re: "I can cook"

One important ingredient to being "able to cook" is the ability to time accurately when each component of the meal is done.

A meal needs to be played like a golf hole, from the green to the tee and not the opposite.

If you want to experience what not to do, eat any holiday meal at my inlaws.

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She got the water to boil, but she couldn't cook the pasta from the box of mac and cheese to save her life. It was either hard or mush.

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Worse things can happen. Lucy wanted to fry some bacon. So, she put a half quart of oil in a pot and put the burner on highest heat (like a deep fry for fish). When it started to smoke she threw in a 12 oz. rasher of bacon. There was an explosion.

Chicken salad, Monjuni's and pasta, French bread and butter and Brookshire's fried catfish.