The cooking thread got me thinking

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I can do pretty well if I'm motivated and put my mind to it, but most of the time I just microwave something or get takeout. With practice I think I could probably be a good cook.

I'm a good cook,though some people in my life may disagree.

I love to cook, when I have the energy. And for those of you who would like to make a dish and feel good about it, there's always the slow cooker. They have little recipe booklets in the box, when you buy one, and I tried a truly delicious wild rice with fruit recipe, and another one for pot roast that was so tender and good. It's virtually impossible to ruin a dish in the slow cooker.

I don't go for the high-end specialty foods, but I can manage to blend flavors together enough and experiment so that it all comes out pleasing. Although having company stresses me out, I love being in the kitchen to satisfy their palates.

toast is good!

I hate cooking... I want to have a personal cook.
It's hard for me to think in advance what to cook and buy everything...

Pretty decent cook. I learned to cook so I wouldn't like...die. My parents got divorced, and before the divorce, my dad would only cook mostly organic food from scratch and I was really healthy. After my mom got custody, my diet consisted of Chef Boyardee, Hot Pockets and frozen pizza and I got fat and felt terrible. So at about 16-17 years old, I started cooking for myself, initially spending my allowance money on my own food, eventually my mom got the hint to include me in the grocery budget. Bittersweet reason why I learned to cook, but yeah. My next plateau cookingwise is baking, I'm a terrible baker. But yeah, most of what I eat I cook myself from scratch and it's done me well healthwise. But I'd like to start making my own bread. Store bread sucks.

I'm a good cook (at least I like to think so) - and other people have told me this several times.


However, I hate touching gloopy things, especially if they end up going between my fingers (ugh, hate, hate, HATE), and have to have a perfectly ordered kitchen - a boyfriend would insist on tidying up around me as I cooked, moving things, chucking them in the sink, etc - and if he actually got in my way and bumped into me, I would get really stressed and chase him out of the kitchen.

We had arguments about his deciding to put various spices and seasonings on the meat or fish when I hadn't planned for them, for example, when he decided to cover it with paprika - the second time he did that, he didn't actually put it on mine, but then put them all in the same dish in the oven. He just didn't get that if I didn't want it in the food I was cooking, I just didn't want it, and his interfering with it ruined the whole meal for me.



My two children had more sense - they knew to sit in the corner and not touch anything whilst talking to me, and I would hand them little treats like carrot sticks as I prepared the food. The cat learned this quickly, too - he sits up and away from me and watches.



But, if I'm left alone to do things the way I want to, I can cook plain food, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian and a lot of other styles.

I love to cook but cant stand not beling alone in a kitchen, though about culinary arts school but suspect a hectic restuarent kitchen would over load me now with my sensory issues,, to bad.

I'm an excellent cook I can prepare any dish simple to the most challenging. But my fondness for seasonings Is too much for the salt and pepper is all I use set. I smoke, marinade, dry rub, sear a cheap steak and you would think it was the prime cut. And stay off under foot I carry a large extremely sharp knife. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4BOZcDMw_A&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]

Yes, I'm a good cook! I'm not a professional, never wanted to be, but I've always liked to cook, since I was a girl. I like to bake from recipes, but I also just sort of wing it with meals, and I pride myself in being able to make a tasty dinner from almost nothing if we haven't shopped and the cupboards are getting bare. My spouse, also aspie, is more scientific in how he cooks, but he's very good and loves to do it.