“I want to cook and write but I’m on a strict diet!” – This was my gmail status two weeks ago. “I wanted to write about my cooking but when I cook, I will surely eat”, as I explained to Atty Jaja defending that my status was logical. Lol. This week, I cooked several dishes and all of them were fried. Yes, I want to write about simple cooking but man, not as simple as fried bangus belly! I have to admit though that I find frying fish challenging since I do not have a non-stick pan. Because I’m on this so-called strict diet, I opted to write about my staple food, sweet potato a.k.a. camote. My camote diet started when Manang Shalala started to sell camote. She did not realize then that selling the root crop would decrease the sales of her luto in her turo-turo . Imagine, my am snacks, lunch and pm snacks only cost me P25, her selling price for 3 pieces camote (violet camote). However, lately, I d...