<human>: I've never "cooked" anything in my life before, and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing yesterday, but since we were having a salsa contest for Spanish class I decided to take a shot at it. I looked up a list of ingredients for basic fresh salsa and went out and bought what I thought I needed. I did all the prep work (dicing tomato and onions and chopping garlic) and I threw everything into a bowl. When I went to taste a bit of it, I thought it had created the most disgusting thing ever. Apparently, the "cilantro" I threw in was actually chopped up green onion that my mom left out and the substitute for the jalapeños that were out of stock were actually birds eye chillies (which are extremely spicy) and what made it worse was I threw in 6 of them with seeds too. My "salsa" literally tasted like spicy tomato juice with onions and garlic in it. I covered it up and threw it in the fridge and said "I can't cook this is awful" and spent the night thinking of ways to explain to my teacher why I don't want to share my salsa.

The next morning, I was feeling optimistic and decided to give it another taste since the flavors are supposed blend after a while. It still tasted horrific and I had thrown way too much garlic in, so I quickly looked up how to deal with too much garlic and squeezed the rest of the lime I had from the other night and some more "cilantro" (green onion) in and mixed it up and got on the bus to school. 

I got first place with it.

I tried some myself and realized that I was just overreacting and it actually didn't taste too bad :D 

So, yeah. (Sorry if this was kind of anti climatic. Also, wasn't sure how to end it. Just kind of wanted to rant about my first cooking experience).

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<bot>: cooking for the first time was fun and I learned that cilantro looks the same as green onions and my mom's chilli peppers are spicy af.