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Kitchen jargon can be quite a mouthful. It can get really confusing, especially if you have just started cooking or are giving instructions to one who is. However, if you also need to translate an English cooking term into your own dialect, the challenge level rises even more! 😕🤔 We really got to watch that language, yes? 😅 I compiled here the words I fairly use in our kitchen. I included in the list those that are pretty self-explanatory, but of huge importance to recall my Visayan version of these words. I hope this helps you too in some way! Here's a visual of the usual mince vs cube vs dice, and others 😉. By makezine.com (pinterest):

What is   your   method for cooking ? Apart from wielding a spoon 🍽, what is the best way to approach a dish? 😁 In my limited experience, I can only think 🤔 of 3 ways: ------------------------------------------------------- By calculation You are the systematic  researcher.  🔍 You're one to pore over a variety of FoodTube videos until you settle for the perfect recipe resource.  Or if your mother gave you her precious & thick recipe notebook, you sift through it until you find THE one!   You then follow a l l the steps to the very last comma and dot. Is it safe to say every kitchen fledgling begins like this? By serendipity You are the eccentric inventor , who adds into the pot just about anything!  And zip-zap  🗲 , by chance some unique and delicious, and hopefully, fine-looking, concoction comes out from your food experiment. (Oh, lucky you!) You are somewhat of an  adventurer , like Indiana Jones, who just win...

🍲 To you, what confirms a happy meal ? In mi casa , these are the criteria:     50%    - spontaneous appreciation from the one who eats👌                    like,  that  precious nod from hubby!                    thumbs-up Gladiator/Roman emperor style from kids!  👍     50%   - unforced clean plates, another serving and repeat!  ----------   100%   🍲 To you, what is the recipe for success ? In mi casa , after ~n years in the kitchen, it's finally dawned on me:      100%    - Abba's grace! As I do the needful, busy but restful -- hands & feet in the kitchen, taste buds that wonder (sweet enough?  add more salt?  too sour?) brain that wander through my food memories and the vast internet 🤔 for the weekly menu (whew!), and  my earthen-weak heart, admit...