Disaster! (in the kitchen)

So quite some time ago I was reallllly craving mac n' cheese, but not from a box. I thought to myself, I've seen countless people in family make mac n' cheese, surely I can do it too. So on that train of thought I pulled out my ingredients, sure that I had this one in the bag.

I had two half bags of pasta, some "cooking cheese", butter, milk, parmesan, and I decided to add chicken and some snap peas for nutrition. Simple enough ingredients. How could it go wrong?

So, first I cubed the chicken, and to cut down on my cook time, I put them on a plate and shoved them in the microwave to cook, instead of what I usually do, which is to pan fry them. And then I washed my snap/snow peas (i think the flat ones are snow peas and the rounder ones are snap peas...) and started to peel them.

Peeling peas is really easy. Take a knife, and hold the blade flat in your hand (like in the above picture). Then place the tip of the pea on the flat of the blade. Snap the pea down across the blade gently, and then peel down the spine of the pea. Easy peasy. If you don't peel your peas, then you might find it a little difficult to cut them or eat them without this strip getting in the way. I'm a psycho about these things, so I peel both sides of my peas, but I think if you don't mind some fiber, then it's okay to leave the thinner side in. So after finishing the peas, I turned my attention to my pasta, which I had put on to boil. I drained it and then started to add the cheese.

So I added the "cooking cheese," butter and some parmesan. God only knows what "cooking cheese" is. I just know that "sandwich cheese" and "cooking cheese" are the only cheeses under 5$ available at the grocery store, so that's what I use. I also added a tiny bit of milk. Then I added the peas and the chicken. At the time, I didn't realize that the chicken was really only half cooked. To help the cheese melt, I turned on the heat super low, and stirred it all around for a few minutes. After which, this was the result:Looks pretty good, huh? But looks can be (and were) deciving. It tasted like watered down hot mess. The chicken wasn't cooked and neither were the peas, which I had stupidly added right before I stirred everything around. The "cooking cheese" didn't really melt, but instead morphed into giant blobs of goop, which tasted nothing like cheese. Suffice to say, this pictured bowl was the only one I ate. I put the leftovers in my fridge, but never did convince myself to eat the rest of it. I threw it out a week later.

Better luck next time