A Revolution: Today, You Are A Man!

My Mom is great, and I'm sure I don't tell her often enough! Right off today she was ready to get me into the kitchen and teach me a few things. We cranked up the Pandora radio (Disney songs and Showtunes) and got cracking. On the menu for this evening: Meatloaf, green beans, and pan roasted corn with red peppers and onions. Also, a cake for the memorial service for my Uncle Paul on Wednesday.

The first thing I learned this evening is that when your cooking material looks like this:

It may put you off what you're going to consume. Yeah, raw hamburger is totally disgusting. That's one of the bad things about meatloaf, you have to mix it with your hands. Eugh. The end result is tasty though, so I sucked it up.

(We use cream of mushroom soup instead of ketchup to top our meatloaf)

Up next was the cake batter. No prob. I've done many a cake in my time. I'm not a total failure in the kitchen. Though, when I first started doing cakes they always came out flat. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the hell I couldn't get a cake to rise. Turns out you gotta butter the pan first. Okay...maybe I am a total failure in the kitchen! The finished product looks alright. Though, it's a bit cracky on the top.

Green beans were already cooking when I got home from work. They turned out pretty good. (It's pretty hard to screw up green beans.)

The corn was something I'd never done before. It's really simple and one of the few ways I actually like corn! Just a little bit of oil and butter in a hot pan, add corn and peppers and onions and cook until they're roasty. I have both before and after pictures of the corn!