Home Cooking – A Must-Have for Me and You

Growing up, I never had the inclination to learn how to cook. Living in the tropical country with no airconditioning in the kitchen, I couldn’t really be bothered with literally boiling while cooking or baking something in the kitchen. Besides, my mom was a great cook and we had a full-time cook to assist my mom so there was nothing really that compelled us to help out.

These all changed of course when I moved to New Zealand and left the comforts of my parents’ place and full-time house help. Here in New Zealand, I had to learn how to be independent. One of the things I had to learn real fast was to cook. If I didn’t, I’d have to suffer my husband’s specialties: crumbed fish, french fries and sausages. We could’ve also chosen to get our nutrition from canned food but I vowed that’s not going to happen in my household. I grew up to the delicious smell of homecooked food at all times so I’d be buggered if I won’t do it for my family. I’d learn how to cook even if it meant burning pots and pots of meat! LOL

It’s been 8 years since I was forced, err, I learned how to cook and I’m happy to report that I haven’t poisoned any of my family members or friends and that I have been encouraged by well-meaning friends to open a Filipino restaurant. Is this a testament perhaps to my Jamie Oliver-type of cooking or they just want other people to suffer my cooking as well?

Home cooking is one of the ways to show your family that you love them. That’s what I think anyway. I love it when my daughter says I’m the best cook in the world or when my Hubby boasts to anyone who’d listen that I’m a great cook.

Next goal for me? To become more proficient with baking. I’d keep you posted on how that goes *wink*