LEARNING HOW TO COOK IS FUN

I started cooking when I was 15 years old. I have no formal training that time about cooking. So, I learned through trial and error. I remember my first viand that I was cooking was pancit canton or commonly know as noodle special. Nobody told me what to do. I just remembered the ingredients when we ate at a restaurant in downtown area. The only thing in my mind was to cooking the food and let others eat it. I was not concern about the outcome just to be able to cook was fine for me that time.

In the kitchen, I gathered all the ingredients and spices that I thought were part in cooking the pancit canton. I was full of guts and scared. But I was confident that I can get through it. I first cooked the meat until golden brown and add the garlic and other ingredients. The last part of my cooking was the add up of the noodles into the wok. I let it simmer and waited until the sayote and the carrots were already fine to eat. Saltiness was a problem for me. I could not distinguish what is salty and what is not. Since it was my first time to cook, I was in a wild guess about everything.

The first customers that ate my pancit canton were my brothers. After they tasted the food, they immediately made me the cook for tomorrow. After cooking my first food, I realiazed so many things. Cooking is fun and exciting. It is like a chemistry class, you mix and the end product is something good.

Just a tip: when you over put salt in your food in cooking, it would be best to place some potatoes to neutralize the saltiness in the food that you are cooking.