Julie & Julia

Okay, this is my first attempt at this contest so here goes nothing.

It was fifth attempt at cooking at my life so I was pretty sure that I will not have any or rather WE will not have any big problems.

It was a cookout in camp, yes literally in a camp. Me and my campmates have managed to smuggle in cooking equipments like pots, steamboats, utensils, frying pan, and all the ingredients as listed below:

Dish 1 : Fried Rice

Eggs

Rice

Soy Sauce

Oyster Sauce

Luncheon Meat

Dish 2 :Black Pepper Linguine

Linguine

Black Pepper Sauce

Hot Dogs

Interestingly enough we were mad enough to come up with 2 dishes which are both equally as filling but we thought that it would have been no problem for us since we are all gluttons.

It was night time at around 6pm and we started to embark on this journey. Along the way, we saw this winged-cockroach in our domitory and one of us screamed and accidentally flipped the eggs off the table onto the floor. It was hilarious I swear, all of us were running all over the room because of that cockroach. However, when we finally settled down because that cockroach ran out of the room, we came to a shocking halt. The eggs were all broken leaving only 2 intacts. But nonetheless, we decided to use all of the eggs, disgusting and gooey it might be, we still happily trickle the eggs down onto the frying pan then we mixed it with the rice and start stir-frying it. Next, we add in the luncheon meat along with some soy sauce and oyster sauce and start frying and frying. The experience was enticing because everyone had a go at it but the cost of it was that there were rice all over the floor and we knew that we are going to have a hard time cleaning up later, but who cares, we are all having a time of our life.

Once done, we each took a small scoop of portion and started gobbling down mouthfuls and mouthfuls of rice. Disastrous it might be, but it certainly tasted great and somewhat saccharine, probably due to the addition of the oyster sauce at the end.

Here comes the next dish, black pepper linguine, overall it was simple. We just had to dump all the linguine into this pot filled with boiling water, then we wait for a couple of minutes and we started to bring everything out and deposited inside an enormous bowl. Then we start pouring in 2 cans of black pepper sauce and started to mix it over and over again until the colour of the pasta was fairly unanimous throughout.

After we tasted a mouthful of pasta each, we all did the same thing. Guess what?

We reach out for our cups and started to gulp down all the water inside the cup. It was extremely spicy and none of us anticipated that. As we were drinking, we all looked at each other and laughed again, laughing at the fact that we all reacted the same way simultaneously.

Although it was a pretty nasty treat, it sure was an indelible experience for every single one of us. Some of us have already parted ways but I am pretty sure none of us will ever have black pepper linguine for any of our meals ever again.

Photo credits -healthylunchtime, -wikimedia