Cooking & Baking

He was enthusiastic about the idea and stepped into kitchen, opening one cupboard after another and was disappointed. "We can't have pancakes. There is no mix!"

Me, with my flour and other ingredients out "I don't use mix. I make pancakes"

Him: "no, you have to have mix!"

Me, getting a bit worried about the new spouse's level of knowledge: "How do you think the pioneers, crossing the country in wagons, made pancakes on their travels?"

Swear to the gods and dogs, he replied: "I figured they brought mix!"

Yeah, his mom wasn't much of a cook. Took me years to get him to eat a healthy variety of veggies as he hated them, having only had canned or extremely overcooked mushy veggies.

One more reason I advocate for every school in the nation to have a garden where kids get age appropriate science lessons via hands on growing and cooking vegetables.