kiss the cook.

so i figure it's about time i learn... or should say teach myself... how to cook.

now, it's not that my mom never taught me, she cooked/cooks all the time for my family, but it is my sister who always stood by her side and helped with all the ingredients... i was always either on my computer or not home. last week or two ago, tyler made a DELICIOUS marinaded steak [possibly the best i have had], and he made chicken two nights ago, and cooked some frozen pizza a the night before that... so whether it's homemade or frozen, he's always the one doing the cooking, maybe it's time i learnt to do it as well, but don't get me wrong Tyler loves to cook... he has 2 of his own cookbook =D but i would like to be able to do it too!

[i would however like to add, i can bake very well despite my lack of full meal cooking skills haha]

so today i'm going to make the marinaded steak tyler made a couple weeks ago, we had three top-sirloin steaks leftover from then, sooo why not! i even added my own touch to it... less of a few things, more of others... i think i can get the hang of this. =D
here's the recipe i used...

1/2 cup soy sauce.
2 tbspn apple juice
3 tbspn brown sugar
1 tsp ginger
2-3 garlic cloves
*blend together and marinade steak for a least 2-3 hours. flip once in awhile. keep in fridge.


how ever i doubled the soy sauce and apple juice, and added 1 tbspn of b. sugar, it covers the bottom of the pan [i wanna say it's a 9x13?] better, and those are the main tastes. also before adding the steaks i poked each side about 5 times with a fork so they will soak up the marinade better. and i am soaking the steaks on each side for 3-4 hours. [tyler did this at night and let them sit on one side over night, and then on the other side the next day while he was at work.]

hopefully this turns out well, i guess i don't see how it couldn't lol.
after this I have a somewhat complicated spaghetti sauce recipe from my mom, and an easier "chicken tortilla soup" and "barbeque chicken pizza" recipes from another blog by a friend, all to try out and hopefully not ruin lol.

<3