in terms of happy tummy, there are couple of must-have items (well, of course according to moi) aside from classic salt & pepper, needed to fix a simplest meal:
chinese food
sesame oil | amazing ingredient, put anything dull into great flavour
soy sauce! | am a member of anti-sugar-and-sweetened-thick-soy-sauce tribe
garlic
pasta [or sort of ]
olive oil
black pepper
garlic
garlic
garlic | magical!
well…when the cooking fever stroke me lately, i just blindly put garlic into everything i fixed,
chopped, minced, smashed. voila!
so far there’s no tummy been upset, although sometimes the tongue was :p
here are some of the quite eatable stuffs i managed to mix
[√] noodle
[√] sauteed veggie
[√] japanese tofu with shitake
—> comment from the my philipino neighbour “wah you actually can cook ya…”
[√] spaghetti aglio e olio
—> sometimes aglio e olio e tuna | e bacon e mushroom
[√] spaghetti mushroom with cream sauce
[√] mushroom cream soup
[√] salad
—-> with no dressing excep olive oil and lime juice, maybe ‘lalap’ is a more suitable title
anyway, like any normal ‘anak kos’, my area of expertize of course:
fried rice, scrambled egg and friends!
bon appetite!
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well
| Virginia Woolf
dinadays 
Waaah!!! U can cook yaaa!!! Hebat, hebat, aku masi trauma kalo masakan chinese…
Hehehe, being anak kos for along time made u cook :D
Here i m still trying :D. Unfortunately the fridge in my place is so “moody”, it makes the veggie spoilt easily :(