Who likes cooking?

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Food is totally one of my obsessions. I used to say I didn't like cooking but I cooked a lot because I love home-made food. After a year without a kitchen (renovating the house), I got into the new kitchen and cooked for hours after getting home from work. I didn't need to relax afterwards - the cooking itself was relaxing. So that was when I realised I love cooking as well as food. I make my own stock and everything.

My favourite dish at the moment:

Thinly slice one organic buffalo mozerella cheese

Lay out the slices on a large plate.

Thinly slice some fresh but quite ripe and soft tomatoes (organic on the vine).

Lay the tomatoes on top of the mozerella.

Sprinkle with a little sea salt and lots and lots of freshly milled black pepper.

Break up a handfull of fresh basil (greek is best) and put all over the top.

Drench the whole dish in lashings of extra virgin olive oil.

Eat with toasted sourdough bread which is lovely for mopping up all the juices to clean the plate.

Yum Yum

the tomato mozzerella salad is one of the staples in an italian kitchen...its called salata caprise. Traditionally it also has balsamic vinegar drizzled on top, along with the olive oil.
And yes, it is one of the purest, freshest meals you can eat, as long as your ingredients are very very good.

Cooking is great. I make a lot of Louisiana dishes like jambalaya, etoufe, gumbo, meat pies. I make my own barbecue sauce, I like to smoke ribs and briskets and chickens, I make great chili and different kinds of soup. I can cook real fried chicken. I'm good at sauces. When I cook I dance around the kitchen. One thing I never picked up on is baking. Can't do it.

I like to cook. I hate cleaning up. I will avoid cooking if I don't feel like cleaning up.

I will use a recipe to get an idea on how it should be then wing it. Eating the same recipe gets boring. Winging it creates a different dish every time.

In baking, however, try to stick to the proportions most recipes call for. Too much or too little of ingredient will destroy it.

I love cooking. It's my favorite thing to do! I actually get a high from it.

I can either follow a recipe, or make something up. My mother told me the secret of cooking when I was little. For baking, you need to follow the measurements exactly, although you can make some slight ingredient substitutions. For everything else, you can put in as little or as much as you want to. For example, my family likes onions a lot, so we always put in extra onions.

Little terrifies me more than cooking. About twice a year I will try to cook. Because I almost never do it, it always takes forever (I'm generally slow at stuff, especially things I don't have much practice at), and the results... Well, if the results don't come out well (quite common, since I don't do it often enough to get good at it. And most cookbooks assume I know things that I really don't), I get so upset that I swear I will never cook again.

But I have just become a single mother of a toddler (her father did all the cooking when we were together), so I really have to learn how to cook. I have dug out my Clueless in the Kitchen cookbook (written for teenagers and young people living on their own for the first time), and intend to go through it recipe by recipe, making each one three times. That's my plan.

This because tonight I had to buy groceries and became so overwhelmed that I ended up sitting in my living room stimming for half an hour before calling DD's dad and telling him he'd better feed her tonight. The items in the grocery store are meaningless to me: I have no idea how to turn them into food.

So now I have a recipe picked out and a corresponding shopping list. I even did some research on the Interweeb. By next week I intend to be able to make a mean potato salad!

I love to cook! Sometimes I'll use a recipe, but I rarely ever just make the recipe as it is written. I add in my own flourishes, or can figure out a way around not having certain ingredients. However, I'm not confident with baking! Maybe it's because my mom was such an amazing baker...pies, cakes, all kinds of desserts.

I prefer to make entrees, BBQ, grilled fruit...anything but baking! LOL

I love cooking. When I'm cooking something for the first time I always follow the recipe and I want it to be carefully laid out, with all measurements, times and methods included. After cooking the meal for the first time and tasting it, I might get some ideas and experiment a little next time I cook this meal and alter the recipe a little.

Sometimes I experiment even more and make up a new meal from scratch, rather than altering some other recipe. I just take food and spices that I like and mix them in a way I think might taste good.

I like baking too, but I'm not very experimental with that.

I'm dyspraxic and I usually do all the preparations rather slowly. I know I do those things slowly so I never expect to be able to do things at the same pace as written in recipes. Recipes are usually written by people who have done this a million times before anyway, so naturally someone who is cooking the meal for the first time won't be able to do it as fast and easily as them.

I usually do as much preparation as possible before I start cooking. I cut everything that needs to be cut, peel everything that needs to be peeled etc. so that all the ingredients will be ready at the time I need to use them. I'm not very good with timing though. If I'm cooking two different things simultaneously that are supposed to go together at some point I usually estimate the timing wrong and end up having to try to keep one warm without overcooking it while waiting for the other thing to cook up.

I like to cook. Baking, no. My dad was a good cook and I picked up some of his recipes. Once I had the recipe down I would change it up to suit my tendencies (more garlic, onions, fat, and cholesterol; and much rarer on the beef and pork). I briefly worked as a line/short order cook; I only melted down twice but overall I got too focused on one thing at a time and some orders suffered when I had too many things going at once.
I prefer cooking for one or two; I rarely get a second person to cook for. Sometimes I can really get into cooking alone, blasting some hardcore or metal music and shaking and stirring stuff like it's an aerobic activity. My favorite solo meal is a rare steak sauteed with garlic, onions and maybe mushrooms; garlic mashed potatoes, heavy on the sour cream; and a salad of romaine, tomatoes, and onions with a balsamic vinaigrette.

I like cooking muffins and cakes, but that's it.. Anything else I destroy.

I like cooking but only for myself. If I cook for anyone else, I'm afraid they will all end up with some terrible gastric infection and die horribly. I make a great chili but only for myself. It could be rubbish as no one has ever tasted it besides me and I'm hopelessly biased towards myself. I never follow a recipe exactly, I just pick up the gist of it from the detailed instructions and experiment with various ingredients like a bored, insane witch with too much time. Ginger root is my favourite flavour or smell. I also like coriander and basil.

I am often left to cook on the barbie, I feel like I am not very good though but at leat it puts me on good terms for a short while and there is little chance I will have to do the washing. When I was home alone I one morning experimented for breakfast, I wanted to have a omlat but I did not fave any tomatos, my main ingrediant I had was eggs and gaded chees. I felt like I needed more and since I have been watching Kitchen nightmares I though I might aswell try to do something different. So I decided to put garlic in it, I have not realy done much cooking before so I put too much in, my omlat tasted a bit like realy strong garlic bread.