Happy Friday everyone! It’s been a great summer and I’m hoping for it to continue. This week I have a We R Memory Keepers Mini Guillotine Paper Cutter to give away.
Perfect for card making, planners, and other small projects. Cleanly cuts paper up to 8 1/2 inch, has 1/4 inch marks on the grid for easy alignment. Compact size makes it ideal for limited table space. Cut 3 sheets of cardstock at one time. Measures approximately 6 x 8 1/2 inch.
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Question of the week: What was the first thing you learned to cook?
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Biscuits, fried chicken…from my grandmother.
Fried pork chops, cucumber salad and mashed potatoes. Love that meal too
Goodness, I’m to old to remember that!
I think when my mother went back to college to get her Teaching Degree I was 10 and my dad told me he would hire me to take care of the house so mom could study. My dad’s favorites were Hot Dogs and mixed veggies and in the beginning we had that a lot then I started learning more and to this day I’m not a bad cook just don’t like to do it.
It was how to make a plain chicken breast. I was okay with basic lunches but cooking dinner was another step so it was cooking chicken properly.
Grilled cheese sandwiches.
I’m not sure, but the first thing I can recall is soup. I was part of a kindergarten cooking program, I remember we were making wontons to put into the broth.
It was probably pancakes but I really don’t remember
I was left to babysit younger siblings when I was in fifth grade. Pulled out the Betty Crocker cookbook and made homemade pasta topped with buttered peas. That cookbook fell apart years ago but I saved the pages of my most used recipes.
My mom’s favorite spaghetti
Chicken pot pie… learned from my grandmother.
My grandmother was injured in an accident and Mother went to take care of her. I was 10. I asked Daddy what he wanted for supper and he said, “pan fried steak and gravy”. OMGOSH! But I gave it a try, doing what I had seen Mother do….I suppose it was edible, but only just. Bless Daddy’s heart, he ate it all and even complimented me on it. Happy memories.
Scrambled eggs. My grandmother gave my mother a small cast iron pan to use to teach me how to make scrambled eggs, and I still have the pan and I still use it. The pan also makes great grilled cheese sandwiches.
The first thing I learned to cook were fried eggs, and Dad was fussy about the way they turned out.
Nice paper trimmer! I need a new one!
The first thing I remember cooking was macaroni and cheese. I recall that it wasn’t good! I forgot to rinse the pasta!
Because my mother hates to cook, I had to learn! Every Sunday I made a roast, either beef or chicken, and baked potatoes.
Macaroni and cheese. Still one of my favorites!
I’ll never forget that experience. Back in my day, fried chicken was made a lot! The typical Sunday dinner was fried chicken or pot roast! It was time for me to learn how. I had to cut the chicken into pieces, coat and fry it up. Touching the uncooked chicken felt so disgusting it took me a year to be able to eat chicken again! I still had to help cook it in the meantime, though.
I honestly don’t remember the first thing I cooked…..maybe it was grilled cheese….and somehow they caught on fire in the oven. My mom was like it’s ok…..like what?
Italian sausage, peppers and onion from my grandma who spoke no English!!! I speak little Italian, which made it fun!!!
Malt-o-Meal muffins! It was the first thing my mom let me bake all by myself. As I recall, they came out pretty good!
Fried eggs and homemade biscuits
Macaroni and cheese from the Kraft box.
Goodness gracious I’m not sure. My Mom worked evenings & my Dad never made anything besides home made yeast cinnamon rolls or home made ice cream. I was the youngest kid in the family & my older siblings bullied me into cooking dinner every night. I’m going to guess it was fried chicken. I honestly don’t remember. I also got bullied into cleaning the kitchen and washing the dishes every night. It’s tough being the youngest.
The first thing I learned to cook by myself was omelets! I learned from a 4H teacher that came to my school in fourth grade.
fried chicken was the first thing I remember cooking.
Buttermilk. You cut up some Butter, and put it in some Milk. At least that’s what I thought when I was about 4. I wanted to make Mom some Buttermilk, because she liked it so much.
That was a long time ago! Probably something like scrambled eggs.
Pizza from a Chef Boy AR D pizza kit!
Scrambled eggs for my baby sister. They were her favorite breakfast food!
Tacos! Except I didn’t know you were supposed to drain the grease at first haha
Maybe Whoopie Pies but my mother couldn’t stand how slow I was to finish so she never let me cook again!
My first effort was to make sugar cookies. I ate them all, even though most were burned and hard enough to break a tooth! I still can’t cook, but if I cook something I try to eat it. I have a magnet on my refrigerator that says, “Many have eaten here and have gone on to live normal lives!”
It was probably a cake from a cake mix.
Cut-out Sugar Cookies with my mother, I loved it!
Scrambled eggs or mashed potatoes. Until I left for college, I was the designated mashed potato maker. I also made the salad for dinner.
Grilled cheese with tomato soup for my siblings
The first thing I remember was in school we made something called Saucy Satellite Franks! It was cut up hotdogs cooked with tomato sauce noodle and cheese on top cooked in a frying pan. I still cook it til this day! Funny thing everyone loves it!
Pancakes were the first thing my mom taught me. It took forever to get them just right but I had fun with her in the kitchen.
Spaghetti Bolognese.
baked beans when I was 12. for a Girl Scout potluck
Chef-boy-ar-Dee Spaghetti.
Seems like it was fried eggs.
The first thing I learned to cook was a Tuna Fish Casserole with biscuits and warm applesauce! I was 13 and learning what I loved to eat best at that time….
I don’t remember exactly but I know I made tapioca a lot.
The first thing I learned how to cook was buttered noodles when I was a twelve year old kid and my mom had cancer. It was comforting to her, so I made it often.
The first thing I learned to cook was spaghetti and meat sauce. My mom taught me so I could have dinner ready some nights when my parents got home from work. That was a long time ago and I still love cooking.
Lots of fun to read these stories. Wish we could all have a party and share stories. My mother wasn’t keen on teaching me to cook, nor my grandmothers, so no memories there. I’m guessing it might have been something in my Easy Bake toy oven. Seem to remember it was a disaster. I think my mother gave me a standard measuring cup to use but I was supposed to use the small toy one that came with the oven. Also have memories of the Betty Crocker kids cookbook. More success with that (eg, “read the directions on the back of the BC cake mix…”
I think it was a fruit cobbler with my grandmother. She even had a little mini bake set for me to copy what she did.
I remember making fried baloney sandwiches for an after school snack – my dad told me how to make them. I’m not sure it’s the first thing, but it was the first thing I made by myself.
Cooked whatever my mom told me when she called on her afternoon break at work. I got it started and she finished when she got home. If my dad got home first and my mom was working a night shift, he made “FAST SOUP’. Ingredients were whatever was in the refrigrator!
white rice in a rice cooker – haven’t tried to cook it on the stove.
My Mom was having a problem with arthritis in her feet & ankles, so she instructed me through fixing liver.
Not sure if this qualifies as a to ‘cook’ item but I first learned how to bake banana bread.
I remember cooking spaghetti while my mom worked too! I think I was like 5th or 6th grade, all proud of myself cooking dinner for me and dad.
White rice snd fried eggs…
White rice and fried eggs…lol
Fudge – a very simple recipe that my mom taught me.
I started with a double crusted apple pie. The recipe called for a shallow 8″ dish – we had a 9″ deep dish . . . how bad could it be? I rerolled and stretched and worked that dough until it fit the bigger plate. It looked pretty, but it was like chewing apple flavored plastic!!