#I’m forgetting Spanish I’ve learned bc I don’t practice enough. my food sucks. but I don’t wanna lose those ties | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

cerealmonster15 · 6 months

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I grew up eating.L bean soup + rice that my dad cooks bc that’s like, a Colombian staple, and I know the general seasonings that go into it and my dad taught us cooking growing up so it’s not like I’d never seen the process

But also his style of cooking isn’t exactly recipe or exact measurements bc he’s been doing it for years , but I swear when I do it I almost never get the seasoning right and I’m never sure what it is i did wrong, like If I was missing something or had too much of something or both or what!!!

#and SO many times the beans were unevenly cooked #I think in college it was due to weak stoves #bc it got better when I moved into apartments #BUT. last week I made shitty soup again #lime mostly cooked beans but some were still kinda harder #and the seasoning just wasn’t good #now to be fair I realized I was out of sazón so that’s something that I could attribute to being misisng #but I feel like everything else still coudlve made a decent flavor if I had done it right!!!#idk I’ve been agonizing about it since then lol #like my mixed heritage and stuff is a bit complicated sometimes #but food is one of my closest ties to my Colombian culture #and lately it’s like #I’m forgetting Spanish I’ve learned bc I don’t practice enough. my food sucks. but I don’t wanna lose those ties #I did get a Latin American cookbook last year #and it has some authentic Colombian recipes #I learned arepa. which I didn’t like growing up but I’m learning to figure a way they’re alright lol #and a sancocho recipe!! my dad loves making sancocho #I made it once from my book and I think it was decently good #people make fun of me for eating beans all the time but they DONT GET IT #uugghnhhgjgjgjgh whatever I’m just sad I suck at cooking lol 😭

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