Self-motivation in Cooking

Key words:Cooking, Laughing out loud, CPS (creative problem solving)(calls per second)

When I was single, I never knew cooking. I was never good at it. I had to depend on my mother for food, or Carinderia (canteen), fast foods, and whatnot. I tried to, but it was never really good. I remember one time, I tried to cook for my niece and nephew, I cooked fried chicken and gravy. The chicken was okay cause I used a breading mix but the gravy.. well, when my niece and nephew tasted it, they laughed out loud. They laughed so hard and they puked. They didn't like it. It tasted too sour and it was too thick. They said it looks like a paste. But when I met my husband, I started learning cooking. As the others say, "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach". SO I tried. I learned and it turned out well.. I was good at creative problem solving so I looked for ways and look for easy recipes first until I was able to cook really delicious food. I didn't realize I am already good at cooking. This is not to brag, though. I didn't realize that cooking can be an easy peasy lemon squeezy. I started working and got busy so I didn't have time to cook sometimes. I was so exhausted because I had to deal with a queue of at least 10 calls per second in my work. So when I got home, we need to buy foods that are already cooked. But I still make time for cooking as much as I can especially when I'm on a day off. And this pandemic made me cook a lot for my family and it feels so good. Cooking for my family is one of the things that I love. I am sad when I can't cook for them. I am not contented. Every night even when I have work I cook for our dinner before going to work. That's a routine I don't want to remove. eating the food I cook and laughing out loud while we eat is one of the treasures in our daily lives