Moms' magic mixing bowl
My Mom Janie would always make sure her boys were fed. The food supply was often short, but that did not stop the food from being amazing. There were so many great meals. When I begin to think about the foods she made for us, it really warms my heart and stomach. She had a certain style about her and the way she did things. She used this large hard plastic bowl for everything. It was quite worn and looked used up to me. I often wondered why she had not replaced it. I want to tell you about 3 meals I really enjoyed: meatloaf, mackerel patties, and coca cola cake.
My Mom taught me everything I know about cooking. I started out cooking early in my life. Janie always worked a couple of jobs as a single parent trying to
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The mackerel came out of a can, but with a little love, it was one of my favorites. I learned by watching that a good mixing bowl is a great tool for a cook. The same sequence as meatloaf occurred in that mixing bowl. A little seasonings, eggs, and a saltine crackers make the mix. I will always remember the way she would make a patty. Every one of them started with a ball. That ball would make it from one hand to the other in a rhythmic fashion. Once they were flat, Mom would round out the edges with her fingers making sure not to miss a single lump. Her favorite frying pan would have about a quarter of an inch of vegetable oil in it while the fire was warming up the pan. It is unfortunate that when kids are growing up that they do not understand that Mom has been on her feet working a double shift for 16 hours and is still standing in front of a hot stove making sure her kids had something to eat. Those mackerel patties were normally served with cheesy macaroni, green beans, and mashed potatoes. One thing about those meals is that you better be …show more content…
I remember it like it was yesterday. The first bite tasted like sugar heaven. The cake was hot, moist, and practically melted in your mouth. My little brother Jeremy and I would fill our glasses full of milk and darn near make ourselves sick by eating so much of it. It was her special treat to us boys. Early on she would surprise us with a fresh coca cola cake. That was until we started noticing an extra 3 liter in the kitchen. It was funny because we got ourselves in trouble a few times for opening that surprise 3 liter. Guess what she used to make the cake mix come together? Her mixing bowl would be the answer. That bowl was involved in most of our meals. I can truly say that her mixing bowl was magic. Not in the sense that it contained an untapped energy source that could make chicken salad out of chicken droppings, but that Moms’ magic mixing bowl brought joy, love, faith, and family to us every
Never, ever, in my life has something tasted so good. We shared a meal that no restaurant could ever top. My father and I became even tighter. From that day on, regular meals tasted like plastic and hot dogs and no better than that. Dangerous dishes became our gourmet good eats.
“You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.” These words were spoken by one of the most iconic Southern chefs of all time, Paula Deen. Not only has she formed a legacy with her countless cookbooks, magazines, and television programs, Deen also helps out by donating her wealth and continuing to fight poverty with foundations such as The Bag Lady Foundation. With Paula’s doll-blue eyes, down-to-earth cooking styles, strong love for her close-knit family, and recent controversies, Ms. Deen has undoubtedly become one of the best known chefs in this current generation.
Do you have a very important memory that you are sure will never leave your head? Well, um.. I do! This memory that i’m about to tell you about is very, very important to me. Every year we used to go to my Pawpaw’s for thanksgiving. It was so much fun. We would all get to his house and go inside. My Pawpaw basically lived in his garage! When we would get to his house, guess where he was! His garage! We would go say hi and what for more people to get to his house. My Mawmaw would make the best food ever! When more people got to there house we would go inside and eat. They had two tables and the kids would sit at one and the adults would sit at the other one. Well, it was time to get my food. I got my food. One thing that I got was mashed potatoes
In terms of education, she was taught by her parents who had an important role in her life.
Using canned foods and instant sauces saved women the time of preparing meat and vegetables and seemingly turned cooking into a two-step process: empty ingredients into a pan and placing the pan in the oven. My mom can attest to this as she often resorts to casseroles when the family schedule becomes hectic. The quick preparation of the meal and slow cooking in the oven takes away from the time my mom spends laboring in the kitchen and allows her to use that time on other tasks around the house or simply to spend more time with my family. Shopping for casseroles includes an assortment of inexpensive ingredients, which can fill the plates of the entire family. Casseroles not only call for cheap ingredients but also a rather short list of them. The growing popularity began to slow as people relied on canned food, left overs, and instant sauces. Despite the simplicity of the dish, my mom enjoys using her creativity with the casserole dishes and has created many recipes of her own for our
A kitchen in a home keeps a mother satisfied and busy. I can confirm that by admitting that my mother spends most of her time in a kitchen not because she is forced to, but simply because that is her passion. Even though I cause various disasters in the kitchen my mom always likes to have a partner helping her out. As well as, being a picky eater does not stop me from complementing her on the meal she makes. Most importantly, as long as passion is an active ingredient it makes anything taste better.
Parents play an important role in forming their child’s early eating habits. When your child receives an A+ on his/her math test, what do you reward your child with? An ice cream cone or an apple? Usually parents reward their child with an ice cream cone. But if your child constantly does good do you constantly reward them with ice cream cone? No, parents should not reward their children with sugary snacks because it will soon become a norm for the child. So when they have done something good they feel as if they need the ice cream cone or other sugary snacks. If you want to reward your kids for achieving their goals take them to the park, give them a fruit bowl, or even a hug. Parents are also responsible for what goes in their child stomach during dinner time, so break out your pots and pans moms and dads, because from this day forward we are cooking homemade meals. Home cook meals will allow you to have “complete control over the type and quality of ingredients in your meals” (Roizman). As well as allowing them to take out the extra salt, sugar or fats that are seen in fast food restaurants. Tracey Roizman also states that “preparing most of your meals at home helps train your palate toward healthier fare” in her article known as The Advantages of a Home Cooked Meal. When you are cooking don’t forget the fruits and vegetables on your child’s plate. I know
One day my mother told me that some of the tomatoes were ready to be picked. We went out back, snagged a few of the plumper offerings, and that evening had salads.
My mother was a simple cook. She prepared foods she'd been raised on, plain Southern fare-rice, gravy, sliced tomatoes, turnip greens, cornpone, grits, eggs, chicken and dumplings, pot roast, ham, field peas, lima beans, potato salad, stewed okra, pumpkin pie, salmon balls. We didn't have fancy casseroles or lasagnas or spaghetti, and nobody had ever heard of a burrito or an egg roll. I didn't know what an artichoke or a parsnip or kiwi or papaya was-certainly had never taste them. We drank sweet iced tea and sometimes lemonade.
Breakfast for the kids -? Pop Tarts and Nutri-Grains, maybe an egg if she feels generous. The invention of paper plates and plastic silverware (bare hands may be a bit barbaric and unclean) has put an end to washing dishes, given that whatever was defrosted did not come with one.
Over the years that my mom has made these dishes, I have learned to cook them myself and now I can serve it to my mom when it’s time for
Mother’s Day Recipe by Carmanie Bhatti The relationship between a mother and a daughter is so unique that despite the mother or, a motherly figure wanting to pass on her special skill to the daughter, either the daughter is not as great at the skill as her mother or, she is an expert. By vocation, my mother was a school teacher and a professional pianist. It was rare to see her not working at home doing daily chores, however, she was not a great cook. One the main reasons for that was she had studied at boarding schools and when she began working as a teacher, she lived on the school campus. Therefore, she neither developed a routine of cooking nor had a desire of learning how to cook.
This statement by Druckman portrays the belief that women cook for the emotional experience while men cook for the technical experience. Research conducted by Marjorie DeVault (1991) suggests wives and mothers cook as a way to show their love to their family. Similarly, research by Cairns, Johnston, and Baumann (2010) discusses women’s emotional responses to cooking for their family and friends. Both studies highlight the emotion and nurture women feel as they cook for others. The studies’ discussion about the nurturing aspect of cooking demonstrates the traditional feminine belief that women cook in order to nurture their families as discussed by Friedan (1963) and Hochschild
When I first learned to cook about six years ago, there were no magazine articles or books in bookstores explaining how to cook; there were only cookbooks with recipes for one to decipher. Today, the articles and books that explain how to cook are minimal. Not everyone can compete with Julia Child in cooking gourmet food with the menu devised in our minds without referring to cookbooks, but many of us can learn to cook effectively. A step-by-step process should be followed to learn how to cook successfully.
My favorite meal is the chicken fettuccini pasta. I chose this dish because I can never stop eating it. The meal is made up of warm tenderized chunks of chicken, delicate smooth creamy white sauce, and many varieties of sliced up vegetables. However, when I was a child vegetables has always been difficult to eat. It prevented me from enjoying my favorite meal because I would always have to take out the mixed vegetables in the meal. As a child I 've tried avoiding vegetables, but was found throughout the school cafeteria 's food, my mother 's cooking, or many fancy restaurants. There was nowhere to run. Over the years, my mother knew I was struggling to eat vegetables. She worked very hard by coming up with her own recipes in order for me to eat healthy. From mixing in the vegetables into the meals I usually eat or to trick me into eating meat but was actually vegetables. Soon later I came to realize how much effort she has put into the meals. All those hour and hard work my mother put it allowed me to enjoy my favorite meal again.