Of soups and stuffs

I'm really into cooking nowadays. Don't know why... maybe it's the domesticated instincts all came out. Tried to made borsch soup the other but it was a total, total failure... sigh

Got the ingredients except beetroot... so added paprika instead... almost same color.. probably not the taste though. Oh, they mentioned cabbage... and I got a red colored one (actually it was purple colored). Wonder if that made the taste different? Geez, probably it was because I didn't copied down the steps in making the soup. So it tasted like some chinese ABC soup.. coz the ingredients are about the same.

Yesterday I made the normal soup. Here's what I dumped inside:

1. half large onion
2. one tomato
3. 1 corn (broken into 2)
4. half a cube of ikan bilis stock
5. 3 cubes of beef (no need to eat the meat)

Tasted like it should...

Just the other day, went to the supermart and bought dried basil, oregano, paprika and grounded black pepper. Also bought 1 bottle of mirin, wasabi and soy sauce. The latter set is to make wasabi sauce. Was ok as a sauce for the tofu. But probably should keep the tofu slices to a minimum. Was supposed to be tofu tomato salad, but was too lazy to cut up the tomato. But 1 block of tofu salad shared among 2 people... bleah... got sick of the taste very fast!

For a consolation, made some pretty tasty bruschetta. Although not as good as Sketches.. but I liked it. Heh, heh... my bro is my guinea pig.. so far no tummy ache yet.

Cheers!