Mostly this hobby came from PMS. When I get PMS, I either do a lot of impulse buying or bake something. I hate buying stuff 'cause it renders me perpetually broke, so I cook.
My first cooking experience was chocolate chip cookies from a recipe in an ancient dessert cookbook of my mom's. Momma usually bought cookies from the store, but this particular time I had a craving, we were out of cookies, and I couldn't buy any 'cause I didn't have my driver's license yet. I'd seen Momma using recipes in this book before, so I hauled it out thinking, "Okay, it's got a gazillion pages, it's got to have one decent cookie recipe." Little did I know, it has one decent cookie chapter. I found a recipe, used up all the flour and sugar in the house, burned half of the cookies, but I was hooked on that oven from then on.
Most of my cooking is desserts, but I know a few other things as well, even if I'm not exactly up-to-date on culinary lingo.
Desserts |
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Cookies |
Cakes |
Pies |
Chocolate Chip Cookies, |
Banana Nut Bread |
Bailey's Irish Cream Mousse Pie, Irish Cream Mocha Cheesecake |
Meals |
Breads |
Drinks |
Texas Spaghetti Sauce, |
Cloverleaf Rolls, |
Bananarama, |