Any Home Bakers Here?

[3goodeggs]

and grocery shopping wouldn't be soooo annoying if the stores stopped re-arranging their aisles just after I memorize where everything I want is!!! LOL

I get so annoyed at that!
I know they want to sell more by getting me to look more -see more... but I get frustrated and leave without what I went to get.


I pop in for a gallon of milk and come out with sixty dollars worth of stuff as it is....

 

[cheepteach]

when I win the lottery my dream is to hire someone to grocery shop and put it all away for me!

 

[3goodeggs]

OhOH! And COOK!

oh, wait. right. that's wrong.

 

[cheepteach]

got carried away,did you?

 

[3goodeggs]

yes.



But I would hire someone to cook homemade meals with my garden stuff.
I am rather done with cooking.
When my husband cooks all we have is meat.

When the boy leaves for college I plan on cooking a weeks worth of food and it actually lasting a week.

 

[Alice28]

I think it would be great if it was mandatory for every high school student to take a "life skills" class in order to graduate.  Have freshmen take it, or even start as early as middle school, try to impress on them as early as possible to plan for their future.  Teach them to balance a checkbook, set a budget, find an apartment, shop, and cook.  Give them a job title with a salary and grade them on how well they can live within their budget. 

When I was in high school, I was not able to take any of the life skills classes that were offered because they were only offered opposite the college prep classes.  I gave up my study hall in order to take a basic foods class.  It was a real eye opener to see how little my friends knew about cooking.  I was the most popular partner in class - since I knew how to cook before taking the class - my partner and I always got an A on the cooking assignments. 

I totally agree! When I was in fifth grade as part of math we had a cake recipe, but all the numbers were the tiniest measurments possible, so we had to convert it all to cups, tbs, tsp. my group was the only one who ended up with an edible cake because while doing the conversions I knew, wait we did this one wrong, no recipe would ever call for that much baking soda! So we would do the math again. One groups cake actually set off the fire alarm. If any of their parents had cooked with them they could have looke and knowen where they did the math wrong. It was a great project because it incorporated measurments, converting measurments (which is useful!) and baking. My mom was helping in the class that day, she wasn't allowed to help at all, but was keeping an eye on everything with the teacher and she said she was shocked that none of the kids knew what they were doing besides me! She said she didn't think most of them had ever even read a recipe!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Any one have a good recipe for glazed carrots? I had some at a chinese/Japanese restaurant Sunday and they were so good.

 

[3goodeggs]

Quote: That reminds me of some ginger bread cookies we made in home ec in middle school. I was creaming the sugar and butter and my partner was combining the drys. She used 1/4 cup salt.
That was when I decided that even if I was not leader, I needed to keep an eye on the ones that were. Trust no one but love everybody- kind of thing.
They were beautiful cookies! They held their shape perfectly.

 

[3goodeggs]

Patti, I love anton brown. This sounds super easy with the ginger ale.
I think I will make it for this weekend with grilled chicken.


http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/good-eats/videos/ea-1h00/carrots-a-taproot-orange.0192644.html

Here is the ingredient list.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/glazed-carrots-recipe.html

 

[Miss Lydia]

Patti, I love anton brown. This sounds super easy with the ginger ale.
I think I will make it for this weekend with grilled chicken.


http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/good-eats/videos/ea-1h00/carrots-a-taproot-orange.0192644.html

Here is the ingredient list.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/glazed-carrots-recipe.html

Thanks Jan I will dif try them.