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Funny you should mention that.

I do a food column for the magazine I write for, I throw the recipe in, and make the food and photojournalize the end product.

I am waiting for the day my mother looks at me and DOESN'T give an opinion on what I'm making and what she can do to help.

And by help I mean, take over.

More recent conversation went like this.

"So are you gonna make that pecan pie?"
"Yeah, but I'm gonna make a sweet potato pecan pie."
"Why the HELL would you ruin a pecan pie with sweet potatoes?"
"Because it's more colorful, and has a nutritious effect on the over all piece."
"Are you still going to add chocolate chips?"
"Who said anything about chocolate chips?"
"I thought you were going to make a chocolate chip pecan pie."
"No mom, YOU said I was going to make a chocolate chip pecan pie, because you want me to make one."

Yeah... every time I have a recipe, she throws her opinions in. But I'll show her...

... I'm gonna make beer next time.

My mom loves to come and tell me how she does things. Sometimes I value the advice; sometimes it won't work for various reasons. But the funniest (or most annoying, depending on my mood) are the things I already know. How do I know them? Because I watched her doing it all the time I was growing up, and I do the same thing myself. I've been out of her house for half my life now, and yet NOW, after I've had the hard part and figured it all out by myself, NOW she thinks it's a good idea to start teaching me how to run my home. wink