Two Weeks of Gastronomic Autonomy!!

Tomorrow will mark my second week of culinary independence! Yes, still alive and breathing. Hey, I should get a bathroom scale and start measuring how much weight I’ve lost/put on. That should be interesting.

So what have I learned thus far? Here’s

My Top 10 List for Lessons from Cooking:

1.Apparently there’s an unwritten rule that you can only use one side of the chopping board for meats and another side for veggies. You can’t mix the two. Frankly I don’t care…

2.Watch the heat on the pan or you’ll melt your nylon spatula.

3.Now I understand how hard it was for Mom to come home and cook after a long day at school. Thanks Mum!

4.Now I appreciate the times when Dad ordered me to help Mom in the kitchen while I was busy watching TV. Thanks Dad!

5.Don’t fry vegetables with anchovies and then add Lee Kum Kee oyster sauce. The gravy will be salty like ocean water.

6.Respect the cleaver! *ouch*

7.Before cooking, put a piece of cloth over the smoke detector for uninterrupted kitchen sessions.

8.Bananas could most possibly be the cheapest fruit available. Only $0.39 for a bunch of six “batangs”.

9.The In-sink-erator is God’s gift to the Americans. That thing swallows up almost anything. But I doubt it’ll last a week in a Malaysian kitchen.

10.There’s nothing that beats the smell of scrambled eggs frying in a pan or the scent of freshly chopped garlic.


More of My Top 10 coming soon…