there were many for me. the reason was mt mother was not a great cook. she didn't cook much at all. she COULD make biscuits. my paternal grandmother taught her so she could make them when my dad made gravy. to us, a bowlful of SOS with a plate of home made biscuits was 7th heaven. my brother and i BEGGED for it! other than an occasional pot of bland veggie soup was really ll my mom ever cooked.
I started a bit of cooking, some a little adventurous, when I lived alone. I had a great job, was recently divorced (weird time in my life) I had my own house and life was good. I was involved in a newly established Science Fiction convention and, being single had some time to do stuff at home. so, I volunteered for a few things. like most, I found a recipe in a cookbook and made it. I did 400 meatballs once. another time I made 500 'cream puffs" had never heard of pate choux. I just pulled out the cookbook and did what i was told.
so, when I was married, and pregnant my eyesight began to change. for someone who spent every free moment with a book, that was devastating. with nothing i COULD do to pass the time, I watched TV. I HATE soap operas (excpet my new enthusiasm for Korean Historical soaps) I was lost.
then, I found the Frugal Gourmet. and I was hooked. finally someone who showed my WHY cooking worked and explained it to me. and suddenly, I became a cook. Many more followed. FG was enough to get me started and to keep my small single income, stay at home Mom family well fed. when I was ready to take the next step and learn GOOD cooking, I found Good Eats. there I learned Bechamel was the sausage gravy I had been making since I was 4. I learned that those cream puffs were pate choux and a souffle was just scrambled eggs. the yolks scrambled with a bechamel and the whites scrambled separately, all brought back together and baked.
Once I began to realize that all those fancy schmany kinds of cooking techniques were only fancy schmancy because chefs used French terms for the stuff my grandmother called cooking. yes, my grandmother was a poor Texas Farm wife. therefore, most of French cooking was in her repertoire just without the french names (or the wine, frankly. Baptists)
so, those two have always been two landmark TV shows in my cooking education. I like MasterChef but the idea of celeb Masterchef doesn't sound the least bit interesting. I LOVE MAsterchef Junior, seeing the future of cooking. but, those two shows were the ones that played large roles in my learning coking. I don't think I watch any other cooking shows, anymore, unless there's one that does an episode on something I need to see.
I started a bit of cooking, some a little adventurous, when I lived alone. I had a great job, was recently divorced (weird time in my life) I had my own house and life was good. I was involved in a newly established Science Fiction convention and, being single had some time to do stuff at home. so, I volunteered for a few things. like most, I found a recipe in a cookbook and made it. I did 400 meatballs once. another time I made 500 'cream puffs" had never heard of pate choux. I just pulled out the cookbook and did what i was told.
so, when I was married, and pregnant my eyesight began to change. for someone who spent every free moment with a book, that was devastating. with nothing i COULD do to pass the time, I watched TV. I HATE soap operas (excpet my new enthusiasm for Korean Historical soaps) I was lost.
then, I found the Frugal Gourmet. and I was hooked. finally someone who showed my WHY cooking worked and explained it to me. and suddenly, I became a cook. Many more followed. FG was enough to get me started and to keep my small single income, stay at home Mom family well fed. when I was ready to take the next step and learn GOOD cooking, I found Good Eats. there I learned Bechamel was the sausage gravy I had been making since I was 4. I learned that those cream puffs were pate choux and a souffle was just scrambled eggs. the yolks scrambled with a bechamel and the whites scrambled separately, all brought back together and baked.
Once I began to realize that all those fancy schmany kinds of cooking techniques were only fancy schmancy because chefs used French terms for the stuff my grandmother called cooking. yes, my grandmother was a poor Texas Farm wife. therefore, most of French cooking was in her repertoire just without the french names (or the wine, frankly. Baptists)
so, those two have always been two landmark TV shows in my cooking education. I like MasterChef but the idea of celeb Masterchef doesn't sound the least bit interesting. I LOVE MAsterchef Junior, seeing the future of cooking. but, those two shows were the ones that played large roles in my learning coking. I don't think I watch any other cooking shows, anymore, unless there's one that does an episode on something I need to see.
Competition guys would enjoy this show.
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