My sister was blessed with an innate ability to cook like Rachael Ray. She can make zucchini and some other things added with it taste like spaghetti and lasagna that I'll actually eat (which is a compliment because I am a very picky eater). I, on the other hand, inherited my mother's cooking capabilities in her earlier years. SORRY MOM! :) She's a great cook now, but I remember the freezer being stocked with the $1 microwavable pizzas from Winn-Dixie and lots of pop-tarts. I do remember the smoke alarm frequently going off near the kitchen and my dad fanning the smoke away from it after he reset it so it wouldn't go off again.
Because I know my cooking capabilities, I don't even have a smoke alarm anywhere near the kitchen. LOL! The sad thing is my husband knows what I'm cooking before he even steps in the house by the amount of smoke he sees lingering in the kitchen through the window. Mostly that happens when I cook pancakes for some reason.
I can, however, cook some things such as chili and vegetable soup. My coworkers knocked my veggie soup when I told them one of the ingredients was chicken noodle soup. Then I brought them some to try and they changed their minds. :) (This has nothing to do with my blog, but as I'm typing, my son is jumping off the end table in the living room with one of my spaghetti strap shirts wrapped around his neck so it looks like a cape pretending he's superman.......just thought you'd like to know)
Speaking of my son, Triston isn't old enough to start saying things about my cooking, but Allyson is. I'll leave you with some of the times she spoke of my cooking. :) BTW, if anyone would like to help me improve my pitiful cooking skills, feel free to send me some recipes or advice! :)
Allyson Story 1:
At Miyami's Japanese steak house when they cleaned the grill and all the steam rose from the grill, she told the cook that's what it looked like at her mommy's kitchen.
Allyson Story 2:
At Red Lobster (notice we eat out a lot), she ordered macaroni. It was talking a while for the food to get to the table so she very loudly says, "Their microwave must not be working because it's taking a long time!"
