Back in sophomore year in college, one of our favorite snacks is this yummy chocolate revel bars we buy for Php 25.00 each at the now defunct Coffee Club. Sometimes we’d buy two of those and enjoy the yummy chewy chocolatey goodness of it. Since the coffee shop closed within a year or so, the only way we could get our revel bar fix is whenever there’s a bazaar in our college and someone decides to sell them.
Last night, my mom asked me to look for chocolate revel bar recipes because she planned to bake some to bring for their outing. She was too tired to bake so the recipe was untouched. This afternoon, I was left alone at home (mom has a swimming thing and my brother has work) and I have nothing much to do except watch CSI:NY Season 3 and more TV. So what did I do? Bake. :P
Just a little backgrounder, I used to bake a lot when I was in high school, particularly the summer before sophomore year. I bake every single afternoon — cookies, cakes, brownies (the most popular one), and whatever I could cook given the ingredients we have at home. My mom liked it, and that started her baking, which started my brother’s baking/cooking too.
Anyway, so this afternoon, I decided to get busy in the kitchen and get going on those chocolate revel bars. :) The picture above is the finished product, I’m done eating that slice, and bias aside: it’s so good. :P Here’s the recipe I used, from AllRecipes.com:
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I cooked dinner tonight! :)
I’m not as good a cook as my brother is (who took culinary classes a year ago) so mostly all the cooking at home is done by my mom and my brother. I’m more of a baking person, actually, but that’s for another post. I can and like to cook, but I don’t cook…and believe me, that has gotten me into trouble. ^^; I know all about those cooking terms because I like watching shows on the Lifestyle channel…but to actually cook? Nah, no thanks.
Anyway, on our way home from Galleria today, my mom and I were talking about dinner and then she told me we’d just eat dinner at Sta. Lucia or something because she still has to go there. My feet, which has been on the go for the past few days, were already complaining and then my mom said that if I want I could go home already and then she suggested that I should cook dinner tonight.
Again, I don’t cook…but then again, why not?
So I went home ahead of her, and got set to work. I looked for some recipes online but I ended up making my own because I thought we didn’t have all the ingredients. An hour later…I got this:
I know it doesn’t look that good on the picture; my camera’s not good with food photography, but believe me, it’s good! It’s tuna spaghetti sauce and spinach pasta plus garlic toast. :) It looks so Chrismas-y. Haha. Yum yum. :D
Yay for my first successfully cooked dinner. Maybe next time, I’ll do it again. I’ll have to learn how to make better (and healthy) meals, especially if my mom goes to Saipan again, that way my brother and I can still have non-fast food meals. :D
If you want to know how I made that, post a comment and I’ll email you the recipe. It’s sweet and sour with yummy bits of stewed tomato and tuna, and the bread makes an excellent companion for the pasta. :D Wohoo, my days watching the Lifestyle Channel is not wasted after all!
