Cooking

Today I’m just cooking. To set up for the week. I love cooking … my favorite is baking though… I first learned to cook with desserts… that’s my specialty lol … where I shine

When I was a little girl, I got an easy bake oven… right away I made everything lol… then I had no more little packets to make… and my mom wasn’t gonna keep buying the little packets for me to zip through lol

So… I would do myself. My mom used to have a huge cookbook… so I read at an early age… I was reading really early … by age 5, I was reading books like Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory.

That was probably because of the cookbooks… well that, and my parents used to try to speak by spelling everything so I wouldn’t know what they were talking about… but I am always curious lol so I learned early how to sound out… and then reading was easy.

The first word I ever learned was C… A… N… D… Y 😄😄😄 they spelled that one constantly 😄😄😄 …until one day I said “yes I would like some candy” 😄✌️… I still remember their reaction when I said that lol 😄 I was maybe 3? The gig was up at that point lol

But anyway, I used to go through my moms cookbooks constantly!! I would sit there for hours looking through the recipes and then figuring out how to do them in an easy bake oven 😄😄 sometimes I made a mess lol

But desserts are my thing, the more incredible I can make it – the more delighted I am.

My mom was a general cook. No one ever taught her to cook so I would just say she was a general cook. She cooked really well, but we had a typical American meals – like we would have Tacos but “Old El Paso” with minute rice lol… and she would make my favorite “American Chop Suey” which is just a cheap easy meal that makes alot… and then spaghetti with meatballs… pizza… we always made our own pizza and that was always Friday nights … I always loved pizza night ❤️… Friday’s are awesome lol… I was born on a Friday ❤️😄✌️ funny huh?

She would also make hamburgers and hot dogs, we also would have steak 🥩… she would make French fries for us kids and baked potatoes for her and my dad. Always with a salad and milk… ugh I hated milk … she’d make me sit there until I drank my milk 😝 now milk doesn’t like me either lol – feeling is mutual lol ✌️

She used to do chicken or pork chops too… she did do an amazing lasagne

Anyway she was just a general cook. Nothing crazy special… just typical American food

She grew up in a difficult childhood and her parents were not the greatest. My mom is though ❤️🥰❤️

I was a picky eater …I don’t like fat 😝… I will not eat gristle 😝 even still … bleh!! I also like my stuff cooked lol… if I see pink – I won’t eat it – so there is that

Someone showed me this once…

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They said you have to eat what you given or is disrespectful … oh my gosh… I don’t mean any disrespect ever – but there is no way!!! I don’t think you could even pay me for that!!! There is no price tag to make me try that lol… I just can’t 😝😝😝

Anyway… I am a Irish and Lithuanian American… so I used to sit in the kitchen and watch my Lithuanian grandmother cook. I had a little red stool that sat me up real high so I could watch her. I used to be glued to her.

Not a big fan of either Irish or Lithuanian food – sorry lol – might be my heritage, but isn’t my tastes… but I remember them, and I remember how to cook them… but I like Italian or Spanish the best. (Spanish being broad)

Irish food umm 😝😝😝 so sorry!! Is bland to me… Show me the light then, teach me something that I might love – so far no – maybe potatoes lol 😄✌️ … seriously if you know an Irish dish that might change my mind – show me

Lithuanian is umm just not my thing. Is ok… but I dunno ? Again teach me then. Show me

I like to be excited by tastes. I like spicy yes… but not crazy

I like to take recipes and see what I can do with them. If I find one I don’t know – if it is not perfect… I will keep trying until I have it exactly as I want it. And then I write that down so I don’t forget.

I also have an aunt who is Italian … when I would stay at her house – I would just watch her cook… she had this Italian grandmother who lived here too.. Oh my god! Amazing cook!! Her Cannoli’s were just Oh my god! ❤️

My mother in law is Spanish … not Mexican – I said Spanish … don’t mistake them. They are completely different – she taught me a lot too. I love Spanish food as well. I can do that really well.

For holidays … Easter – I do ham… Thanksgiving is Turkey… Christmas is many things – turkey, ham, lasagne

New Years … I make all my own Chinese food. Which I have learned how to do really well too! Better than restaurants – which kinda sucks … because you go to the restaurant to eat and then realize you coulda done better at home lol

I had no one to watch for the Chinese food… but I wanted that – so I perfected that… I just kept trying, over and over until I had it just right

Anyway … so I absorbed all of that… I am a pretty good cook… well for my tastes lol … I like to do impressive… but my real thing is desserts. I can knock you socks off with desserts

I don’t get to do them as often as I would love to. People sometimes complain I am making them fat 😄😄✌️

Anyway… I am cooking today.