"Beer Drinking Dog" > wrote in message
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> Kswck wrote:
>> Parent, other family member, friend? Or did you have to learn on your
>> own?
>>

I mainly learnt from my Italian mum...she is an amazing cook, and can put a
scratch meal together, using only left-overs, and make it taste like a
gourmet meal (I haven't quite got that knack yet)

she never follows a recipe...using them only as a guide if she's trying
something new, but deciding it would be better if she added this or deleted
that etc

only problem with her cooking, is she never writes anything down, or only
rarely, and so for each time that she makes something truly outstanding, we
would never get it quite the same way again cos she'd forget what she put in
the first time! lol

My dad was a second chef, cooking mainly fish, but he was old school and
always said that since he was married, why should he cook at home when he
had a wife (sheesh!) but occasionally he'd cook Sunday breakfast; French
toast was a fave