Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Me, the cook

The most important thing I learned with my life here in the US is survival skills. Especially feeding myself. One skill I haven't learned, is cleaning my room skill, but that's another story.

I don't often go to the kitchen back home. Either my dear mom would cook for me, or I would buy food from somewhere. I could cook eggs and that's it. I can't even cook rice (actually, even now, I can only cook rice with a rice cooker now :) ).

Before I left however, I had a crash course in cooking. Then after 6 months of experimental cooking (some were disastrous...) I was finally able to cook pretty well. Not really good, but edible (well, of course for food, I'm really easy to please, if it's cooked, it's good).

Anyway.. I have an oven, correction, I have a working oven now in my new apartment. My cooking experiments have gone up a notch. Now I cook roasted chicken with a variety of spices. Stuffed calamari (the stuffing felt raw though .. oops).

I also baked a cake. Well, to be fair, I didn't cook it from scratch. I bought a ready to make baking kit, as well as frosting. All I had to do was put in eggs, water , mix it (I had to use a fork because I didn't have a mixer). Bake it in the oven for 30 minutes..

and voila...



just imagine the frosting on the cake and cheese on top of it.. and you'll see something like this:



Sorry, I got hungry while taking a picture of it so I ate some :D