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My passion for cooking actually started when I was very young. My younger sister got hospitalized, my mother had to attend to her and my father was working, and we could not afford a househelp then. Being the eldest child I had automaticaly taken the responsibility to take care and feed the younger ones, I was only 10 years old then. I was caught with the responsibility offguard, I do not know how to cook, what I only knew was cooking rice.

We happened to live near the house of my uncle, my father's distant cousin whom I asked how to cook scrambled egg (it was the only recipe that came to my mind then). He told me that after beating the egg in a bowl I have to put water in the pan and pour the beaten mixture. I was disgusted with the result. I was scrimping on budget as my sister was in the hospital. When I told my uncle the result of what he taught me he laughed at me. I was so furious but I could not retaliate of course. My sisters had no choice but to eat what I had prepared. Since then I promised myself that I will learn cooking the best way I can.

I considered this experience a good one, while growing up I tried different recipes starting with cassavas and coconut milk. I still remembered how I fed my siblings with experiments which I believed they enjoyed.

Now my children and some friends benefits from my cooking and I love the feel of it.

How did you learn your cooking? :D

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  • DoYouCare said on Aug 06, 2006....
    I only know the basics, cooking rice, frying, boiling. I don't bake or roast but I think I can live to it. There are so many fastfoods around, it may not be as hard as a few years before. Besides I am alone here in the city. Do have a responsibility of caring for the younger ones is much harder I guess than worrying for the foods. I can say that your uncle was stupid for not teaching you properly, sorry but but I have no ken for his kinds of joke.
  • FriendsForever said on Aug 06, 2006....
    Hello DoYouCare, do not get yourself upset with my uncle, he's dead now and it happened in early 1970 a very long time ago. You are right having a responsibility for young children is harder. At the time that I was 10, I was the eldest in a brood of 6 but we became a brood of 8 in later years. Imagine how big a family we are. :)
  • hunter_boyce_chandler said on Aug 06, 2006....
    I went to culinary school and since then have been certified as a Personal Chef by the APCA. I love to cook, but more importantly I love to bake bread. I have a feel for it. I'm not into pastries. I do them but I dont have the emotional tie to the product. Bread is part of my spirit.
  • Zayda said on Aug 06, 2006....
    When I was younger, I had thought about going to culinary school. Sometimes, I still wish that is the decision I had made. I love to cook; unlike Hunter though, I am not a great bread baker. I am passable at it. I love making pastries, cakes, and pies though. I make a spectacular Chocolate Caramel Pecan Cheesecake.
  • FriendsForever said on Aug 07, 2006....
    Hunter must have been very good and I envy him. I also attended a culinary art school but only took a short course just to know the basics not for a career. I bake once in a while and friends says my Black Princess tastes heavenly. I only have a taste of Choco Caramel Pecan Cheesecake once in a resto here in RP, the cake was really deliciously sinful and expensive. I can imagine Hunter baking a very flaky croissant, do you Hunter?
  • ayinkurie said on Aug 11, 2006....
    Hi FF, If you familiar with coconut milk why don't you try Rice with coconut milk. Instead of putting plain water, boil it with coconut milk the same amount with plain water. You can put 1 lemon grass. A slice or 2 ginger. Sliced shallot and salt. If you have been to Malaysia it is called Nasi Lemak. Usually we eat it with friend anchovies, some sliced cucumber, fried groundnuts, fried/boiled eggs and any type of 'sambal'.
  • FriendsForever said on Aug 13, 2006....
    Thanks Ayinkurie, I tried cooking rice with coconut milk but without lemon grass, ginger and salt. Cooked rice with coconut here is called "yangit". Btw, what's sambal? Is it viand?

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