REAL Cooking – Part Three

 

Last post about cooking from scratch…

 

Made cornbread from scratch

Yes. But mostly use Jiffy Mix boxed cornbread now.

 

Cooked a whole turkey

Yes. And all the sides for Thanksgiving.

 

Snapped green beans and cooked them

Made mashed potatoes from scratch

Yes.

 

Made pasta from scratch

No, but one year when my favorite person in the whole world at the time, Aunt Lo Lita came for a visit she decided to make noodles from scratch. They were delicious, of course, but I knew right then and there I would never be making those myself.

 

Tortillas, tamales, fried fish, tuna/chicken salad, baked beans from scratch

Made sausage/fudge/cooked greens

No.

 

Made ice cream

Yes. Once. We had a couple for dinner years ago and the man was diabetic. I very laboriously got a recipe to make sugarless ice cream with orange juice and heavy cream. It didn’t turn out that great, but everyone ate it. Never did it again. This was YEARS before all the sugarless/lactose free options came out.

 

Made jam/jelly, grits, dumplings, churned butter

No. For dumplings, though, my daughter-in-law showed me how to use cut up rolled biscuits on top of the roast or chicken in the slow cooker. Easy and delicious!

 

Pizza from scratch

Yes. Doing it from boxed mixes that included everything was much easier. Easiest of all was picking up the phone…

 

Cut up a chicken for frying

Not for frying, but for cooking the pieces separately. And it was more like hacking up a chicken than neatly cutting. Never got the hang of it. Used to buy the chicken already cut up, except the leg was still attached to the thigh, so that’s the way I cooked it.

 

Made an omelet

No, but I’m great at doing a scramble. Throw in some leftover ham, potatoes, mushrooms, cheese. Great meal!