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My favorite memories in the kitchen had to be those spent with my grandma. She was ALWAYS canning and freezing and I would get to help. I also remember the WONDERFUL sugar popcorn she would make for us as a special treat! I would LOVE the help cook the sugar and add the food coloring that she would pour over our popcorn.Thanks for the chance at a GREAT giveaway!~TidyMom

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I learned how to cook from my mom, but spend many hours in the kitchen with my grandmother. To this day, every Saturday morning when I make bacon, the smell takes me back to her kitchen as a little girl. I feel so blessed to have had two wonderful women who not only taught me how to cook, but through our work in the kitchen, taught me how to be a woman.

I love being a stay at home mom. My mom was a hard working teacher, but always managed to cook something up and have it on the table for meal time. As I look back on my time growing up, I see how that little step (which was probably a really big step for her)became such an important memory for me and something that I try very hard to achieve…the importance of a home-cooked meal with family gathered around the table. Thanks mom!

Tracy L.lopezfamilymail AT Gmail DOT COMThe woman who influenced me most in the kitchen was my Mom, of course. She thought it was important that I learn to cook and was very open to letting me and my sisters experiment, even when it meant culinary disasters and wasted ingredients. My mother was always very Julia Child-like with her cooking, (a pinch of this, a dash of that – not using measuring cups, etc.) Because of her, I’m not afraid to try new things and love to add my own touch to recipes.

My mom made homemade bread a lot and she would let us help in various ways. I love to make it now and my toddler loves to help in his own way too!

The person who has influenced me most in the kitchen is my Grandmother. She raised 5 children and 11 grandchildren. It is because of her great patience and gentle nature that I love to spend time in the kitchen. I remember at the age of 4 my Grandma getting the step stool out and over to the kitchen table so I could see the dough bowl – a huge, long wooden thing that the biscuit ingredients went into. It was oblong shaped so that you could knead the dough front to back. Grandma would let me “work” the dough and at 4 I made a bigger mess than I did help but Grandma never lost her temper or patience with those little hands; gently encouraging me until I got it just right. She had a flour bin; which was a huge deep drawer built into the cabinet and flour was purchased in 50 lb. or more sacks and dumped into the bin – dresses were made for her daughters out of the sack cloth. I distinctly remember “helping” measure out the flour for “my” biscuits out of this huge bin. Grandma also had milk cows and many an hour was spent milking those cows for milk for those biscuits. She made the best chicken and dumplins’ in the world. I’m sure that these adventures in Grandma’s kitchen added precious time to her daily routine but time was the thing that Grandma graciously gave to her grandchildren over and over. That wonderful woman will be celebrating her 101st birthday in June and although she is no longer in the kitchen herself, her legacy lives on through her grandchildren who love to cook up a storm.