Hooray It Was Edible!

Yesterday Janice called to say a group of friends were stopping by her place around dinner time and if I could come up with something for dinner. ^_^ Glad to have new victims/visitors to test my concoctions on I excitedly googled my way to a couple of recipes I would like to try. hehehe chicken afritada and beef sinigang(I found some tamarind powder in the cupboard)... both of which I have never tried cooking. After making a list of ingredients, I head out to the nearest market and had fun matching my list to the actual products found there. For example, I know what cabbage is supposed to look like in the Philippines but I have no idea what it'll will look like in SG.... veges kinda look the same to me and the Chinese labels does not help at all. There were lot of cabbage look alikes in the store! Anyway, I settled for the cutest ones. wahahaha I forgot to take pictures.... next time for sure.

I had my laptop on the kitchen table... and I followed the instructions step by step. Hmmmm.... they really should put in the little details like how would I know if the stuff/veges is cooked. hehehe Took me about 2.5 hours to get the food done... our visitors were here already and Janice thought I had everything prepared by the time she got home (7:30 pm). We got to eat by 8:30 pm... fortunately the food was edible. Hehehe the chicken afritada was just right (even if it seemed I dumped more red bell pepper on it than chicken) and the beef stew was ok but lacked a bit of salt and most of the veges mushy. Wahahaha

Last I heard... no one got sick from my cooking last night. ^_^