Cooking and you

[Sp3ratus]

So, I just finished a meal a couple of hours ago, cooked by myself. Not to brag or anything, but it was pretty delicious. This got me thinking, how well-versed are the people on this site actually in the kitchen? Can you cook and if that's the case, what can you cook? Can you cook your favourite dish, if not what's the best thing you do know how to make?

As for myself, I'm not master chef or anything, but I do know my way around my kitchen. I've lived in my own apartment for 1½ years now, but fortunately my parents had me help cook, along with my brother and sister, so I wasn't completely helpless when I moved. It was pretty basic at first, but I do how to make some good dishes nowadays. My favourite meal, that I can make, which is also one of my favourites in general is lasagna. It's not that hard to make and the recipe I follow makes it really delicious.

So, there you have it for me, how is it looking for everyone else?

 

[Roamin11]

I make my living on cooking, so my culinairy skills are fairly impressive,

Favorite dish? That's a hard choice, but I'll go with my home made perogie pizza!

Currently I have a loaf of bread in the oven for the soup I'm making tonight, Cabbage soup, my first time with this recipe so my fingers are crossed.

 

[Jedamethis]

I reckon I'm pretty good. That may just be because everybody else I know is rubbish though. >.>
I love lasagne. o.o

 

[BreakfastMan]

I can cook pretty much anything, so long as I have a recipe. I was taught how to cook by my mother around 12, and she has made sure that I did not forget those skills as I grew older. I do not really have a favorite dish. I like a lot of different food. I can make lasanga very well, and that is one of my favorite dishes, so I guess that could work.

 

[Sunburn3011]

I can cook a lot of things by heart and pretty much anything else following recipes. My mum and gran taught me fairly early so it comes naturally now.

 

[Wapox]

I was taught how to cook by my cook-friend, he taugh me 2 things, if it burns - it's had too much, if it's frozen, don't try eating it - try Heating it...
oh and he told me to smell my way to a good recipe... yknow have the ingredients u think might work all together and take a sniff...

I'm NOT a cook, I can do emergency cooking, if I'm alone... and I can make the best brown sauce you ever tasted... yummy

 

[darth.pixie]

I can burn water...Well actually the pot that contains water but the former sounds more impressive.

It doesn't help that the only things in my refridgerator are milk, cat food, ketchup and ...something spoiled, usually. Most of the dishes I try to do overspill, end up raw, end up burnt, are really bad tasting...and so on. I'm incredibly picky about food too.

The restaurants 10 minutes away from home are my best friends.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

My high school offered a culinary arts program and I attended that for 3 years. I can pretty much cook most anything. As for favorite thing to cook, that would be my jumbo jambalaya. One pound each of chicken, shrimp, and smoked sausage all simmering for a couple hours with rice and various spices. And half a bottle of crystal hot sauce.

 

[emmademented]

I can cook just about anything given the recipe, I just don't enjoy it terribly.

 

[trollnystan]

I seem to have some kind of kitchen phobia as I hate, nay LOATHE to cook. It sometimes inspires mild anxiety attacks

I know the basics anyway, though I tend to burn things because I don't pay attention. Fried up some thin pancakes today and burned the first one real bad ;_; My plan is to find a fellah who loves to cook and hates to wash up. Who needs a sugar daddy? I just need a chef =P

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

I was taught how to cook by my grandmother when I was but a young lad. My family (relatives all together from my mothers side, we were very close) is a hunting family so the kitchen at my grandmothers was half kitchen, half butcher shop. I learned many things, pies that are always perfect, bread better than bakeries, soups and chowders, ect ect. My favorite has to be white chowder with Deer liver and heart.

 

[Hader]

My cooking skills are nothing much, just enough to get me by when I need them too. Where I live now, and going to the university, I don't even have a proper kitchen, and I don't need to cook a lot or often. But I can cook a fair bit...still have a ways to go though.

 

[smearyllama]

I'm alright, but I fail at making crescent rolls. I pretty much gave up and cooked some big balls of dough. Delicious, but unsatisfying.

My favorite dish would be a nice burrito.

 

[Sonicron]

Eh, skills are moderate, I'd say. I mostly cook by recipes, and it usually turns out fine, but sometimes I try flying blind. My last experiment of that kind was thai cooking; I made some hot red thai curry with coconut milk, chicken and bamboo. Yum! ^^

 

[PeePantz]

Fuck modesty! I'm an amazing cook. It's one of those things in life that I just "got" and was taught to me by my mom at a very young age. Since I was little, I experimented a lot with cooking and can now blow the pants off of her in the kitchen. With that being said, my downfall is rice. Such a simple thing, yet I tend to fuck it up. I've gotten better in later years (because I just buy the par-cooked kind) but unless it's a risotto, rice will forever elude me.

 

[Rblade]

I can cook patato/vegetable/meat all standard versions
I can cook pasta. a steadily increasing number of variaties
I can cook rice. YAY indian food.

so yeah I'm a student that cooks it's own meals. all we gotta work on is the repetoir, not planning on doing any crazy stuff just discovering average recipes that bring some variety to your diet makes it more then enough.

and I cook a mean egg. cheese/bacon. salt/pepper. serve on bread with some tomato and letuce and you got your self a good old lunch that will get you to diner

 

[Sarynroth]

I would say that i pretty good at cooking if I can actually be bothered (or have enough money) to go shopping and get some decent ingredients. My favourite dish to eat is lasagne but I really like cooking bacon just for the smell and the fact it is nice and easy.

 

[A Gent of Villainous Intent]

While I'm not exactly a cook in a small way, I would love to be able to cook my own meals.

Besides, it helps me in the long run if I can learn to McGyver some meals together.

 

[Ryouma]

Not the best chef in the world :> whent to the school for it but quit when i figured out working to make food take the fun out of it

But i know my way around the kitchen atleast well enough for myself ^_^

And i love nachos/Lasagne/spageti and well they are really easy to make

 

[El Poncho]

I can fry stuff, it's a natural Scottish trait.