A Little More on Cooking

 While growing up, my mom always cooked. When I was younger until about the age of 12 I loved helping her in the kitchen. She also had Breast Cancer when I was about 9 yrs old. So sometimes we ate out, others, I would help my dad cook, or cook something I already knew how to make. My sister (the one that lives with me) would sometimes help, or the oldest sister would too.
 Most of the time it was me, or my mom in the kitchen. She also baked a lot too. For baking she had recipes, and for cooking she seemed to do everything by eye, I never even seemed to see a cookbook. Maybe it was because she was always cooking.
 She never seemed to give anyone an actual recipe, but more of guidance in the kitchen.
 I never really had a desire to cook anything until I was maybe 24, unfortunately my father had been in the hospital a lot for pneumonia, and then in the late part of that year my mom, because of cancer that had spread, and she passed away from it.
 So I never really had much chance to share my cooking with them. My mom knew that I had been cooking once in a while for my boyfriend, (who is now my fiance) so at some point she bought me a cookbook. My mom had an amputation and was legally blind, so I know that both my sister were in on this.
 My mom passed away right before Christmas that year, so when my sisters had a great look of anticipation on their faces, I didn't know why. When I opened the box with a cook book inside I almost cried. Not only did I want a cook book, I'd ogled that one so many times in the store, but never bought it, thinking it was for someone with much better culinary skills than me.
 When the book got ruined I was horrified, I looked for it a few times, but could only find their baking edition, so ended up getting that instead. Then said forget it, it wasn't mean for me to use.
 Now that I have it I want to start trying new recipes.
 What I would really love is to have my mom's old recipe book, and go through it one recipe at a time, that would be my tribute to her.

TTYL,
 Little Miss Sunshine