What's thing you ever cooked by yourself?

[vicki-in-tucson]

As a child, I always "helped" my mother cook (she's a fabulous cook--I'll never be as good). But the first thing I ever cooked by myself was breakfast sausage. When I was about eight, I started getting up early on Saturday mornings, before my parents, to make myself sausages, toast, and hot tea for breakfast. It was the first time I used the stove unsupervised and I felt very adult. I had the kitchen to myself and would sit and read for a couple of hours. Of course, I'd leave the pan for my mother to wash; I'm sure she appreciated that!

I went out to breakfast with a friend recently and had sausages--their scent and taste brought back that memory. Proust, anyone?

 

[vicki-in-tucson]

Yikes--the subject line should read: What's the first DISH you cooked by yourself?

Don't tell anyone I'm an editor...sheesh. smileys/wink.gif

 

[barb_b]

Isn't it fun how food/cooking can bring back memories! I recall being really proud of making

Red jello with cut up grapes! My M&D and Grandma just raved about how special it looked and how wonderful it tasted!

They made me feel so special! The irony is, I am not at all a person that enjoys sweets, and I really do not like jello....

BUT, what a great memory! Thanks for asking Amanda!

Regards,
Barb

 

[meryl]

I baked before I cooked - I think it was chocolate chip cookies from the Nestle's bag of chips.

 

[dawn_mo]

Well, I was browning ground beef for my mom,

but it wasn't really a recipe, it was food prep. She would make the dinner from there. When I moved out, the first recipe I made was fried rice and split pea soup, a boyfriends request. I could also do fried pork chops in cream of mushroom soup. That was about it. Then I met my husband. His first dish he made for me was a sole dish wrapped in paper. Eyes wide open.

 

[angak]

Snickerdoodles and creamed eggs on toast. Jr Hi Home Ec 101.

My Mom did not like to share her kitchen, so we didn't have kitchen duties till we were introduced to cooking in school. I came home and wanted to try out all these great "American" recipes on the family(German household, meat and potatoes meals---mostly) the cookies were well received, the eggs---not so much!

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

Folded a Kraft Single twice and placed the perfect squares on saltines. Pure magic!

 

[Guest]

@ 7 yrs old I made Egg salad with soft boiled eggs!! My brother Paul will not

eat egg salad to this day!! I now make decent egg salad. When I was little, I use to get up and boil eggs for my grandmother she was in a wheelchair and she was watching me, actually me helping her boil the eggs. She use to tell me as the water started to boil ..when the red hand goes by 2 times eggs are done.... and she liked soft boiled eggs so... naturally when I made the egg salad (all by my self.. I remember I was so pleased with my self because I knew how to boil eggs).. I just didn't know there was a difference between soft and hard boiled eggs. It was so gross now that I think about it.. Imagine puting in mayonaise in soft boiled eggs.

 

[evan]

I baked sweet buns before I cooked anything, but I do remember cooking

a potatoe soup before I started in school. I must have been five or six years old.

The soup was self made and self invented and contained peeled and cubed potatoes, chopped chives, water and salt!

If I remember correctly, my always so supportive grandmother said it was the best soup she ever tasted!

Bless her soul! smileys/smile.gif

 

[marilynfl]

Yeasted cinnamon rolls...using 3 times the amount of yeast! They were HUGE.

 

[gailnj]

Potato Salad for a how-to demo in 5th or 6th grade. It was a disaster!

 

[vicki-in-tucson]

How so?

 

[yama-d]

So did I, and I made a Strawberries 'n' Cream Roll Cake.

 

[ms-in-or]

A breakfast dish for my dad. Here's why it was a disaster. . .

I don't remember what the recipe was, but it must have been some sort of fritatta or something because it called for a clove of garlic and I put the whole head in. I was probably 12 or so (MANY years ago!) and the reason it was so bad was it was a workday and he was a dentist, so he was in people's face BREATHING all day and his breath just reeked. Poor patients!

 

[randi]

the image of his patients just passing out from garlic fumes has me rolling... "-)))

 

[randi]

the image of his patients just passing out from garlic fumes has me rolling... "-)))

 

[randi]

I think the very first, all by myself was a package of refrigerator biscuts placed in a

pie pan or cake pan, whole cherrie preserves, three cherries in the center of each roll, and then a wash of egg whites and baked. it was so easy and I was so proud of myself cause the always turned out perfect. smileys/smile.gif

 

[randi]

I guess it's twice as funny as I thought... LOL

 

[music-city-missy]

Coffee in a brushed aluminum coffee pot with a red plastic handle - in grandma's oven.....

I was only about 3 they tell me and very serious about my play kitchen and stuff. I had this stuff that looked pretty real and was well made by today's standards. Anyway, she was a nurse and had a strange sleep schedule and I was staying with her. So she was still sort of asleep and wasn't looking and I put ground coffee in the filter and water in the bottom and stuck it in the oven to 'cook' her some coffee to wake her up. Needless to say, when there was a horrible burning plastic smell and smoke coming out of the oven, I had been 'discovered'. I still have that coffee pot - need to dig it out and put it on display one of these years for fun.