Growing up, there weren’t a lot of opportunities for me to learn how to cook in the kitchen. My stepmom is an amazing cook but she was always busy and said it would take too long to cook with us, and when I lived with my mother, she was never home at dinner time because she was always working so I cooked dinner for the whole family by myself. I still found myself comfortable in the kitchen thanks to my grandmother. If you go over to my grandmother’s house, she always has cookies in a cookie tin above her china hutch. It’s tradition! One of the ways she kept it full over the years was that whenever I went over to visit we would make cookies. We made chocolate chip cookies all the time.
Now that I have my own children I’m starting to let them help me in the kitchen. It is very hard for me to do because I can’t stand not being in control of the mess. I clean the kitchen as I go and having the kids in there gets out of hand wickedly fast, so I completely understand why my stepmom never wanted to cook with us as kids. My kids and I always do all of our cooking in the kitchen around our KitchenAid Stand Mixer. My husband spoiled me for my birthday this year and upgraded our KitchenAid to the Professional series. I’m quite excited about the upgrade because of the bigger bowl and the new beautiful red color.
The first item for us to make in it was testing out the Ice Cream attachment. We made Double Chocolate ice cream.
Day One: Mixing
Ingredients:
2 Cups Whipping Cream Divided
2 squares semisweet baking chocolate
2 suares unsweetened baking chocolate
2 cups half and half
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
8 egg yolks
4 teaspoons vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt
Make sure your ice cream attachment is in the freezer getting cold
In a small saucepan, melt the chocolate and 1/2 cup of the whipping cream over medium low heat stirring frequently
Remove from heat set aside
In a medium saucepan heat the half and half until very hot but not boiling, stirring often
Remove from heat set aside
In a small bowl combine sugar and cocoa powder. Set aside
Place egg yolks in mixer bowl. Use speed 2 and gradually add sugar mixture. Mix about 30 seconds. Continuing on Speed 2, very gradually add chocolate mixtures and half and half; mix until well blended.
Return all of the mixture to medium saucepan, stirring constantly cook over medium heat until small bubbles form around edge and mixture is steamy. Do not boil. 
Transfer half and half mixture into large bowl; stir in remaining 1 1/2 cups whipping cream, vanilla, and salt cover and chill thoroughly at least 8 hours.
Day Two: Ice Cream
Assemble and engage the ice cream attachment to the KitchenAid Stand 
Use stir setting 1
pour ice cream mixture into the ice cream attachment
Stir for 15 minutes
Eat or Place mixture in a freezer safe container and freeze
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When I have time to bake with my kids
Kitchen being cleaned
making lefsa with my aunts and grandma
Baking with myy 11 y/o son. He wants to be a chef.
When I am with my children making cookies
My dad let me go [wild] on a raw chicken w/ a meat cleaver.
My mother and father cooking for each otther
Cooking with my son. (cookies)
Cooking Thanksgiving dinner with my mom
making tortillas w/ my grandma
making play dough with the kids
My disabled brother as a boy would try to help me cook.
he was so cute.
making play dough with the kids
Making Mexican flour tortilla and when they cooled they couldn’t fold but my family ate it anyway. lol.
Fish I love cooking fish with my mom for family dinners on Saturdays
Cooking with my grandmother
Grandma’s Kitchen on Sundays is always fantastic
Baking w/ my kids
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my sister walking in while my mom was cooking saying WHAT is that stench? My mom got very irritated and my sister said what? I thought that word meant smell is that not what it means
My favorite memory is with my 11 year old son. At the time he was 9. Ratatouille had just come out with a cookbook and Ian wanted to try out a recipe. His first dish was Fettucine Alfredo. It was Devine! The excitement in his eyes when we actually sat down to eat as a family and he told his Dad that he “made dinner”. was priceless!
My favorite moment in the kitchen is starting the Thanksgiving dinner with my husband for our family & friends. It’s a 4 day event of preparations for a gathering of 25-30. We collaborate and clash, combine and separate. Laugh and sigh and share a bond like no other time. It’s always something I look forward to, and I’m already thinking up stuff for this year. Thanks for the great giveaway, and considering me (us).
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No favorite memories in the kitchen. I always preferred the eating that comes after the cooking
My memory as a child was baking with my Mom and now as a Mom it is baking with my daughters.
making cookies with my mom with i was little
Making cookies with my 2yr old daughter! =)
Making chocolate chip cookies with my Grandma, and making Christmas candy ever year. So many memories and smells come back to me when I think about it. MMMMMmmmm. I am DYING to win this!!
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My favorite kitchen memory is when my older sister and I were kids and we made home-made donuts with our mom
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Baking Christmas cookies with my Mom and sisters is a special memory.
Well, old school favorite memory is making chocolate chew cookies for my dad with my mom. Current day is making colored pancakes with my son.
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I have fond memories of helping my Grandmother in the kitchen when I was little. She always stood me on a chair and set me up to tear the lettuce for the salad.
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my favorite memory is baking cookies in the kitchen with my mom.
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I love to bake … but I remember the first time I ever did. I was in 9th grade and I made shortbread from one of mom’s church cookbooks. I was hooked that day! I continued to bake about 6 more selections from the cookbook which left me out of eggs; so I stopped — for that day. I now LOVE to bake and enjoy doing so at least every Tuesday for my husband’s employees when he hosts his team meetings. I also enjoy whipping up a thing or two for my family and friends.
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