When honey and I married, I told him I could cook..lol.Little did I realize how good his mother cooked and what he was used to. Brother...was I a fool.....after we found that horrible apartment that we had to go through the owners house into an old ladies bedroom (she was bedridden) can you imagine! Then had to use her bathroom in her bedroom. But what do you want for 40$ a month...but we only stayed 2 weeks, could not stand it!!!! Anyway for our first meal, i said to my self "he is from the country and I will fix black eyed peas and surprise him...Well little did I know you had to soak them and then cook for about 3 hours or more...so I put the dried peas in a pan covered with water and cooked about an hour or so, fried pork chops and they burned on the outside and red on the inside....can't remember what else I fixed but that was enough. The peas were hard as rocks and the meat not done!!! We laughed about it later but I cried and was so embarrassed. Honey just put his arms around me and said " you will get better" Well after the first year of marriage, he gained 50 pounds...lol~! I watched his mother and took lessons from her. She was an awesome cook..I will never be as good as her...But that first meal, we will never forget...it was a long time before I tried that again...I think I made sandwiches for a long time...he never complained. God bless him. I love you honey.
Thank you grandpa for listening to this little girls chatter..Love you J
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Honey set me straight. He did not gain 50 lbs. but 25! Ok...I can be wrong...it looked like 50!!! lol love you babe.
well - I couldn't boil water without scorching it - so the saying goes, and I had never eaten a dried bean in my life! Gerald said there was never a day that his mother did not cook beans of some gender. Well, I thought, I have this pressure cooker and I can figure this thing out. Before you run for cover, the pressure cooker was not the problem! I washed the beans and put them in the pot along with the water and looked at them thinking, I wonder how much salt that would take? I must have put half a box into the pot. Cooked the suckers all day and before he came made a decent pone of cornbread. He was so excited when he found out I'd cooked his favorite thing - beans, until he took his first bite - ugh! He said it pickled his adams apple and that's why he still can't sing til this day. They were horrible. He's gotten a lot of mileage out of that early tale of married life. Amazing how parallel our lives have been (do you think we were sisters that got seperated at birth?) paulette
Love it! We must be sisters/twins!!! One blond and one brunette....lol I love the story..I am glad that I wasn't the only one who had a rocky start! thanks for the comments..
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