Home cooking

Being professional working women it's so difficult to cook decent meals by ourselves during weekday. Because it is usually 7:30pm by the time we get off work, and it is such a turn off when we start thinking about what to cook, doing the grocery shopping, preparation works, dish cleaning, sore shoulders, next day morning meeting... basically we like to come up with all sorts of excuses to avoid going through the hassle..

But we got to realize that eventually we are going to be professional housewives, leaving the labor force, with nothing else to do but feeding the husbands and kids all day and what makes you proud is when they compliment your delicious food with big smiles on their faces.

We launched our mission to do home cooking on a regular basis. We try to do something new every time that involves a three course dinner and of course with alcohol. The first time we made a simple salad with japanese dressing, steak and sauteed mushrooms, and a chocolate souffle by following my favorite recipe. The second time we made salad again, seafood saffron paella, sangria and apple crumble. We were so proud of ourselves with the paella, the arborio rice was well soaked with saffron and seafood flavor and the clams were cooked perfectly. What a successful 1st attempt! Didn't realize paella is actually quite easy to make yet look sophisticated. We randomly put the apple crumble together without following a recipe. It still tasted very good but just a bit too sour as we didn't put enough sugar but the combination with vanilla ice-cream is very satisfying.