Ohm, now that I remember it was the grease that caught on fire. I
remember my dad was pretty shocked and just went in to crisis mode, and
I was scared. Can't reven remember if we ate those hamburgers or not.
And the teacher as I remember was pretty embarrassed and left pretty fast.
On 7/11/2020 6:36 PM, Lora Leggett via Cookinginthedark wrote:
Oh wow! Thank God you did not set the house on fire!
I bet that scared your Dad! But now it seems like it started out to be kind of
fun.
Too bad it didn’t end up that way. Wonder if the burgers burned or if it was a
little of the grease that dripped onto the burner.
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Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind
Oh, this is such a fun story. Isn't fun to relive those cool memories? I
remember one of my resource teachers came and almost set our house on
fire when I was a senior. My mom was in the hospital, and my dad was at
work, so she asked me if I'd like to surprise my dad with dinner when he
came home. He got home just in time to see smoke coming out of the house
because we had made hamburgers, and the broiler was on and I think it
hadn't been cleaned or something, and ... well, thankfully we didn't
have to call the fire dept. (lol)
On 7/10/2020 3:39 PM, Lee Mounger via Cookinginthedark wrote:
Greetings All,
While perusing numerous saved months of this forum I came across this
post. Wow, did it bring back some memories. In 1970, I was a senior
at Texas School For The Blind. At the beginning of the year, two
other senior guys and I needed a half credit to for some reason fill
our graduation requirements. It turned out that we could either take
shop or home ec which meant cooking for half the year until Christmas
break. We had all taken various kinds of shop for years so we decided
together that it might be fun to take cooking, and so we did. Mrs.
Tipps had been the home ec teacher for many years and in fact, she had
written Cooking Without Looking which was inspired by her husband who
was totally blind and had passed away sometime back. As fate would
have it, it ended up being just us three guys and Mrs. Tipps in
cooking class. It was interesting because I don't think she had ever
taught any males much less three fun-loving guys like us and no girls
in class. It was hard for us to take cooking class really seriously,
so we probably took it half-seriously. Anyway, I remember we laughed
a lot and worked in some learning too. To her credit, Mrs. Tipps was
very tolerant of us. For the culmination of the cooking class, each
class got to decide what they'd like for a meal and then prepare it.
When she asked us what we wanted to do for our meal, I wonder how she
looked and what she thought when we told her we wanted to do chili and
milk shakes. The day before our meal, she went shopping and bought
everything we'd need. The next day when we came to class, somebody
came and told us that Mrs. Tipps was out sick but her message to us
was to go ahead and prepare our meal. So I remember three
unsupervised senior guys prepared and ate our chili and milk shakes.
I think we may have laughed the whole period. I remember the next
class when she came back, the only thing she said was, "You know guys,
you really didn't have to use all the ice cream for your milk
shakes". All in all, she was a nice lady and her book is still useful
and has pretty much stood the test of time.
On 2/18/2020 3:47 PM, Jeanne Fike via Cookinginthedark wrote:
Hi everyone,
According to BARD there are two audio versions of the Cooking without
Looking book: one with a db starting with 11 and the other with the db
starting with 52; as well as a braille version. (I just looked.)
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, an aunt of mine read for a Talking
Book organization in the St. Louis area. She recorded a copy of the
Cooking without Looking book (on cassette) and gave it to me at
Christmas that year. I still have the cassettes, but would like to get
them on to a sd card for my stream.
Happy cooking. :)
Jeanne
On 2/18/20, Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark
<cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote:
I know; I used to have a braille copy.
Now, the recipes I copied from it are digital, and the book
Has long gone into the recycling bin.
Marie
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Subject: Re: [CnD] More books written for the blind
I don't know about the others, but Cooking without looking is also
available
in braille.
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Subject: [CnD] More books written for the blind
Hello, everyone.
For those who may be interested, I highly recommend the following
Books written for the blind. They are all on Bard,
And in audio formats.
Cooking Without Looking by Esther Knudson Tipps
There are two different recordings of this book.
The information is dated, but much of it is useful and there
Are many easy recipes. One of the audio versions is actually
Read by a blind man from a braille copy for NLS.
When the Cook Can't Look by Ralph Reed
He is blind and explains how he does things well, how
To do things step by step without vision or supervision.
He has recipes in the book, and he
Rates them level 1, 2, and 3. All the recipes
Are easy and that book is well written. It is read by
Ray Hagen. One recipe I like is sauerbraten, which is not
Soaked with cookies; that recipe in the book is the real
Sauerbraten.
Another book full of tips is written by a
Deaf-blind woman. It is called Pathways to
Independence by Rita Kersh.
It covers everything from housekeeping to
Cooking without sight and hearing, but those who can
Hear can also benefit from this book.
Please check it out. It's on Bard.
Another one available on Bard is
Adaptive Culinary Techniques for the Visually Impaired
It is well written by its blind author.
I frequently monitor Bard and so all this
Comes down to knowing what is out there.
Now, you have more easy recipes when you
Get these books from Bard or your local braille and talking book
library.
Of course, we should continue to help each other on the list.
Don't stop sending tips!! Even I can benefit,
And I'm an old hand. There are things I never would
Have thought of, always something new to learn from others.
Best,
Marie
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