Does anyone here know how to cook?

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I do sometimes, whenever I feel it and whenever no one's doing it.

So far I learnt just some simple recipes... For now. And too many times that my house has to improvise because we lack of equipment.

But I'd be curious to learn some baking because I like pastries but I never touched an oven before.

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I enjoy it when Im making something for the flavor, texture, appearance. When there is a challenge/technique involved. Simple dishes can be a challenge when I make everything from scratch, for example homemade custard with apple crumble has basic ingredients, but I enjoy getting the textures and flavors just right.

I can.

I learned how to cook when I was 13, and I've been cooking ever since. I can cook just about anything if I have a recipe. I prefer baking, though. Cooking is kind of a chore. I don't really like having to stand over the stove and monitor food while it's cooking when what I really want to be doing is eating.

I just mostly use a pressure-cooker now. Food so much faster and easier and quicker to cook and less clean-up.

Yes I can cook most standard stuff...!

Tomorrow I plan to make Pizza Bobs (Pizza sandwiches oven baked).
I plan to make either Homemade Mac and Cheese with hot dogs, or pasta (well this packaged) with homemade Alfredo sauce.

Oh I can bake too.

I really enjoy when I've made something delicious, one of the few things I could conceivably take pride in daily. I am incredibly picky when it comes to what counts as 'perfect' though. As a kid I would critique my mom's food at like, every meal, and it became a sort of running joke that I would complain about the food every meal. I wasn't complaining though, I was just noting it.

That said, cooking seems to be more of a nuisance than enjoyment. And when it's too nuisancy, I tend to make poorer quality food because I'm in the 'just cook it and get it over with' mode.

I am a pretty good cook; I will make up recipes, know how to adjust or alter recipes I find online to fit my dietary needs and such.

Lately cooking has gotten tedious though-I had to stop using most of my spices (which take up an entire shelf) on the shelf because I cannot trust that brand to be gluten-free anymore.
Fresh spices are great and all, but I don't have a herb garden and I hate gardening.

Tonight I made breaded porkchops. I tried double-coating them, but I didn't like it as much as the time before when I only put 1 coating of crumbs on them, and they got a little too crispy. Last night I made a thai curry soup from homemade chicken stock. I eat leftovers for lunch. I eat eggs nearly every morning. Tomorrow I'm planning on making a plain old roast beef with roasted sweet potatoes around it and salad, the day after I might make this...mexican dish I call it (I made it up), but only because my partner really likes it because the spice situation-I will likely have leftover roast and sweet potato. Rice, salsa, beef, fajita seasoning (homemade mix of course, I could never eat something else due to gluten), roast drippings, garlic, onion, cilantro, daiya (fake cheese). The following day my partner will hopefully make some homemade sushi with shrimp, mayo, avocado and cucumber-we can buy sheets of nori at the regular grocery store. I taught him to make the sushi and he's much better at putting it all together than I ever was.

Fine, I thin I can be an excellent cook, better than most people I know actually. I like creating and I like eating, but the actual cooking process isn't very fun really. I do like having some expertise though.

I'm not sure the last time I cut into raw meat...not because I dislike it, but just because I don't seem to cut much raw meat I guess.

I can cook. I've cooked almost all of my meals over the last couple years or so. I cook very healthy food based on nutritional/medicinal needs, but don't really make anything fancy at all - certainly not like the chefs/cooks at work. Our head chef worked under Gordon Ramsey for a while, among other chefs. The stuff on our regular menu is all pretty damned good, but the stuff they're capable of cooking is pure food-art.

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I can cook pretty good by my standards. Probably not by other peoples standards though. Most food people consider to be good/fancy/gourmet generally tastes horrible to me. i don't like to mix too many flavours.