On Saturday, I spent most of the day preparing for a dinner date I had with the lovely Maggie. It took me a while to decide what to cook, and in the end, I went with lumpia, pancit sotanghon, and leche flan. All Filipino recipes, and all delicious. I started by preparing the flan, since it needed to time to bake and cool. The recipe didn’t bother to tell me the serving size, but luckily I picked up extra foil pans. I ended up with 3 delicious leche flans. Next was the laborious pancit sotanghon. I had to soak the noodles for 2 hours, boil and shred the chicken, chop all the vegetables, then throw it all into a skillet and stir fry that puppy until it was just right. I had to make this in two batches, again due to the lack of serving size information. (I really should’ve realized , being Filipino, that when we cook, we cook a lot.) The lumpia was store bought, because making lumpia is an all-day event, and ain’t no way I’m making that as well as the pancit and leche flan.

Aside from a few personal critiques, everything turned out quite well, especially considering I could barley make scrambled eggs before this weekend. Maggie was also pleased and impressed… mission accomplished.