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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

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. [Dont Know]

I guess some people don't, though.

Anyway, I'd better get back to my colcannon. I'm just glad my parents let me learn how to cook. [Smile]

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

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.

Farmgirl

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

My kids love to cook. My mother never let me cook when I lived at home.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

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.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

How sad, Elizabeth. My husband's mother was the same way, and now his cooking skills are [Angst]

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

I never liked to cook... At this point I wish I had, since I'm so BAD at it.