My Mom's a better cook than yours

I spent a lot of time in the kitchen helping my mom. My mom could make a lip-smacking meal out of anything and taught me a lot of her cooking secrets and methods. The one thing that always makes me smile is one of her measuring methods; A little pinch of anything was what she could pick up with the tip of her forefinger and thumb; a big pinch is what she could pick up with her forefinger bent and her thumb pinching a generous amount of whatever she would add to what she was cooking.
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