Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Something Fun: Have You Ever? Kitchen Edition

HAVE YOU EVER? KITCHEN EDITION I really do like to try things from scratch.

1. Made biscuits from scratch? Yes 
2. Fried fresh okra? Nope. 
3. Made sourdough bread? Yes.  Long before the pandemic.
4. Fried chicken? Yes 
5. Made spaghetti sauce from scratch? Yes Marcella Hazan's version.
6. Made any kind of yeast bread? Yes I had a whole yeast bread thing years ago.
7. Baked a cake from scratch? Yes.  Only from scratch. 
8. Made icing from scratch? Yes. 
9. Cooked a pot roast with all the veggies? Yes. 
10. Made chili from scratch? Yes.  Regularly.
11. Made a meatloaf? Yes.  A few different kinds.
12. Made scalloped potatoes? Yes 
13. Made mac/cheese from scratch? Yes. 
 14. Made a jello salad? Yes 7 Up Jello Salad
15. Made peanut brittle? Yes 
16. Made fudge? Yes. I went through a fudge period.
17. Made cookies from scratch? Yes. Only from scratch. 
18. Cooked a pot of beans from dried beans? Yes I went through a specialty heirloom bean stage when I was a vegetarian.
19. Cooked a pot of greens? Yes, I'm getting better at these.
20. Made cornbread from scratch? Yes.  In a cast iron skillet.
21. Make a pie dough from scratch? Yes, with Aunt T's crust recipes.
22. Cooked a whole turkey? Yes, every year, sometimes twice.
 23. Snapped green beans and cooked them? yes. 
24. Made mashed potatoes from scratch? Yes 
25. What’s the most people you have (alone) prepared a whole meal for? I do most of the holiday cooking, so I would say 10? 
26. Poached an egg? Not the whole boiling water kind, but I have used a gadget where you put the egg in and steam it, just let my mom does 
27. Made pancakes from scratch? Yes. 
28. Roasted vegetables in the oven instead of boiling them? Yes 
29. Made fresh pasta? Yes, sorta, not Italian pasta but German noodles. 
30. Made croissants from scratch? No but Sis has 
31. Made tuna salad? Yes and have taught Bud.
32. Fried fish? Yes 
33. Made baked beans? Yes. 
 34. Made ice cream from scratch? Yes 
35. Made jam or jelly? Yes 
36. Zested an orange or lemon? Yes. 
37. Made grits from scratch? Yes 
38. Made an omelet? Yes. 
39. Lived in a house without a dishwasher? Not a house, but none of my grad housing had real kitchens.
40. Eaten a bowl of cereal for dinner? Yes 
41. Made fresh pizza crust and made a pizza? Yes. 
 42. Saved the grease from cooking bacon to use in other recipes: Yes 
43. Made French Macaron from scratch: No but Sis does.