Cooking & Baking

Eight! That's really good!

Aren't we lucky to have had adults who fostered our interest in cooking? I'll bet your relatives got a kick out of helping you along, too.

Having your own grocery store in the family would have eliminated one other task my mother taught me: perusing the grocery store ads for what we'd have for the week. Whatever was on sale! That was OK: I could deal with that. She would go through the ad and make a list and we'd clip the coupons.

My mother canned from the garden and we also had a freezer. I can remember freezing strawberries. She was quite the canner and we had shelves in the basement full of tomatoes, tomato puree', green beans, you name it. I loved the aromas in the house when she would make pickles. Awww, now I am getting nostalgic.

We 3 children all had to work in the garden pulling weeds. I can remember resenting it because I wanted to read instead. I said I will never make my kid do this! Now look at me: my job is teach middle school kids how to garden. LOL.