When was it? When was your first inspiration about food? The preparation, the neat ingredients, the experimenting....it was like a super cool lab where you can enjoy (most of the time) your creativity. Like most foodies my first inspiration about food and cooking was my Mom.
Sure we ate well and she made it seem pretty easy. Always food from scratch, prepared foods might have entered her kitchen much later in life but as a kid it was always from scratch....I remember chocolate puddings, her wicked tomato meat sauce, sweet and sour ribs, mac 'n cheese (still known as Grandma's mac 'n cheese) and who can forget my ground meat sandwiches in high school. I could trade half of a sandwich for cake....yep, that good. Left overs from Sunday roast hand ground with some mayo and pickle relish....killer. Creativity with left overs was key, waste not - want not was lived and breathed in our home and I think it laid a solid foundation for the true appreciation for good food and the work and love that went into it.
Not sure what age I was however Mom asked me to help get dinner started as she had a bad headache and cold....directions were given and then down to the kitchen I went...step one complete and back up for further clues to these scrumptious experiments....chili was the first meal I ever made this way and I must say it tasted pretty damn good then and still does....same order, same recipe with a few creative additions. And that was it, be creative my Mom said, I know she had recipes somewhere, she might have measured however I am not sure....to me this has been and always will be my creative outlet and a way to nurture others....something else I learned from my Mom.
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