What was the first food you cooked for the first time?

@sanuanu (11235)
India
January 27, 2009 7:38pm CST
I would like to have answers from male too. I have cooked chapaties and vegs of potato and I must tell you that it was....... ... .... very bad in taste. It was that bad that I don't want to remember it but the experience was awesome. Now, I am an average cook who can cook for his needs but when it comes to family, my mom is the best. Even my father cooks good too!! So, share your experience with me. How was your first experience.
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@TnWoman (1895)
• United States
28 Jan 09
hello sanuanu gosh, to be honest with ya, i haven't a clue what i fixed the first time that i got to cook any food by myself. lol i am forty-six years old. lol but i think that the first thing that i ever cooked was a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese icing and to the best that i can remember, it turned out pretty good to be the first thing that i ever made. and i haven't ever heard of cooked chapaties before? what is that? thanks for sharing. take care and have a beautiful evening.
@TnWoman (1895)
• United States
28 Jan 09
hello i had wonderful parents when i was growing up and they supported me in whatever that i was trying to do. my folks are still around today as well. both of them just turned 79 years old last year. whoo hoo! and lol on your hot dog. lol
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 Jan 09
Chapatis - Chapatis, I want to make good chapati
Thank you for being honest with me but cake on the first attempt! Really brave. I am glad that cake was good. I hope that you make good cake today also!I am giving you the picture of cooked chapatis.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Jun 09
Meatloaf - mom taught me to make meatloaf when I was 5.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Jun 09
Ground beef mixed with some kind of grain such as oats. Most people put things in such as onions and seasonings and then bake it. You mix it all together with your hands and it's all cold and slimy.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jun 09
Hmm, guess it must be delicious, mustn't be? But I am not a non vegetarian though!
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jun 09
I have heard it second time, Meatloaf. What exactly it is? Is it a veg or non veg food and if non veg, which meat does it contain!?
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
28 Jan 09
Chocolate chip cookies. I had adult supervison of course, I was...seven, I think. I found that I was good at cooking through cookies, xD After that, I experimented with a solar cooker, and since then I've even make some of my own recipes and made a successful stir fry.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 Jan 09
You have a lovely avtar with you username, specially the lips. Now, back to the topic. I am amazed that you cook at only 7 years of age! This is awesome. My mom never allowed me to cook before 10 and I was afraid of fire too! Congratulation on the good taste of you first food. BTW: what is xD and
• United States
29 Jan 09
Thanks. I'm overdue for changing my avatar I think. My Mom's old-fashioned, she believed in teaching me the basics of living real young And, xD
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
31 Jan 09
Aww, are you gona change your avtar pic? I am little dissapointed. Anyways, if your mom doesn't like it then you must change it. Anyways, thanks for sharing text emoctions. I only know :-), :-(, X-( kind of emotions!
@celticeagle (159400)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Jan 09
It was shrimp curry for my husband back when I was first married and was about 19 years old. i don't know if it was the curry or my cooking but I didn't like and I am reasonably sure my husband didn't either although he tried to be nice about it.
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@celticeagle (159400)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jan 09
Yes, he was aware. Didn't want to bury the ship I guess. haha
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jun 09
Oh really! Ha ha ha
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 Jan 09
he he! He would have surly liked it. Afterall it was the first food cooked by his wife. So, was he aware that it was your first food for your life?
@ank_47 (1959)
• India
4 Jun 09
first time, i cooked egg amlette for me and my family.it came out good and i also put tea for my family first time. and after amlette i made egg curry which will be easy for anyone in india. we take egg curry with rice weekly once or twice. now i am a good cook ,but not better than my sister.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jun 09
Did you ever had competition with your sister on cooking? I am sure you have not because once you win, it will be your job to make food for your family, isn't it?
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@ank_47 (1959)
• India
5 Jun 09
i will have competion with my sister every time. but she will only wins every time ,as she is good cook than me.but i like it ,because i can taste her food more times ,if she is good cook .when i go to her house or when she come to my house,she only prepares food ,as i like her food and its taste.
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• United States
28 Jan 09
The first thing I cooked was spaghetti ; I was in the third grade and I was hungry but my mom was sleeping and I asked her how to make spaghetti in her sleep and she actually told me show I made it and when she woke up I was eating spaghetti and she asked me how did you make that and I told her smiling you told me LOL . she told me I did really good.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
26 Feb 09
I also like spaghetti; Well but in your third grade! Guess, children are getting smarter day by day. Thanks to the internet and computers
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
27 Feb 09
even then you were an intelligent child to follow whatever she told you to do.
• United States
26 Feb 09
very true but in my case the internet wasn't even out yet , so thanks to my mom who was sleeping and told me the recipe in her sleep lol
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@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
28 Jan 09
i can still remember cooking my first instant noodle when i was 9 years old... that's when my parents finally allow me to use the stove... and i think i make quite a good instant noodle even though it is my first try... :-) take care and have a nice day...
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
26 Feb 09
Most of the children would go for noodles. Ok, Apart from noodles what is the food you cooked in your life for the first time? Have a nice day to you too!
• United States
28 Jan 09
I am not sure about what my first food was that I ever made. Maybe it was pancakes but, I do remember the first time I ever got burned from cooking. It was while I was making some cornbread in the oven. I got a nasty bubble burn on my finger...ewww.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
27 Feb 09
Ooooo. I am sorry. Did it really hurt now a days too? I hope the finger is ok now. I do burned my hands while cooking. I touched hot pressure cooker by bare hands and it burnt very badly. I could use that hand for the next 5 days or so!
@modstar (9605)
• Philippines
5 Jun 09
I think it's scrambled eggs. I learned it first in school as part of our home economics subject. It was pretty easy with only oil and salt as the ingredients. I don't think there need to be a special skill to be able to cook scrambled eggs. lol! It's the easiest i think. Except of course to boil an egg. Up next i think i learned to grill fish.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
8 Sep 09
Scrambled egg.. hmm, I have not tried it yet but I think this month I will be trying it because one of my friend has bought eggs in his house and he is asking me to fry it. Ofcourse, he wants me to learn this thing, you know!
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
4 Jun 09
The first real meal I cooked was a meatloaf. It turned out, well, let's say crunchy! Not because I burnt it or anything like that. It actually had a great flavor to it, and the meat itself was pretty moist. It was crunchy because in my family,m we always out rice into our meatloaf, and when I did this, I put in regular rice rather than instant! The rice didn't cook at all so it was quite crunchy in the meat.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
4 Jun 09
So, did it mean that rice didn't cook and it was like uncooked rice, isn't it? I am eager to know bout your mom's reaction towards it! Did she like it or not?
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
26 Feb 09
Hi sanuanu! I think the first thing I learned how to cook were eggs. The over easy give me the biggest problem but I cook them well now after a lot of practice and a few secrets.lol.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
27 Feb 09
Would you mind sharing those secrets with me? Just kidding. I don't know how to cook omelette. It is very difficult. I tried it only once and it was all messy. I wonder how people able to make this thing so good.
• Brazil
29 Jan 09
The first thing I ever cooked was egg, it was really easy, you can't go wrong on eggs...
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
26 Feb 09
It is really difficult cooking omelette. I have never cooked a nice omelete. Instead, I like fried egss.
• Philippines
29 Jan 09
It was "tinola"! It's a Filipino food that I cooked when I was in Grade 5. It's a chicken soup with vegetables like "malunggay", papaya, and ginger. The experience? Not bad! The whole family loved it.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
26 Feb 09
Grade 5. Very young to even go to the Kitchen. Hats off to you. You will be a good cook in your future.
• Canada
1 Mar 09
The very first thing I learned how to make is steamed white rice. Boy was I ever proud of that! I think I was 8 years old or something when I learned how to make steamed rice. Then after that I moved on and made my very first fried egg at 10 and my chicken adobo at 13. I guess I've pretty much stayed there until I moved out, got married and had to learn how to really cook because seriously you can't live on steamed rice, fried egg and adobo :-).
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
3 Mar 09
Only 8 years old! God I was 10 or 12 when I cooked my first food for my family. I was really happy that at that age I was able to make food for my family. You guys are beating my record, dude.
• Philippines
28 Jan 09
H, the truth is i don't even remember the first food that I cooked. I think that happened more than 15 years ago and no matter how I tried to remember it it totally slipped my mind now. Maybe it was a fry or something for that was the easies that my mom can ask me to cook of at a young age. The first cooking spree was just the beginning of me cooking. I am not the best cook but surely I can cook though not really gourmet foods but just simple but tasty food. Happy Mylotting!!!
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
26 Feb 09
But you can cook and I bet that you cook better to I. Doesn't matter if you don't remember your first food. I have an idea. Why don't you ask your mother about the food!
@dropofrain (1167)
• India
28 Jan 09
The first food that I cooked was magi Two minute noodles. I cooked that at the age of 8. I was really young and my parents were not at home. I was quite hungry. My parents have given me money to get something to eat from the nearby shop or else I could go to my neighbors. But I choose to cook for myself. And I felt really proud of myself.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
31 Jan 09
Did you tell you parents about it? Because when I told my mom that I cooked something for the first time, she got angry on me a lot. She was saying that I am not going to cook again in my life.
@Cryptid (72)
• United States
28 Jan 09
I have been cooking for a long time and am now quite skilled.In fact I am always the one everyone comes to, to correct their cooking mistakes and evaluate where they went wrong.They also ask me to cook for every event and gathering that we have. I am a self taught cook and I started at the age of nine.I decided that cooking was a vital skill to have as being able to prepare a good meal is the basis of all work and efforts and more broadly humanity.I took out my mother's cookbook and made potato salad.It turned out as it should but wasnt anything special. Being male and being a very bright child, I was always subjected to severe torment over my choices.Growing up in a very homophobic era and area, many made fun of me and called me a girl and assumed I was gay or would turn gay and even many adults joined in on making fun of me.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
28 Feb 09
Just because you were trying to cook foods, doesn't mean that you are like girls. Even I like cooking from my childhood and my mother didn't allow me to learn cooking. I learnt it,when I was away from my home for an year.
@anne12d (676)
• Philippines
28 Jan 09
As far as I can recall, I think I cooked scrambled egg and I forgot to placed some oil before I fried it. But it goes well, mostly of my first dishes I cooked was fried like hotdog, egg and easy or instant to cook meals because before I only cook for myself because I'm afraid that when my family taste my cooked dish, they might cursed me or something... Lol!!! But now I cook for the whole family and they seldom reclaim. Good thing though that I practised realy hard to pass my father's and family's tastebuds.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
27 Feb 09
Srambled egg. Hmm, Now, I think I should ask this question from you. What is a scrambled egg. Is it like omelette?
@henahuda (158)
• Australia
28 Jan 09
the first time i cooked was that i made chapaties and with that i made egg curry.and fortunately it turned out to be nice.i had also made one dessert that was rice kheer.that was also made nicely.i just could believe it that it was me who cooked all that infact i am away from my parents and when i told my parents they were happy to know that i can cook as my mother was very scared how are we that me and my sister going to survive because when we were at home with parents we never cooked but now she is happy about it but my brother does not trust us he says you must be kidding i cannot trust you so i told him when i come i will make for you nad he laughs..
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
26 Feb 09
Yes, the story of life is that parents would never allow us to cook. Even my mom never seem happy seeing me cooking. But it helped me surviving in new town when I was away from my home.
@pickwick (858)
• India
28 Jan 09
It was immediately after my marriage i was asked to show my culinary skills at my in-laws place.I rang up my mom for apt recipee and ended up making a mess of vegetable pulao that i cooked!We had to order lunch for the from a nearby restaurant for every one!!!
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 Jan 09
God! I am extremely sorry for that! I can understand your situation. One of my father's sister story is similar to you. When she was asked to cook rice then she asked her mother in law, "What is a rice?". She was shocked!