(Mis) Adventures in Cooking

I've never professed to be a great cook, but find that I can muster through the basics.

Over the past couple years I've made some pretty bigs boo-boos though.

The first mistake I can remember making while cooking was the first time I made chocolate chip cookies. They came out flat as could be. Mom and I figured that she accidentally told me the wrong conversion for tsp to mL and I ended up putting too much baking powder in the dough.

The next mistake (that I admit to making twice) that I can remember was putting a pot on the stove to boil for pasta, and walking away and forgetting about until I started to smell something burning. Ended up boiling the pot dry. The first time, I remember frantically phoning Mom at work to see if I could salvage the pot in any way, but sadly, it wasn't salvageable. The second time, I could tell right away the pot was a goner.

Recently, I put a pot of rice on the stove to come to a boil before turning it down. Once again, walked away and ended up forgetting about it, till my sister knocked on my bedroom door and said that my rice was boiling. When I went to the stove, it wasn't boiling. There was no water left for it to boil. I almost "toasted" another pot, but luckily, this one was caught just in "nick of time"

Sentemential Journey

This evening at work, I was visiting with my co-worker, and the conversation got around to back to school and school supplies.

This reminded me of our family tradition at back to school time.

Before leaving home, Mom would make a homemade "spreadsheet" of all the supplies that us three girls would need for school. Then she would go through the flyer's for that week and enter what prices she could. Then it was off to Weyburn, where the fun really started.

We'd park the car at the mall parking lot, and would walk to each of the stores that sold school supplies. We'd look at what was needed and mark the prices down on Mom's "spreadsheet". We wouldn't buy anything though. Just pricing.

Then we'd stop for lunch at the old Met store in Weyburn (this is the only time in the year that I remember eating lunch there). While having lunch, we'd go through the "spreadsheet" and figure out who had the best prices on what.

Then we'd go back to each store and buy what they had for the best price compared to the other stores.

This was back in the day when the stores in Weyburn were all in the downtown area and within walking distance of each other. Kinda hard to do it now.

I'm sure at time we all thought Mom was being way to fussy, but now being an adult and on my own and knowing how expensive everything is, I understand the need to for shopping around to get the best deal.

Looking back at everything that Mom and Dad made sure we had, and extra curricular activities they had us in, makes me really appreciate them even more. I love you Mom and Dad.