swcooking

Both my parents are great cooks. I was just raised around people cooking different kinds of foods. Being the youngest of a large family, it became survival. Everyone would take off and leave me at home, so I had to start cooking for myself.

Italmama

Many many years ago I'd have my elbows on the table watching my mom cook and bake and do everything in the kitchen. She was a great lady in that space believe me. I was an only child and my Mom did everything for my Dad and I. That was her wish, she didn't really like anyone doing her thing. I believe that was very popular when I was growing up. So whenever she was out of the house I was like a "busy bee" what can I do while Mom is out? I'd usually experiment in the kitchen and that was where my cooking started. My Mom and Dad had purchased a brand new stove so that was my chance to test it! My Mom had gone to a ladies church meeting that met once a month. Whoopie...I was all alone after school for a couple hours before she came home. So I decided to get the new stove's cookbook out and see what I could "cook up" no joke...well it was a joke....I decided to make popovers....I followed the recipe to a tee and then as they were baking in the nice new clean oven I noticed they were popping over! LOL...and I panicked WHO KNEW...they were supposed to come over the muffin tin! Well to make a long story short my Mom's girlfriend happened to drop by and assure me everything was fine and for me not to worry....the popovers were delicious and my Mom didn't get upset....THAT WAS A RELIEF....enough from cooking 101

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Pizketti

I got into cooking when I got into college. Y'know, when you begin to mature (or when you should mature...and I can't believe I'm saying this already because I'm still in the process of doing what I'm saying) you should learn how to do all this stuff. You can't live off of Kraft Dinner all your life.

cookiecutter

I think I was about 6 when I started wanting to cook, my grandmother would let me do little things like measuring out flour and other dry ingredients. I starting baking by myself when I was 14 and starting cooking for myself when I turned 16.

wahmoftoday

I started cooking when I was about twelve. I wanted to binge always and I wanted something new and different. I got tired of the usual stuff at a very young age that I decided to make some yummy experiments, and the rest is history.

katie

My dad started teaching me how to cook when I was about 9 years old. He started me with pancakes, beans and biscuits. I really got into cooking after I got married. I'm not the best but I'm pretty good, if I do say so myself!

gypsy

I think I was around 5 or 6, it's really hard to remember now, LOL. My mom taught me how to make pancakes on her old double griddle. She would pour them on and then tell me to wait until the edges looked dry and the bubbles stopped forming, then I could flip them over. The next thing she taught me how to make was Rice-A-Roni when I was a year or two older, this way I could start helping her make dinner. A few years later when she went back to working, she would leave instructions for me on how to start dinner cooking when I came home from school.

I don't remember when I first started baking but I wasn't too much older than when I started cooking. For some reason it was a running joke with my dad that every time I baked cookies I burned them, but I think he was just teasing me because I only remember burning cookies once. However, I am also known for playing around with recipes, sometimes with not-so-great results, which is, of course, another family joke.

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VTGal

My mom first began an attempt at teaching me to cook when I was 5 or 6, but I never really got into it until about a year ago when I became a stay-at-home mom.

alexis

Its so nice to see many people now working to learn how to take care of themselves earlier. I knew a guy who was 19 and I swore if anyone was born to cook it was this guy. His wife adored anything he made.

gypsy

LOL, my brother is 48 and I don't think he can cook anything except bacon and eggs. When he lived at home my mom cooked everything for him, and when he was going with his girlfriend whom he eventually married, she used to cook for him when our parents would go on vacation (believe me, it was sickening - she did his laundry, cleaned his room, made his meals. I wanted to SLAP her.) Actually, I think he can heat up a can of soup too, but that's about the extent of it.

I always told my mother she messed up raising him - she should have taught him how to make a meal or two, how to wash dishes and do laundry, and how to sew. He can't do any of those things either. It's honestly ing.

Meantime, my boyfriend, who's half a generation older than me, can cook (okay, he likes to char his bratwursts and was consuming a lot of TV dinners - which is why he now eats dinner at my house every night, LOL) but he can at least sew his own buttons on and does his own housework.

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