How was the first time you cooked?

I cooked for the first time when my mother was away on a holiday to her parents' place. I cooked for my father, my sister and me. I so happened that there was a lot of this vegetable growing in our kitchen garden. So I made curry out of it, I put it in our rice and I also made a vegetable without gravy. It was only when my sister commented that she had had enough of the vegetable that I realized what I had done. My father was good natured enough to down it because of course it was cooked well. When my mother returned she was told that for three days I made them eat only one vegetable in many different ways. All of us had a good laugh about it and still do. When I got married, I had this notebook in which I had written down all the recepies that my mother cooked because I was not so good at remembering recepies. So everytime I cooked, much to the amusement of my husband, I would be glancing in my notebook every now and then. Now I cook very well and seldom have to refer to my notebook. But anyways I must admit that it is a joy to cook for yourself as well as others.

I think the very first thing i learned how to cook not in the microwave was a grilled cheese when I was 6 or cream of wheat right around that same age. I am now 18 and living with my fiance and cook for us both every nite cooking things like chilli, tacos, and spaghetti. I can cook most simple meals now. I think I have come a long way.

Years ago I baked wedding cakes and decorated them. I put roses, vines, etc on them. I am very out of practice cooking cakes as I have not done it in years. I do not cook much any more, except perhaps for boiling some eggs.

The first meal I cooked, really cooked when I was out on my own was a meatloaf. I used my Mom's recipe, adding rice as a filler, but I used regular rice instead of instant and my meatloaf turned out crunchy. The guy I was seeing at the time, bless his heart, ate the entire thing over the course of about 3 days. I told him that he didn't have to, but he insisted that it tasted great and since I took the time to cook it, he was going to eat it.

I rarely cook, but there was a compulsory cooking course for us in school for boys(its a boys' school)and i had to attend it. I learned many different cooking recipes and the first time it was a catastrophe. No one coked perfectly.