What was the first thing...

[Jemisa]

you ever cooked on your own, Not fairy cakes at 9 but something substantial.
How did it go Good or a disaster

Me, it was a Spaghetti Bolagnais. scoured the town for the spag.was difficult in 1959, the Bol was a recipe in a mag & it turned out YUK!!

JEM

[anneasquith]

pork chops for a boyfriend, very nice !

[albaqwerty]

I've spent years teachin my lot to slice and dice and steam and slow cook etc which means I've no idea whatsoever

[wheaten]

Mum and Dad used to give me and my sister about a fiver each week (long time ago!) to source ingredients and cook a Sunday meal for the 4 of us. I always did prawn cocktail, roast chicken with trimmings and a pudding. It taught us how to budget and how to cook. Always went down well but sister going for fish and ships for 4 didn't, although it saved on washing up!

[Quassia]

What a clever mum & dad wheaten, teacingyou life skills!! Lol regards your sister :0)

[Quassia]

'teaching'

[wheaten]

Sorry, 'chips', not 'ships'. She wouldn't have been able to carry them home!

[Quassia]

Ha! Hadn't seen that wheaten ! Your sister was clever!

[wheaten]

Yes, clever and lazy! She feeds her kids dinosaur-shaped chicken pieces and oven chips. If you get an invite to hers, please don't go..... (I don't think the kids know what a vegetable is!)

[Quassia]

Aww lol! Bless her! Bet she's lovely though?

[chris1957au]

Been in catering 38 year and carn't rember the first thing, but the hardist thing I've ever cooked is the book's lol

[Sir Alec]

Eggs mornay. Seems so pathetic now, but I loved it at the time. I would've been around 11.

[mike11111]

There must be plenty of people like me who at a fairly young age managed to do a fried breakfast without too much disaster.

[Safiya]

I cooked a sunday dinner when I was about 17. It was all really nice except for the chicken. I hadn't taken out the bag of giblets :(

[RATTER15]

I'm not sure if it was the first thing I cooked but I do remember trying to to cook rice when I was about 13, My Mum was out so I thought I would give it a try. The most important think I learned, is you don't actually need to start with a whole saucepan "full" of uncooked rice, and when it has all gone disastrously wrong and you notice Mum coming up the road, it don't flush down the loo in ten seconds!!

[ChuckFickens]

Same as Mike, probably a fried breakfast (without an major disasters)

[mccfluff]

not sure i've been cooking since i was a kid, i remember making some white and dark choc mousse's for a dinner party my mum did when i was about 9/10ish

[venator]

Curry when I got my own flat. In retrospect, must have been b. awful, but friends consumed it without ill effects!

Later on, whipped up a decent omelette for a chance visitor - she liked it, fancied a man who can cook, and we're just coming up to our 25th anniversary...

Not sure if that's good or disaster?

[merciasounds]

Well, by the time i was 10 I could make scones and Sponges, like my nan did, that was, not using scales, I just knew half a pat of butter was 4oz, and a heaped 'serving spoon' was 2oz of dry ingredients, but I did have a baptism of fire really, It was Christmas dinner I was 12, my nan had Asian flu, my mother had fallen in the milking shed a week before and had badly broken her arm. Dad was busy milking and general farm work with the animals, so it was down to my elder brother (he was 15) we made stuffing with breadcrumbs, fresh herbs and onions, roasted a turkey and a leg of pork, did roast potatoes, parsnips, boiled potatoes, carrots, sprouts bread sauce, little sausage and bacon rolls and PROPER gravy, i remember tipping off the fat from the meat tin and just leaving the meat juices, adding flour to make a roux, using the veg water and a stock cube. We didn't have any wrapped presents nobody had had the time with two invalides in the house! But it was a great dinner and we were taken to the pantomime as a special treat because we did a good job!

[RATTER15]

Ok Mercia, now you are showing off lol XX