abooboo no more

for several months now, i have been frustrated because i could not make a decent adobo. the first time i tried, it ended up like something a child would've come up with while she was playing playhouse. the second time, i almost got it right, but i ended up burning some parts of the meat because i mixed business with cooking :P i talked to my offshore team and forgot that i wasn't done cooking. anyway, i managed to salvage it, but i ended up making a new batch of sauce because i burned up all the initial sauce (shhh, don't tell my ex-foreign-land-housemates). i was resigned to the idea that i could never ever cook a decent adobo.

but two weeks ago, i was craving for adobong kangkong (water spinach). so i thought i'd try to cook some for dinner. i bought the ingredients in the grocery near our home. but they had no kangkong, so i had to buy string beans instead. i didn't follow the recipes i found on the web to the letter because they contradicted each other on some parts. but my adobo turned out okay. yummy! i know because i asked my housemates to eat the leftover adobo (turns out i cooked too much adobo -- but hey, i didn't follow the measurements in any recipe :P ), and there was nothing left the following day. or, they might have thrown it away, who knows? ;) in this case, ignorance is bliss :P