Most people who have known me for most of my life know that I love to cook. I don’t use my love of cooking for work though because when it comes to cooking I do it because I enjoy the process as well as what I create from scratch from time to time that taste so good. My “heart light” has said many times that he loves my cooking. Not all dishes come out good though. There have been a few times when something didn’t turn out the way I had hoped it would or it was mediocre or it was just bad!
One of my mother’s legacies was her cooking. She passed many skills down to us girls. I learned how to make Chicken and dumplings the way she made them. Her fried chicken was to die for! No one made biscuits like her although there was one person in the church my mom belonged to that came fairly close to it. I learned how to make biscuits, fried chicken, Italian Creme cake, fried Okra, and more. My mother was the best ever cook and I think she enjoyed cooking. She used to make a full0scale meal on Sunday afternoons and she fed many a church person from her table. All of them left happy and stuffed. She taught me how to season a cast iron skillet and how to care for them as well. There are times when I wish I had learned more from her.
Sometimes I didn’t always pay attention to some of the things she was trying to teach me though. When I left home to be on my own I had bought a cast iron skillet to use. I was heating oil in it when the phone rang. Back then the phone was on the wall so one couldn’t just walk around with a phone on their ear. When I realized I had forgotten about the oil I walked back into the kitchen to find it all smokey! Man that was so bad too! I put the cast iron skillet in the sink and started running water on it! I learned a valuable lesson that day! When a cast iron skillet is that hot, water will crack it right down the middle!!
I don’t know what I was thinking when I did that but I was young and didn’t know what the consequences would be when I did it! I learned from that and I never again walked away from the stove while it was heating oil and I never put a hot skillet in the sink with water again! Over the years I have learned many things. I also have created my own recipes as well. I’m always experimenting with food while creating tasty dishes. This page will be dedicated to my love of cooking and the food that I make.
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