So, I know you’re like…what does this have to do with baking and cooking? I can tell you that my desire to bake and cook was only suspended during boot camp, NOT STALLED! Yup, you guess it…I managed to stash away a double hot plate, microwave, toaster, pots and skillets into a wall locker in my room …I’ll tell you that I was the self-proclaimed “Barracks Betty Crocker”! Believe it or not, I had never owned a microwave before that time because I did not grow up with one…(yeah, we used the oven as our microwave…WE COULD USE FOIL! NAH!). Anyway, being as though I had never purchased a microwave before, I wasn’t aware of the different wattages and went to the store with the mindset of “I want the big one” (pointing like a little kid)!!!! Little did I know that the BIG ONE would cause the electricity to go out in the entire BARRACKS!!!! YES, and can you believe I was in my room saying…I can’t finish making my Hamburger Helper now! SHOOT! (LMBO). When the only roommate I had was moving in and trying to use the wall locker on “her” side of the room, I had so many pots and pans in it that we had to figure out where to hide them (because she wanted to eat too)!!
Can you imagine trying to field day (…that means clean-up to you civilians) your room only to find grease spots in the carpet from where you had fried chicken the night before???? Or, trying to explain why the smoke detector has gone off to the Officer on Duty who’s come to your room asking what’s that smell? I tell you what, it was hell when PFT (…that’s physical fitness test to you civilians) time came around or those company runs came around. Can you say RUN DROP?? LMBO!!
At every stage in my life, I’ve found a way to provide people with my cooking or baking. It’s just who I am. I’ve always done it my way…even in the Corps!
So continue to DO IT YOUR WAY until we chat again!!!
Interesting story. :)
ReplyDeleteLouise you know I know. You in one barracks and me in the other with a double and single burner hot plate, toaster oven AND microwave cooking everything from pancakes to ribs. Can you say soup line outside the door!
ReplyDeleteGirl, I know!!! It was crazy like that with us!
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