National baked alaska day...

[Retrodeb54]

NATIONAL BAKED ALASKA DAY

All day long so theres plenty of time to shop and make this delicious treat. Having a CULINIQUE FOOD MOLD CAKE PAN makes it an easier task, at least thats what I read in my research this morning.

So many different recipes/methods I found I think its best if you all share your favorites or just look on your food sites if interested.

 

[b23hqb]

Let me try some of yours - I bet it's the best!

 

[Retrodeb54]

Let me try some of yours - I bet it's the best!

Not my forte I'm afraid. Tried to make it years ago and lets just say it was failure, although an edible failure. If presentation doesn't count in cooking/baking then I'm a regular chef. If it does, I'm a flop.

 

[PJay]

What a shock......I was thinking seafood.

 

[vraiblonde]

I have Baked Alaska trauma. My ex-husband's mom made one years ago and I helped her because I like to cook, I'd never made one or even seen one made before, and it was fun to learn something new. His sisters made fun of me and called me a brown noser because they were all sitting at the kitchen table chatting while I was helping assemble dessert.

 

[kwillia]

I have Baked Alaska trauma. My ex-husband's mom made one years ago and I helped her because I like to cook, I'd never made one or even seen one made before, and it was fun to learn something new. His sisters made fun of me and called me a brown noser because they were all sitting at the kitchen table chatting while I was helping assemble dessert.

Don't you wish you had the confidence and self-esteem then that you have now? If so this would be a fond bright moment memory rather than a traumatic sucker-punch memory. Sigh... youth is so wasted on the young and immature.

 

[Retrodeb54]

I have Baked Alaska trauma. My ex-husband's mom made one years ago and I helped her because I like to cook, I'd never made one or even seen one made before, and it was fun to learn something new. His sisters made fun of me and called me a brown noser because they were all sitting at the kitchen table chatting while I was helping assemble dessert.

Everything's worth a try I always say. Don't even ask about the souffle I only got halfway through. Thats wasn't an edible failure and my love of scorched didn't work with that at all. Haven't tried to make it again in about 40 years.

My Baked Alaska ended up looking like someone stepped on it, but like I said it was edible. *sigh*

 

[acommondisaster]

First thing we made in 7th grade home ec class. VERY exotic.
Anyone else remember Home Ec class?

 

[Retrodeb54]

First thing we made in 7th grade home ec class. VERY exotic.
Anyone else remember Home Ec class?

!/2 year was cooking, 1/2 sewing.

Remember? I still have my recipe box and a cute pink hard plastic sewing box with a clear lid from sewing. The hinged lid had a little kitten with a ball of yarn etched in the top. *hoard much Deb?* I got it at Murphys. Funny how what I had for breakfast yesterday I have to think on, yet things like this flow back easy as a stream.

Cooking part I remember learning how to follow directions off a box only. We even only made boxed cakes. *sigh* Had a teacher just there to just draw a salary I guess. At home everything was from scratch and very seldom measured, so home ec was different for me at least.

 

[PJay]

Everything's worth a try I always say. Don't even ask about the souffle I only got halfway through. Thats wasn't an edible failure and my love of scorched didn't work with that at all. Haven't tried to make it again in about 40 years.

My Baked Alaska ended up looking like someone stepped on it, but like I said it was edible. *sigh*

My first try at mashed potatoes was drinkable not ebible. Poured down the drain.

 

[Retrodeb54]

My first try at mashed potatoes was drinkable not ebible. Poured down the drain.

I think everyone has been there, that failed attempt at making something.

My friend wanted to do Thanksgiving for everyone her first year of marriage. Would have been an ok deal I think. Except for her leaving the bags of parts in the cavity and smoking up the whole apt.when she burned two full cookie sheets of dinner rolls. We moved everything to her mil's place down the street. Ahhh memories, love them.

 

[vraiblonde]

My first try at mashed potatoes was drinkable not ebible. Poured down the drain.

You wasted perfectly good potato soup???

 

[PJay]

I did. Soup to me then was to be eaten only when sick or if you had no teeth. Disliked soup. Now, I have grown to like it occasionally.

 

[PJay]

I think everyone has been there, that failed attempt at making something.

My friend wanted to do Thanksgiving for everyone her first year of marriage. Would have been an ok deal I think. Except for her leaving the bags of parts in the cavity and smoking up the whole apt.when she burned two full cookie sheets of dinner rolls. We moved everything to her mil's place down the street. Ahhh memories, love them.

Like some others here my mom died when I was little. I was told by someone she made a lasting memory by making a cherry pie to bring to one of the picnics that turned into a spitting seeds contest.

 

[RPMDAD]

Sad thing here, my Mom and Dad, were both very good cooks, they both cooked different things. Never used a recipe, always cooked from memory. Both my Mom and Dad have passed, i wish when i was younger i would have written down their recipes, I miss both of them immensely and i also miss their recipes that can not be recreated. That is all.

 

[Bay_Kat]

I have Baked Alaska trauma. My ex-husband's mom made one years ago and I helped her because I like to cook, I'd never made one or even seen one made before, and it was fun to learn something new. His sisters made fun of me and called me a brown noser because they were all sitting at the kitchen table chatting while I was helping assemble dessert.

This same exact thing happened to me. That is so funny. I remember that it was Christmas Eve.

 

[PJay]

First thing we made in 7th grade home ec class. VERY exotic.
Anyone else remember Home Ec class?

Yes, I remember the frog I cut, stuffed and sewed from a pattern won a spot in the schools showcase then someone stole it....

 

[Retrodeb54]

Yes, I remember the frog I cut, stuffed and sewed from a pattern won a spot in the schools showcase then someone stole it....

Sorry.


I do remember the sewing 1/2 of the year being much more fun than cooking. As an adult I don't do sew. Now that I'm older and look back it was because she was a better teacher than the cooking class one. Miss Cookoutofabox.

Our sewing teacher had the teaching skills to get you interested. Our big project and 1/2 of the final grade mixed sewing with other learning. Everyone had to pick a time in history from her list, design a costume from that era for a Barbie by making our own patterns and cutting and sewing it and dressing her.

A report on the women of the era picked and a bit about some memorable history of that time. I picked the Roaring Twenties and wrote about prohibition.