*sigh* I'm loosing my touch. (Warning: Hi-jacked by Em)

[Spookwriter]

True Story Time?

My in-laws never made a mess in their kitchen.

Ate out every meal. Since I knew them. Mom didn't
even have pots, pans, stuff like that. Used her kitchen
cabinets as file cabinets.

Had soda pop. Thats about it. No snack foods or junk.

Barb and her brother had charge accounts at different
places in town. Both parents worked, aunt lived on next
block that fed her.

Always amazed me.

Dad wanted a cup of coffee? Off to Mcdonalds he went.

Family dinners were always at some fancy place.

So my wife never really learned to cook until we grew up.

Did you know, put a frozen pizza in the oven on its cardboard
tray and it willl catch on fire? Sure did too. Just after we were
married.

We ate at my parents a lot the first few years...

 

[EmtheFishLady]

I didn't learn to cook anything much until I was out on my own. My mom baked a box cake once and it came out literally so badly that it BOUNCED. Even the dog wanted nothing to do with it. I'm sure I've got a funny cooking mistake, but at the moment I can't think of any.

 

[sourland]

MIL was a great cook but allowed no one in her kitchen; therefore, the Princess did not know how to cook. Somehow she managed, and we never starved. She cooked the first 25 years - I have cooked since then. When I 'took over' she gained weight, and I lost weight. Why? She said that my cooking tasted better so she ate more and that I cooked healthier so I lost weight.

Em, I clean up after myself. In all things I hate cleaning up others' messes.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

I have four kids. I've made a career out of cleaning up after people. Connor seems interested in making sure I'm an expert at it.

 

[Bunnylady]

My mother drafted me as a "dishwasher" when I was about 6 or 7 - she'd wash, I'd dry. I was about that age when I learned how to make scrambled eggs, too. Eventually, washing the dishes became my responsibility - people would say something about my mother not having a dishwasher, and she'd say, "oh, but I do," and look at me. I became her assistant in the kitchen in other ways, too; by the time was a tween, I was making things like cookies on my own. I still remember my first layer cake - nobody had told me to flip the bottom layer, and the top one kept sliding off; I had to pin it in place with toothpicks. It developed a big fissure from being pushed back into place. It was a birthday cake for my mother, so I wrote "Happy Birthday Anyway, Mom!" on it.

I've been passing along some of the "tricks of the trade" to my young'uns . . . . BB2K made a Devil's Food cake from scratch a few days ago.

I gotta watch letting that kid in the kitchen - if she keeps this up, I'm gonna start gaining weight.

 

[Tumbling K]

My mother drafted me as a "dishwasher" when I was about 6 or 7 - she'd wash, I'd dry. I was about that age when I learned how to make scrambled eggs, too. Eventually, washing the dishes became my responsibility - people would say something about my mother not having a dishwasher, and she'd say, "oh, but I do," and look at me. I became her assistant in the kitchen in other ways, too; by the time was a tween, I was making things like cookies on my own. I still remember my first layer cake - nobody had told me to flip the bottom layer, and the top one kept sliding off; I had to pin it in place with toothpicks. It developed a big fissure from being pushed back into place. It was a birthday cake for my mother, so I wrote "Happy Birthday Anyway, Mom!" on it.

I've been passing along some of the "tricks of the trade" to my young'uns . . . . BB2K made a Devil's Food cake from scratch a few days ago.

I gotta watch letting that kid in the kitchen - if she keeps this up, I'm gonna start gaining weight.

I agree.......

get them kids in the kitchen........get them out in the shop........get them helping you out around the place.

it's the only way some of them can and will learn. Plus it's nice, when they get in their teen years, and you need some extra muscle for chores....

 

[EmtheFishLady]

Oh Rhiannon and Lily both have chores. And if they want some toy or a expensive brand of shoes? Well, then they do extra chores to earn it. Connor however, is the worlds worst at just making a mess for the heck of it. I spent all day yesterday making him clean up Cheerios that he threw all over his room during a fit. Could I have cleaned them up in 5 minutes? Yup. But then he wouldn't have learned the lesson. I'm a bit of a neat freak though, and always end up redoing 90% of things because *I* gotta know it's clean.

 

[sourland]

Knowing that nothing is 'free' is a good bit of knowledge to instill in your kids. Now if I only had my grandkids ------------------------------

 

[EmtheFishLady]

I've just always wanted my kids to know that if they want something, hard work is the way to get it.




I finally remembered something I'm unable to do in the kitchen. Grilled cheese. I cannot make a grilled cheese.

 

[Tumbling K]

I've just always wanted my kids to know that if they want something, hard work is the way to get it.




I finally remembered something I'm unable to do in the kitchen. Grilled cheese. I cannot make a grilled cheese.

really?

that is one meal, we will let the kids completely take on their own....

we've showed them how to build and what temp to put the stove knob at.......