I like Cooking 🍳 Too!//2

Hello! It is part 2 of my previous post " I Like to 🍳 Cook Too" I am not a big cook but I like to do it. In the other post I shared food of my country Gabon 🇬🇦 😋 and those from others that I learned with my Mom, my sisters and recipes books 📚 I have good memories of my time cooking with my mother, my aunts, my sisters ( cousins as well) and discovering recipes through books.

In the kitchen, we gathered, we chatted, we laughed 😅 together. Cooking was an important part of my life. It reminds me also the times we had with my grandmother. Back home, we cook for 🏡 the family, we cook for family gatherings like traditional weddings, birthdays 🎂 anniversaries, family reunion 🫂 and also welcoming guests. Eating together is such an important part of our lives in my culture. We also cook together in time of mourning when we gather for a lost family member. The first time I started cooking it was watching my Mothers and sisters then, I tried it on my own when I was 8 years old but it was a disaster! My best friend who was there in the kitchen with me that day was like : " hmmm yummy! 😋 " 🤣😂 actually there was too much salt! My Mom wasn't at home she was on call at work my father had to take a trip that night, so I wanted to cook something for my Dad. He tried to eat 😅but it was not good at all. Not possible! 😅😂 We called one of my aunts who came to my rescue😅. Later on, when I got my 11 years old, I did very much better. I started cooking and the rest is history! Learning to cook our local food is not easy because it is a whole process. It is a culture so we have to do it carefully with Love ❤️ and patience. Patience because it takes time to do it and in my country we have a variety of local dishes. These dishes 😋 are so good! I am so proud of this diversity in cooking.

So, tell me in the comments section what is your story with cooking? I often try to cook everything that I can... These are some shorts from me😅

I don't have all the ingredients and materials to cook some of the dishes here but I always try to adapt as much as possible. I made some bananas appetizers that we do back home 🏡

I will have some other posts on Cooking😊