Mom and I used to make various kinds of cookies in our kitchen. She would make oatmeal, butter cookies, chocolate chip, etc. My problem was eating the cookies batter before she could refrigerate it or bake it! Cindi

Comment by Cindi Hoppes on 1/3/2008 @ 10:30 am

I think one of my favorite moments was getting ready for Halloween. When I was younger (before all of the current ‘let’s X-ray candy’ issues), we would make bags of popcorn to hand out. We had an two popcorn poppers. One was an air popper and one was the old-fashioned oil popper. I liked the oil popper best, we would always wish we’d put too much popcorn in and the top would come off! Anyway, we’d all gather around the table, pop popcorn, load it up into baggies, and (of course!) eat some along the way. We never made popcorn balls, the baggies seemed to be more fun and easier. (And probably less mess for my mother to clean up!) A fun, fun memory.

Comment by Minette on 1/3/2008 @ 12:28 pm

I helped my dad make my birthday party when I was 7. Its was huge with two tiers, pink icing, and flowers. I loved it so much I didn’t want to cut it!

Comment by taryn on 1/3/2008 @ 12:28 pm

I don’t know about a favorite memory, but my family likes to bring it up over and over and over and over. The time my cousin and I baked cookies with 2 cups of baking soda instead of 2 tsp.
We still haven’t lived it down nearly 30 years later.

Comment by Qtpies7 on 1/3/2008 @ 1:10 pm

My favorite memory was making sugar cookies and gingerbread men at Christmas with my mom. These would be great to continue the tradition with my kids!

Comment by cpa mom on 1/3/2008 @ 1:34 pm

My favorite memories are baking with Mom and having to watch the batter since Dad would always try to come in and snatch some before it was baked. Ah, Dad was such a role model!

Comment by TheAngelForever on 1/3/2008 @ 1:39 pm

by the time the end of the frosting of the christmas cookies was nigh, the decorating standards began to deterioate or in other words, got very asbstract with great swoops of colored sugar or sprinkles were applies by my role model Mom

Comment by Jenny M on 1/3/2008 @ 3:59 pm

I used to love coming home after school when I was a kid and seeing my mom come home from work. She would ask me how my day was and make me pasta with sauce. I miss eating pasta with sauce with my mother

Comment by Dodo O on 1/3/2008 @ 4:31 pm

enter me please and happy new years guys…
When i was growing up we didn’t have a lot of money.Single mom with 4 kids and just her job supporting.But it didn’t stop mom from coming up with delicious goodies for us .Several times a week mom and all 4 of us would make scratch cookies,or divinity,oatmeal cookies or tea cakes ..what a thrill.I still enjoy making these as a grandparent now…

Comment by Betty~Simply Southern on 1/3/2008 @ 4:46 pm

My fave was decorating homemade sugar cookies with sugar with mom.

Comment by kitty on 1/3/2008 @ 5:04 pm

Hmm, favorite memory would be getting to roll the dough for pies and cookies! I love the rolling pin!

Comment by bebemiqui on 1/3/2008 @ 5:28 pm

My Mom always involved my sisters and I in making dinner. We would stir, measure, and grate cheese or slice olives and mushrooms when we were a little older.

Comment by Becca on 1/3/2008 @ 5:54 pm

My mom is a terrible cook (sorry mom.. ok she isnt bad.. she just isnt amazing) lol.. (i love you mom)

My favorite moment in the kitchen actually was cooking with my grandmother.. she was an AMAZING cook and we would spend hours cooking for our large family in her kitchen.. She could make anything and everything was always fabulous. I only wish I was even remotely as good of a cook as she was. We both shared a allergy to strawberries and she decided one summer whne my parents were on vacation that we would both eat strawberries until we were sick as dogs… (which wasnt very many) and i think we spent the next three days covered in hives… and it suprisingly didnt kill me and I still can eat strawberries now. LOL

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Comment by Angela on 1/3/2008 @ 6:09 pm

That is so cute!!

I remember sitting on the porch snapping green beans with my Mom and a neighbor. Then going inside to help Mom wash them and watch her can them.

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Comment by Laura @ Laura Williams' Musings on 1/3/2008 @ 6:17 pm

I used to love making bread with my mom - I did the really hard job of “playing with the dough!” haha It was fun though.

Comment by Andrea on 1/3/2008 @ 7:47 pm

I always enjoyed making fudge with my dad. I still have no idea if you have to hurry while adding all the ingredients, but he would freak out and shout a laundry list of ingredients to hand him asap. When I was in middle school I was making fudge with him, and he shouted for almond extract, STAT! I grabbed the first bottle I could find thinking it was the right thing, and of course it wasn’t. It was orange extract. We had a good laugh every time we munched on our orange-flavored fudge after that. While it wasn’t so great, it was a blast making kamikaze fudge!

Comment by heather h on 1/3/2008 @ 7:57 pm

My favorite memory was rolling out plain cookie dough that my mom had made and using her mother’s cookie cutters.

Comment by Sarah M on 1/3/2008 @ 8:49 pm

my mom always shooed me out of the kitchen. She said I’d figure it out in college. And I did…

Comment by Naomi on 1/3/2008 @ 9:33 pm

Well, Mom and Dad didn’t cook, so a good kitchen memory with mom or dad for me would have to be dying easter eggs!
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Comment by Danielle on 1/3/2008 @ 9:35 pm

We used to always make sugar cookies every Christmas, complete with sprinkles and decorations. My mom would also let me bake things like birthday cakes for dad. Once I made a whole wheat birthday cake for my brother, I think. It was awful, but everyone still ate it.

Comment by Paige on 1/3/2008 @ 10:44 pm

My dad actually does the cooking/baking so I have wonderful memories of us using the snoopy snow machine or the ice cream maker or the easy bake oven! I still love to bake!

Comment by Caryn B on 1/4/2008 @ 12:25 am

My mom always let me add the eggs after I got to crack them!!

Comment by Noreen on 1/4/2008 @ 1:52 am

my dad was one of those very traditional “woman cooks, brings me hot meal” kind of man…but for some reason always made eggs and bacon on sunday mornings for my big family. I just loved waking up in the morning to the smell of his cooking. Of course, the girls had to do the dishes…..

Comment by emily on 1/4/2008 @ 8:23 pm