Back in the Day
When my parents went out to a party or other event, I got to have fishsticks for dinner. And sometimes I got a pot pie. I remember peering in the oven door at the baking pot pie.
We didn't have a microwave until sometime in the late 80s. My parents were more enamored with the toaster oven as I recall. (Who has a toaster oven these days?!) I do remember my Grandma's microwave. It was actually one of the first microwaves I ever saw. I think maybe it was the late 70s?
Now of course everyone has a microwave. You can cook fishsticks AND pot pies in them. Dorm rooms and office break rooms and even my daughter's high school cafeteria have microwaves. My kids grew up making potpies and fishsticks in the microwave.
We joke about my oldest's cooking skills. It's not a lack of cooking skill as much as it is a lack of patience for reading instructions. I have seen the poor dear mess up making instant oatmeal because she can't be bothered to measure the boiling water (love you, Anna!). I once found her friend standing next to the microwave with a concerned look on his face. "Anna said to microwave these?" he said, holding out the box of "Toaster Streudel." I sighed. "I'll show you where the toaster is," I said. "Thank you!" he said in relief.
And then there are the younger two kiddos who love to cook. They make excellent sous chefs helping me prepare dinner and reading recipes - even modifying them successfully. And when it comes to microwaves, their expertise surpasses mine.
I discovered them with food thermometer stuck in a pot pie the other afternoon.
"What are you doing?!" I screeched. All I could think about was the mess and the unnecessary game playing with cooking utensils.
"We're checking the temperature, Mom," they said. And they held out the box to show me that there is indeed a reccomended temperature on the microwave instructions. Internal food temperature needs to reach 165 degrees F as measured by a food thermometer in several spots. It's right on the box. And in fact, after the microwave instructions, there is a reccomended food temperature on most of the frozen food in my freezer. I had no idea.
Back in the day, there was no reccomended food temperature. My mom would put them in the oven while she finished getting ready and when the sitter got there I would be blowing on the steaming hot pot pie insides that would burn your tongue. I never thought to take its temperature when it was cooked in the oven.
We didn't have a microwave until sometime in the late 80s. My parents were more enamored with the toaster oven as I recall. (Who has a toaster oven these days?!) I do remember my Grandma's microwave. It was actually one of the first microwaves I ever saw. I think maybe it was the late 70s?
Now of course everyone has a microwave. You can cook fishsticks AND pot pies in them. Dorm rooms and office break rooms and even my daughter's high school cafeteria have microwaves. My kids grew up making potpies and fishsticks in the microwave.
We joke about my oldest's cooking skills. It's not a lack of cooking skill as much as it is a lack of patience for reading instructions. I have seen the poor dear mess up making instant oatmeal because she can't be bothered to measure the boiling water (love you, Anna!). I once found her friend standing next to the microwave with a concerned look on his face. "Anna said to microwave these?" he said, holding out the box of "Toaster Streudel." I sighed. "I'll show you where the toaster is," I said. "Thank you!" he said in relief.
And then there are the younger two kiddos who love to cook. They make excellent sous chefs helping me prepare dinner and reading recipes - even modifying them successfully. And when it comes to microwaves, their expertise surpasses mine.
I discovered them with food thermometer stuck in a pot pie the other afternoon.
"What are you doing?!" I screeched. All I could think about was the mess and the unnecessary game playing with cooking utensils.
"We're checking the temperature, Mom," they said. And they held out the box to show me that there is indeed a reccomended temperature on the microwave instructions. Internal food temperature needs to reach 165 degrees F as measured by a food thermometer in several spots. It's right on the box. And in fact, after the microwave instructions, there is a reccomended food temperature on most of the frozen food in my freezer. I had no idea.
Back in the day, there was no reccomended food temperature. My mom would put them in the oven while she finished getting ready and when the sitter got there I would be blowing on the steaming hot pot pie insides that would burn your tongue. I never thought to take its temperature when it was cooked in the oven.
posted by Lea at 12:00 PM
2 Comments:
I'm appreciate your writing skill.Please keep on working hard.^^
We've got a toaster oven. We mostly use it for making garlic bread. Other than that, it collects dust...just like our quesadilla maker and blender and bevy of other forgotten and disabused kitchen appliances.
My cooking skill sounds akin to Anna's. Robb, on the other hand...he's great.
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