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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My favorite memory in the kitchen is when I took a cake decorating class with my mom and we practiced by making fancy cakes in our kitchen.
I had a aunt who would have us kids make coolies (peanut butter) when we visited. How I miss her!
I remember making Raviolis with my Italian grandmother.
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My mom let me choose a menu and we cooked all day. We made 3 or 4 different fancy dishes from scratch and homemade bread. It was very special.
My favorite memory is of making gingerbread cookies from scratch with my grandmother
I loved making Fudge with my mom when i was little. Now im older and she had a stroke 8 years ago. and i wish i would of gotten her recipe from her. it just doesnt come out right now.
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My mother started to teach me to bake and cook at the age of four. I remember having to pull the chair up to the stove to stand on so that I could light the stove and cook.
Helping my mom make cookies – chocolate chip or peanut butter!
Favorite memory is cooking a birthday cake for my sister with my mother.
helping my mom and grandma make nut tarts and thumbprint cookies at Christmas time.
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My fave memory is learning to make pot roast with mom at age 5.
making brownies when I was little and licking the bowl!
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My favorite memory in the kitchen is when i made a pound cake with my great aunt i will always remember that.