Kitchen Wonders

Japanese Omelete Rice with Tomatoes (Dosanko Cooking Recipe)

Creamy Mashed Potatoes

Spicy Cream Dory Fish Fillet in Lemon Butter Sauce 

I was still a teenager the last time I stepped inside the kitchen to learn the art of cooking and to find out if I have a flair for cooking. However, that curiosity almost burned down our house. From then on, I've decided I do not belong in the kitchen. Now that I am 21, and due to some circumstances I've faced for the past year, here I am back in the kitchen trying my luck at cooking. The very first dish I prepared was Mashed Potatoes. It all started out due to my incessant craving for Mashed Potatoes. My biggest fear in cooking was preparing something inedible which would just lead to wasting the ingredients. Thankfully, my Mashed Potatoes turned out really well as I found myself eating it for two days straight. The next meal I prepared which unfortunately I wasn't able to capture a photo of was an Asian Recipe for tofu. I have always enjoyed eating tofu since I was a kid. So, for my next dish I found an Asian recipe that seemed really easy to do. The taste didn't turned out as how I wanted it to be. I blame it on the soy sauce I used. It wasn't an utter disaster but it wasn't what I wanted it to taste like and I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to taste that way as well. At first I thought that another Kitchen disaster would stop me from learning how to cook for good but I was wrong. Despite my not so successful follow up dish after the Mashed Potatoes I tried fish. I have never held raw meat for more than ten seconds ever in my entire life. I promised to myself that never will I touch raw meat because I just find it so disgusting. But then nobody learns how to cook without touching raw meat so for my third dish I decided to work on Spicy Fish Fillet in Lemon Butter Sauce. I believe this is my most successful dish as my mom and sister totally enjoyed it. it was only after cooking this recipe that I realized how much my cooking skills have improved. before I could barely touch fish now I'm fine marinating fish and cooking it on my own. This dish took me around 1 1/2 hours to finish. It was an arduous job but still worth doing. Then when I craved for Mashita's Kimchi Fried Rice that's simply to die for, I bought Kimchi and cooked Kimchi Fried Rice. Again, it was well loved by my mom and my sister that I cooked it twice. Then three days ago I prepared this dish called Japanese Omelet Rice with Tomatoes which I saw from a Japanese cooking show at AFC channel. it wasn't hard but it took me hours slicing carrots and onions into bits because I prefer them in bits than big slices. Anyway it turned out really well. Finally I can stop telling people that I can't cook and look ignorant when people talk about cooking.


I pride myself for learning how to cook without help from anyone but myself. One of the most essential things that a person has to learn before dying is to cook. As the cliche goes, food is the way to a man/woman's heart. It is the perfect expression of love and desire. Why? I believe because of the fact that Cooking is a skill that is developed through time. It's not something that you acquire easily. You have to have determination to learn to cook before you appreciate it. It is a tedious process as there are different flavors, and cooking techniques that has to be learned. Obviously time and patience are also two important keys in the learning process. This also answers the question why not all people can cook. I believe that food is the ultimate form of romance because before it turns into a dish, it undergoes so many processes. Initially, it is nothing but a combination or raw ingredients. it is through the skills of the person that these raw products are turned into something edible...something special. The mere idea of putting so much effort into preparing a dish for a person is enough already as a reason why a dish prepared for someone is special. This is not something that everyone can or will do.  People are naturally in love with food and it is something that we can never say no to. It binds friendships, families, lovers and even enemies. A dish is a perfect comparison to relationships. We don't meet people and right away say that we click with them. Building relationships takes time as cooking takes time to learn. We get to know people first and their roles in our lives just like how we familiarize ourselves with different flavors and cooking techniques. From there, we begin to establish relationships with these people just like how we start to finally prepare dishes as soon as we learn the flavors and techniques. I guess this is why food is very close to our hearts. It tells our story.



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