#it's like my secret recipe except that im fully willing to share it if someone asks

[mangowithanh]

i find it funny that i can cook very elaborate and specific recipes with lots of ingredients and spices and stuff i need to cook separately and add later (so with plenty of room to fuck it up) and having them turn out awesome as fuck. like "even my brother whose love language is insulting everything i do (in a sibling way) compliments it" good,

But.

Don't hand me a box of "instant" or "3 step" or "minute" anything because i Will find a way to Fuck It Up, somehow.

i have made tamales de elote from scratch going as far as to separate the leaf from the cobs and grind the corn kennels with a hand mill myself. they were absolutely bussin'. i have also burnt and overcooked instant noodles, and undercooked the cheese sauce for boxed mac n cheese. i have made cookies and some nice ass fried bollitos from scratch, they were awesome. but i once tried to make cake from a box mix and for some reason it tasted like cardboard (my grandma used the same brand once and it turned out great idk what i did wrong).

like what in the monkey paw genie wish fairy godmother curse ass shit is that. why

#the only exception is those green instant soup packets #but that's bc i prepare them the way my mom taught me to and add a lot of other stuff to them #it's like my secret recipe except that im fully willing to share it if someone asks #bc i love sharing the joy of good food recipes #that stuff shouldn't ever be gatekept i think #cooking #about me #random ramblings #food