Recently, I've begun to cook dishes while I'm visiting my parents. Before, I would either slack or perform prep cook duties during my stays. Since my cooking class, I've been slowly taking on more meal responsibilities. My culinary endeavours in the foreign kitchen have so far been limited to pan-seared scallops with a classic beurre blanc sauce, but I've offered to bring a squash cream soup for Turkey Day, and I'm contemplating bringing a pithivier as well.

In retrospect, I probably could've helped out more earlier. However, I think a combination of awe, lack of confidence in my skills and general slothlikeness stopped me before. Now that I seem to have gotten past those things for the most part, I hope that one day, I'll be able to cook a full course meal that they'd be proud of.