Practical exercise
Cook three things: boiled egg, fried egg, dal chawal
If electricity goes out for two days and the cook is on leave, can you feed yourself and your younger brother without ordering Foodpanda? Today you learn three foundation skills that cover breakfast, snack, and a full meal. Boiled egg teaches timing. Fried egg teaches heat control. Dal chawal teaches sequence. Together they are the spine of any home kitchen in Pakistan.
Now try it
Cook three things: boiled egg, fried egg, dal chawal
Stretch
Within ten days, cook a fourth dish from scratch with no recipe held in your hand: aloo bhujia or qeema with peas. Same photograph + scoring discipline. The fourth dish proves the first three were not flukes.
Goes into your portfolio
Three labelled photographs (boiled egg cut in half, fried egg on toast or paratha, full plate of dal chawal) plus a one paragraph caption per photo describing the timing and what you would change next time.