Keira (She/Her) on Nostr: If you love to cook, what's your origin story? I love to hear how people came to love ...
If you love to cook, what's your origin story?
I love to hear how people came to love the things they love.
I grew up always knowing how to cook, especially things like soup, quiche, and scones, having sat on the bench while my Mum and Grandmother's did it, my whole life.
I initially fell in love with baking aged about 10, because it meant more treats over the school holidays. I remember learning to make chocolate chip biscuits (still a favourite) from the Women's Weekly Biscuits and Slices cookbook.
I liked home economics, and took classes in the school holidays in primary school, but I think the true love affair came when I took an apprenticeship-style course as part of the HSC, and learned to make pasta.
Pasta, like all wheat-based simple foods, is magic.
! Warning, not vegan ahead !
We also learned a lot of French classics too, like consomme, bisque and all the sauces, and old school club luncheon things like club sandwiches, eggs Benedict, and schnitzel.
Most of the skills I still use, like dicing veg small, making a roux etc. But I never did have cause to bone a chicken at home, and being vegan, I don't imagine I ever will.
#cooking #baking #origins
I love to hear how people came to love the things they love.
I grew up always knowing how to cook, especially things like soup, quiche, and scones, having sat on the bench while my Mum and Grandmother's did it, my whole life.
I initially fell in love with baking aged about 10, because it meant more treats over the school holidays. I remember learning to make chocolate chip biscuits (still a favourite) from the Women's Weekly Biscuits and Slices cookbook.
I liked home economics, and took classes in the school holidays in primary school, but I think the true love affair came when I took an apprenticeship-style course as part of the HSC, and learned to make pasta.
Pasta, like all wheat-based simple foods, is magic.
! Warning, not vegan ahead !
We also learned a lot of French classics too, like consomme, bisque and all the sauces, and old school club luncheon things like club sandwiches, eggs Benedict, and schnitzel.
Most of the skills I still use, like dicing veg small, making a roux etc. But I never did have cause to bone a chicken at home, and being vegan, I don't imagine I ever will.
#cooking #baking #origins