I'm soooo proud of myself!!!!!

I can't remember that far bag pal ,I taught my sons to cook and bake , My eldest son still does .My granddaughters still joke that they prefer their Dad to cook rather than their MUm , I think it is great that you bake , it seems to be a dying art , People just want to have quick foods all the time , Nice subject pal , xx

That is wonderful, I am not so brave to make something without at least some kind of recipe.. Actually, most things I make the first time, even with a recipe usually flop. But I usually learn what I did wrong and then do it correctly afterwards..:)

Lol well I am not much good at baking but well done to you I would say the first thing I ever attempted was to make a sponge Cake and I failed lol It was as flat as a Pancake

My dear, i am NOT a baker!! lol I like to cook, but baking is another story! I dont even have any baking equipment!! i guess it doesn't help that i have no cubard space as it is.. so i'd have no place to put it at all. Congrats on your pie. I love apple pie, but you know my favourite has got to be pumpkin. MMmm

Hi heavenschild, I can't believe you're going into work today, with all of this snow!;) Congratulations on the apple pie. I'd love to try a piece sometime.:) A lot of my mom's recipes were in her head too, and sadly, that's why we no longer have any of them. She did have a well worn book, with hand written ones, but that disappeared many years ago. For our first Christmas without her, I attempted to make her dark Christmas fruit cake. It turned out great, and was so yummy, and I was just nineteen. However, I haven't attempted a pie in years, in fact, not since my teens. My mom 'tried' to show me how to make piecrust from scratch, and I botched it so badly, that it was hard as rock.:(

Much of any desserts I tried to make ends up a flop the first time. It's always the wrong ingredients susbstituted (yup, I like to experiment) or I did not beat the eggs long enough or the heat's too high... Eventually I just relied on instant mixes but that killed some joy in the creative baker in me so after my oven stopped working, I turned to the microwave but the results aren't as great. Now I got myself a new oven and am back to sourcing out new recipes to experiment with. As for my proud moment, I made a banana cake yesterday and succeeded on the first try!

i never really dare to make anything without a recipe before... so i can say that you are very brave and well done... i love to cook too... but i never try to make a cake before... i don't think i have the skills for baking... :-) anyway, good on you and i wish you can share some of your apple pie with me... :-)

oh yum, i love apple pie, i havent cooked it before actually, one day i might give it a go. the first time i cooked satay chicken from making the sauce myself., i was worried it would turn out yuck, it was for my partner, my parents and myself so i was hoping it turned out good, and luckily they all loved it and asked me to do it again

Thats great news! Congrats.. I know I feel really good when I make something that turns out well too. So be proud, thats cool.

wow that is so wonderful... my first ever experimental recipe that was a sucess was the spicy chicken i made for my brother! :) its the best ever i have made and it was so unique my mom requested for it again hehe

Well done! No wonder you are so proud of yourself sweety! I think the thing I was most proud of making was meringues - first time I made them and they were delicious , nice and chewy in the middle! I only ever managed to make them like that and I have never managed it since! xxxx

Ohhh..can I come over and have some? And I just bet your whole home smelled great as it was baking...one of the reasons I love those apple/cinnamon candles burning as it makes the place smell like I'm baking an apple pie. Well I've done a lot of cooking and baking...baked all kinds of pies..apple, cherry, sweet potato, lemon merange...but my triumph one time (at least I think) was when I made a homemade coffee flavored flan...which is a predominantly Spanish/Mexican type of "pie"...it's almost like a custardy kind of pie...the real challenge was to make the caramel sauce....one has to "melt" sugar until it gets slightly brown, then pour into a larger pie pan and place the flan upside down on the poured caramel sauce and place in the refridge to "set"

Apple pie sounds so good! My Dad likes to put cheese on his pie, weird, but tastes good!

well it happens so that the first thing i ever made was also an apple pie but I ended up charring it because i micriwaved it for 40 mins instead of baking ..with a plastic utensil!

good for you