Cooking for the family... Check!

Today, my grandma and I had a party as we both cooked barbecue glazed meatloaf for the fam bam. My parents obviously both go to work but recently my big bro also joined in the bandwagon, leaving me, grandma/nanay and little F at home.

For this week alone, I was in charge of kitchen duty. On Monday, I cooked the family a bland Madras chicken curry. It wasn't my recipe okay? It was the packet's! Nah, it was bland because I had too much of the chicken and the potatoes. I'm meant to serve 4-6 people but the packet could only flavour 2 of that 6, leaving the rest to be rather bland. How to correct thy mistake? Buy two packets next time.

Tuesday, I cooked, or more so, my nanay cooked some fried chicken. Thanks to dear mother, I managed to tweak the boring just add salt and pepper and toss it in the hot oil way and here's how it works:

To make your fried chicken have a crispy but fluffy looking exterior and a deliciously soft inside, mix these ingredients to your chick-en:

• Cornflour
• Plain Flour
• Water
• Egg
• Egg White
• Baking powder (not too much)- the secret ingredient for the fluffiness
• Water
• Salt

All you need to do is to mix all those together to form this nice, yellowy batter and you toss in your chicken, making sure they're all coated nicely. The good thing is, you can even leave it overnight and cook it the next day and it would taste perfectly the same: which of course is delicioso! 

Wednesday, my nanay cooked a traditional Filipino dish called Nilaga which is short for Nilagang baka which basically means 'Braised Beef' in English.

It was superb! Except my nanay, who is growing older and older each day, much like me, forgot the right vegetables to put in it and put the wrong one. It's alright. The whole family forgave her because it tasted good.

Thursday, aujourd'hui! Back to the meatloaf. It was a nice meatloaf, a recipe from the Women's Weekly main dish recipe book. The only thing that could've been better was to add a bit more salt. And if we had red wine vinegar...

Alright. So I cooked for my family and they liked it. They're proud of me! I'm just happy that they're happy. =)

Tomorrow, I'll be going over to P's place for a dinner, since she kindly invited me over. My mum was actually going to award my efforts by buying Maccas for dinner tomorrow, but P beat her to it. I feel kinda bad, but mum's mum. I know she'll buy it next week!

The only problem? I didn't get to take any pictures. Why? I don't own a camera!

Sigh. I'll save up and buy one, or squeeze one from the 'rents. I'll make up for it. Trust.