How did you learn to cook?

I learned to cook at an early age. My mother worked so my sister & i would have supper ready for my parents when they got in from work. I love to cook & always have.

hello marguicka,like you,i learned to cook by myself through testing again and again. when i was a student,my mum always took in hand all the housework and never ask me to prepare for food. after married,i lived with my husband and had to cook by ourselves,normally,we cook the food in turn. after harding working,now i make my own recipes and both my husband and i like to eat the food i prepared.

I never knew I could cook well till I started living with my girlfriend. I was too lazy to cook by myself before. But once we lived together, somehow, all the cooking seemed to happen by itself, and I was very intuitive with it. She was already a good cook too, so we had great fun experimenting and cooking by ourselves and I was happy, I didn't need to look much into books or the net or something. I just did everything fine. If I had any doubts, I would just call my sister and ask her and she would guide me. But yea... I learned cooking by accident.. Ha ha ha..!

Well I must have been blessed and inherited my great-grandmother's skills in cooking, as I certainly did from either my grandmother or mother who would burn water if they cook. Well I did a bit of cooking prior to graduating college, I didn't go whole full steam ahead until shortly after graduating college and back then got it into my head to teach myself French cooking. Later on I would do Italian, Oriental, Mexican..and everything from scratch. Yes, I do love to cook, but confess I don't fuss as much as I used to since I live alone now--but still manage to do some French type meals now and then, especially for the holidays

I learned to cook mostly by trial and error also. There were a few dishes I was taught how to make when I was younger and that was the extent of my cooking. Now I also love to cook especially since I love to eat! I like to buy cookbooks and try new recipes. I compliment you on being able to make up your own recipes. I wish I was creative that way with making dishes. Some people do seem to have a natural talent for making edible dishes. Many people have lost the art of cooking because they're so busy. They'd rather go to a restaraunt . But it's a lot healthier to cook your own foods and use fresh ingredients. I think a home made dish is always superior to purchased food. Besides when we make our own dishes we cook with love!

My mom never taught me to cook (too busy working) so when I got married recently and decided to stay home I had to teach myself! I can follow a recipe, but a lot of terms I have to look up on the internet, like "dash" and "broil". I didn't even know what broiling something meant! Sometimes the food comes out good, sometimes not. The past few weeks I have been trying to create my own recipes. I like cooking even though I'm not that good at it. Luckily I have a very sweet husband who always says my cooking tastes great (even though I can tell by the look on his face that he hates the chili i just made) lol!

I've cooked more with my new job than I have ever cooked before - so far I haven't poisoned my client...

Personally I don't like to cook, but, I can cook. I'm just like you though. I use a recipe mainly as a base to go from because in the end I generally will add my own seasonings and whatnot. Merry Christmas to you and Happy New Year! Purrs, Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

I am the only person in my family that doesn't work around the kitchen. My dad, mom, grandma, and sister are excellent chefs, but not me. I just never really tried or paid attention when my family was cooking. I guess I began learning when I actually started trying. I would help my sister when she's cooking or baking & have her tell me what to do, step-by-step.

I was taught by my mom when I was turning 10 years old. The first thing she taught me was spaghetti sauce, which is my favorite meal to cook and eat. She also taught me at that age how to cook a turkey. I have now been making the turkey dinner for over thirty-five years. I do love to cook if its for a crowd I don't like to cook just for myself, because then its a bit boring. I also love to bake especially during the winter months.

I have absolutely no idea how I ever learned to cook! As a child and young person, I had no interest in learning how and no one ever taught me. But, then, in my early twenties, it was there, this ability, interest, and capability to create meals, savor and enjoy a wide variety of foods, and to consider it an avocation. To be fair, my father loved foods of all kinds and my mother was a very good cook, just pretty traditional foods. I did at one point start watching Julia Child on TV. Just one day, I began cooking many new and fairly complicated foods for my father. Then I began collecting cookbooks, purely, I thought as "reading material". Then I began cooking new foods that I wanted to eat. I began going to different types of restaurants and learned how to make the foods I liked and paid for there so I could save myself the expense of paying someone else. I became an advocate of many cuisines, and found my personal favorites in each of them. I lived in New York, Manhattan, and got kind of spoiled by the variety and availability of such great foods and a plethora of restaurants. It became organic and important to me. At one point I sublet an apartment from a NY chef who had just taken over the premier Colony restaurant, attempting to enable it to survive its waning years. He had a trunkful of menus, which I began reading then, and now I collect menus as they give me new ideas and new food combinations - a new frontier to conquer in my quest for adventure and ultimate recipes! I know God has bestowed on all of us giftings and talents in one area or another. A knack with and a love of food seems to be mine, though it was nothing I pursued. Later in life, I thought of opening a small restaurant, but that was not to be. The restaurant "business" is a very difficult one, and it requires a kind of 24/7 monitoring and energy output, usually as a "family" type business and much like raising a child if it's going to be excellent and of high quality. While I loved the idea and the creativity involved, my life circumstances went in another direction. Now I love to cook, and, without being too boastful, I hope, I have been complimented often and am recognized as a really good cook. Parenthetically, I have become something of a "food voyeur", observing the types and choices of food people eat at restaurants and purchase at supermarkets. I have yet to be able to pursue this avocation as a vocation...but, maybe,...some day...... But, for now, I'm just another "foodie" who loves to watch Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

My late mother in law taught me how to cook (she was a cook by trade) and one of bridal shower gift my late mother-in-law gave me a cookbook filled with a lot of seceret family recipes. Out of all the gifts I received for my wedding this is the one I treasure the most. I cook dinner six nights a week. I like cooking.

I'm not really good in cooking but I know some recipes. hehe! I learned cooking from my mom. When my mom is cooking, I'm watching what she's doing and from just observing I learned. When I'm in mood I will help her in cooking and through helping her I can also learn :)

I'm learning myself. So far, I have been very successful. My mother has taught me a few things but not many because she has to work. She doesn't know any old recipes but she finds recipes in magazines, rips them out and then makes them. She always succeeds and people love eating what she makes. One day, I will probably buy Julia Child's cook book and start learning from there, since she explains everything with a lot of detail. I like Martha Stewart's cook books too.

Well, i'm still beginner in cooking. I learn it from my mom and my housemate. When I go to my hometown i will told my mom to teach me a new recipe. Then i will share it with my housemate as he quite good in cooking. So, he will help me cook the recipe that my mom teach me and at the same time i learn cooking. i think cooking is fun. hihi.

hi there friend.... i know how to cook simple basic food...like noodles,hotdogs,eggs,ham etc.. what i dont know those food that needs mixing of ingredients.. good thing i got married earlier at 20...heheheh!im hubby taught how to cook vegetables,pork and a lot more..anything that deals with mixing the taste..heheh! at first he was the one who cook ...and then the next day was my turn..heheh! well..it went fine..heheh!i learn fast..it was easy..wwwwwwhhhhhhheeeeh! but now im 22 im still learning more recipes..cause my hubby easily get fed up of repeated food.. i just hope i could learn more...heheh!what i hate when cooking is when we fry fish and pork!anything that deals with frying.. oils that sound!and hurts our skin!heheh!i dont want to have marks..cause i have sensitive skin.. so hard to take care and maintain a nice skin when we really need to cook!i guess i must need to get used to it.. i hoped...lol!someday.. thanks! happy posting! cheers!

I did not know how to cook before. But after I go out to work, I have to cook for myself owing to some dish outside which is not fit for my taste. At the beginning, I learn how to cook from the cooking book, besides I ask some cooking knowledge from my mother, she is willing to tell me a lot. Now I can cook some dish by myself.

I love cooking very much. I also love David Cook. LOL! Anyway, as a kid I loved imitating the chefs in the cooking shows that I watched. I would get bowls from the kitchen and made water as the ingredients. I also loved watching my mom and my grandmother cook, and I think from that day on they taught me how to cook. It wasn't something that I would have to force myself to love, because the blood of a cook I think flows through me. I am only 18 but I am already cooking for the family many times a week. I also love experimenting with recipes. :D

hi marguicha, I like to cook. I don't know how to cook before marriage. After marriage, I started trail and error method. But I thank my husband patience, because he never complained. He use to enjoy, even in my bad trail. I cannot forget some of my past receipes that make me laugh even now. I now cook well, many guest will be frequent to my house. On trail and trail... on them( ha ha ha haaa....), I suceeded.

As a child I used to observe my mother and my grandmother in the kitchen and without even realizing it I "learnt to cook". Yes the finesse did come after a few "disasters at improvising" but all in all, I think the good "cooking genes" I inherited helped. Luckily, my husband is a totally non fussy eater so that helped a lot initially because the very first time I cook an entire meal all by myself was after I got married. Today, even if I may say so myself, I am a very proficient cook.