About me
A great grandma, still cooking!
Cooking Influences
I suppose my interest in cooking came at an early age, following my grandma around with an apron that covered her entire front, puffs of flour flying through the air as she went about the chore (she, nor I, saw it as such) of preparing the good filling meals country folks were accustomed to in those days.
She made biscuits in a huge bowl filled with flour, hollowed out a well in the center, filled it with milk and whatever else makes the best biscuit known to man, then proceeded to mix in flour with one hand as she twirled the bowl with the other. When she was satisfied with the dough, she pinched off mounds, put them into a greased pan and baked them in her old wood stove.
I do remember when she got her first coal oil stove. My sweet little mama taught me to cook on one exactly like it. I love those memories of my grandmas, aunts and my
mama bustling around in those kitchens with their "pie safes", open cabinets, and everything made from scratch, because that is just how it was ... no boxed dinners, no supermarkets, just jars and jars of home canned foods, freshly dug potatoes, dried apples and peaches, even homegrown sage and other seasonings! Nothing today can compare, not even come close!!!
I worked as a food supervisor for years for an oil company that owned a string of restaurants as well as truck stops and developed my own speed scratch method of cooking for our employees. Cooks who had worked in traditional restaurants loved the simplicity and found it very easy to follow so each menu item was the same no matter which state you were in.
Comments