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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 9:31:30 AM

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not that it makes any difference, but i love to cook and bake.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 11:04:12 AM

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Me, too. Not much for baking but I love to cook. Unfortunately often there is not enough time.

Bowl of cereal works for me.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 12:12:32 PM

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Besides the fact that I have a galley style kitchen (even if it was 3x the size I would feel the same) and there's just no room for others in my kitchen, I just DO NOT WANT you in there! I know what I'm doing next and tenth from next and it's all happening in that order for a reason so NO you can't do anything. My grandmother, the most organized woman on earth who knows exactly what you are doing wrong and how she would do it right, gave me the highest compliment I could hope for when she said " I just don't know what to do to help you, Dawn, you look like I would only get in your way." The "dish" towels and "hand" towels thing I got from Grandma.

Oh and recipies...people ask me for a recipe and I start rattling it off, they look at me funny. When I ask someone else "what's in this?" It's not because I want to make the exact thing, it's because I like the basic components and I want to improve on it. They want to give me a pen and paper so I can write it down...Write it down? why? LOL!!!!

You sound exactly like my own mother! She's a fabulous cook, never writes anything down, never measures....and never lets anybody into her kitchen! That's precisely why i'm 27 years old and just now learning how to cook

. Of course, nowadays she just tells me that i didn't want to learn.....

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 12:36:17 PM

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You sound exactly like my own mother! She's a fabulous cook, never writes anything down, never measures....and never lets anybody into her kitchen! That's precisely why i'm 27 years old and just now learning how to cook . Of course, nowadays she just tells me that i didn't want to learn.....

Hmm.. maybe it's a cultural thing. We had a huge kitchen when I was a girl and more often than not, it was stuffed full of people, but then I have an enormous family! Cooking wasn't done just to feed us, it was a time of renewal for our family, kinship, reflection as we talked, joked, snarled and fought over daily events and worldy ideas. Grandma always had kitchen helpers and when my children were growing up, I continued the traditions of letting them 'help', including stirring, pouring, mixing.. everthing but flames until they were older. My daughter has continued the tradition as well with her own sons who adore being in the kitchen helping.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 12:55:48 PM

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You sound exactly like my own mother! She's a fabulous cook, never writes anything down, never measures....and never lets anybody into her kitchen! That's precisely why i'm 27 years old and just now learning how to cook . Of course, nowadays she just tells me that i didn't want to learn.....

Hmm.. maybe it's a cultural thing. We had a huge kitchen when I was a girl and more often than not, it was stuffed full of people, but then I have an enormous family! Cooking wasn't done just to feed us, it was a time of renewal for our family, kinship, reflection as we talked, joked, snarled and fought over daily events and worldy ideas. Grandma always had kitchen helpers and when my children were growing up, I continued the traditions of letting them 'help', including stirring, pouring, mixing.. everthing but flames until they were older. My daughter has continued the tradition as well with her own sons who adore being in the kitchen helping.

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My Grandma's kitchen was tiny. Helpers to her were those that ran to and from the freezer or additional refridgerator in the basement, or set the dining room table. But she was usually so far ahead of the cooking so that she could enjoy her family.

My mother would talk to me while she cooked, never about the cooking but this was when we chatted. She never followed a recipe, just put it all together and tried different things all the time, at least from what I observed while watching. I encourage my daughter to help in the kitchen and there are some things that she enjoys doing. As she gets older I hope that I am able to allow her to help me and teach her as well.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 1:19:41 PM

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I'll cook when I have to but... I hate it Hate it I would much rather do the clean up. I like playing in soapy water LOL.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 2:15:43 PM

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SimplyV and MissTress,

i laughed at your posts. i WILL say nothing brings out the devil in me more as when dinner guests come into the kitchen to try to "help." i snapped at my sister-in-law once for cutting avocadoes wrong. Look, if i am cooking...stay the hell out of the kitchen LOL. i know exactly where everything goes, and it MUST be there when i want to retrieve it.

*laughs* Yep.. thats SOOO me.. I find it rude for dinner guests to come in my kitchen. I have been known to tell them to get out.. usually try to do it nicely, but sometimes I fail and really tell them off.

Any one who has ever lived with me, will confirm it.. Everything has its place and MUST be there when I go to find it. The easiest way to set me off, is to put things in the wrong places, especially after you've been told once where it goes.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 2:26:07 PM

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The "dish" towels and "hand" towels thing I got from Grandma.

Oh and recipies...people ask me for a recipe and I start rattling it off, they look at me funny. When I ask someone else "what's in this?" It's not because I want to make the exact thing, it's because I like the basic components and I want to improve on it. They want to give me a pen and paper so I can write it down...Write it down? why? LOL!!!!

I also do the towels thing. It just makes cleanliness sense. I've actually gotten into the habit of having 3 towels. One for drying dishes (a flour sack towel), One for drying hands, and then a separate one for drying hands that only I can use. I like to wash my hands completely (soap n all) before drying my hands. Others in my household, who I do not have "control" over like to "wash" their hands in the kitchen without soap, which icks me out. So I have two hand towels.

I don't rattle recipes off my head usually. Sometimes I have trouble remembering what I put in it when I'm asked to recall and even then I'm not sure on quantities. Umm.. I used a dash of this.. of that.. umm.. some of this.. a little of that..

I write down other peoples recipes.. but you can guarantee I'm going to do it my way anyway.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 3:15:26 PM

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You sound exactly like my own mother! She's a fabulous cook, never writes anything down, never measures....and never lets anybody into her kitchen! That's precisely why i'm 27 years old and just now learning how to cook . Of course, nowadays she just tells me that i didn't want to learn.....

*laughs* My mother was a total control freak in her kitchen, but she was also very insistant that us girls (she had 4 daughters) learned how to cook, clean, iron (though she never did it herself), and otherwise be a good "wife". We were all expected to be able to have a career, but she wanted to make sure we knew the essentials of home-making as well. She actually told us that she took particular care with our names so we would be able to persue any career we wanted and practiced "Dr." with our names just to make sure it would fit.

Anyway I digress.. I had to learn formal cooking. By that I mean.. measure everything and do it exactly like the recipe said (which I sucked at btw). We all had to do it for 4-H projects and what not. Me being the independant, willfull, stubborn, rebellious person that I am.. I bent the rules anywhere I could (thus the comment at sucking at following the recipe). As we got older, we got our own "cooking night" which I then used my own intuition to "perfect" recipes. At one point, I became the "Spice Master" of the house and tasted others dishes when they didn't know what they forgot and I would tell them what was needed and how much.

I am not the greatest cook by any means.. but I do alright. I'm sure Tress is much better at it than I.

Tress - Thats the way it was in our house too. The kitchen was the center of it, and there were lots of conversations in kitchen. We always talked to Mom while she cooked. But we always made sure to be out of the way of her too. :)

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 3:22:35 PM

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the person that cooks the best... mmmmmmmmmm it it sure isn't me!!!!

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 4:25:24 PM

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i love baking cakes, pies, cookies and fresh breads. there's so much more i love to do in the kitchen...LOL

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 4:34:31 PM

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i love baking cakes, pies, cookies and fresh breads. there's so much more i love to do in the kitchen...LOL

michael Heeeeeellllllllllpppppp!! *Rotfl* I just burned the premix pancake mix tonite!!!

LOL!!!

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 4:38:12 PM

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I love to cook.
Grill actually. I grill all year. In the rain. In the snow.
I'm out there.
Salmon, chicken, veggies.
But I'm kick ass with a steak.
And I have to have a cold beer in my hand while I'm grilling.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 4:43:14 PM

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wouldn't you rather have some homemade pancakes?

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RE: Who's the cook? - 2/28/2006 4:44:46 PM

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the problem i have with grilling is those blasted burn marks on them...to me, that ruins the flavor. also, i don't like the charcoal taste

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RE: Who's the cook? - 3/1/2006 8:35:52 AM

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the problem i have with grilling is those blasted burn marks on them...to me, that ruins the flavor. also, i don't like the charcoal taste

Yes I Would rather have homemade panackes

-lol- & that's exactly what happened with my what should have been golden discs michael! The irony here though is,that I make a great roast beast whether beef or pork -chicken too.

Looove my spaghetti sauce,you can stand a spoon up in it thick ...but when it comes to prepkgd things sometimes - I burn them.

LthrdWolf ...still don't like to cook though - LOL.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 3/1/2006 10:41:28 AM

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Who's the cook? Me, now. Master can make a decent meal when he puts his mind to it, but he settles for Mac n'Cheese when I get a night off.

Reading about everyone's families makes me feel like I'm missing something.

My family never really did any of the fun chaotic stuff. My brother set the table, my mother kicked us out and cooked, and I cleaned up. Although, from past Saturday mornings, I can make an awesome omlette!

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RE: Who's the cook? - 3/1/2006 1:12:23 PM

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Who's the cook? Me, now. Master can make a decent meal when he puts his mind to it, but he settles for Mac n'Cheese when I get a night off.

Reading about everyone's families makes me feel like I'm missing something. My family never really did any of the fun chaotic stuff. My brother set the table, my mother kicked us out and cooked, and I cleaned up. Although, from past Saturday mornings, I can make an awesome omlette!

Eria

Don't feel too bad. I was a really sheltered child. I mean REALLY sheltered. Family was about my only social life. Its nice now and then to think back and wax nostaligic, but really it wasn't a pleasant way to grow up for me.

From birth to age 18 when I left for college, I had two friends. One who was my friend as long as no one else knew (aka would turn on me in public). One who was my friend only when convienent for her.

So don't envy us too much. We all have the things we missed out on.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 3/1/2006 1:21:08 PM

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Master and I are both excellent gourmet cooks. It was a hard thing for me when he first came to have him cooking at times, I'm used to it now though, and really enjoy it. He said I'm the first partner He has ever been with that could cook, so I suppose that was a hard thing for Him to get used to as well.

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RE: Who's the cook? - 3/1/2006 1:21:31 PM

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Fastest path to a womans heart is through her stomach!!! *puts on Chef's outfit*

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