Do you know how to cook?
I'm just curious how many of you know how to cook, beyond throwing a frozen pizza in the oven for a few minutes. If you do know how to cook, what are some of your favorite dishes? If you don't know how to cook, why not, and are you interested in learning? Either way, what are some of your experiences with cooking? Has anyone ever tried making a baked potato without putting a vent hole in it, and then left it in just a little too long? That sort of thing.
Feel free to share any good recipes you've invented as well.
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I love to cook. I wish that an old forum that I used to frequent was still around, as I shared quite a few recipes there. I had a nice recipe for venison that I'd like to get again, as I can't remember it now and it's quite good.
I do have a simple recipe for spaghetti sauce though, that I do remember, and is really good:
1 small can of tomato paste
2 large cans of tomato sauce, plain
2 crushed garlic cloves
1/2 small onion, chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp brown sugar (add/subtract for taste, gets rid of acidity of tomatoes, some people prefer it sweeter than others)
4 tbsp dried oregano
Just combine the ingredients, bring it to a boil, and let it simmer on low for around 20 minutes, stirring occasionally
I know how to cook some basic foods like bacon and eggs.
I'm asking my mom to teach me how to cook other complex recipes and hopefully be able to bake.
Well, I can make a nice pork tenderloin with grilled eggplant and spaetlze, but I'm no master - I still can't make a hotpocket without it being frozen in the middle or scalding on the outside.
I know how to cook a few dishes, mostly Russian ones, like Borsch, Ukha, Vareniki and Kartoshnik. But I must admit that I prefer baking, I really love sweets. Not to brag, but I think my zucchini bread, date bars and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are pretty bomb.
Honestly though, I haven't baked or cooked in at least 2 months, just can't seem to find the time. Lately, I've basically been living off of peanut butter and caffeine..definitely not very healthy lol.
That's cool that the class is teaching you some interesting recipes. I never had a culinary class so all of the cooking I know how to do comes from helping my parents and grandparents in the kitchen when I was young, and my own trial and error as I got older. I think culinary classes should be either mandatory or at least encouraged for highschoolers so that people that don't get experience at home can still have some sort of starting point.
Hey, long time no talk. Is your family Russian by any chance, because those are not what I'd call typical American dishes. I've never tried any of them actually, though I would have no problem trying them out. As for the sweets, when I make zucchini bread I tend to add double the zucchini that other people add because it makes it stay moister. I also do it because a lot of people's zucchini bread tends to just taste more like cinnamon cake.
At least peanut butter is full of protein lol.
I do not know how, nor have I ever tried (aside from a class I had in Highschool that I was pretty bad at). I'd like to learn though.
Well if you can make pork tenderloin like that I'm sure you can make other things well too if you try. As for hot pockets, that all comes down to your microwave. Luckily for me mine tends to heat things pretty evenly, it's just best not to eat the bowl because that shit gets hot lol.
It's a good skill to learn, knowing how to feed yourself is something I think anyone should know or want to know. Maybe you can start out small by asking your mom to help with small stuff like doing the chopping of vegetables so you can get used to it.
I... I can make Grilled Cheese.
It's a start. Everyone starts somewhere.
Hey there! It has been quite a while now that I think about it, my visits on the forums have been kind of sporadic lately.
Yes, my family is Russian. I can also make a few American dishes, I think my meatloaf is alright lol. If you're interested in trying out any of the Russian dishes, I'd definitely recommend the vareniki, it's my personal favorite.:]
That's what I do as well, sometimes I will mix in some chocolate chips just to add even more sweetness lol. Or I combine the zucchini bread with banana bread, it's surprisingly a pretty good combination.
True, true. I love me some peanut butter, but it definitely shouldn't be the main part of my diet lol.
Well if you're living with anyone that knows how to cook you could always ask them to let you help or just sit in the kitchen and watch. Getting some practice at chopping vegetables is a good place to start while being helpful and out of the way.
If you find that venison recipe I would like to know it, venison is one of my favorite foods. When I cook I tend not to go by a specific recipe, moreso just by taste, but I've made venison stew, chili, steaks, roasts, etc, and it's just an overall delicious meat. It's hard for me to share recipes beyond the basic ingredients that I add because of how I cook, every time I make something it's a little different, which is a shame on a thread like this.
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I figure I should share a rough idea of a recipe with you since you shared one with me. Something I made that was a bit over the top but was very well received was a meatloaf designed to be eaten as a sandwich. I had ground turkey and bulk sausage which I mixed, a cup of breadcrumb and an egg per pound of meat, an Italian long hot, a red cubanelle because bell peppers are a bit overpowering, an onion, an amount of cheddar cheese I can't specifically recall, and garlic. To spice it up I added salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and some garlic powder. Once it was formed I topped it with a combo of AI sauce, ketchup, and cayenne pepper mixed together which baked into a crust. Once it was cooked we put it on Kaiser rolls with some sauerkraut and dill pickle slices. Like I said it was a bit over the top, but there were seven of us and we all enjoyed it.
Writing that was a bit painful for me, because it could hardly be less informative, but that's my own fault for working from imagination and not specific instructions.
If I ever see it anywhere I will definitely give it a try, and if I find a recipe that sounds good I might even try making it myself.
It really is a good combo to mix the two flavors. I've even added raisins before, which came out quite good. Chocolate chips though? That might be a bit much for me lol.
Probably not, but peanut butter sure is delicious.
I have the recipe I use lying around somewhere..I'll send it to you if I can find it.
Raisins? I haven't thought of that, I think I'll add that next time. Hey now, chocolate chips make everything better, don't knock it till ya try it.;P
I'll have to try it with them before I knock it, you're right, but it it just sounds too sweet. They certainly do make peanut butter cookies better though.
Super good at making hot water.
Thanks to Youtube, I am able to properly chop up onions and garlic.
I watch my mom chop up the vegetables when she cooks, and do what she does when im washing the dishes (pretending to chop vegetables)
Well you've got a one up on some people I know.
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A girl I know left water boiling for so long the pot she was boiling it in melted and ruined her burner.
Ramen is my specialty.
From there you need to really start paying attention to the specific spices she adds to different dishes, and the amounts if she keeps track. That will give you a good place to start when you start making your own dishes.
Through a combination of living on my own in the past and currently being married to someone who can't split cooking duty to save her life, I kind of have to. :S
Not really. When I do, I tend to just grill or fry chicken breast and steam vegetables. I've never cooked anything too complicated. I think banana bread was the most difficult I've made.
Things don't need to be super complicated to be good. Grilling foods is easy and delicious. I particularly like grilled fish, and venison steaks.
Except I started with toast xD
Well hey, you're improving then! Lol, it's a step up. Next put some ham, bologna, pork roll, or bacon on your grilled cheese. Then you can add tomato. Lol, it's all progress.
And I cooked chicken once... I totally forgot about that xD I guess I can cook then!
Next time you cook chicken just remember what you did the first time, and if the first time there was something you didn't particularly care for, like maybe too much rosemary if you use it, just change it up the second time you make it. For me that's basically what cooking is about. I just do whatever I feel like at the time without worrying too much about established recipes. It makes it hard to share with people, but I've also never made something I didn't like.
Yeah! I got ahold of one of the cookbooks she used to read before.
I'm amazed on how many things is needed to make something tasty.
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I know how to look up recipes on Google and follow simple directions. That's effectively the same as knowing how to cook, right?
I know how to cook pasta with tomato meat sauce. I also know how to cook rice, cook potato. And eggs. I am pretty sure that I can cook a beef. I also know how to make salad. That's the extent of my cooking skill, I guess.
I am a professional in all things microwave cooking.
I love to cook and do it often. I do traditional cuisine of my family (Russian-Ukrainian) and also I love doing French desserts (kouign amann, gateau basque, kugelhopf, compote de pommes, les quiches etc.).
I can do beef steaks too (bloody ones).
I damn near set myself on fire the last time I went near a stove so can you hazard a guess?
Well, man, I already told you once how good I am at cooking.
Or, no, wait, actually I might have forgotten. If I'm given (very) good and thorough instructions, I can actually come up with something decent. No improvising or creativity from me though - I'd rather not burn the kitchen down or make a meat soup taste like cranberry.
Sure, if you can follow instructions and make something for yourself, that counts. Generally everyone needs a little guideline to get them started, even if they aren't following other people's recipes to the letter. I just know a lot of people that don't even bother to go that far, so I was curious if anyone here ever went the extra mile. It seems like a lot of you do.
Put in box, press numbers, ????, profit.
When you make sauce, if you don't already, try adding some pork or pork bones. Pork mellows out sauce and makes the flavor get way better, in my opinion, if you let it cook down in there.
If you can cook that stuff I'm sure you could cook other things that might seem daunting if you were to give it a try. Making a roast dinner, and then a soup from the leftovers is far more simple than one might think. It's just very time consuming, especially if you're making enough a lot of people.