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you ever cooked on your own, Not fairy cakes at 9 but something substantial.
How did it go Good or a disaster
Me, it was a Spaghetti Bolagnais. scoured the town for the spag.was difficult in 1959, the Bol was a recipe in a mag & it turned out YUK!!
JEM
How did it go Good or a disaster
Me, it was a Spaghetti Bolagnais. scoured the town for the spag.was difficult in 1959, the Bol was a recipe in a mag & it turned out YUK!!
JEM
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Mum and Dad used to give me and my sister about a fiver each week (long time ago!) to source ingredients and cook a Sunday meal for the 4 of us. I always did prawn cocktail, roast chicken with trimmings and a pudding. It taught us how to budget and how to cook. Always went down well but sister going for fish and ships for 4 didn't, although it saved on washing up!
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I'm not sure if it was the first thing I cooked but I do remember trying to to cook rice when I was about 13, My Mum was out so I thought I would give it a try. The most important think I learned, is you don't actually need to start with a whole saucepan "full" of uncooked rice, and when it has all gone disastrously wrong and you notice Mum coming up the road, it don't flush down the loo in ten seconds!!
Curry when I got my own flat. In retrospect, must have been b. awful, but friends consumed it without ill effects!
Later on, whipped up a decent omelette for a chance visitor - she liked it, fancied a man who can cook, and we're just coming up to our 25th anniversary...
Not sure if that's good or disaster?
Later on, whipped up a decent omelette for a chance visitor - she liked it, fancied a man who can cook, and we're just coming up to our 25th anniversary...
Not sure if that's good or disaster?
Well, by the time i was 10 I could make scones and Sponges, like my nan did, that was, not using scales, I just knew half a pat of butter was 4oz, and a heaped 'serving spoon' was 2oz of dry ingredients, but I did have a baptism of fire really, It was Christmas dinner I was 12, my nan had Asian flu, my mother had fallen in the milking shed a week before and had badly broken her arm. Dad was busy milking and general farm work with the animals, so it was down to my elder brother (he was 15) we made stuffing with breadcrumbs, fresh herbs and onions, roasted a turkey and a leg of pork, did roast potatoes, parsnips, boiled potatoes, carrots, sprouts bread sauce, little sausage and bacon rolls and PROPER gravy, i remember tipping off the fat from the meat tin and just leaving the meat juices, adding flour to make a roux, using the veg water and a stock cube. We didn't have any wrapped presents nobody had had the time with two invalides in the house! But it was a great dinner and we were taken to the pantomime as a special treat because we did a good job!
