the other side of me

there are two things right now that i am quite passionate about - first obviously is photography and the other is cooking.  and since i've sort of talked about photography to no end in previous blogs (and in the absence of nothing better to do right now), i'll talk little about my culinary explorations.  now by no means am i an experienced cook nor would i go around talking about how great the last dish i cooked because far be from it, my cooking are mostly just trying out recipes i read about.  and yes, my favorite magazine is "Yummy" and i have back issues of that while i don't have a single issue of any photography magazine in print.

i'm a big fan of quick meals, little preparation but still awesome results.  i've even adapted some of the recipes - moroccan fish with mango salsa (my personal fave) and even tried to great results that gonzaga barbecue i saw in a magazine.  lately, i've been hung up on pasta and i've tried a number of sauces that are quite good - bolognese (from a friend's recipe), meat sauce (mom's recipe), herbed tuna (friend's recipe) and seafood with basil cream (its good but there's cream hahaha).

today, i finally got all the ingredients to make pesto from scratch.  it wasn't really hard to work it and i didn't even try to blend them by hand opting instead to use a decent electric chopper to actually good results.  i threw in a handful of shrimps and scallops over whole wheet spaghettini and voila, instant dinner.  i think it took less than 30 mins to do all that and there's a whole lot more of pesto left for a good number of meals the coming days.  yay.