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10-24-08 · Miscellaneous Tags: Cookbooks
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So, have you seen my Tastebook? Okay, go ahead and look at it again. Like it? Would you like a free copy? Okay, read carefully.
Why is it important to learn how to cook?
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It is important to learn to cook so I can feed good and delicious food to my family.
it is important to learn how to cook specially for ue working abroad because no one will feed us not like in the philippines when you arrive home everything is ready sppon feed ika nga nila. i just learn how to cook here in U.S because i dont have anybody here just me and my hubby if i dont cook we have nothing to eat and it also remove my stress
its one of the best way to share and express love to yourself and loved ones. Whether its the food (output) or the process
It’s important to learn how to cook because there are so many relationships that can be built from learning it. I use cooking as playtime with my nephew and to get him interested in something else aside from his toys. I cook to please my boyfriend. I cook to make my brothers happy. I cook because I have a 5 girls, 1 boy team in the office and we love to bring food to work and share it with everyone over at lunch while bonding with each other.
Learning how to cook is one of a good way to live a healthy life.And it brings family together by just passing on family recipes into future generations.For me it makes me feel so connected with my relatives eventhough i live very far away from them.
Because it makes me feel that I am a fulfilled woman and a mother. I can proudly say to my husband and my only child and daughter that “yehey” marunong na akong magluto!
To show love and concern to each member of my family is serving them foods that would surely satisfy their taste buds and enjoy the happiness of eating together at our own dining table…because i believe that the family that eats enjoyably together stays together. This would definitely be possible if I learn how to cook and explore further the joy of great cooking!
It’s important to learn how to cook because it’s one of gifts that we can share and enjoy with our family. I recently got married and dont know a thing about cooking. Now, i’m slowly learning the basics so I can feed good and healthy food to my family just ike what my Mom did for us our whole lives.
For me it’s never an obligation nor it felt like one.
I learned how to cook because I love food and I love to share them. Preparing them from scratch and trying to make a table presentation is very satisfying to my soul. It is seconded by the appreciation that you get from your family and friends who enjoy eating it because you know it was done with love.
every one should know to cook bec. sa hirap ng buhay ngayon kahit sa bahay kalang puwede kanang mag nigosyo kashit pagtawid gutom mo lang. kaya pls piliin mo me i need that cookbook i need to improve my cooking skills. para maumpisahan ko na ang akin mini calinderya
For me, it was important to learn how to cook Filipino food not only so that I can show my US-born son about my heritage and my culture through food; but also for my son to experience and embrace his heritage. Alas, I have been successful — although he speaks Tagalog with an American twang, the Pinoy in him is evident with his love of dinuguan, adobo, and all Filipino food.
it’s important to learn how to cook because we need to eat and nourish our body. cooking also has become an important means of expressing my love and affection to my loved ones, friends, office mates and other people who in one way or another has become a part of our lives.
For survival-because you need to eat to survive. For satisfaction-good food is a reward to hard work. For entertainment -cooking is fun,fun,fun. And cooking time is bonding time with your love one, we cook together.
It is important for me to learn how to cook because it’s not only a healthy way of feeding my family but it’s also cheaper especially with the economy right now even here in America. Also you can prevent food poisoning since you know how your foods been handled. And if you’re a good cook, you’ll be invited to a lot of parties and thus, having a lot of friends………….
Whether cooking is for your own survival, impressing your loved ones, or sharing the know-how to others, it is important to learn how to cook because of the extraordinary sense of gratification it brings. Cooking even transcends cultural differences. On a personal note, it is my hope to learn how to cook to show my husband that I am making the effort. As the adage goes, “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” Thank you for your time.
Because for me, it is an art form. It is an expression of who I am, just like an artist creating his masterpiece. There is a never-ending possibility to what you are making – be it a simple grilled sandwich or a complicated gourmet meal. The only limit is your imagination.
It is important to learn how to cook because cooking is giving happiness and sharing your whole self to others.To my husband, to my children, to my friends they are very happy when I’m cooking and for me there is a self fulfillment within that is so hard to explain.Cooking is not an obligation it is an expression of love to all the people around me.
For me, learning to cook is my profound and concrete expression of love and commitment to my family and myself.
Well for me learning to cook is like one of the most important things in my life. I’ve been living alone for a couple of years now so I really need to cook for myself and occasionally for my girlfriend and some friends. And another reason is that I like to impress people, to see that certain sparkle in their eyes when I serve something special to them.
because it makes me feel more human. when you cook, you use all your senses, from looking, smelling, tasting (of course! hehe) feeling, and even hearing.
My grandma was a great cook. Silentlly she expressed to us her love by the way she prepared our meals. The family has been growing and we all look forward to be together and have the dishes she lovingly prepared for us.
I believe that by learning how to cook we can make families be together spend more time with each other thus we create memories, more stories to share and more love to give.
its important to know how to cook it brings togetherness, joy, love and happiness in your family, kids and to my husband as they say ….
” the way to find a man’s heart thru his stomach!!! “
It is important to learn to cook because let’s face it all of us need to eat and its one great accomplishment to experience learning how to cook for yourself and for our love ones. With Cooking we do alot of favor for ourselves: it relaxes the mind, releases our creative juices, warms the heart, and reaches out all our stock knowledge (yes, from science to math) into making one delightful dish. It is one activity that boosts self esteem, gratifying and ideal for the whole family
our body is a temple that is why its important to know exactly what to give to it.
It’s important to learn how to cook mainly for every persons survival and secondly, one way to show our care for our love ones.. COOKING IS A LABOR OF LOVE.
Kung hindi ako magaaral magluto, darating ang panahon na magmumukhang scrambled egg ang asawa ko, at spam ang anak ko. Hindi maganda.
Learning how to cook gives me self worth and sense of purpose especially being a woman.
It is very important to learn how to cook kasi I JUST LOVE TO COOK!
Transforming something raw into something sublime for a beloved–that’s the whole point of cooking.
bonjour! its my first time to comment hehe (nkakahiya) but anyway i always read your blog to follow your recipes. i am married to a french and a mother of 3 months old baby girl.
i guess the importance of learning how to cook is the love and dedication. In my case i dont know how to cook really but since i get married i do now. the only person who know how to cook is my father (he’s from pampanga) he never learned me but i am always have the souvenir the way he cooks when i was little.
now that im a big girl its magic! everytime i cook filipino foods (with the help of your recipe) to my husband he always says “C’est bon! c’est délicieux!”
he is very open to taste all filipino dishes even balot.
I also cook for my friends because i used to invite them and make parties at home
they really enjoy especially ‘desserts’
we are all into sweets hehe
I do cooking and i learned it with lots of love, enjoyment and dedication for my family and friends
i am looking forward to see the availabilty of your taste book here in paris.
Goodluck and more powers!!
“a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”… (i have 2 man in my life) and a home-cooked meal can make a family closer.
It is important to learn how to cook because you’ll spend less, and get to eat better, healthy food. It is undeniably one of the basic skills one has to learn to survive. Also, as the old saying goes, “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” is definitely true. I am now a proud wife to a man who loves and likes all that I cook and serve him.
It is important to learn how to cook because it is through cooking that I can impart my “Filipino-ness” to my children. Although my non-Flipino husband and children understand Tagalog, I want them to really absorb my culture. And what is the best way to do that? Isn’t it through food? When my kids become adult and have families of their own, Tagalog may not be even understood anymore but the taste of our food will carry on with them.
It’s a skill you’ll use for the rest of your life….Cooking your own food even once or twice a week is the stuff of radical change. You’ll spend less, eat better (or at least what you want, and in your pajamas, if you like) and feel in charge of a part of your life previously owned by others.
“A way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” and so the saying goes. Learning how to cook is so important not only for homemakers like me but for everyone else because whether we like it or not, it is the food that always takes the center stage in every occasion of our lives. I’ve been cooking simple meals for my family for almost 14 years now and I feel proud when they prefer my cooking over some fancy restaurant food. It makes all the chopping and sauteing worthwhile.
Learning to cook is important for me because it makes our lives so much bearable. Even though we don’t have much, a delicious meal certainly makes us feel as though we’re kings and queens of the world. Cooking and baking is also my way of showing my family and my friends that I care for them. Friends that I cook for know that I do it rarely and they feel special because I cooked for them. Lastly, I do believe that cooking is a way to a anyone’s heart, especially mine.
There are a lot of reasons why one must learn how to cook. My 3 most important reasons are:
1. Safety – because I know what I’m putting into my and my family’s mouth.
2. It is my stress-buster and outlet for my creativity. For me, cooking is not a responsibility because I enjoy every minute of it. It gives me satisfaction to discover new dishes that my family loves and improve the ones I already knew. Your blog encourages me to be more adventurous.
3. It is in a way a blanket of security. Like if I invite friends to my party they would surely come because for them the food I serve is a treat. Also, it is a way to secure my place in my husband’s heart. I trained my husband’s tastebuds to have my cooking to be the STANDARD. He may find prettier and sexier girls but they will suffer in comparison when it comes to serving him meals.
I think that cooking is important because of several reasons. the most important is for survival. Everybody needs to eat beginning from the day we are born. We are either breastfed or bottlefed after milk our need becomes more complex therefore the need to cook. We need to know how to mix different ingredients from fruits, vegetables, cereals, herbs etc. to enable us to receive the essential vitamins our body needs to be healthy. as they say health is wealth.
It’s important to learn how to cook because you can not live off take-outs or dine-ins. Also as a mother it’s a way of passing on what your own mother (in some cases father) have done too. What better way to say and show your own family how much you appreciate your own parents or grandparents and heritage than by cooking them meals that have stories. Learning to cook is of course learning to be healthy too since you will know what goes in to your meals, how to prepare delicious and healthy foods to the people you love.
It is important for me to learn how to cook because cooking is one of the day to day things my grandmother had passed on to me. It was an extension of her and one of her greatest legacy. Later I will impart the same to my future kids.
Why is it important to learn how to cook?
To satisfy the basic need of your family. Your family always looking forward your next menu.
It’s important to learn how to cook because you have to know what you are putting in your body. I never learned how to cook when I was younger so it was always take out or dine ins. When I was diagnosed with diabetes, it was such a shock to learn what I was doing to my body. I had to do major behaviour modification, no more orange juice (boohoo) and I had to watch sugar intake. Learning how to cook, learning what to eat, has helped me become healthier. And a great plus is that my husband and son are also eating a lot healthier.
It is important to learn how to cook because cooking is one way of showing love in a different manner. I make sure that I cook what my family loves, nutritious as well as delicious. Every meal serve is a masterpiece of love. As the saying goes, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Because cooking is the ultimate comfort, identity and survival skill!
When you”ve grown too paranoid thinking everyone spat on your take out dinner, cooking your own food is your only option.
It is important to learn how to cook because I don’t know how. I will also have at least two things in common with the Sassy Lawyer. Then maybe, I can be the Sassy Cook. =)
Why is it important to learn how to cook?
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bilang isang lalake, importanteng matutong magluto dahil sabi nga nila, pang akit daw sa mga babae ang isang lalakeng marunong magluto. hehe.
pero iba na shempre ngayon.
importante na ngayon yung asawa mo, anak mo, na meron kang mashe-share sa kanila(kahit papano) na magagamit din nila sa hinaharap.
busog ka na kahit di ka pa kumakain dahil iba rin kasi ang kasiyahan na makita mo ang pamilya mo na nasisiyahan sa pagkaing ihinanda mo.
cooking and food are two of the few things that all humans, regardless of origin, have in common. they are unifying in their simplicity and complexities.
cooking feeds not only the body, but also the soul. i see cooking as an extension of one’s being, so that when one shares their food, they also share their history, their passion, and a part of themselves.
Learning how to cook gives you healthy options for your family. Preparing a home-cooked and delicious meal can make your children (especially teens & up) and of course your spouse to think twice about eating/dining out. Good for family bonding and good on the pocket, too!
“Why is it important to learn how to cook?”
So you won’t waste your money eating junk food and fast food. So you will learn to appreciate what real food tastes like. So you will find that sense of accomplishment when a recipe goes right. So you learn patience and perseverance when a recipe doesn’t work out. So you can impress your significant other. So you can win tastebooks!
“When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.”
- Marie-Antoine Carême
This quoataion says it all.
SATISFACTION! that’s what i feel whenever i cook a nice meal for my family and for others. All the hard work’s paid off when i see them eating with gusto!
This list is not exhaustive:
“It helps to sustain life through healthy eating.
“It teaches self sufficiency and independence.
“It facilitates social interaction and provides a common bond and interest across cultures and generations.
“It can provide therapeutic relaxation.
“Taken up professionally it can provide a good career and travel opportunities..
“Of course” it is great fun.!!!!
if you want the best for your body in terms of food the best way is to learn how to cook. there is no better way to manage what goes into your mouth than cooking your own food and it benefits not only yourself but also your family and people around you because a good cooking skill is meant to be shared. it is also good for the family resources.
It is important to learn how to cook not only for women but also for men. Cooking is a like love. We have to express it.
It is important to learn how to cook because it is one of the most basic ways to show your care for other people. When they are sick, you could just buy chicken soup from the corner chinese restaurant, but soup from your own kitchen will always make them better faster. They will ingest your love for them in every mouthful.
My mom prepared my meal when I was growing up, she wanted me to concentrate in my studies so I never learned how to cook. Now that she is gone and I have my own family to cook for….I am straggling trying to remember how she prepare the Pinangat or Sinigang na isda sa bayabas or even the simpliest as Pork adobo. Coz there is nothing compare to mom’s cooking.
I need to learn, simply because only a woman who loves to cook is at peace with herself…. and when my family likes the food ive prepared im at peace but when its not i cant stop learning to get the technique so that i can give them the best i can…
hi im april and i am a hotel and restaurant management student here in manila, studying and learning how to cook such a great food is an achievment, cooking is not as easy like boiling or frying its an skills that everybody should learn,,, it is so priceless when some one will eat the food you made and you saw them happy, no matter how long it takes for you to finished it.. that one of the great achievements that a person could have when he/she know how to cook..
For 2 reasons:
a. Safety – just to make sure what i’m eating is 100% free from any contamination.
b. Self-expression – because more than all the spices and seasonings in the world, it’s the selfless love we put into our cooking that truly brings out the flavor. Cooking for my loved ones is my own li’l way of saying — “i love u and i care for u.”
soon il be marrying the love of my life and i want to continuously show my love to him and our future children by simply cooking for them…its priceless!
It’s like having an education, once you learn how to cook you can’t take that away from someone.
It’s so important to learn how to cook, but my problem is wala yata talagang hilig sa kin ang pagluluto, everytime i cook, i’m frustrated, hindi masarap. But i really really wanted to learn…huhuhu
So that I can feed my family. My kids are picky eater so I have to learn what food can delight them. When I prepare dishes for my family, it is like sharing a part of me to them. I also love to experiment but most of the time, I cannot repeat the recipe. And I must admit, I love to eat so it is just so important for me to learn to cook.
cooking is important because it makes me feel appreciated and brings a certain kind of Joy(to me) each time I produce a dish that carries my very own loving touch.
It’s important for me to learn how to cook because I’m married and stuck here in Switzerland, and eating out on a regular basis in this land of ridiculous prices — a Big Mac costs around USD6.00 here — will lead to immediate bankruptcy.
It is important to learn how to cook because then I can reciprocate towards my cravings and emotions at different times.
And less sweet stuff for my dad who’s diabetic.
If I’m sad or down, I bake some chocolate chip cookies to cheer myself up. If I want to show my love, I make caramel puddings for my mum so she can have it after a tiring day of work
When I was a child living in the Philippines with my parents I never have to worry about food. I would wake up in the morning or head home after school, breakfast, lunch, or dinner is at the table. Now, living afar from home, not only have I learned how to cook on my own but also I”ve learned how to grocery shop wisely. I”ve opened my eyes to ingredients I have not heard of and unfamiliar with. I”ve learned how to cook not just Filipino dishes but dishes from foreign countries as well. It is so much better to have a home cooked meal…it”s cheaper and a lot healthier. From time to time I would search on the internet for a good recipe to follow and have my boyfriend as a guinea pig. I love to be surrounded with friends and loved ones talking and having a great time enjoying my home cooked meal; it is a wonderful feeling of achievement. Someday, cooking will be one of the lessons I will have to teach my children and it will be something they will have for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for sharing your recipe, Connie. I”ve learned how to make Escabeche, Menudo, Sotanghon, Chicken Burgers and Atchara from you!!
What is the happiness? Someone often complains about the hardships of life, unlucky, but the happiness is not far to you. It is actually a kind of ability to be happy, should ask oneself first, have experienced and born happy ability oneself, whether have taken the ability that the happiness gives to others. Life is just like a course, the cooking that need our coming meticulously too. It is good too to be happy, it is good too to be happy, experience with the soul and soul , create with one’s own hands. The life of quick rhythm and enormous pressure brought in keen competition at work make everybody regard warm home as the best haven , let the tired out heart get warm consoling the book there , let the tired out body obtain motive force of love. The love is good too, the kindred is good too, it is present to need our true feelings. Can taste the taste of life with soul whenever and wherever possible , just there is happiness that can be discussed. Harmonic family, the relative’s consideration is happy , the delicious dinner is the happy flavour unable to express with the language even more in the dusk, superb cooking technology make dining table enjoyment heighten , make people to be comfortable to refresh oneself not merely, make family life by bringing some temperament and interest even more. The taste of the dish does not actually have a lot of relations with the soy sauce or the onion , the more important thing is to throw into their care to family in the housewives menu, the ones that overwrite and see the child and husband while eating the delicious meal with relish are gratified and satisfied . The housewife is a core of a family, she not only wants the food with delicious cooking, is it go cooking happy these course of life diligently to want even more. The relation of the love and delicacy has never been separated . The man’s hearts and the man’s stomaches are that the first pulse is the same even more. Happy flavour in the kitchen , let us create the happiness with our heart and our dexterous hands, take warm happy to go cooking each delicious cooked food , let happy flavour trickling with abandon of life of us “”
Simply, cause it’s fun and I love everything about it!
Hi,sister
U do a good job.thx ur sharing ur happiness n good luck to everyone.
say hi to ur husband who is top lucky guy in the world
Best wishes to u couple
Hi! I’m a 19 year old young man, I really think that need to know how to cook!!
Both of my parents work, and we have no househelp at home. So for years, we’ve been just buying food from the local carinderia. (P35 ulam feeds the whole family!) It’s practical, cheap, and fast. We only had to worry about cooking rice.
Eventually, I got used to the tastes of carinderia ulam. They taste nice, but of course, they lack the element of ‘familiarity’. Familiarity not being common, but being made by a member of the family! (haha) I wished to make our food more ‘personal’ and intimate, to let my family see the viand done 100% at home.
As a result, it’s been months since I tried cooking for the family. The experience has been fun, and it was worthwhile (even if my family suddenly turned into my guinea pigs). Being the one who took the initiative to cook for the household, I tried many experiments – from crunchy breaded squidballs to stir-fried malunggay chicken. There were many failures, but there are some dishes that they liked! I hope that eventually, I’ll be an expert when it comes to food. Sooner or later, I hope they’ll trust me with their tongues.
I’m a 19 year old son, and I need to break stereotypes, and I really need to know how to cook!!
Cooking personally is part of entertaining parents,friends, relatives and most specially the nn-laws. Its cheaper but delicious.
Hi Miss Connie. After reading all the above responses, what can I say?
It is important for me to learn to cook for Gem (my husband) to be as blessed as Speedy…:) Among other things, I believe that cooking is one of the ultimate expression of love.
Food is the basic need of human being therefore it is important to know how to prepare and cook different kinds of foods. Different foods needs different approach in cooking thats why it is important to know how to cook, even just the basic cooking methods.
We cook foods to destroy the microorganisms that are harmful to us, to enhance the flavor and texture of food and to improve the nutritive value of a food. Having the knowledge of different kinds and styles of cooking food, we will be able to know how to alter, enhance and improve a certain foods so that they will not be wasted.
And one of the reasons of why do we have to learn to cook is to SATISFY our palates. One good food is worth a thousand words.
I learned to cook when I was 11 years old, we lived in Dubai back then with no maid. Both my parents work and if its time to cook for lunch or dinner, mom would talk to me on the phone instructing me every step of whatever viand I’d be cooking for that meal. I would remember her saying “pag light brown na yung bawang lagay mo na yung sibuyas, transparent na ba? O pwede mo na isunod yung kamatis.”
I’m married now and I admit it truly flatters me whenever my husband would say “Grabe, sarap mo talaga magluto”
To this day I would still call mom to ask her how to cook this certain food and we would have that same type of conversation we had back then.
So why is it important to learn how to cook? Because you can’t buy (along with take out, lol!) that satisfaction home cooked meals give the people you cook for.
for me, learning to cook is like learning to tie one’s own shoelaces. it means independence and empowerment. there’s nothing like the sense of achievement when one cooks a dish from scratch and seeing with one’s own eyes that the different basic ingredients can be mixed and made into something tasty, filling, and heartwarming.
cooking feeds my soul.
“Cooking” is not just to calm hunger pangs or to satisfy food cravings…it goes beyond that. It is a form of “art” with one’s unique touch and creativity. You get appreciated and loved more by your family…and that’s enough reason of the importance of learning how to cook.
It is important to learn how to cook because this not only makes you save money and gives you the liberty of choosing what you want to eat but most importantly you are empowered to serve food that comes from the heart.
…to feed the body, the mind, the soul…
its a big help for someone who is beginner in cooking, its a big help and guide too for cooking business
Nung bata pa ako, sabi ng nanay ko importante daw na marunong akong magluto para di ako gutumin pag malayo sa kanila at para pag nag-asawa na ko di ako iiwan ng asawa ko!-dahil marunong akong magluto di pako iniwanan ng asawa ko!LOL!
Ngayong matanda na ko, cooking is not only to feed my family but to be creative and explore all those countless recipes on the net and have my poor hubby taste test it,be it good or bad!
While I have a busy career here in Saudi Arabia, to me cooking is a passion and one that relieves my stress and my food cravings too. I”m taking the cooking duties at home because my wife don”t know how to cook but she takes up washing anything, ironing clothes and stuff like that. Married life is a partnership so if one feels challenged in an undertaking like cooking, the other one should take up the slack. So basically learning to cook is a survival from hunger and marital bliss.
so i could feed my wife and kids real good food and not the high-sodium, fat-laden, full of preservatives instant food.
Cooking gives me delight and joy most especially when you received good feedback or praises from what you have served. Life may not always offer sunshine and happiness but with small efforts, you can give yourself a bit more of both. Same way in cooking when somebody appreciates what you cook it brings happiness and sunshine to your soul. It gives you a “high feeling”.
It is important to learn how to cook so that one may enjoy eating anything he/she prefers anytime and anywhere and would not have to rely or depend on what is simply served to him/her.
It is important to learn how to cook because it allows you to bring joy and health to your family and friends. Food is the fuel for our bodies and souls. It is the basis for all we are. Being able to cook well leads to able to live well.
I’ve learned how to cook when i was in high school My lola taught me how to cook & the first recipe that i learned is tinolang manok. Cooking is very important for us especially we are out of the Phils. No one will take care of us other than ourselves. I love to read cook books and when i met my husband, i used my skills in cooking and he loves it very much.
Not only learn to cook but cook well. That will be one’s lasting legacy or impression. People will tend to remember that excellent dish you served them rather than you being nasty. Friends will trust the parties you host and will come for the food even if the venue or event or the host himself suck. “Lydia is such a bi**”", “Yeah sweetie, but you gotta admit she makes terrific steak!”
If you don’t know how to cook, your friends and love ones will be doomed to ordering pizza or takeouts forever just to escape that dish you lovingly experimented on. “Uhh, no thanks honey but Chowking delivery is on the way!”
Why I say this, I only remember the names of my relatives who cook really well. I travel 2 hours from Manila to a party in Pampanga because I know I won’t be disappointed.
“As music is to the soul, strumming notes and stringing melodies to express a universal spiritual language of understanding, so is cooking to the heart. sprinkling spices that flavor affection and stirring ingredients to simmer love.Both an art, both a language to its own, which one cannot be without in order to be fully expressive, to be fully alive.”
“To cook is to live. Genuinely live.”
Being a quiet and inexpressive person, cooking helps me express my love for my family. Even though I don’t say it out loud, they feel my affection whenever I make sure they’re healthy and well-fed.
Hi, first time ko mag-comment pero tagal na ko readers ng blog nyo.
sa pamilya namin tatay ko lang mahilig magluto naalala ko pa kada-15 or 30 ng month lang
spesyal ang ulam namin dun ko lang naalala na masarap luto ng tatay ko.hehehehe
kaya nung namatay tatay ko kailangan magtrabaho ng nanay ko dahil 9 kami magkkapatid
sa edad na 12 y/o 2nd to the eldest natuto ako magluto
kasi daw ako ang babae kaya ganun.
yaan daw ang kuya kasi lalaki yun..kaya una ko natutunan lutin petsay w/sardinas, misua w/sardinas
tas kapag busog na kami bago matulog sabihin ng kapatid ko
ate ano ulam bukas? noodles nman kaya(luckyme!)
kaya meron ding petsay w/luckyme!ginisa ko lang petsay
tas niluto ko sa pinag-gisahan yung
beef flavor na lucky me..sarap na sarap sila kaya ngaun malalaki na kami iba ang feeling ng enjoy
sila tumulong mag-luto dahil alam nilang masarap ang pagkaing luto ng ate nila..at indi na petsay w/sardines
shish kebab na ala hossein’s kaya mas lalo akong hapi kapag
pinagmamalaki ng mga kapatid ko sa friends nila..masarap daw ako magluto.hehehe
kaya importante matuto magluto para mag-survive at ma-enjoy pa ang buhay lalo na kapag busog ka! hehhehe
I live and work abroad with my family and life is made more difficult if you go home after a hard day’s work to have only de latang corned beef or tuna and instant noodles in the table for your dinner. I realized from this experience the importance of learning how to cook if I have to provide my family with healthy and nutritious food. Thanks to your blog, we are now having real, nutritious, and tasty food in our table cooked by yours truly and my wife.
I cook because it is in my blood, coming from generations of renowned “fiesta” cooks from Cavite. Cooking is not only an art but a way you get in touch with your ancestral roots. Everytime I prepare something that from a family recipe, I can hear my grandmother (mother and even great uncle) tell me how to chop the vegetables, when to add the broth and what seasoning to use. And cooking for my own family, I now pass it on to my sons who have developed their own passion for cooking. It is no wonder that I have a married a great cook from Kentucky, USA.
because when you know how to cook, you become more than just a person who knows how to cook. the wonders it does for the soul simply outweighs all the practical benefits considered.
and you become more open to experiments – be it in cooking or other activities. eventually, you become more confident. and most of all, you become an inspiration. and life simply becomes more meaningful.
you become creative, you become flexible in budgeting, you become a source of knowledge to friends and if you blog, you become a handy help not just to friends but to the whole world.
Learning to cook gives you independence. Since you don’t have to depend on anybody for your food and sustenance, as long as there is something to cook or prepare
At first, learning to cook at home meant independence and saving money because I could prepare my favourite dishes even when I’m far from home and be able to do it cheaply. As time went by, cooking (and eating) became another thing my husband and I could enjoy together and we realised that it is not only practical, but also is an art by itself.
Recently, we’ve decided to lose weight and knowing what exactly goes into our food also made us made healthier choices.
So really, cooking is not only about nourishing our bodies, but also about nourishing our hearts and souls.
my husband learned to cook from his late maternal grandma and she really cooks very well and raves at it! i would like for my husband to rave at my cooking the way he raves at his grandma’s!
Learning how to cook is important because this is one of the ways I feel fulfilled as a mom, a daughter, a wife and a friend.
Seeing my family smile, specially my son from contentment from the food I serve them is priceless.
The best compliment I have heard in my life so far was when we ate at a chinese restaurant and my then 7 year old son said “Mas masarap pa luto ni Mommy dito!”
For me, its not only important but a must to learn to cook. In this way you can not only feed your family good and delicious foods, but nutritious as well.
Aside from that, you can also save money
! Especially with Ms. Connie’s site. Recipes are not only easy to follow(for novice, like me) but you will also look professional once you try it!
Cooking is an art, cooking nourishes , cooking is love… learning to cook is learning the art of nourishing the people close to our hearts.
When I was 18 years old, my Dad used to say that someday I will get hungry because nobody will ever cook for me anymore. That moved me somehow and I decided to learn how to cook first for myself. Then for my family and friends.
Now, i am still learning, trying to improve my cooking so I can feed my husband and my only daughter superb food with so much joy and love.
I love food. I love eating and I am simply in awe with the art of cooking. With my current lifestyle now, being single and independent, I crave so much for home cooked meals, so much that I want to satisfy my cravings anytime I want. Alas, I admit I don’t have the cooking prowess like my mom and I desperately want to learn. I am good at following recipes though and I dream of cooking kickass dishes. I know I’m not getting any younger so I am very eager to learn so I can pride myself to be able to cook good food for my family someday.
I care mostly about learning to cook Filipino food right now because I grew up in California and I don’t know much about my country and its heritage. I married a blonde blue eyed girl and we moved to Brussels Belgium, so cooking for me tells a story about were I came from and I love the look in peoples eyes when they first fall in love with filipino food. To me, they have fallen in love with the filipinos themselves. I also hope my son will be proud of his filipino half through knowing how to cook.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to cook the fish, he eats for the rest of his life.
Not knowing how to cook means depriving the people that you love most – your family – of healthy and nutritious meals. With home-cooked meals, you are assured of food that is clean, fresh and safe. There’s nothing like home-cooked meals – my husband and my son think so!
It’s a matter of survival. It’s cheaper to cook your own dishes than to eat out or buy cooked food, no matter what type of food you’re craving for and enjoy. It’s always best to fine-tune your dishes to the taste that your loved ones like best and the nutrition they need. It’s also fun to share your discoveries (cooking secrets and tips) to family and friends.
Its important because cooking for the family is the most fulfilling tasks a housewife/husband experienced by looking at her/his love ones eating and sharing together the meals she/he prepared. The praises and the looks of satisfaction from the love ones are the greatest joy to be experienced if one knows how to cook.
Cooking is also a bonding time for the family and for the kids to learn from their parents and vice versa.
Learning how to cook surprises me as I realize that I can do special meals that I never imagined I could. Its so fulfilling to taste that wonderful recipe which I just learned and thought that can only be tasted when I go to restaurant. There is this warm feeling inside of me when I see my family with looks on their faces that tells me how much they appreciate even just for the effort of wanting to please their appetite. This is also a chance for me to bond with my daughter because she watches me how I prepare the recipe. I hope this will encourage her to take an interest in cooking as well. And for that “wow” look from my husband that tells me he is pleased with my new found learning skill.
As they say.. The way to a man’s heart, is through the stomach!!
To satisfy human”s palette is one of the greatest pleasure in this world.
It is an expression of so many things.
It is a way to bond with your family.
It is an ideal way to make someone happy or give them comfort.
It is like a brush to a painter and pen to a writer.
It gives me a warm feeling that I had done something great.
That I had cooked with the freshest ingredients for an important person.
There are endless possibilities of mixing this and that to have the perfect recipe.
Cooking to others is a mark of legacy.
To me, it is a passion without age or boundaries.
Cooking is essential because it gives us the feeling of “HOME”. It expresses one’s passion and creativity to produce the delectable taste you think is best… It’s the basic tool to provide joy anywhere in the world thru cooking!Bon Appetit.
It’s very important to learn how to cook. It will be a great legacy that i can give to my kids the comfort that only the food I cook will give to them.
Learning to whip something ordinary to an EXTRAORDINARY dish is the greatest feat a cook, expert or novice, could have.. Learning the craft is somehow an unending process because possibilities are endless.. No one can actually rest its laurels and say that i’m the greatest cook and i know it all.. And it is only by sharing ideas and learning experiences through get togethers and of course, through internet forum and blogs that we could somehow tweak and tick our recipe to achieve that “PERFECT” dish..
No dish is actually perfect until you tasted the NEXT one.. And so the cycle begins anew..
It is very important to learn how to cook because this is the best expression of your love and care for your family. It is self-fulfilling to see your loved ones enjoy whatever you serve them, a feeling that no amount of money could buy.
It’s important to learn how to cook, because cooking is a way to remember and honor family and friends. It’s a way to pass on recipes from generation to generation and allows the memory of a family, or person to go on. And, my husband needs to eat : ).
it is important to learn how to cook because it is a way for the family to bond. my husband and i spend more quality time in the kitchen cooking. cooking is something that we both can do together, as i cannot join him in the sports he loves. i.e., biking and swimming, and which we can hopefully pass on to our children.
A variety of good homecooked meals adds excitement to the usual boring routine. You just find your family not wanting to miss mealtimes. It makes my daughter excited to open her lunchbox It also paves the way to patch up misunderstandings (ex. giving homebaked cookies to a hurt friend, saying sorry to your husband).
aside from i really love to cook,its also fun especially when im making some experimentation, sometimes success,othertimes failure,but its alright,because from there i’m still learning….then learning to cook is my best way to serve, not just for my family, a healthy,updated and delicious foods.Nagagamit ko din sa business,ito ang major sa pinagkukunan ko ng pinagkakakitaan at the same time marami akong nakakahalubilong tao na nabibigyan ko ng tips ayon sa natututunan ko at sa nababasa ko sa books or surfing from internet. I could say na marami akong natutunan sa site na ito and i am very thankful na natuklasan ko ang site mo Ms.Connie.
thank you and more power
God Bless
Learning to cook is important because I believe in the value of having meals with the family. I grew up looking forward to my mom’s homemade dishes and the best conversations I had with her was whenever I was in the kitchen helping her prepare our meals.
Learning to cook is important because not only does it nourish your loved ones, it also one of the many ways you can make them feel loved and cherished.
nothing beats the feeling of serving your loved ones with the product of your own cooking.to see them looking so happy and satisfied with the meals i’ve cook and receiving praises completes my loving ways of showing how much i love them may they be my family or friends.since i’ve learned how to cook it became my sanctuary…happy or sad(weird as may sound!)!!!
it is important to learn how to cook because it teaches us to be more human. we cook for the people that we love and that in itself makes it worth an effort to learn the art of cooking.
Cooking becomes important since “love” is not enough to cook good food. Di ba? Kahit anong tindi ng effort and love mo to cook for your family, hindi enough yun to come up with a good dinner. Thus, you need to learn the techniques…:) Because at the end of the day, hindi naman yung love ang maaalala ng family mo. No matter how much effort is given, let’s be real, the taste often defines the amount of “love” which we give…
My family and i eats dinner together. It is also the time when we all are relaxed and not hurrying to do other stuff or do errands. It is also the time when we take turns tell what we did for the day… or something we learned.
And also, i want my daughters to enjoy home cooked meal and no fast food.
dapat kang matutong magluto para hindi ka takot magutom
ang mga iba kasi na hindi marunong magluto, hindi mo puedeng basta pakawalan. sa takot magutom, kahit hindi masarap, masustansya o malinis, ay papatulan. walang freedom yung ganun. kung marunong kang magluto, alam mong may choice ka lagi to cook. at ang bawat pagkain na ilalagay sa harapan mo ay bibigyan mo ng sapat na atensyon (kung masarap, paano kaya ito iluto, magugustuhan kaya ito ng mga anak ko) at paggalang (sa nagluto, sa effort, sa love na ibinigay nya dito).
for me it’s an opportunity to share a bit of myself especially to those people I cared and loved most … it’s one of the ways I could express my love and appreciation for them…
Why is it important to learn how to cook?
It is important to learn how to cook because there is nothing like good food to start or end your day with, whether you be alone or in the company of family and friends. If time can heal all wounds, good food patches all those wounds until they’re healed.
it’s important to learn how to cook because your parents are not always going to be there to cook for you
Also cooking helps pass down tradition to the younger generation. Cooking helps you connect to the past as well as the future
It is important to learn how to cook to be able to have another gateway of expressing our love and the joy of servicing our family and friends.(in my case, it is for my boyfriend) It is through cooking that we can be transparent with how we feel, to show appreciation, and just to show love itself.
Cooking burnt food/salty food is a way of saying “I am mad, I do not like the way you are treating me”. It is also a way of demanding without getting obvious “I will cook bulalo tonight (come home early)”. Lastly, and my favorite reason for cooking is cooking special food as it is a way of saying “thank you for being with me”nad “thank you for coming into my life”.
if you want to enjoy eating good food with your family or even alone by yourself, then you must learn how to cook.
Learning to cook is important because cooking and preparing food gives sustenance to both body and spirit. The bonds of family grow ever stronger over a bountiful table that is laden with delicious food, seasoned with the love of a joyful, gracious and adventurous cook.
learning how to cook is important because it’s like sharing and giving your life to the people that you love.
It”s important to learn how to cook because now that I’m here in USA I want to provide my family healthier variation of foods and not burgers, pizzas, and lots of unhealthy food that they grow accustomed to. Being able to show them our food heritage makes me feels like home and they will think “Ang sarap maging Pinoy.” (It’s true filipino food taste much much better than American food.)
Why is it important to learn how to cook?
Mainly, here are 3 very important reasons why it is important to learn how to cook:
1. to live or else no food will mean no life at all.
2. my kids and hubby are food lovers. and to see them eating heartily what i cooked makes me sooo happy and proud that I know how to cook.
3. Lastly, my personal satisfaction. I didn’t know that cooking will make me sooo fulfilled as a wife and mother. To see my burns and my cuts are my badges for a work well done and a time well spent in the kitchen. In short, yeah, learning how to cook truly rocked my world!
I think it is important to become a good cook, because not only are you cooking with your hands, you put your heart & soul into it. Also you can cook healthier, learn new experiments, make the family and friends happy, and always be the talk of the party! Have a great day everyone!
Good cooking makes life wonderful in different ways. It makes people feel and taste a little of everything beatiful and even things that seemed not beatiful that are tossed into good meals. It makes people think of how things that are not perfect could be made perfect by simply combining them in your cooking and pouring your self into what you are doing that could result to an even more perfect state – beyond perfect if there’s such a thing – that gives you and your loved ones a satisfying feeling….it gives opportunities to taste the real thing that sometimes used to be just a dream or an imagination. It makes life taste so wonderful!
my hubby is to eat and if your hubby is to eat
you have to learn how to cook and the cooking is the most important to any body. If you don’t now how to cook all of your life is not complete
it’s really my father who inspired me to cook. everytime he comes home from work, he always prepares good food for everybody. he really can turn out simple recipe to very delicious and one of a kind food. now that im already married, i want serve my husband and son with good food.
One can use cooking as an expression of various positive emotions e.g., love, passion, gratitude, sincerity, among others. If emotions are too overwhelming they can’t be summed up in words, cooking can do the trick– and more.
With that being said, I believe whoever coined the old adage “action speaks louder than words” must have been a cook or at least knew the art of cooking.
I am working in the medical field and am presently here in KSA.I never learned how to cook in the philippines since my mom and dad usually cooks for us.Eversince I came here I dont have any other choice but to learn how to cook and this site helped me a lot,thank you very much for this.
Lately,my father got sick and my salary is not enough to support his medical needs and I turned to cooking as my sideline in order to earn more money and support his medical bills.
So,its important for me to keep on learning how to cook,myself aside but for my father to survive.I have to learn more recipes so that I can cook a variety of dishes to sell.
God Bless you mam connie
Cooking is an Art and the secret ingredient is Love.
Cooking, brings a little bit of home into my life. It gives a first hand taste of a culture; and celebrates the joy of putting together different ingredients.
Learning to cook is a good asset you cook for your love ones and you earn love and respect from everyone.
Gudpm! im Joseph Robilla from Davao del Sur. im 21 years old.
Noong limang taong gulang pa lamang ako, natuto na akong mgluto. Tuwing tanghali, galing sa paaralan (Kinder II) ako na ang nghahanda ng aking tanghalian. Natuto akong mgprito at “How to cook noodles”, ako na rin ang ngsasaing. Ito na ang gawain ko sa tuwing uuwi ako ng pananghalian, dahil abala pa ang aking ina sa mga gawaing bahay. Wala kasi kaming katulong. Hanggang sa nakahiligan ko ng manood sa mga ngluluto ng kahit anong ulam dahil sa kagustuhan kong matuto. Hanggang sa ngayon, gusto ko pa ring matuto. Minsan ngbabasa ako ng mga recipe, minsan sa internet ako kumukuha ng recipe. Pero minsan, di ko maisakatuparan ang mga nakalap kong recipe dahil wala kaming gamit panluto. What i mean is ung katulad sa inyong mga mayaman. Hindi kasi namin ma-afford na bumili ng mga ganyan. Kaya ung simpleng mga recipe lng ang mga nagagawa ko.
Napakahalaga talaga na matutong mgluto kasi para sa akin, ito ung way na maipakita at maibahagi ko sa aking mga mahal sa buhay kong gaano ko sila mahal. Sa oras kasi ng kainan ngsasama ang isang buong pamilya.
Senxia na sa comment ko, masyadong mataas at mali-mali pa ang pagkabuo ng ibang pangungusap. Thank you and Gudnyt…
It is very important to learn how to cook because it will make you live longer, have a good life and most importantly, you’ll have a taste of heaven.
…because what you learned can be passed on to the next generations especially if you are a grandpa or a macho papa. And yes it is never too late not only to learn and but also to love cooking as I have learned the art after 63 years of being an Amo and a senyorito in the Philippines. Tons of thanks to “homecookingrocks.com”
I never bothered about learning how to cook before because my Mom, a kapampangan, is a great cook. It was more fun devouring her heavenly food than preparing them. Things changed when my first child have outgrown baby food and my Mom migrated to the US. Left on my own devices, I had no choice but to learn how to cook – mainly for survival. Fast forward 17 years after and three gorgeous kids, I now consider myself a prolific cook. I have branched out from feeding my family to impressing my friends and colleagues. My kids are egging me to open a restaurant and someday I will. Your question made me look back with much satisfaction and tears in my eyes. When my Mom finally comes home and taste my cooking, I know she’ll be proud of me and will also give me two thumbs up – just like how my kids rate my cooking.
When you consider how much your life is enriched by the act of cooking, you cannot help but realize its importance.
It has the ability of transforming the basic need for sustenance into a magical gesture of giving and receiving of love; what can be a larger testimony of affection than the willing giving of time and effort so that others can be nourished?
I never cooked before quitting my job but i found that the need to fill my time, save money and basically, just eat, one day changed into so much more. As started remembering my mother and pastry filled childhood, cooking became the potential of sharing memories with my children one day, the passing of old family secrets and traditions and the creating of new ones. It became my defense against the unknown that the world brings upon us: no matter what happens, I know that what I’m feeding my family is clean, wholesome and filled with love. It has taught me patience, with myself and with others, and drummed upon me the knowledge that some things just take time. It has helped me become more creative: missing ingredients and time restraints became a challenge. It has also given me personal satisfaction: nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment when you realize that this tasty dish is your creation and yours alone, part of you that you give willingly to others so that they can be part of you too! Sharing a meal, feeding someone, creates a bond and an affinity that is not easily broken. If more people cooked for others and ate together in groups, there would be more love, more laughter and probably more peace and understanding in the world. Ofcourse, this is probably more true for meals that are well prepared and taste good! And that is why everyone should learn how to cook!
i started learning to cook when i was young by watching my mom and she cooked for us and my dad not because she had to but because she loves us so cooking is a part of the loving process
It is important to learn how to cook in order to prove my worth as a woman and make my family, relatives, friends and myself happy by partaking foods together that was prepared with special ingredients: LOVE, PATIENCE, JOY
I just started learning how to cook after getting married and having my own kid. In a way, cooking teaches me not to depend on others and to appreciate those that cook for me. It’s also a great satisfaction of making my own meal from scratch.
Food brings people together! and there’s something nothing more joyful than to prepare and cook the food yourself and have people that you love, (family & friends) love eating them! and more importanly is that learning to cook has help me to “survive” the deep-missing and craving of good home cooked food now that I’m so far from home! =)
Learning how to cook, especially using practical and easy-to-reach ingredients gives me a sense of accomplishment and pleasure. It gives me a chance to prove to myself that I am not “useless” afterall. hehehe:D
It’s important to learn how to cook because you don’t have to ask someone else to cook for you. You can also make others happy by cooking for them.
It is important to learn how to cook because we need to eat to live, so we can work, and pay for the house bills, so we can go home to a house we call a home, and clean it, and when we’re hungry, we can cook food so we can eat…to live another day again.
Learning how to really cook is important because we need to learn how to make each ingredient work in a dish. The essence of eating an oven-slaved dish is to savor and appreciate the dish because of its taste and quality, not because it makes a person pass another meal time. Cooking a dish is an art in itself, it is made to be appreciated.
To learn how to do something exercises the mind, what more if you learn how to cook? It exercises all your senses that gives you instant gratification, though sometimes not, but that’s how you learn. And if you created a dish that tastes just wonderful, nothing beats to see your family and friends appreciate your cooking or probably hear them say, “Masarap!”, “Yummy!” or just “Mmmmm…” However they express it, it gives you the satisfaction and motivation to cook and exercise your senses again.
It was important for me to learn how to really cook when my good friend learned she could not eat gluten. We always enjoy getting together – and it is nice to know that she can come into our home and enjoy a meal that she knows is gluten free.
For me, cooking is an expression of oneself. As we develop our own style and taste, at the same time, we also search and find our different personalities. With the food we cook, we become unique amongst all the other moms (or cooks)!
I just looove to cook and like to learn new recipes. It’s my favorite thing to do. I have introduced all different types of food to my husband and kids.The best thing that food does is bring people together. I love to entertain. When people come to my home everyone is always happy and they never want to leave. It’s the best!!!
Food nourishes us. It nourishes our body to sustain life. Our own Pinoy food nourishes our soul and spirit because it connects us with our Pinoyness
(especially for those of us away from our home country). Food binds us
together, connects us, links us. It is important to learn to cook so our own
hands nourish us, our own hands bind us together. Thank you for the
opportunity to cook with your Pinoy Cook Tastebook, Ms. Connie. Maraming
salamat po.
it is important to cook because the best family times are spent on the dining table.
I am/was a career woman back in the Philippines, a Business Analyst. Now I’m just a plain housewife here in Texas, I can’t work here coz I only have a dependent visa. Cooking, aside from obvious reason of eating, keeps my sanity intact. Without it I dont know what to do with my spare time. I need this book to keep me sane
It is essential for me to learn how to cook because I always want to make my hubby happy and full. And that’s what matters most to me
The importance of learning how to cook is to able to eat good food in a most personalized, convenient and not expenssive dishes, directly prepared in your own kitchen. Incorporating your needs to eat and your passion to be of service to your family and the people you love.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO LEARN HOW TO COOK….being away from philippines makes me miss our culture and heritage.I am with my children and i always want them to remember our love for cooking and eating good food.It’s also a very special way of letting other people of other culture know our “Pinoy Dishes”.
I make sure that when we are on vacation i always ask my mama to cook pinoy dish such as menudo,afritada,dinuguan,pinakbet etc….it’s really mouth watering..
And specially,my friends here are borrowing my filipino cookbooks and it would be nice to get hold of your copy so i can share it with them with such GREAT PRIDE….
keep up the good work…nice cooking and GODBLESS…
it is important how to cook because we mommy’s are the one who feed our family and it is so impractical to eat always on the restaurant while the serve equal or more that the quality of foods that the restaurant serve and lthe most important thing is i like to win a free tastebook.
it is important to learn how to cook so that you do not have to depend on other people for food. If you dont cook you will starve to death.
Learning how to cook is one of the best ways to express love for yourself and your loved ones, as the effort spent on cooking is immeasurable and can never be substituted by any material things. It is always a way of celebrating life and love altogether! Cheers!
Before, I didn’t feel the importance of learning how to cook because take-out foods abound. But when I got married, and much to my surprise, I felt motivated to learn how to cook. Not out of duty because that is what a good wife does. But out of LOVE! Now, I learned that cooking isn’t just to fill my husband’s stomach…It is more to fill his heart with my love…by lovingly serving him home-cooked meals that not only taste good but are nutritious and healthful as well. Most of my recipes come from this site. Thanks to you Ms. Connie for making my time in the kitchen less panicky and more fruitful!
You will not only build a good relationship but a healthy home and a life full of fun.
i think learning how to cook is important because great food made out of love ties families together for generations! so i’m trying to start that now w/ my own family!
i think learning how to cook is important because great food made out of love brings families together for generations!so i’m starting w/ my own family now!
These days when there are melamine scare, bird flu, salmonella contamination, it is important that we control what goes in to our family’s
mouths. By learning how to cook, we avoid eating out often, which could increase the risk of getting sick. In times when economic crisis
is also a concern, cooking also saves us a lot of money. By learning how to cook, we can dictate the nourishment that goes into our bodies thus, controlling our diets more effectively. Cooking can also serve as a family time – a time when the kids can help prepare the food and clean up afterwards.
Cooking is an expression of love. All the labor and all the time spent in the kitchen is a huge testimony of a mom’s dedication to nourish and nurture all the people who partake in the meal. Being able to cook is like sharing a part of a person’s whole being to the meal partakers since all senses are at play during cooking. The sense of touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight. If that is not good enough, then I wouldn’t know what else is
Not to mention survival, it’s the highest form of self-gratification. From conceptualizing a recipe, to choosing and buying the freshest ingredients (given budget constraints), tapping your imagination in the presentation/plating –voila! You get a natural high when your kids tell you “mom, you’re the best cooker in the world”. My husband never fails to thank me for the time and effort I put into it. No amount of money can buy the happiness you feel when at the end of the day, you know you fed your family with clean, cheap, nutritious meal and is well appreciated.
It’s MUSIC to my ears and my heart dances with JOY when I hear my picky eaters says, “MOMMMY, I L-O-V-E your cooking.”
Why is it important to learn how to cook?
It is important to learn how to cook because food is one of the basic necessity of humans. Providing good food will keep them full of vigor and keep them looking forward to eat. Learning how to cook is your survival tool wherever and whatever situation you maybe.I’m a mountaineer and I need to learn how to cook because instant foods will not provide me the nutrients needed in climbing mountains.It is also a plus factor to my bf’s mom because she knows I can cook well and cook baon for my bf.
hi ms. connie, kamusta po?isa po ako sa mga tagahanga ninyo.im a silent reader of your blog for a long time and i wanna break my silece to let u know na marami po kayong natutulungan through this site,and to let u know that i love ur blog and it helps me a lot. i just wanna thank u for creating this blog,thank u so much po for your generosity. i really appreciate it a lot.
for me learning how to cook is a special way to show your love to your loved ones. before i get married i dont know how to cook, but now i have my own family i really want to learn more and im still learning and your blog is helping me a lot Ms. Connie.dati po lagi lng instant noodles, can goods and eggs hinahain ko sa asawa ko,and i know its not good in our health but he doesn’t complain though.and we miss filipino dishes kaya nag-aral po ako magluto para masurprise ko sya and i did! ngayon po medyo marunong na akong magluto dahil po sa blog ninyo. everytime i cook he’s always surprised hehe..he said mmmmm…yum..”how u make this? it’s really good! where u get the idea? and i said,from reading(pinoy cook). and he said keep reading then hehehe..minsan po binibiro nya ko,sabi nya pwede na daw po akong magtayo ng carinderia sa pilipinas hehe.. hindi po mapapantayan ang saya na nararamdaman ko kpag nagugustuhan nla (angel ko at 3 yrs. old daughter) ang pagkaing niluluto ko, lalo na po kpag sinasabi ng baby ko,sarap mama hehe..i love to teach my daughter how to cook,even now,she’s already helping me out in the kitchen and she love it.and my angel(husband)never fails to thank me even before i dont know how to cook.and even im still learning,he’s very proud of me.pinagmamalaki nya po ako sa byenan ko,who’s a great cook.he said magaling na daw po akong magluto hehe..minsan sinasabi nya parang luto na daw po ni mama (MIL) yung luto ko and that is saying a lot. its music to my ears everytime he compliment my cooking. im so sorry po for a long comment.first time ko po kasing nagcomment.thank u for your time reading my comment.
more power po to your blog and keep it coming ahehe..congratulations po sa cookbook ninyo.and congratulations din sa mananalo ng tastebook, your lucky to have it. regards po sa family ninyo. Godbless and have a nice day..
as u said Ms. Connie,Homecooking rocks!! ahehehe..
It gives me and the people around me immeasurable happines to be able to prepare meals straight from my heart ; )
Mostly busy parents would bring home take-out foods but it can”t be compared to a real home-cooked meal. I’m a working mom and I’m doing my best to serve fresh and home-cooked meals to my family. We don’t want to put our family’s health at stake because of these commercial foods. Healthy family, that’s one of the secret ingredient to a happy family life.
The importance of learning how to cook will teach us that food is better when it is fresh, seasonal, and healthy. It gives us the joy of bonding and sharing it when it is eaten with the people we love. Even if it not perfect, any food prepared by a member of the family or by other person we know, can bring joy and is special.