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What makes you smile when you smell it cooking?

15 years ago

What makes you smile when you smell it cooking?

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JoanMN
15 years ago
Bread or chocolate cake.
JoanMN/FL
casey_nfld
15 years ago
-turkey
-anything with cinnamon in it
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I keep trying to read this whole thread before responding but it keeps growing LOL. I didn't learn from my mom. My father would always shoo me into the kitchen to help her, which I detested because (2) I wasn't interested in learning. (1) Her style in the kitchen would make me CRAZY - 'mom, dad sent me in here to help. What do you want me to do?' she would then put her finger in her mouth, say 'hmmmm, let me think', then she would take a few minutes to THINK and come up with 'peel those carrots'. I would then have to bug her (or my dad would jump on me) to find another task. She wasn't organized or able to be a manager to delegate to me. OTOH she did LOVE international cuisine and exposed us to varieties of food far and wide, especially Chinese. I taught myself to cook my second year in the college apartments. I bought The Campus Survival Cookbook Parts 1 and 2 which helped me learn basics via appropriate college kid type menus, at my level. I also bought, on a lark, The Silver Palate and loved many of those recipes. I still have the Campus books and I think they are the best kind to give a college kid since they helped with shopping, stocking a small kitchen, and potlucks. My DH, who is a better 'technical' cook than I, also taught himself. He says his mother was a dreadful cook and his grandmother would say 'bring your girlfriend over and I'll teach her'. Didn't help that he didn't have a GF at the time....He taught himself via 9th grade 'Bachelor Cooking' in HS and the Joy of Cooking, which is his bible. He is now reading Bittman's How to Cook Everything, LOL. So we both pretty much taught ourselves. I wish I would have had more of a 'basics' foundation, about cuts of meats and baking science, but I can find that out on my own. I do love working with my DH in the kitchen!
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It does depend on how diligent you are. DS, a bachelor, lives in a condo with the pull out trash and knives in the drawer above. On a recent visit I opened the drawer to get a knife and almost fell over from the smell. He had shrimp for dinner the day before, put the shells in the trash and forgot to take out the trash when he left for work the next morning. Everyone on this forum sounds very careful either about what they put in the trash or making sure it goes out. I guess the moral of the story is to know your own habits.
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I thought about going out today but decided against it. Thought I'd just snack or skip. Then I got this powerful hankering for spaghetti. Don't know why, but I just wanted spaghetti. So, I just made the one pot version so I wouldn't fill the place up with steam. Yes, it was warm in the kitchen but it sure tickled the tastebuds. And an hour or two later the storms moved through and the temp dropped about 15Â°-20Â° in about 10-15 minutes. Lots of lightning and LOUD thunder. Cat was a bit upset. She likes watching lightning and distant thunder but this was loud enough to bother her a bit. Much cooler right now albeit humid. There's leftovers in the frig... maybe a midnight snack??
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sharon_fl
15 years ago
Corned Beef & Cabbage, Roast Turkey, Fresh sweet corn!
stephanie_in_ga
15 years ago
pot roast
Blackberry cobbler
Coffee
patti43
15 years ago
Bacon and coffee (even though I don't drink it).
grammahony
15 years ago
When my iris and lilacs are in bloom.
Leslie
Nita__AZ
15 years ago
I'm with Sharon, corned beef, turkey, roast beef. Now I'm hungry.
itsmesuzq
15 years ago
Breaded pork chops (baked or fried)
Southern fried chicken
Pot roast on a winter day

Yes, they have to be breaded! -LOL-

All these remind me of my childhood...
casey_nfld
15 years ago
Leslie you cook your iris and lilacs? LOL
grammahony
15 years ago
No, sorry. I hadn't had enough coffee yet to see the word "cooking". I'll go get another cup.
vicki_lv
15 years ago
Anything anyone else cooks. LOL

Pancakes...my brother LOVED pancakes and they always make me think of him.

The smell of any food that I have in the crockpot, when I walk thru the door after work, knowing that I don't have to cook, it's already done.

Anything that is being grilled on the Traeger grill. I love the smell of the wood.
glenda_al
15 years ago
Just love the smell of food coming from the kitchen.

Good roast smells so yummy!
caflowerluver
15 years ago
Bread baking, roasted chicken, BBQ ribs, brownies, chocolate chip cookies.
Clare
caroline1947
15 years ago
Just about anything...it means I still have food in my home,and for that Im thankful!
petaloid
15 years ago
Chocolate chip cookies. Mmm...

Popcorn -- I'm gonna go pop some right now!
Cherryfizz
15 years ago
Roast chicken or roast beef. I don't know when the last time I cooked a roast of beef but I do have one in my freezer.

I miss the smell of waking up to bacon cooking. I cook my own so it is not the same as waking up to it. My Dad used to make a great breakfast for all of us kids on Sunday mornings and as soon as you smelled the bacon you woke up. LOL

Anne
lilliepad
15 years ago
Bread baking,pot roast,bread pudding.
jannie
15 years ago
Today my daughter made scrambled eggs and fried balogna. The smell drove me so crazy I finished off a half pound of balogna.
minnie_tx
15 years ago
When do we eat???
carol_in_california
15 years ago
Bread, pot roast, chile verde and brownies.
chubby_rat
15 years ago
Just about any food (except Chorizo...can't stand that smell!) but Roast Beef mostly and Turkey.
jemdandy
15 years ago
1. Ham and beans

2. Chilli

3. Pot roast

4. Chocolate cake
nicki_in_niles
15 years ago
My Mom's pumpkin pie!
Hellion
15 years ago
Bread of any kind
Apple pie and cinnamon most anything
ronf_gw
15 years ago
Roasting chiles.
Bread baking.

Ron

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