Mama was gifted and skilled in the kitchen. I regret not watching her more in my early years of growing up. The meals she could cook, the cakes and pies she could bake, and the manner in which she went about the tasks stick with me today. Looking back now I see where I picked up a many of her cooking habits (techniques) in the kitchen.
Mama didn’t need a lot of fancy tools; she just needed a good ole’ fashion dinner fork. Not a three-tine (prong) fork, the regular kind what has four prongs. A folk with a beasty handle. She did everything with a fork. She whipped, mashed, stirred, turned, flipped, and agitated everything in a pan or pot with a fork.
She mastered the art of frying bacon with a fork. She didn’t use tongs for such, she just needed that good ole’ fashion fork.
There’s a lot to be said with learning to keep in simple, and using a fork in the kitchen is a good place to start.
