"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>
> "Kswck" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Parent, other family member, friend? Or did you have to learn on your
>> own?
>>
>> Mom boiled every veggie to death. Figure ALL pork must be cooked in a fry
>> pan covered with mustard and sauerkraut, till it's dead, beef so rare it
>> would moo and chicken ONLY in a pressure cooker, or Shake-N-Bake.
>> (Don't get me started on her soups-she believed food was to keep you
>> alive...taste? 'You want that too? Why?').
>>
>> Learned on my own.
>>
>
> At home, I could fry an egg, make a burger and other simple survival types
> of cooking but had no interest aside from that. It was some years later
> that I really started to get interested. Frugal Gourmet and Romagnoli's
> Table were the two that really got me interested so I took the time to
> learn basic cooking and some of the science behind it.
>
> Out of necessity I've been doing the majority of cooking the last couple
> of years so there definitely was a payoff in time spent learning. Wish I
> had watched my grandmother more though. I certainly miss some of her
> meals.


What did she make that you miss.

My Russian side Grandmother made a KILLER stuffed Cabbage. Crap see what
you started? Now I'm going to have to make some.


--
Old Scoundrel

(AKA Dimitri)