Dimitri wrote:
>
> Other than cinnamon toast and cold cereal or a sandwich what was the first
> thing you cooked, and about how old were you?

I remember my first cooking experience. My mother was in the hospital
having my baby brother and my father was there with her, so I had the
kitchen to myself. I was not permitted to cook, so I wasn't going to
pass that opportunity up!

What to make, brownies from a box, of course! What else would any
self respecting 11 year old make? Well, we lived in an apartment
that had an oven where you had to light the pilot light. I turned
on the gas, waited, then lit a match. WHOOOOOOOOOSHHHH! Nice
little explosion and the smell of burning hair. I was lucky it
wasn't worse.

I don't remember how the brownies turned out.

nancy