seven weeks, cooks and cameras

it's the start of another semester, hopefully my last in this particular course. i've had quite a lot of adventures over the seven-week break, doing basic housewife things such as budgeting, planning the meal for the whole week, shopping for the ingredients for that week, and cooking those planned meals on designated days. it was quite enjoyable, like a roleplaying performance, knowing that it would only last for the winter break, then back again to the usual whatever-is-in-the-fridge-if-none-then-take-away routine.

i know that neither cooking nor baking is a forte of mine, but getting the goal quite right at the end makes me a happy person. there had been bad attempts, and a little too many i suppose, such as the leche flan which is, indeed, leche! or the baked fish with (supposedly) sweet and sour veggies but turned out to be neither sweet nor sour. nevertheless, with me cooking for seven long weeks everyday, there were bound to be good ones (thank God!). and so we enjoyed eating palabok, pinoy-sweet-style spaghetti with italian-style garlic bread, picadillos (though i always called this "giniling"), chili crab (oriental style), sinigang sa miso na ulo ng tuna, third-attempt leche flan, pancakes with maple syrup (though the pancakes were made using a pancake shake mix...just add water!), nasi goreng (indonesian fried rice), and, of course, what i crave the most, tapsilog (tapa queen style! yummm!!!)!

because i haven't got anything to do during those vacation weeks, i also decided to get into photography. i downloaded lessons over the internet and attended an hour-long class. though i know that there wasn't any chance i would reach even the five-steps-away-from-a-professional stage, i was able to celebrate my two filling-the-time carreer. thus, i happily took photos of the dishes that i cooked (only those which were successfully done) and i can definitely say that i enjoyed it.

so, here i am, on the first week of my spring semester, celebrating what i have accomplished, wishing there could be another week to just cook and take photos. i know that in the future, i would look back to this, my almost-two-months winter break when i became an amateur cook and amateur photographer. wonder if i can write that in my cv?

cheers.