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Filed under: Just for dads, Eating & nutrition, MealtimeWelcome to Dishing it Out, ParentDish's weekly food column. Rob Barrett is a dad who knows his way around the kitchen; his web site, Cooking For Dads, provides simple video recipes for dads (and moms!). Rob's posts will appear on Friday mornings. You can read all the Dishing it Out posts here.I remember it like it was yesterday. I had seen my mom bake chocolate chip cookies (my fave) thousands of times. Well, maybe not thousands -- I was only seven years old -- but many times. So one day when I had a hankering for some cookies, I asked her if she would make some. Instead, my mom handed me the Betty Crocker Cookbook, reminded me where the ingredients were and told me she'd be in the next room if I needed help. Two hours, covered in flour and lots of questions later, I made my first batch of cookies. They were awesome, although I mainly ate the dough. There was an immediate sense of accomplishment. I had made something -- something my family could eat. So began my travels down the cooking road: taking Home Ec instead of wood shop in sixth grade (which wasn't popular on the recess playground); discovering an early love of the grill; trying to copy restaurant dishes;and enjoying experimenting with different ingredients and cooking methods. I'm not a trained chef, but I try and share easy to make meals with very little measuring and no cooking mumbo-jumbo.Continue reading How I Started to Cook, or How to be Unpopular in Junior High Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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