When I was young and growing up my mother and grandmother enjoyed teaching me how to cook and allowed me to “help” them as they baked and cooked amazing things. Often times I would spend hours in the kitchen with my grandmother who would let me mix water and flower as she baked the fresh cookies for an afternoon snack. While dating Leah and the time we spent at Calvin I often cooked a lot of the meals because I enjoyed the fresh aroma and the hard work it takes to make a good meal. After we got engaged and had marriage counseling we actually dug a little deeper into the chores we expect our spouse to do in our household. It was then that I discover Leah did not enjoy cooking, which is a result of her not being taught by her mother. Since we
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Carmel carrots, which is actually a challenging thing to make with a balance of salt pepper and constant stirring to prevent burning, while preforming other tasks is difficult with only two arms. The third and final item was mashed potatoes, which is one of the easiest items to cook. However, Leah has been notoriously talented at forgetting one of the steps such as: forgetting to peel the potatoes, not adding in salt and pepper, forgetting to add the milk first or adding to much which makes for very soupy potatoes. Nevertheless this meal was what she had planned to prepare for the first night that my parents were coming to visit our new …show more content…
Growing up my mom and grandma taught me just try to make different things and it is okay to mess up a recipe or burn a dinner, but in Leah’s family most of the time they expected her to be perfect. Rarely was she compliment on effort, which I found interesting as my compliment was a little bit more on her effort of completing the meal verses my mom’s compliment on a specific item made her think that she had not only done the entire job well but cooked that meat to perfection. I learned that how you compliment someone even with little changes could make a huge difference in the
Carmel carrots, which is actually a challenging thing to make with a balance of salt pepper and constant stirring to prevent burning, while preforming other tasks is difficult with only two arms. The third and final item was mashed potatoes, which is one of the easiest items to cook. However, Leah has been notoriously talented at forgetting one of the steps such as: forgetting to peel the potatoes, not adding in salt and pepper, forgetting to add the milk first or adding to much which makes for very soupy potatoes. Nevertheless this meal was what she had planned to prepare for the first night that my parents were coming to visit our new …show more content…
Growing up my mom and grandma taught me just try to make different things and it is okay to mess up a recipe or burn a dinner, but in Leah’s family most of the time they expected her to be perfect. Rarely was she compliment on effort, which I found interesting as my compliment was a little bit more on her effort of completing the meal verses my mom’s compliment on a specific item made her think that she had not only done the entire job well but cooked that meat to perfection. I learned that how you compliment someone even with little changes could make a huge difference in the