Do You Cook?

[Sprayber]

I'm no talking about just a burger here and there but entire meals. Since getting married I've been having to do more by honing my cooking skills.

During my single days I ate out a lot or fixed a lot of simple stuff. Anyone cook regulary?


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[Cyclotron]

I've been passing through the heady days of "fend for thyself" in college this past year. This has mostly been an unmitigated disaster. I would never inflict my cuisine on someone I loved.

[alva]

I do, although I still problems getting it all done at home. Just isn't the same as a professional kithen.

I quite often make things that last a while; soup of bolognaise or something like that. That way I don't do alot the next couple of days.

[Provost Harrison]

Yes thankyou, and rather well. I am quite well domesticated!

[Japher]

I cook, I cook well, and I like it

wifey complains to me about the number of cookbooks and cooking mags I have

[C0ckney]

i'm an awful cook, so mostly i don't bother.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yes. But usually things that are not too taxing. I do recommend a slow cooker... those things are awesome (I made fabulous pulled pork with it a few weeks back) .

[Provost Harrison]

Pork? With a name like yours?

[alva]

Cookbooks.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Pork? With a name like yours?

the joys of going agnostic I guess. (imran is agnostic right?)

[Lorizael]

Yes, I can make a mean egg salad for myself and a friend!

Grilled cheese, however, can only end in tears.

[Lazerus]

i managed to set fire to a microwaveable alabama fudge cake the other day

[Tattila the Hun]

I do cook, but I apply too much spices to anyone else's taste...

[Arrian]

Yes, I cook.

I make fajitas, which is easy (chicken/beef, onions, peppers, tomato, cheese, tortillas, salsa).

I make steak/rice or tater tots/green beans.

I make chicken pesto pasta, which is easy provided I can actually find good fresh basil. IIRC, the porportions for the sauce are something like this:

Per 1lb of pasta (what I usually make): 5-6 cloves garlic, 1.5 cup of grated parm, the full large package of basil (roughly 1.5 cups if you cram it into a measuring cup, using just the leaves) and 1 cup (??) of low-fat, low-sodium chicken broth. The basil, parm, chicken broth and garlic all go into the blender. Then just cook the pasta and some chicken and mix it all together.

I make what we call gulash (sp?): fry up a bunch of ground turkey (spoon out grease), onions, peppers and garlic. Cook a 1lb of pasta. Mix together with red sauce (yes, I cop out and use stuff from a jar). Really, really easy, and always yummy.

There's a good parmesian/dijon chicken recipe I use occasionally (typically with sides of rice & green beans or broccoli). It involves grated parm cheese + dijon (or, in my case, honey dijon) mustard + butter (or butter-type substance like marj or smart balance or somesuch) with which you coat the chicken breasts and then bake them.

Got a new one that involves coating chicken breasts with chopped up peanuts (and something to make it stick, I forget if it's buttery stuff or egg, or something else) and then baking them. That came out well.

I make Sesame Chicken stir fry by just doing a normal chicken + onions/peppers/broccoli/water chestnuts stir fry and using some Sesame sauce I picked up at the store, and making up some white rice.

During winter, I make beef stew. The wifey loves stew, and it give me an excuse for eating a ****load of french bread. Or freedom bread, if you prefer.

We also have a panini grill (functionally very similar to a G. Forman grill). Ciabatta bread, cold cuts, cheddar, red onion, sweet red peppers, tomato, lettuce and some mustard + the grill = a tasty sandwhich. On nights when we have softball after work it's nice to be able to make something that simple.

I make pork cutlets sometimes - this is not at all creative (pork in frying pan or on the panini grill + rice or tater tots + green beans or broccoli).

-Arrian

[alva]

I make what we call gulash (sp?): fry up a bunch of ground turkey (spoon out grease), onions, peppers and garlic. Cook a 1lb of pasta. Mix together with red sauce (yes, I cop out and use stuff from a jar). Really, really easy, and always yummy.

While probably very good, it's not Gulash.