Friday, November 7, 2008

Memories of cooking

Found a course that would suit me: " Stories from Your Kitchen". This weekend, there will be a workshop which combines recipes and writing. The recipes are a launching point for memories and I would agree that certain foods take me back to the kitchen of my youth. Weekends baking cakes, my mother made a cake every weekend and no mixes for her and most of the time no recipes- she just knew what was needed by sight, touch and texture. It was amazing and helped make me a good baker. I know when more liquid or dry ingredients are needed by sight, touch and texture. Also, we did not use any electric mixers-you can develop very strong arms baking without today's appliances. I miss her strudels, Christmas baking which would start in November and take a couple Saturdays to complete because she made a wonderful variety. It was necessary to hide the cookies or we would well before Christmas.
Picnics or visits to the a beach which she loved included chicken schnitzel and potato salad and the cake of course.
I don't think that I need the course to get me started but it is interesting to reflect about the memories that emerge.

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