen (but you know what? I will probably want to give it a go first and try to volunteer in a professional kitchen, wish me luck pls). So, the other thing that comes into my mind was I should make my own breakfast or maybe do a weekly prep as well so I could possibly learn to cook faster and build up my confidence because I should cook in a certain period of time remembering my job is on the line as well. And it works for me, at least for some weeks hahaa. I felt like I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did when I cook daily for myself rather than when I cook for my run away. It feels pure odd. Then so many problems of having to cook at the morning, when yes, my mum usually cook so it clashes, as well raising to the surface following of some other problems, IYKYK.

I was facing a situation where I wanna cook soo badly, explore some recipes, and build up my confidence, however at the same time I was feeling like it was not that fun anymore like I didn’t even enjoy my dish as much as I did when I do it as a hobby. Man, it was a really weird feeling that I can’t even put into words. After a while, I was trying to analyze what could be the problems of this kind of situation? And I got plenty of it. First, yes I should really take into account what I should see ‘cook’ is, whether just a hobby, or something that I wanna work for more to just a hobby, and right now since I really want to make a dining service, I should really see it as one of my skills that I really want to build up, so not just a hobby. Maybe it’s also because of my background that doesn’t have any relation whatsoever with cooking so I should think differently now. Second, it’s about the kitchen itself. There are soo many things that prevent me to cook as I want in the kitchen in my home. Yes, definitely because of the space, but it doesn’t really that important, I still could handle it. The most problematic thing is because of the timing. When I want to cook in the morning, it clashes with my mom and my helper that will cook for lunch. Sometimes it feels really wrong that I didn’t feel that grateful to have something to eat just ready for lunch but yeah, I hope you can put yourself in my shoes. What about cooking at night? Honestly, that’s what I’ve been thinking lately bout this issue. I think if I mostly put most of my cooking time at night, it won’t even bother anyone. However, the big concern is who the hell will eat my dish? LOL. Honestly, I don’t eat that much. I see cooking and eating as a way to nurture ourselves, so whenever I got time to make dishes, I probably will make sure who will gonna eat them? Also is there any other food left that I can eat? If that’s the case, probably I’ll postpone my cooking session until there is little to no other food left in the pantry or fridge that I should eat first. Actually, I’ve got another solution for this which is calling for taste testers! Pls kindly wait for it to be released soon! What about making a smaller amount of food? Yes, I got the idea of it, and that’s also one of the solutions. However, it’s not that easy to make a smaller amount of food when it comes to something that is more complex. I mean if I was cooking nasi goreng or another simple dish, I could just eyeball and taste and adjust, but say it for baking recipes, sometimes when you cut the recipe into half or even smaller than the actual recipe, you should also have to do something differently because of the amount the ingredients is not that much, so there’s another challenge for this solution.

In the end, I totally will get into the idea that this is gonna be a loong journey. I’ll be facing a lot of troubles and issues, with so many levels of complexity that I should face no matter what that is, and once again, I should take into account that I have to enjoy every single steps that I made for this journey and be grateful whatever the results are and I hope you (yes you!) could accompany me in order to make it easier for me through this journey, Cheers!