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I don’t have a lot of folks to cook for anymore but friends always like it when I do cook for them. I have cookbooks that are 30 years old and new ones too, but lately I think I should donate them to my favorite charity thrift store as they don’t get a lot of use anymore. I’d like to take some cooking classes. Learn some new exotic cooking as well as some of the great basics again too.
I always loved the cooking part of Home Economics in school, my HomeEc teacher could make anything from scratch. I’m not even sure if they have that kind of class in jr. and sr. high school anymore.
Not to degrade my Mother’s cooking, but she the world’s worst cook, she said the same thing, and also that she didn’t like cooking at all. She wasn’t the baking cookies after school type, my Mother thought cooking was opening up a can. So I’ve always gravitated towards any thing homemade, but my grandmother was the greatest cook with the little apron and good smells from the oven so the drive and enjoyment of cooking must have skipped a generation I guess. I think why I’m so interested in cooking shows.
My mom is a pretty good cook. I guess my grandmothers were too, I dont remember a whole lot. both grandmothers and great grandmother died when I was in high school. so that was quite a while ago. my favorite thing my mom makes is homemade noodles. mmmmm. you have to cook a roast, then she uses the broth from the roast to boil the noodles. and you have to have mashed potatoes to mix the noodles with! yummy! I’ve made them a couple times and they were ok, but they are hard work. gotta use a rolling pin and everything! lol. she’s a good pie maker too, but she just makes pumpkin, apple, black raspberry and pecan. I think it would be fun to take a cooking class but never did. I had home ec in high school but I dont think I ever had cooking, I had sewing. dont recall cooking anything.
where do you live?
broth from the roast would infuse the noodles with tons of flavor…I’m still in a carb coma from all the turkey dinner fixin’s but now my mouth is watering for roast beastie and noodles! Yummmmmmmmmmmy! Pies are my downfall…never can get the crust perfect, I can make it edible, flakey and a bit tasty – yes, but not just that picture perfect pie crust – that has eluded me for years no matter what I do – there is a definate talent to it. But a pecan or black raspberry pie – oh yeah, my favorites!!! Just watching Chopped…and Iron Chef (flippin’ back and forth between shows). Bobby Flay is cooking goose; or is it geese?
Yep, the sewing part wasn’t my favorite thing – all thumbs, but the cooking was a lot of fun. There was a semester of both each year when taking HomeEc. class when I was in school. We also got a crash course in making jewelry (my Home Ec. teacher was raised in the depression and WWII so she knew how to do it all! And we, (girls only in class back then), had to learn to change the oil and change a tire on a car – thank goodness for Triple A now-a-days!
I’m in Northern Cali – and it’s is ccccccccold tonight, 31 degrees! A 3-dog night for sure! Fireplace, heater, and fleece blankies all working over time. Good thing turkey in oven heated up house today!
I was watching FN last night too. chopped and ISA. Repeats. but I still watch. There’s a diners, drive-ins and dives marathon on tonight. I love that show. I like Guy on that show alot better than on his Guy’s big bite show. I’m excited about sunday for ISA and Chef Cutie’s 1st battle! Cant wait!
spirit! He lives just down the road (Santa Rosa) from me – (well 2 hours anyway). And his 3rd eatery is just about a half an hour or so, but I’ve never tried it.
I just heard that they are having a brand new Chopped on Sunday night at 9pm. a new chopped and my cutie all in one night! LOL!
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