cook daw

without shame but with sheer audacity, i officially declare myself an amateur cook. gone are the days when cooking only meant frying and food only meant fried chicken, pork chop, and canned others.

two months earlier, i attempted to cook pork adobo. it tasted okay, but it did not produce the flavor i expected. probably a result of the fact that i cooked it the easier way. you see, i happen to find this adobo sauce at the grocery store and used it instead of mixing soy sauce, vinegar, lime juice etc… at my own liking. the end result was still edible, but not as i wanted it to taste.

a month ago, through a friend’s example, i cooked fried pork in sweet soy sauce. after carefully following the procedures she told me, i failed to produce the sweet flavoring it should have. maybe because i poured too much soy sauce, i really don’t know! still it was edible, but again not as I wanted it to taste.

yesterday, my third attempt to cooking—creamy and cheesy mashed potatoes. after arriving home early yesterday, i convinced our househelp to accompany me to the nearby grocery store. there, i bought the ingredients—potatoes, cream cheese, salt, milk, butter etc. upon arriving home, i started boiling the potatoes, with hope and excitement on my face as if saying “this is it!” and after 2 hours of waiting, mixing and preparing, i got it all done--a so yummy, creamy and cheesy mashed potatoes. my housemates enjoyed savouring it as much as i enjoyed watching them eat and react to my creation.

what an accomplishment!
call it self-praise, the hell i care! hehehe
basta, i cooked it oh so yummy!
mmmmmmm.