You cook?
 

My specialty breakfast. I love omlets, pancakes & sausage!

With some help from the web I have sharpened my cooking skills but I still have much to learn especially in the area of sweets. Bake a cake from scratch, not me I tried bisquick and fruitloops one time and got a disaster.

I'm one of those on the fly open the fridge and chuck it in the pan chefs. My apple sauce pancakes rule. Ever have scrambled eggs and spinach? Try it yum!!

I know how to cook well enough to serve for a small crowd of people or so. Most of my cooking is limited to Asian-style meals, but I do know how to cook a few others as well. If given a choice though I would say that I prefer baking.

My cooking is limited to breakfast. I could whip up my friends a pretty decent breakfast that involves a lot of crap. That time of day isn't hard, but I can't seem to do well outside of that spectrum.

I can cook, but I won't.

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Since I live alone and rarely have friends over it just never seems worth the trouble. Buying ingredients and standing in the kitchen for 30 minutes to an hour feels like too much work for the payoff. As a result, I don't have very much experience, so the times I do cook it takes even longer than it should.

I love cooking. It's one of my few stress relievers during the day, and I often wish I could do it more frequently. Unfortunately, I only cook for myself and I really like to cook large portions, so I usually wind up with enough food to last me for a few days after just cooking for an hour or so. :(

I cook on occasion, I'm pretty good when you give me a recipe and ask me to perform the steps and function. I watch enough Food Network to know what to do when they ask me to julienne.

And I'm pretty decent when it comes to Asian food on the fly.

I can't cook, I don't like cooking, I'm not good at cooking, and I eat out every meal.

P.S. I'm fat.

Seriously, how did some of you even LEARN how to cook when you're by yourself? When you live alone, there's no reason to cook, really.

There's the reasons of saving a lot of money on food, getting food quicker, and eating healthier.

Chicks also dig it.

I cook very little, but it's enough to get by... Soup, stir-fry, omelets, Hamburger Helper (:eagletear:)...

Over ten years ago I asked my mom to teach me how to cook because I though it would be useful in the future (I was 19 at the time). She taught me the basics too cook tomato sauce and the risotto, and I found that I was pretty skilled at the time, and with some effort I bested some of my mother dishes in a very short time.
More than five years ago she died and I took charge of cooking for my father, and I still cook almost everyday since then, and with passion too.
I love to cook, since I found that is the only way I can express my creativity, well a edible creativity, but nontheless a product of my inner self.
Since I live in Italy I came to know quite a few recipes, and lately I tend to create my own recipes.
But lately I'm a bit tired of cooking everyday, so when my father is not at home I tend to neglet cooking and prepare some quick dish without much effort.

I cook half of the meals the people in this household eat, even though my mom could easily cook all of them. I love to cook and especially like to try new things. It's great for stress relief and, if I'm cooking dinner, to reflect on the day. Just yesterday I made homemade granola bars for the first time from a recipe in a cookbook my grandmother bought for me and gave me this weekend. I'm kind of sad though because it's a baking book and I don't have a stand mixer for making the doughs that 90% of the recipes call for. I'm too lazy to kneed dough for 10 minutes.

I really suck at baking sweet things, like cakes and cookies, because I haven't had much practice (hence the random gift of a baking book from my grandma). I can cook savory things like there's no tomorrow, though.

I can cook well, better than my parents even. It's just I can't really be bothered putting in the time and effort to cook decent meals for myself and others. I guess it's a skill I can build on while I'm at home and will be useful for when I move out.

Yes I cook.

I cook a fabulous Perogies, Bacon, Red Onion mix!

I love it. Too bad it takes so much work...

I started cooking when I went off to college, mostly because I wanted to save some small amount of money (as a music student? Ha! We have to get coffee and eat out all the time!) but also because I wanted to be able to cook stuff to impress boys.... And my roommate already knows how to cook, so I wanted to be able to compete with her.

I'm not that bad, actually. As of right now, each weekend my roommate and our two friends are going to start an "international dinner" night, since I'm Portuguese, my roomie is Mexican, one friend is Slovenian and the other is Ecuadorian. We can definitely get some variety going with that mix (and give each other free dinners!).

I'm best at baking stuff, but I can also make good "American" food like Pork Chop Casserole and Pot Roast...things my grandma always made for me. Terrible for you, but damned good nevertheless.

I'm going to culinary school and apparently my biscuits are the best biscuits the gay kid in my class had in a long time.

The secret to making biscuits: use a cheese grater when you have to cut your butter into the flour. It makes it not only easier to make the biscuit dough but also makes the whole thing uniform, which is key!

Also the secret to making things taste good: salt. The chemical reaction that occurs when salt is added to organic materials allows for the natural flavor of that organic material to shine. It's basically sucking the juices out of the cells and being salty.

I LOVE (repeat: LOVE) cooking on the grill, but every once in a while I like to take time off and focus my rage into the oven. Last week I took a whole 10 lbs. of chicken leg quarters and cooked them in the oven because I had nothing better to do:

14 eggs, lemon pepper and oregano made a fine batter which every piece of chicken got dipped into and then subsequently dipped into a mix of bread crumbs and "Chef Merito" chicken seasoning. Once on the pan they're covered in a mix of diced garlic and onions and put in the oven for 45 minutes even.

You will NEVER have chicken this good in your life. MARK MY WORDS.

Yeah I cook you cook?

I can cook, but I tend to specialize in the sorts of thing that'll kill me.

For instance, there's something I like to make called a scotch egg. To make, you buy some sausage meat and a half dozen eggs. Hardboil the eggs to doneness, and then take off the shell. Proceed to wrap the eggs with the sausage meat, and then deep fry two at a time to golden deliciousness. Palm oil tastes the best, but canola / vegatable oil works too. When they're all done, serve with home fries and generous amounts of maple syrup.

It's the greatest thing ever to eat in the morning with a nice glass of chocolate milk, assuming it doesn't kill you due to the massive unhealthiness and all.

Cooking is definetely not one of my best talents. I'm actually a horrible cook so bad that back when I was in university I actually food poisoned myelf at least three times during the 5 years I was in university.

So in terms of my cooking I try to keep it as simplistic as possible. It may not be the most healthy cooking but it gives me the energy that I need to get through the day.

Alot of times I usually cook flavoured rice, but the majority of my own cooking is either things that can be microwaved, boiled and just simply shoved in the oven.

My fiance usually does all the cooking in our house but I do the dishes so it evens out. I hope eventually when I get back home for good, I'll take some cooking lessons because I would like to impress her by cooking for her. I think its always something she always wanted me to do.

I'm big on grilling too. I tried lamb on the grill once and it took forever. Lamb is really greasy. Thanks for the tip I'll try your chicken next time I pop my oven.

I could not cook to save my life.
Even apparently simple things like eggs or pasta, I have no idea at all how to prepare.
There's something daunting about having to set an oven, or attend to a stovetop for just the right amount of time. Perhaps also the fact that no one's ever taught me anything. My christmas wish is to learn how to make pasta from a friend :3

My cooking skill level is around... zero! If I had to cook a meal because my mum is not at home (Hotel Mama really rules!) then is my highest mastery to put Leberkäs in a pan. :D

And when I'm too lazy to do that then frozen pizzas are my friends, you know?

I can cook my ass off. Everyone who knows me knows I cook. I think a lot of times people who have a true appreciation for food just sort of fall into being a great cook because they're not afraid to try new things. I rarely use recipes or pre-made boxed/frozen dinners, either. I like making things from scratch. Everything's so much more delicious that way.

If that means I can follow a recipie then yes, I can. Sometimes I add a little flair of my own to a dish or make up some really weird combinations that I'm sure only my or a pregnant woman's tastebuds would appreciate, but apart from that I'm by the book. The only reason I cook a lot of simple things such as beans on toast, soup etc is because I fall into ruts where I love a particular food and will eat it for months. Plus I can't afford to be too fancy at the moment. I used to have a day every week where I would cook something challenging for my family, years ago, when we actually had time to sit down together for a meal.

I find cooking very fun and people tend to like whatever I serve, but I'm not the most amazing cook ever. I typically just look around online for different types of recipes and try them out. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad, but it's pretty fun either way~

I personally love to cook but lately I been wanting to try to cook new things. suggestions? mainly right now for the last two weeks I want to make cajun stuff liek Gumbo, Etouffee and Jambalaya but don't have any recipes. any suggestions on where to go to find good recipes?

My specialties are manily soup dishes and noodles (includes pasta + sauce).

I keep most of my meat dishes very simple. Salt, pepper, herbs to taste, and usually some combo of soy sauce / rice wine / sake to flavor a bit (for chicken / steak). I'm pretty adept at making simple party food (mostly stuff you'd see in pot lucks, but with an Asian twist) as well.

However, I FAIL at baking. =/ 1) I don't like too many sweets. 2) Baking requires enough ingredients to make enough food for 4 or more. I simply do not have that many mouths to feed most of the time (although a couple of my boyfriend's friends getting together can eat like there's no tomorrow).

I can not cook save for desserts. However, I am trying to learn because I want Western food, and the only way I am going to get it (short from going to McDonalds or KFC which gets old after a while) is to make it myself.

I cook a lot of different kinds of vegetables for the most part, but I'm also good for chicken and seafood dishes - I can cook drunken chicken, for example, or Singaporean chili crab.

I've never cooked beef. Ironically, I am currently talking with researchers about doing a project with how consumers cook beef and E. coli O157:H7 in the beef - if that project gets the go-ahead, I'm going to have to learn to cook ground beef as part of my preparation for my research!

I cook ^_^

I have actually combined Asian and Italian and made it work really well.

Basically a Chicken Teriyaki gnocchi with veggies. It turned out really good.

but aside from that theres Spaghetti (YAY) and I'm experimenting trying to combine asian and non-asian foods

hmmm, if you count throwing some meat on a grill and waiting as cooking then yes, I cook. I'd like to cook more elaborate dishes other than grilled meat but I just don't like the prospective time investment. I'd rather just grill my meat and get on with it (that and currently at my dorm I don't have the tools and I'm too poor to fork over money for them)

I LOVE to cook. It's very satisfying, and it's a lot cheaper than going out and buying pre-made food. I'm just not sure if I'm a GOOD cook, though.

I took a few home-ec classes in my high school days, so I learned a lot of the basics then, and I watch my mom cook a lot too. Coupled that with watching Food Network, and you got a person who's very familiar with cooking <3

I'm studying abroad right now, but I haven't been cooking a lot here unfortunately. It's probably because I'm living with three other people, and the kitchen is TINY. Plus, they're a bit messy and leave dishes dirty for a while, so it's hard to find a time when the pots and pans aren't in the sink =/

Wow. I'd never would have expected this in THIS forum. Baking tips to the best chicken recipes? Haha! Not that I'm saying its bad or anything, just .. unexpected : D I'll keep some of those tips in mind too : )

Hmm....The only thing I can cook is like, real good tomato fried rice and like, perfect sunny-sideup eggs. The perfect bachelor's meal. Plus like, umm, fried sausages on the side with some prawn crackers as well. YUM ;)

Fatties need to know how to cook good, rich, delicious foods. I've honed my skills based on what the number of women in the past have taught me.

I'm pretty okay at traditional Armenian dishes, I have the French shit down (sauce, sauce, sauce), and the American stuff is pretty straight-forward.

These days, I don't usually have time to go home and make dinner though. In the winter, I often cook dinner for my father and I, if I have time. But since I am at the office until 5 or whatever, it leaves me little room to feed hungry men for 6pm.

I LOVE cooking roasts, stews, and crock-pot sorts of conglomerations. I am not, however, too adventurous when it comes to new stuff.

When I say "new stuff," I don't mean new recipes. I mean things that get a little out of the traditional lines of thinking.

My sister made some absolutely wretched coffee bean, semi-sweet chocolate, beer-drowned chili for us this past spring. It was revolting. And she had spent SO much money making it. It was supposed to be Mexican or something. Maybe she fucked it up.

I have a huge box of recipes my mother (the best cook ever) gave me. They're of course not the average recipe - more of a "dash" here and a "dash" there kind of thing. We're not much use when it comes to measuring exacts.

I cook plenty. My grandma had a pantry for a closet space once and that was pretty awesome imho, its a shame that its a dying trend. But really now, there's tons of stuff you can choose from in the pantry that easily make a dish period.

I find myself preferring the more staple dishes than outrageous creations of artistic/exciting new flavors (AVOID). I stick with the basics that I know and came to love for so much. And that is... potatoes, potatoes, potatoes. Its a czech staple for so long and everyone in my family is pretty much into potatoes.

But I can cook awesome breakfast dishes like I'm a chef already. Its pretty easy if you ask me. Dinner dishes definitely takes a lot of time to prepare and to cook simultaneously, too often its not worth the effort, unless you plan on leftovers. The ultimate homemade dinner dish for me is rolls, chicken, greens, potatoes, and another vegetable. I also love foreign dinner dishes, mexican, italian, american, and hmm... french? I also love sea food, its a shame that Jimmy doesn't as much. However, he loves chinese food, which I actually avoid. I wouldn't touch bait food either.

Lunch dishes just varies very often. I love grilled cheese sandwiches and my husband love italian subs that he whips up. And lately, I'm loving salads.

ANNDDD I can cook MEAN desserts that could make you cry. I'm not even fucking kidding. I can bake a 3 layer cake with icing in between and that would make my aunt all fucking envious. LMAO. I had made jello, pudding, fudge, brownies, caramel apples on a stick, cupcakes, muffins, biscuits, crescents, cinnamon french toast, cinnamon rolls, bundt, angel food, layer cakes, cookies (OMG TONS of cookies, in fact my cookies are often the highlights of our store's bake sale fundraisers), popsicles, even homemade ice cream once. I haven't made a good pie though. Pies are delicious don't get me wrong! Its just the damn crust/icing that gives me trouble. I prefer cold pies anyway.

Crockpot/casserole dishes/outdoor grilling is still new to me though. I like the idea of casserole/crockpot dishes sometimes, but I'm a stickler for "side" dishes as just being as SIDES for the taste. ;) Grilling meats are indeed awesome, and I had loved bqing them.

But yeah, I got plenty of cook books here and usually I have plenty of time to cook, but too often Jimmy and I'd end up having take out or eating out. Problem is our work schedules just clash too often.

Basically that's what i do for a living . Cook. not quite as well $$$ like the head chef but not bad pay.

I've been to culinary school and finished that. been a cook for almost 9 years!

Cooking is a big hassle for sure. That's why there's tons and tons of eating out options.

The best thing to do is have the right knives[made in Japan or Germany are best]!

A kitchen island [or table]. And an assortment of kitchen machines [ like the big bling of mixer from Kitchen Aide and the like].

There's all these cooking stuff on TV. I used to watch Iron Chef a lot.

Another pro is the smell of foods, the better the smell most likey the better the taste.

One other thing is to prep foods right. let's say chix breasts. have it in a mixture overnight [like white wine, garlic etc] and by the time you grill it the aroma and then the flavor will hit the spot.
Pork roast in the oven is a blast. same with roast beef.

I cook everyday, but don't particularly enjoy it. But I like eating healthy and saving money, so I do it. I hate following recipes (partly because I'm extremely picky) and instead add ingredients I think go well or like instead of what the recipe originally called for. Which is probably why I'm not great at baking. I just got a stockpot for christmas, so that'll maybe be fun.

I like cheese.

I bake, I broil and anything else in between. I'm just that good.

I cook as much as possible. Usually I cook stuff like Pasta, Lasagna, Steak... things like that. I also make amazing meatballs.

I cook a mighty mean spaghetti and meatballs and dark chocolate brownies all from Scratch!

On campus, cooking is hard, especially if your roomates haven't learned the concept of ''cleanness''.

When I'm home, I cook pretty well when I have proper instructions. Chicken, beef, pork, muffins... I can be wed :p

I love baking. I make a really good white chocolate amaretto cheesecake.

A typical North American turkey dinner (turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetables) is probably one of the easiest meals I can do and impress people with--I guess a lot of people figure it's a lot of work or that guys generally can't do much more than carve the bird, but I really don't find it hard to do and get things tasting good--doesn't seem to be much that can go wrong. I've starting baking dinner rolls too sometimes, but that adds to the prep time.

I can cook just about anything, and if I have not cooked a certain dish before, I learn it very quickly.