Day 9 of the Summer Blog Challenge: --Talk about a cooking disaster.....
There are certain memories which are not my favorite to bring back to the surface.
I would prefer to bring funny cooking disasters onto the stage: the time Bianca used baking powder instead of powdered sugar, for example is a grand one. There was the time when I was a little thing and stuck my “beater” back into the cake batter for another taste.
My biggest cooking disaster came when I was still in elementary school – somewhere in the neighborhood of eight or nine ears old.
My Mom had returned to college taking night classes. Our family of eight still needed to be fed dinner, so Mom made the smart choice of helping her four eldest children gain responsibility by sharing dinner duties. The girls would either prep or clean up and the boys would either prep or clean up. We would alternate duties.
On the very first night my sister and I were to prepare dinner, somehow the pot roast was undercooked – read very close to raw. My father and brothers couldn’t help but complain. Sue, I don’t remember what she did.
I ran up the stairs, crying, and flopped onto my bed. I had instantly become an eight-or-nine-year-old cooking failure.
I went onto serve or clean up many more times. Once my sister started to do color guard, I had all the girl duties and I think my brother Jim eventually took all the boy duties since Jeff went away to college himself.
It never had the energy of the fun or creative adventure it could have had.
In fact, I have only recently got that back. I am grateful I have.
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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She facilitates Virtual Writing Camp & will be hosting the final session of the 2011/12 season next week. Register before it is too late: Writing the Journey: Memoir, Life Writing & Travel Writing Intensive.
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