Do you cook?

Where did you learn? What do you cook? I'm just curious how many chefs we have here.

I mostly learned from my mom and from the cooking channel. I always wonder why people think cooking is so hard. You follow the recipe until you don't need the recipe anymore. I'm surprised how many grown adults I've met who can't boil pasta.

I use recipes, but the stuff I grew up on I never had a recipe for. I just remember how my mom did it when I was a kid and I eyeball it. My specialty is lasagna, and chicken parmigiana. I also do eggplant parm but people I cook for always choose meat over veggies so I don't make it much.

 

I dabble in the culinary arts.

 

I'm sure you're being modest Eloise.

I can cook a bit, but I don't make much effort just for myself. I like cooking for other people though. I'm cooking the Christmas dinner again this year.

 

I do three things well.

Starter: French Onion Soup.

Main: Lasagne.

Dessert: Homemade Cheesecake.

I too am cooking Christmas Dinner again this year but that's pretty easy.

 

I love cooking. I didnt really learn how to cook until I was....26 or 27 I believe. Before then I lived on take out and frozen pizzas. But once I started cooking I really took to it.

I dont really use recipes. The first time I make something I skim over a recipe for a basic idea but I still wing it for the most part.

 

Will you marry me?

 

In a titular role only, why not?

 

Oh I get by.
I would definitely like to do more though.

It's a bit more difficult when it's for one person only.
Let's say I make moussaka.
It's gonna take me a while to eat all that.
Eh unless I make it reeeeaaally small.
But then you think - that's a lot of work for something so small.

I make soups a lot though.
Love em, could survive on them.

 

I really enjoy cooking. I first learned with my mum and aunts. Traditionally our family does pork really well so I learned all that and have since created my own work. I have also been to lessons in Chinese and Indian resteraunts in the kitchen so I really used some Chinese and Family skills to create my awesome pork belly that I do.

I'm also into creating cakes and things and always baking cookies or muffins. I also like to do lots of bakes like potato bake or pasta bake and vege bakes.

And I love sausages. I don't make them, but I enjoy cooking them. I'll pretty much give anything I can a try. My Chinese and Indian skill leads me to good stir fry creations and I can nail butter chicken down to a tee.

 

I do a mean Chicken and Prawn curry !

 

The cat and the crow are not allowed to use the stove, so

Yeah... I have to do the cooking.

 

My mom was not a great cook. We grew up having meats she cooked, canned vegetables, boxed instant mashed potatoes, frozen mac and cheese, and canned biscuits. We even had instant iced tea and instant coffee.

I love to cook and I get better every time I'm in the kitchen.

Cooking is an art. You can be creative and inventive; whereas, baking is a science which you have to follow or your results aren't good.

 

This is exactly me except I hate cooking. I didn't even realise until recently. Someone was saying I didn't need to buy mushroom pate, I could make it.. and it just suddenly struck me that I hate all forms of food preparation and cooking. I'm fairly good at it though. My quiches get a lot of love.

But if I was a billionaire one of my big extravagances would possibly be a chef.

 

I love to cook, too. I was the main cook for my many younger siblings, starting around age 12 or 13 and up until I left for university. And there wasn't usually much food in the cupboards, so I learned to be creative and stretch meals. I also worked in food for a long time, where I got to acquire a lot of basic culinary knowledge.

As a kid, I was somewhat envious of kids who got to eat "fun" foods like lunchables or whose folks took them out for dinner. Now, I very rarely meet a meal I would rather order out than make for myself.

If I want to try and make something, I will look up maybe 3-4 recipes for the thing, and get an idea of what ingredients go into it, and in what proportions, and then sort of form an amalgam of those recipes to create my own.

I really especially adopting various foods into their vegetarian or vegan versions--especially with baking.

 

I used to make my own Hummus from scratch. Much shop bought Hummus doesn't have enough lemon juice.

 

Yup. That's another one people say to me. But I just don't want to. I've been giving these kinda "mmhmm, yeess, you're probably right I should, maybe I will..." type answers for years and now I finally feel I don't have to bother feeling guilty about buying pate and pesto and hummus.

I cook for myself a lot purely because it's healthier than other options. If I can cut parts out by buying a tube of something or a jar of something, hooray.

 

Stuffed stuffing.

 

I think this afternoon I'll just fix one of those box mac & cheese things, throw in a can of diced tomatoes and and a couple cans of tuna. Eat with crackers, yay I cooked.