My daughter has moved out and wants me to tell her how to cook certain things I did at home.
If you were going to ask Mom or Dad for a recipe or ……………..
FOR EXAMPLE:
She wanted me to explain how to make gravy…I did the "Uhhhhh, I don’t know how to tell you..lol, I just do it"….so I found something online to help her a little more.
What are some recipes you might ask your parents or your kids might ask you, to help you learn to cook?
I have taken for granted that by her watching me in the kitchen, she knows….but it is showing now, she does not.
Things I’ve given to her………….
Recipe for Gravy
ICED TEA
BOILING CHICKEN (FOR A RECIPE SHE WANTED)
SALSBURY STEAKS (HAMBURGER PATTIES WITH GRAVY)
POTATO SOUP
any help would be appreciated….THANKS!!
Thank you for your help!!
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I would buy her a cookbook. The old fashioned Betty Crocker one was my first, and is very basic. It also includes a lot of technique tips.
Basic Recipes:
Spaghetti
Pepper steak
Chicken Rotel
King Ranch Chicken
Baked ziti
Roasted chicken (just stuff with onion and citrus and bake @ 375 for 1 hour)
Unless you have family recipes the best thing to do is just what you have done, direct her to food.com and let her learn the hard way. Don’t feel bad for her, if she had wanted to learn how to cook she could have helped in the kitchen.
The answer to this one depends on you. Do you enjoy spending time with your daughter? If so, it should be a pleasure to help her with a few recipes. How about writing down a few of her favorite foods you used to cook for her and pass it to her. Encourage her to attend cooking classes (they are sometimes given free in communities). In time your daughter will find her own way around the kitchen but it won’t be a good idea to let her cling to you much longer on lessons she should have learned some time ago. She might also luck out and find a man who loves to cook and is good at it. Hope this helps.
There is a wonderful cooking website that is free to join and will give you almost any recipe in the world. Have her join http://www.allrecipes.com and she can learn how to cook anything! I know about the "just doing it" as I have a hard time explaining how to make roux for a cream soup base!
Good luck, at least she is calling you because she loves and misses you!
get her a cook book
my family is the same way. my mom says i don’t have a recipe i just do it. we weren’t allowed in her kitchen, we were in the way.
you tube- its got the videos. its too vague a questionI use Manjula0 she’s an Indian cook housewife amma real authentic food.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Manjulaskitchen
Like I seriously LOVE Manjula.
And here’s OriginalNakedCHef
I am putting this link here because he makes Yorkshire puddings on vidoe, and this is one thing you NEED to know how to make. Its all homemade, easy to follow- he does gravy roast chicken pies, all sorts.
http://www.youtube.com/user/OriginalNakedChef#p/u
You could make her a cook book of your own recipes. I’m sure it will be something very special to do for her.
If you are financially stable then buy her some cookbooks. If not, suggest she check out cookbooks at the library. Or you could make cooking dates with her and give her cooking classes yourself. You can also suggest easy things to make like Tacos, sloppy joes, chili, spaghetti, Italian Sausage subs, or chicken and rice. She can also google recipes online like I have done when I want to try a new recipe. Most food companys like Kraft and Betty Crocker feature free and easy recipes on their websites.
I think a cookbook or two with simple recipes in it would do the trick. Of course, she will pick some favorite ones up on her own. Biscuits, cornbread, beans, baked beans, mashed potatoes, hash browns, green beans, carrot slaw, coleslaw, steamed cabbage, stuffed cabbage. All of these are good basic recipes, and gravy. Yorkshire pudding is not my cup of tea.
Goodness, I know how you feel. My Mom must have been sure that cooking skills came via osmosis, because she taught me little. She took a lot of heirloom recipes to the grave with her. I hit up an Aunt for them, and she supplied a couple, but she really did not get why I wanted them. I did get a sense of what Mom did well by being in the same room with her, and what she did not. I took over the baking at an early age, Mom tended to overcook everything. And long time ago a session of decorating holiday sugar cookies was so awful that neither of us ever did that again! And you might guess that I have long left childhood behind me, and I still will not even put one silver nonpareil on a cookie.
Mom could not tell me how she did things, either, she just did them, her stuffing recipe was one of the ones that is permanently gone.
Get a list together of the things you cooked at home, and she loved them. That’s a good start.
Then, find something in each food category, each type of food. You will want a from scratch cake, a cream pie, a fruit pie or cobbler, cookies. A fancy salad, a fancy veggie or two, a cream soup, a broth soup. a couple casseroles, a home made waffle or pancakes. and a couple kinds of meat. And don’t forget something suitable to take to a funeral or to the church supper.
I know, this looks like a lot. but you will be surprised on how fast it goes. And once she learns a technique, she can apply it elsewhere. Boil pasta, she now knows how, and she can fix any shape she wants. Make a roue, now she can make gravy and cream soup and cream sauces. The casserole calls for 3 cups of water, oh, OK, the rice in it has not been cooked. The recipe calls for 1/3 cup of water? Oh, I guess I have to cook the noodles first.
And don’t be afraid to try something that is new to you, too! If she sees you experiment, she will too!
Buy her a good cookbook that explains things, why things work. I recommend The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cook book. It is 10 years of the shows recipes, and I just got an e-mail that said if I order one now, I get this new season’s recipes for free. I love that book, that is where the lemon pie recipe and the pie crust came from. It has definitions, explains techniques, talks about equipment. I also recommend the show, it airs here on PBS on Saturdays. I love the e-mails I get from them, the host lives in New England, and tells about his life there. Very cute and homey, and free.
In the last couple months, I have learned to make: a home made pie crust, make lemon meringue pie, a from scratch caramel cake, shrimp scampi, banana nut bread, learned to fry sausage and bacon so it is not hard, made caramel sauce. Last year I made Baked potato soup, a 13×9 Oreo cookie pie among other things. And if I can do this with just a recipe, with few cooking skills and no discernible geneticaly acquired flair, so can you. I know it!
Next is a lemon cake with lemon curd filling and lemon Philly frosting, I asked another asker if he thought this might be too much lemon, I did not get an answer. LOL. And another different recipe for scampi, and sticky buns is on the list too.
And last, Dad did not teach me to BBQ, at all. all he did was tell me to watch some pork steaks he had on the hibachi, and when they flared, yelled at me. that was the only time he ever BBQ’d anything. Rivers bought a cheap tabletop BBQ, put it on a old door stretched across 2 garbage cans, and grilled a whole chicken over charcoal. and put sauce on it, no recipe or instructions. It was delicious. Again, if I can…
Good luck with your bonding experience with your daughter.
If I were you I would buy her the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook. I swear by it for people just starting to learn how to cook since it’s filled with basic American dishes everybody loves. It covers everything from meats to pasta to even making your own breads and beverages.
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* 4 skinless chicken breast fillets
* 12 slices hickory bacon strips
* 4 medium portability mushrooms
* 1 large white onion
* sea salt
* 1 bundle fresh leaf spinach
* 4 cloves fresh garlic
* 4 thick slices cheddar cheese
* 4 slices toasted French bread