My first Tomato Stew

Cooking is one activity that I used to find to be very challenging to me as a young man. I never even dreamt of being able to cook for myself until it came to the time that I had to move into my own school apartment on my university campus. I never thought it will ever come to this. When I was young, I had my older sisters always around to cook for me and of course my mom even if my sisters leave the house and get married to their future husbands. So because I keep that in my mind that I would always have them around to cook good meals for me, I didn’t see the need for me to learn how to cook for myself. At some point they tried to get me to learn cooking but I got angry and I always expressed my self to them that I am a man and so therefore I do not need to worry about cooking at all in my life. They told me that I will never know when I will be alone away from them and will have to depend o myself and not on them and they stated “cooking” as one of these factors. They continued to remind me time after time but I still did not listen to their advice. Their advice didn’t get to me until I started college and ended up living in the school apartment complex. At the very beginning of staying in school I signed up for the school meal plan the first semester and then bought some extra groceries and snacks to keep in my room. Everything was smooth during the beginning until I started getting tired of the school food first of all because we are basically fed almost the same food every day. And second of all, I realized that I was also paying a lot extra for the school due to the addition of the meal plan. So I asked one of my friends who always coked foe himself. He told me that he always saved a lot since he cooked f himself and he can always cook something different ad don’t have to worry about eating the same stuff the school gives. So I quickly cancelled the meal plan and then called my mom that I want to get a recipe from her to make tomato stew. She laughed at me and she said to me that “that’s what happens if you listen to good advice. So she gave me the ingredients and directions of the stew. I followed carefully. It took me about 3 hrs to finish since I was nervous. I finally arrived at my first tomato stew and I was proud of myself. From then I saved a lot of money since I could make my own food which lasts me for more than two weeks at a time.