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I've got a pot of veggie stock, with a month and a half's worth of scraps from the freezer, plus the tops of the two leeks I am using for my colcannon today, going on the back of the stove, and two loaves of soda bread baking in the oven.
You know, since I like to eat good food, I'm so glad that I learned how to cook the good food I like to eat. When I was very small, I used to stand on a stool in front of the stove and stir things for my dad, and say, "When I grow up, I'm going to be a good cooker!" It's just nice to be able to make people happy with the food I cook.
Yesterday, in the grocery store, they were playing a blurb about teaching your kids to cook, and it was, like, "duh". I mean, I credit my aptitude for fractions to the fact that my parents used to have me help measure things while cooking. Not to mention I was planning and cooking full dinners by myself by the time I was 11 or 12. I just never considered not having my kids in the kitchen. I guess some people don't, though.
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I taught my kids to cook and encouraged them to experiment in the kitchen simply because I hate to cook. (I hate indoors work, love outside work).
So now that they are teenagers, many times when I get home from work they already have supper fixed.
Yep -- a very good idea to teach your kids to cook.
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I think that may be one of the reasons that my mom taught us; not that she hates to cook, but that it was nice, when she was working full-time, to come home and have dinner waiting.
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