Cooking...A lost art?

Q

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I love to cook. Tonight was roast beef, mashed potatoes and carrots.yummmmmm
 

unclehobart

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I cook everything from scratch as a matter of sheer survival. I remember being able to do full dishes from the age of 6. My dad made me cook dinner for some of his business partners a few times at that age. I remember making lots of veal based dishes for them. They were also impressed with my grasp of dirty jokes.
 

Squiggy

ThunderDick
I was cooking a lot at that age too...and it was for survival...I didn't know about the term dysfunctional family yet, but we had to be the poster children...:D
 

PT

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I love to cook, but don't have the time to do much good cooking except on weekends, then it's usually a roast, fried chicken, or something else suitable for feeding a football team. Sometimes, when it's just the wife and I, I go more to the gourmet side, Chicken Parmesan, Filet Mignon, but the kids just don't appreciate that stuff.
 

unclehobart

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My skills were derived from being fairly parentless up to the age of 9. Dad was winding out his military service, working full time with 2 weeks in country, weeks out, finishing masters #2 on the military dole at Harvard. Mom was working full time and getting her doctorate. They were gone when I woke up in the morning and 80% of the time they weren't home by the time I went to bed. Can you say 'latchkey kid'?
 

PT

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They gave you a key?!?!?!?!?

Now I'm jealous. I didn't even get a fucking key.
 

unclehobart

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I had to get in and get out somehow :). .. and look after my helpless older brother. We gave up on babysitters after 6 months because half were arrested for selling drugs out of the house or having orgies/drug parties ... stealing moms clothes... that kind of stuff.
 

Squiggy

ThunderDick
My dad worked nights cause he didn't like being around us. If he was home when I got up he was already passed out drunk...Mom was either still asleep or already working on her drunken stupor for the day....We didn't have a latch that worked.
 

PT

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I just didn't have a door that locked either. Dad was gone by the time I was 3. Mom worked two jobs most of my childhood, so I started cooking to feed my older brothers, who would pay me to cook. :thumbup:
 

unclehobart

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*stands* Gentlemen .. A TOAST! ... A toast to twisted effing families forcing us to become chefs at a brutally young age. Necessity breeds invention is not dead with us this day.
 

HomeLAN

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I can, but most meals are a mix of fresh and sorta prefab, because I simply don't have the time most nights.

I was taught as a kid, but only because my folks thought it just might be something I'd need to know later.
 
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