I was never a kitchen person until my husband and I decided to migrate to the US. I am not amused with kitchen utensils, pots and pans and most especially the raw mats. But life is different here in the US, you have to do it on your own. With no hired cooks to prepare my food, I started to experiment and try cooking myself,using the little orange notebook that I brought with me with all instructions in layman's term of our favorite food. To my surprise, my husband Robert enjoyed every food that I placed on the table. That was the start...Now,my favorite part of the house is the kitchen,and I now become the official chef for my family, who all claimed that they have gained weight because of my cooking. As lyrics to the song, cooking ingredients gives me joy to prep and do my cooking...Meaning, I now cook not just to eat but because I enjoy doing it and i love to feed my family with food cooked from the heart. :) Chicken wings, pork & chicken adobo, macaroni salad, soup with vegetables,tri tip roast, menudo, afritada, tapa, steam fish, seafoods and a lot more.... mechado and kalderata MY VERY OWN TRI TIP ROAST, MACARONI SALAD AND CHICKEN WINGS I was about to prepare chicken wings for dinner, pre heat the`frying pan with oil. I suddenly need to go up and change to my favorite cooking outfit,I turned off the stove vent,went up and took awhile fixing other things, when I smelled burned oil and a lot of smoke all over the hallway, My heart was beating very fast and I hurried downstairs nervously and saw the frying pan on fire almost reaching the ceiling.Out of panic, I took out the pan from the stove to stop it from heating, I did not realize that the fire did not immediately died down from the pan. So I was holding it, the fire reached my arm and since I can't stand the heat anymore, I dropped the pan to the floor with the too much heated oil splattering all over my feet. I thought I must have burned down the entire house, but thank God it didn't reach that worst. Just 15 seconds away for the fire alarm to go off. My husband, son and daughter arrived while I was still shocked and shivering. I thought that would be my last scene