Do you cook?

[virtuocity]

Inspiration for this thread is that I'm currently cooking:

-Dauphinoise potatoes (extra creamy and garlicky)
-Vine tomatoes roasted in olive oil, balsamic and brown sugar
-Mange tout
-Baby sweetcorn
-Big fat sirloin steaks


YUM!

However, I swear that I only cook because I love drinking whisky whilst smelling the aroma. The eating is secondary to that.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I do about 50/50 with my wife.
She is a good cook but does not really enjoy it, I enjoy it but not so good.

My speciality is chicken chow mein.
Hers is tomato soup chicken casserole which the entire family love.

On Scottish Radio today they asked Madah Jaffrey [spelling] if she loved cooking, she replied 'no I love eating'.

 

[Hacker Khan]

I do most of the cooking. Specialities are spag bol (proper one, not the crap out of a jar), shoulder of lamb and I do a mean pork belly. Also my Beer Butt Chicken goes down very well, but that is quite simple and mostly involves sticking a half drunk can of beer up a chickens butt and roasting it.

 

[Captainron]

I do the cooking in the house. I love cooking and baking as evidenced in a previous post

 

[Andy808]

As I used to chef at various places including Harrods, London.
I do cook from time to time.
I can cook anything and don't have a signature recipe as I make most of them up as I go along and forget what I put in it!

 

[Khamelion]

Inspiration for this thread is that I'm currently cooking:

-Dauphinoise potatoes (extra creamy and garlicky)
-Vine tomatoes roasted in olive oil, balsamic and brown sugar
-Mange tout
-Baby sweetcorn
-Big fat sirloin steaks


YUM!

However, I swear that I only cook because I love drinking whisky whilst smelling the aroma. The eating is secondary to that.

Try layering the potato in a casserole with cream, black pepper, garlic and good melty cheese but not chedder or mozzerella, use one or a combination of Gouda, gruyere, comte, monteray jack.

 

[richart]

I am quite good at grilling things right up to the moment the smoke alarm goes off.

 

[Snelly]

After being expelled from school, I fell in to catering by accident. I have all my chefs qualifications and have worked at 3 Michelin starred restaurants including Claridges. So yes, I can cook.

Favourite recipe is spaghetti, chilli, parsley, white wine, lemon juice, seasoning and Parmesan. All ingredients need to be fresh and high quality. This is delicious. Even nicer with baby clams and red pesto.

My kids tell me my roast rib of beef and Yorkshire puds are the best thing I make though. Can't understand why anyone would buy ready made? It's very easy to make brilliant ones without a great deal of effort. I can give a recipe if needs be.

 

[Andy808]

After being expelled from school, I fell in to catering by accident. I have all my chefs qualifications and have worked at 3 Michelin starred restaurants including Claridges. So yes, I can cook.

Favourite recipe is spaghetti, chilli, parsley, white wine, lemon juice, seasoning and Parmesan. All ingredients need to be fresh and high quality. This is delicious. Even nicer with baby clams and red pesto.

My kids tell me my roast rib of beef and Yorkshire puds are the best thing I make though. Can't understand why anyone would buy ready made? It's very easy to make brilliant ones without a great deal of effort. I can give a recipe if needs be.

Time, ability, convenience. These are the most common reasons for not cooking meals yourself but in reality it's laziness on most peoples part.

 

[arnieboy]

Can't cook, don't cook, but then again my lovely wife does it all for me!

 

[stevie_r]

The wife and I cook on alternate days, as she inherited her mothers cooking skills it means her range is a bit limited!
I love inventing dishes, it's all about the experimentation, having said that I can do the traditional stuff too, my roast spuds are beyond compare (he says modestly).

Brunch today was a chance to test my newly acquired tagine; Beef links, bacon lardons, Kidney, tomato & mushrooms generous teaspoon of harisa and some saffron - perfect hangover comfort food

 

[Khamelion]

The wife and I cook on alternate days, as she inherited her mothers cooking skills it means her range is a bit limited!
I love inventing dishes, it's all about the experimentation, having said that I can do the traditional stuff too, my roast spuds are beyond compare (he says modestly).

Brunch today was a chance to test my newly acquired tagine; Beef links, bacon lardons, Kidney, tomato & mushrooms generous teaspoon of harisa and some saffron - perfect hangover comfort food

My mam was a great cook, her baking especially her 3 tier chocolate cake was superb, but overall her cooking was spot on, her sunday roasts were always something to look forward too.

I think I inherited some of her culinery skill as I can concoct in the kitchen and know pretty much what works well together and I'm not shy at experimenting with different combinations.

When I get round to it I'm going to dry a pork dish with chocolate and chilli, also quite like the sound of pork with Rhubarb.

 

[stevie_r]

My mam was a great cook, her baking especially her 3 tier chocolate cake was superb, but overall her cooking was spot on, her sunday roasts were always something to look forward too.

I think I inherited some of her culinery skill as I can concoct in the kitchen and know pretty much what works well together and I'm not shy at experimenting with different combinations.

When I get round to it I'm going to dry a pork dish with chocolate and chilli, also quite like the sound of pork with Rhubarb.

Years ago I made a pork, banana and apple curry - it was surprisingly good, I normally have a thing about not mixing fruit and meat.

 

[mykweb]

I do nearly 98% of the cooking in our house. I love cooking and wanted to be a chef when I was younger. I still do but understand that the pay will not meet what I earn in IT. well not for now anyway.

I love cooking game meets. My recent creation was a seared and oven roasted breat of wood pigeon served on a girolle mushroom and wild grains, topped with a cranberry and chocolate jus.

Oh yeah and I am going to apply for masterchef next year

 

[evahakool]

I do most of the cooking at home it's also what I do for a living.

So here's a story that will make you chuckle and I've never lived it down.

Making lamb shanks in red wine one Sunday,ask my wife where the shallots are 'we grow our own' in the box in the celler says she, stupidly took some daffodil bulbs instead,after just a few mouthfuls both my wife and daughter were violently sick,found out afterwoods they are highly poisoness . I was sick also but went for round afterwoods which didn't go down well.

 

[Slime]

Mrs Slime is a great cook but every now and then I have a go.
I do an awesome & extremely cheesy cottage pie & an equally awesome & even cheesier cauliflower cheese.
If it ain't got cheese it ain't going to please!

Slime.

I can also butter bread extremely thickly with Lurpak .

 

[stevie_r]

Mrs Slime is a great cook but every now and then I have a go.
I do an awesome & extremely cheesy cottage pie & an equally awesome & even cheesier cauliflower cheese.
If it ain't got cheese it ain't going to please!

Slime.

I can also butter bread extremely thickly with Lurpak .

salted or unsalted ?

 

[Rooter]

I do 90% of the cooking in chez rooter. I am a qualified chef though pre getting into IT. My fav thing to cook is a decent fillet of beef Wellington, possibly my fav dinner. Sooo expensive though but well worth it!

 

[6inchcup]

meal time in my house are a nightmare,due to me having to have a specific diet because of my illness i have to eat different foods to the rest of the family,NO salt very low potassium foods,only 3 fruit or veg a day,no processed foods,no bacon sausage etc it gets a bind when they are having a nice sunday fry up and i have my porridge and toast,or sitting watching them have the thursday night take away indian 5 course meal,there is only so much cottage cheese(low salt) you can eat without going insane.

 

[Slime]

salted or unsalted ?

Unsalted, of course!

Slime.