[Seia Ibanez]

When was the first time you cooked a meal?​

Hellooooo, dear members! I’m so glad it's almost the end of the week. Do you have any plans for the weekend? For me, I plan to recreate this recipe I saw online, and since I’m not an expert in cooking and baking, I’ll let my mum taste it and ask for her verdict I've been wanting to try this, but I'm still waiting for the right time to buy the freshest salmon in our area.

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How about you, when was the first time you cooked a meal? How was the experience (and the taste )? Share your stories with us! I'd love to know more and learn from you all!

 

[Suzanne rose]

I actually started cooking young. I was always cooking with my grandmother from like 8 years old.

I was raised by my grandparents but due to me getting in trouble when I was 12 the court gave me a choice of either a girls home or my mother. I chose mum. The judge thought my grandmother who was 54 was too old to control me.

I remember at 12 years old cooking nearly every night for my siblings and half sisters.
I think the first meal I cooked them was roast lamb. Why did I cook you may ask !! Because my mother and stepfather spent every night at the club playing the pokies.
It was during this time I met my now husband.
I only stayed with my mother for 18 months as she moved on to her 3rd husband and I went back to my loving Grandparents.

 

[Suzanne rose]

You've got that recipe , it looks very easy. Just follow the steps and you will have a masterpiece.
Make sure you take a photo and show us the end result

 

[Cathyann]

We were almost 18 and newly engaged. Still studying, working and saving to build our first house Mom and Dad were going into Wales to visit my sister was at Aberystwth Uni. We had been courting from being 15 years old and were both still studying and working a couple of jobs each .

Mom gave me 10 shillings and told me to go and pick a joint of meat from Tommy Caters- our local butcher and vegies from Owbridges. Which I did, (I often did the local shopping for Mom )

I cooked a typical Sunday dinner with little Yorkshire puddings followed by a victoria sponge cake from ingredients on hand at home, for dessert.

I felt so grown up and looked forward to our life together - He must have been impressed with my cooking - as we had our first house built and married at 20 - and were married very happily for 51 years until very sadly my husband passed away

However I have the most wonderful memories of a very wonderful man who just happened to be My Husband

 

[Ebby]

l was about12 .My mum was a conductress on the buses and she did early and late turns so some weeks she was there to make us a meal when we came home from school sometimes we didn't see her till very late at night. There was always potatoes so we made lots of chips and ate jam and bread.So l would say just chips

 

[Julia TH]

When I was eight I was in the Brownies. To gain my home-maker badge I had to cook a full English breakfast for two people.
My mum arranged for me to go to a neighbour's house and cook for them. I made bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms and fried bread. The neighbours loved it and I got my badge.
Thank you Mr and Mrs Stevenson, I've loved cooking ever since.

 

[Penny4]

I wasn't keen when I was very young. It wasn't until I did the old home economic course at high school that I enjoyed it with our Day-to-Day Cookery book. I still have it.

 

[Ebby]

We were almost 18 and newly engaged. Still studying, working and saving to build our first house Mom and Dad were going into Wales to visit my sister was at Aberystwth Uni. We had been courting from being 15 years old and were both still studying and working a couple of jobs each .

Mom gave me 10 shillings and told me to go and pick a joint of meat from Tommy Caters- our local butcher and vegies from Owbridges. Which I did, (I often did the local shopping for Mom )

I cooked a typical Sunday dinner with little Yorkshire puddings followed by a victoria sponge cake from ingredients on hand at home, for dessert.

I felt so grown up and looked forward to our life together - He must have been impressed with my cooking - as we had our first house built and married at 20 - and were married very happily for 51 years until very sadly my husband passed away

However I have the most wonderful memories of a very wonderful man who just happened to be My Husband

My husband was Welsh came from Pontypool .Love Yorkshire puddings which reminds me of the day l made them and they had risen so high l couldn't get them out of the oven.l don't know what happened Michael my son just looked in amazement l always tease him when he makes them and call them Yorkshire flatcakes as they don't rise much but are still very tasty He takes it all in good part.

We were almost 18 and newly engaged. Still studying, working and saving to build our first house Mom and Dad were going into Wales to visit my sister was at Aberystwth Uni. We had been courting from being 15 years old and were both still studying and working a couple of jobs each .

Mom gave me 10 shillings and told me to go and pick a joint of meat from Tommy Caters- our local butcher and vegies from Owbridges. Which I did, (I often did the local shopping for Mom )

I cooked a typical Sunday dinner with little Yorkshire puddings followed by a victoria sponge cake from ingredients on hand at home, for dessert.

I felt so grown up and looked forward to our life together - He must have been impressed with my cooking - as we had our first house built and married at 20 - and were married very happily for 51 years until very sadly my husband passed away

However I have the most wonderful memories of a very wonderful man who just happened to be My Husband

I wasn't keen when I was very young. It wasn't until I did the old home economic course at high school that I enjoyed it with our Day-to-Day Cookery book. I still have it.

l know l was never keen l liked going out on my bike too much.Did cookery at school though but we never really learn anything

 

[Isis]

Mum didn’t teach me anything, just did all the cooking. So my first meal was the day I came home from my honeymoon. Fortunatel husband could cook so I got there eventually .

 

[Tom Grguric]

A very long time since I cooked my self meal, eather I'm very lazy to cook myself a meal. I just buy take always, that's a very quick meal

 

[Penny4]

My husband was Welsh came from Pontypool .Love Yorkshire puddings which reminds me of the day l made them and they had risen so high l couldn't get them out of the oven.l don't know what happened Michael my son just looked in amazement l always tease him when he makes them and call them Yorkshire flatcakes as they don't rise much but are still very tasty He takes it all in good part.





l know l was never keen l liked going out on my bike too much.Did cookery at school though but we never really learn anything

Really! We used to take our cooking home. I walked home with them always wrapped in a teatowel. Our home was close by. I remember one day bringing home junket which my mother always disliked. So, it was more for us that day.

 

[Ebby]

We were almost 18 and newly engaged. Still studying, working and saving to build our first house Mom and Dad were going into Wales to visit my sister was at Aberystwth Uni. We had been courting from being 15 years old and were both still studying and working a couple of jobs each .

Mom gave me 10 shillings and told me to go and pick a joint of meat from Tommy Caters- our local butcher and vegies from Owbridges. Which I did, (I often did the local shopping for Mom )

I cooked a typical Sunday dinner with little Yorkshire puddings followed by a victoria sponge cake from ingredients on hand at home, for dessert.

I felt so grown up and looked forward to our life together - He must have been impressed with my cooking - as we had our first house built and married at 20 - and were married very happily for 51 years until very sadly my husband passed away

However I have the most wonderful memories of a very wonderful man who just happened to be My Husband

Really! We used to take our cooking home. I walked home with them always wrapped in a teatowel. Our home was close by. I remember one day bringing home junket which my mother always disliked. So, it was more for us that day.

Junkets are hard to make

 

[Seia Ibanez]

You've got that recipe , it looks very easy. Just follow the steps and you will have a masterpiece.
Make sure you take a photo and show us the end result

Will definitely update you all! I'm heading to the groceries today, I'm very excited and a bit nervous!

 

[Suzanne rose]

Will definitely update you all! I'm heading to the groceries today, I'm very excited and a bit nervous!

Don't be nervous , go into believing that you can do it. Have fun cooking , this is what they mean by putting love into your cooking.

 

[Suzanne rose]

l was about12 .My mum was a conductress on the buses and she did early and late turns so some weeks she was there to make us a meal when we came home from school sometimes we didn't see her till very late at night. There was always potatoes so we made lots of chips and ate jam and bread.So l would say just chips

Where was your mum a conductress? My stepmother was also a conductress before becoming a bus driver

 

[Suzanne rose]

I wasn't keen when I was very young. It wasn't until I did the old home economic course at high school that I enjoyed it with our Day-to-Day Cookery book. I still have it.

I have my grandmothers Common-sense cook book. It's great going back to the basics

 

[Ebby]

Where was your mum a conductress? My stepmother was also a conductress before becoming a bus driver

ln Ilkley on the West Yorkshire buses

 

[Suzanne rose]

ln Ilkley on the West Yorkshire buses

My stepmother was driving in Sydney at both kingsgrove and Tempe bus depots

 

[Ebby]

My stepmother was driving in Sydney at both kingsgrove and Tempe bus depots

lt's a hard job going up and down the steps in a double decker.l just wish l had been more appreciative of her and helped more. As a teenager we just don't think.

 

[Wendy]

I didn't enjoy cookery lessons at school, my cookery teacher knew my father (he was a master baker and confectioner), every time she would say " I don't know what your father will make of that, a very poor effort" I would take my "poor effort" home and my Dad, bless him, tried what ever it was, he never ever criticized it he always said, maybe next time try this or that, or maybe a little more or less of this or that, he never said it was a poor effort. Unfortunately I didn't inherit his love of cooking, I'm still not very good, but I've not killed anyone off yet.