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Its 9pm on a Saturday night and I’m at home watching the teleserye debut of "Maging Sino Ka Man". I can envision my husband cringing while reading this. He’s not really a fan of pinoy teleseryes…but I am…of certain ones lang. So I will find out within the next few weeks, if I will like this new series. I had religiously watched Bituing Walang Ningning, crying my heart out up to their last episode. It was pretty heavy. I loved it…hehee…

What I am NOT a fan of is cooking…Alas nuebe na and I am waiting for my food to be delivered. I am shameful but I must admit this: I CAN’T COOK (gasp!) My mom, who is just a GREAT mom, was just happy to cook for us while we were growing up so I never really had to worry about cooking. She was strict about making us learn the other chores but when it came to helping out in the kitchen, she actually let us get away with it. I think I’ve sliced some carrots and poured sauce in a pan a few times. When I came here in the states, I’ve been lucky that aunts and grandparents lived with us and cooked for us. When they moved out, my sister-in-law moved in and she’s a GREAT cook.

Two days ago I tried to cook, for lack of a better name, silverfish torta. Everyone was tired that night and I felt like I had to step up. I steamed some okras and asparagus and found a cup of silverfish in the freezer. I could have cooked miswa but defrosting the meat would take a long time. I thought torta would be really easy coz all I would need are eggs and silverfish. Unfortunately, I beat too many eggs and the tortas looked more like pancakes. People (dad, bro, sis in law) had to dig in to find the silverfish in the torta. People started asking for bagoong to put in their steamed veggies to make up for the lack of ulam (my tortas were getting snubbed!). I failed in the kitchen, yet again =(( This was my second attempt.

My first attempt was to cook Adobo. It was a pretty expensive adobo ha coz I had to pay a long distance call to manang anet in Iloilo just to get the instructions from her. She was pretty detailed but she forgot to mention to me that I have to boil the chicken and pork to make them tender (okay, I know its supposed to be common sense) but I followed everything else she had instructed me to do. My adobo looked good. It was just hard as a rock.

I have not lost hope. I come from a family of good cooks. I married someone who’s also passionate about cooking. I love to eat. And I love watching the Food Network (if that helps). But my kusina is not open to the public…nope..not yet…hehhe