Can you cook?

[JezebelinHell]

I CAN cook, I don't enjoy cooking. Actually, it isn't the cooking, I am completely against the cleaning up process that is involved.
Honestly I would prefer to have a guy that cooked and cleaned and I would do the car work and fix the appliances. I like fixing stuff. I am horrible at cleaning and organizing. >.<

 

[pyramid head grape]

I wish I could, cant even make a bowl of cereal. No I'm not that bad I tend to stick to ready meals.

 

[Ice Car]

Yes, I am an amazing cook. I can cook Instant Ramen with my eyes closed, and use microwave to heat up stuff! I'm the best cook ever. And before you yell "Get back in the kitchen" at me, I'm a guy. GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN BITCHES

 

[ApeShapeDeity]

I sure can cook. I enjoy it, too.

For my spicy sausage pasta sauce recipie (posted in another thread)...

Spoiler: My pasta sauce

A pasta dish of my own design;

Chorizo saussage
Chilli
Red oniion
Roma tomato
My (home made) sauce base
Kalamata olives
Portobello mushroom
Minced red capsicum (fresh)
Dry red wine
Garlic
Fresh herbs.

Fry off sliced chorizo, use a little olive oil and the fats (so tasty) to clarify the onion, add garlic and chilli. Wilt the chilli. Add the mince capsicum, a couple o' mins later, the wine. Reduce slightly.

Now throw in the sauce and tomato, taste it. If it needs it add pepper, salt and/or raw sugar.
Give it a little simmer to let the flavours develop.

Add the mushroom and olives. Give it 5 mins, tops. Use the mushroom to let you know when to move on. Drop in some fresh herbs (I use sweet basil and oregano)

Serve that up on some spinach fettuchine and top with freshly shaved parmisan.

If that doesn't make you hungry, I don't know what will.

Enjoy.

I also make a orange chocolate cake, I'm quite proud of with candied slices of orange on the frosting... it has a lot of Grand Marnier in it... Yum.

Captcha: ectialso licate

That sounds... dirty. Like some sex act I've never heard of.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I can cook a little, nothing from stratch though I need some guides or I'd be lost. Also I don't enjoy cooking so I tend to avoid cooking anything beyond just putting something in the oven for 20 minutes most of the time.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

if by cook you mean incinerate into charcoal i could literally write a book on all the kitchen disasters ives caused heres a short list
set a toaster on fire
set a toaster oven on fire
exploded a microwave using only a potato
set tea on fire
made an oven spew smoke with nothing inside of it

as for signiture dish the only thing im able to cook without burning is eggs so i guess thoose

...How do you set tea on fire? Unless you were going for one of the flaming coffee type drinks, I don't see how that's possible.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

I can make spaghetti.
That's about it.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

i love steak, so mainly i do things like sauces for it, peppercorn is my favourite on a lovely steak, usually served with mash (from scratch obviously) and mixed vegetables all steamed, i cant stand boiled veg, although sometimes i lightly fry them like as if it were a stir fry, who says stir fried veg cant be a side

 

[VanityGirl]

I can cook anything. My boyfriend's favorite dish of mine is a spicy shrimp alfredo I make, it's not overly spicy, but just a nice bit of heat.

 

[Geeky Anomaly]

Pastas are the extent of my cooking skill. My dad taught me all about sauces and such.

Is it still considered cooking if you mix a drink....then light it on fire? :-D

 

[Lyx]

I always found the "can you cook"-question a bit useless, because what "cooking" means is left completely undefined. The meaning may have been obvious in 1980, but not now, when it's more a spectrum than a binary.

For example, i can do more than just put something in a pan or oven, and yet i'm hesistant to say that i can "cook".

Reason: I can make dishes out of already prepared ingredients, but once there is knowledge involved how to prepare the ingredients themselves, i'm quite amateurish. So, i can buy ingredients that mostly just need to be added at the right time, then finish up with spices etc., but that's not what i'd call "cooking". Compared to people who buy raw ingredients and do all kinds of lengthy preparations and stuff, i'm clueless. The typical time i spend in the kitchen making a dish, is 30-50mins, almost never longer.

 

[NiceGurl_14]

In Short, no. I can not cook...

 

[Dwarfman]

I'm a qualified chef and have been working in restaurants for the last 12 years or so. So yes I like to think I can cook.

My signature dish is salmon (skin on mind) cooked in a pan till the skin is crispy and the inside only just turning pink (prefably still a little medium in the center).

People love my maki and nigiri. I can make people eat their yucky vegetables.

Not so great with desserts but I get by and that's what patissiers and flour monkeys are for anyway.

 

[Geeky Anomaly]

I'm a qualified chef and have been working in restaurants for the last 12 years or so. So yes I like to think I can cook.

My signature dish is salmon (skin on mind) cooked in a pan till the skin is crispy and the inside only just turning pink (prefably still a little medium in the center).

People love my maki and nigiri. I can make people eat their yucky vegetables.

Not so great with desserts but I get by and that's what patissiers and flour monkeys are for anyway.

Dude...made me hungry. NO FAIR!

 

[searron]

Toatally. I worked as a chef one summer. And now I live by myself in a foreign country. So if I want American food, I HAVE to cook it. Lets just say you've never had a bad pizza until you've had one with mayo, corn, and and squid ink.

 

[Dwarfman]

I'm a qualified chef and have been working in restaurants for the last 12 years or so. So yes I like to think I can cook.

My signature dish is salmon (skin on mind) cooked in a pan till the skin is crispy and the inside only just turning pink (prefably still a little medium in the center).

People love my maki and nigiri. I can make people eat their yucky vegetables.

Not so great with desserts but I get by and that's what patissiers and flour monkeys are for anyway.

Dude...made me hungry. NO FAIR!

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I usually serve my salmon up with a nicoise salad or with kipfler potatoes that have been sauteed in butter and lemon with green beans, spinach and proscuitto.

When I serve steak and mashed potato I like to truffle my mash. This means I buy truffle infused olive oil and mix it in before serving. If I can't get truffle oil I confit whole garlic in duck fat. I add the mushy garlic cloves to my butter and cream and allow the flavours to infuse before adding the mix to my potatoes mmashing and mixing whilst hot to ensure the mash is fluffy and to avoid lumps .

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Kinda. I've been experimenting more and more lately. My mum has taught me some things, other things I've worked out myself.
Oh and my signature dish is chicken curry.

 

[FamoFunk]

I can cook quite a lot of things from scratch, Burgers, Curry, Stew, Pastry items...

My favourite to make though is Bolognese, can add whatever you want in ti like peppers anc carrots and make it spicy, too.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I would say I'm a great cook. I didn't really learn to cook anywhere, I just learnt by doing. Started with random recipes I found then experimented with whatever I thought worked. My signature dish is chicken in a honey mustard mint and chilli sauce with roast potatoes in sesame oil. I should think of a shorter name for that... it's probably the easiest thing to make but it tastes the best.

I also love to make spiced turkey burgers filled with feta.


Edit: SHEPHERD'S PIE! How could I forget that. The dish of my childhood.

 

[The Human Torch]

I can cook, but find it incredibly boring to do. So mostly I just follow a recipe and it turns out well enough.