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Who taught you to cook?
Alleycat666
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Did you learn at school/from your mum (or dad;))/teach yourself?
Me - I started making cakes and stuff when very young (pre-school probably), then learnt the basics from my mum and self-taught after that.
My OH was very impressed with the first Sunday Roast that I dished up when we moved in together:) and that I knew how to make a victoria sponge without a recipe book:p.
Anyone else?
Me - I started making cakes and stuff when very young (pre-school probably), then learnt the basics from my mum and self-taught after that.
My OH was very impressed with the first Sunday Roast that I dished up when we moved in together:) and that I knew how to make a victoria sponge without a recipe book:p.
Anyone else?
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A couple of years ago I went to college to do an NVQ 2 which was quite useful.
My Mum taught me some things but after my Mum and Dad divorced I was introduced to a whole wide variety of food, my step-mum was so patient and cooked different dishes to my Mum, so I learn't the basics between the 2 of them and then Food and nutrition at school. In fact, I still have all my recipes I cooked at school as Mum suggested I write them in an Alphabet index book for reference, and I still use some of them today!
I also have a friend who has made me more confident about my cooking, even though she does the cooking even when she visits (bless!)
Oh and the great Delia and Good Housekeeping books
Its the most soothing therapy
I'm sure it is once you can actually do it!:) It's the learning curve that I'm struggling with.
My mother taught me many of the basics but to be honest with you the stuff she cooks is nothing like what I cook.
I also bake and I'm obessed with Deserts which no one I know cooks.
Watch a few saturday kitchens on tv. You'll soon pick it up and be making your own food and recipes up.
When you cook a bechamel sauce ! Its very soothing...just a good stir and *be patient*
Then I did the odd practical of Food Tech at school
For my GCSEs I took a course in Food and Nutrition, which taught me a lot
Then I used to assist my mum in teaching food technology at a school during my study leave
God knows where my creativity comes from though! My mum always says she has no inspiration and idea and my old teachers said I had too much!!
JP
James Martin -Saturday Kitchen
Jamie Oliver- the naked chef series.
I learnt from the best:D
My mother is a bad cook, if it wasn't undercooked it was overcooked. She never really taught us how to do anything.
I have picked up everything I know from the above mentioned chefs, It isnt too bad if I dont say so myself, my eldest makes a comment every mealtime, usually' mum this is lovely'.:D.
I will teach my kids how to cook too.
Mrs Sheepdog doesnt like to cook ,but when she does its very good.
I learn't to cook, from neccissity, when I left home.
Various cook books and TV programmes gave me advice but the best ones are from Nigel Slater. Although Jamie Oliver's recent series was good.
I can do a variety of pretty good meals, if I say so myself, now.
I've done the same with my daughters, the eldest is a great little cook, the youngest wanders off leaving the over on so I'm a little bit more cautious with her!
I neved tried curry or pasta until I had my own money and bought it myself. I love cooking now self-taught when I first left home I bought a book called "How To Boil An Egg".
Now with the Internet I have progressed and print off recipes etc. I am not afraid to try anything and make tablet and traybakes to take into work. I have loads of books for ideas.
OH is very good though his Mother taught him to make sauces etc so we share it now. He does risotto and any sauces and just makes up things. I do soups, curries, chilli, stews and stovies. When I tell my parents what we are having for tea they say "Oh I don't fancy that" . Yet they have never tried it :mad:
We did cookery in school but we never made anything I didn't already know how to make.
Plus cookbooks. I love cookbooks. I would like a whole room in my house full of cookbooks.