Quiz Part 2 Fun Quiz For My Cooking Buddies

Quiz Part 2

luisascatering 16 years ago

Five happy food memories:

1. Making homemade bagels successfully
2. My first attempt at a wedding cake: it was torture to make but it was the only DELICIOUS wedding cake I ever had, and everyone was telling me the same!
3. When I was young I was in charge of the desserts for holidays. I would make like 3 and 4 layer Jell-O desserts that I thought were BEAUTIFUL (ha ha) and I remember making this Apple Charlotte with Walnuts and Caramel---hey, not too bad for a 12 year old!
4. My mom’s cooking. She made everything homemade, the best spaghetti and meat sauce and lots of Portuguese food, especially soups like Canja and Soupa de Funcho (my parents are from the Azores Islands).
5. The first catering gig I landed was on the Luxury motor yacht MAXUMUS II (not too shabby!) Everyone raved about the food and I felt so proud and it gave me so much confidence.

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trigger 16 years ago said:

Quiz Part 2
Five happy food memories:

1.My cooking lessons from my mom my grandmother and my friend's grandmothers.
I would go to my friend’s grandmother’s homes once a week to learn their recipes and once a week to my own to do the same. I learned the secrets to great flaky pastry at an early age.
2. My first bread baking lesson, I was home from school and my dad asked me what I wanted to do with the rest of my day. He offered a trip to see the RED SOX and I told him I wanted to learn how to make bread. He laughed so hard he nearly fell out of his chair.
I made a braded loaf with a shiny egg wash. I know I turned down YAZ for a cooking lesson so shoot me.
3. My 25 birthday party a huge family gathering all my cousins BBQ a great big lobster on my plate and steamers watermelon held on the fourth of July. I was in culinary heaven.
4. My graduation party my mom made huge lasagna so big it was baked in a turkey roaster layered all the way to the top. My best friends came over and we had a few beers and Chianti wine shhhh… we were not of legal age.
5. Christmas Eve I made the calamari and opened the oysters and clams all the seafood preparation and got to showcase my talent to all my Italian relatives. I baked Italian spice cookies, anisette cookies an assortment cookies and biscotti’s the night before with my mom and dad we baked until after 2:00am. Drifted off to sleep and worked all day for the event held in the late evening “Midnight”.

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lilliancooks 16 years ago said:

What nice memories you have Luisa! Its so funny because I did the same thing with the jello once! It was for Christmas, we were having about 20 guests and I made it in individual tall glasses. I was a little older than you though...I was 19 years old! Okay here are... my 5 happy food memories:

1. WHEN I MADE BEEF JERKY AND PEOPLE LOVED IT SO MUCH THAT I WAS ABLE TO PACKAGE IT AND SELL IT!

2. I MADE CHILI FOR MY NEIGHBORS SUPER BOWL PARTY AND THE GUESTS LOVED IT SO MUCH THEY ASKED FOR MY RECIPE. I HAD TO HAND OUT ABOUT 3 COPIES OF THE RECIPE...2 WENT TO GUYS WHO REALLY DON'T COOK!

3. I WAS ABLE TO DUPICATE MY GRANDMA'S BISCOTTI RECIPE BY TASTE AFTER SHE PASSED AWAY...AND NOW ITS REQUESTED BY MY YOUNG NIECES AT HOLIDAYS!

4. WHEN MY FATHER IN LAW TOLD ME THAT EATING AT MY HOUSE IS A TRUE DINING EXPERIENCE! I FELT LIKE I WON AN AWARD!

5. WHENEVER MY HUSBAND AND KIDS SAY THEY LOVE SOMETHING I'VE MADE!

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lilliancooks 16 years ago said:

I just read yours too Trigger... How sweet those memories are!!!

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sparow64 16 years ago said:

1. My Mom would often put together something sweet after dinner, when we were watching tv...cherry cobble, warm from the oven with butter or milk on top (we rarely had ice cream); chocolate cake pudding; the cook and serve chocolate pudding, with marshmallows or a spoon of peanut butter stirred into our bowl (we got to pick which one we wanted!), and, she would make popcorn with melted butter and would shake peanuts into it!

2. Whenever we had biscuits, which was only occasionally, after the meal, a treat my Dad taught me, was to put an opened biscuit in a small bowl, spread butter on it, and pour white Karo syprup on it!! OMG...haven't had that since I was a kid!

3. Cooking my "homemade" Mega Pizza for friends, and they always rave and want the recipe

4. Cooking for my kids, and when my son was little, he would always say "That was good that you made, Momma"

5. Cooking for friends anytime, but, one football game get together I made my stuffed cheeseburgers, and I heard one of the guys say "Oh My God, this is the best cheeseburger I ever had in my life"

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notyourmomma 16 years ago said:

1. The Mother's Day dinner I made for my mom when I was 9, beef bourgignonne and lyonnaise potatoes. I didn't know you had to keep the potatoes in water to keep them from oxidizing and my mom ate those grey pancakes anyway and declared them delicious. (She even bought me brandy to flambe the beef cubes!)

2. My fourteenth birthday supper was simply the best dinner experience----step dad was with the Cincinnati Reds at the time, and they had just been in the Playoffs. I got to plan the meal, rumaki and crab cakes for first, fish and yellow rice as the entree, flan and bananas foster for dessert. Stayed home from school to help mom cook this meal and our guests were....be still my heart....Johnny Bench, Sparky Anderson and Jerry Reed (yep, the Smokey and the Bandit guy). We had the most fun and they were impressed with our culinary prowess. I was in tears when Johnny walked through our front door and I could barely eat a bite.

3. My first successful loaves of french baguette from my lessons at the Stock Pot, 1974. Finally a word of praise from the Chef/teacher, MaryAlice LaForest. Her disappointment in my risotto was palpable and she took my lack of expertise in that dish most personally. Then I redeemed myself with the successful baguette and a 'credible' pots de creme. Phew. I nearly made her cry.

4. Smoking some ribs for a real pitmaster that he called "very nice, nearly competition ready." That was the biggest compliment, that was ten years ago.

5. Having my key lime and Almound Joy cheesecake reviewed in the "Taste of Tampa Bay" magazine as the "Best of the Bay in 1983"

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