Do You Cook

[Antilogic]

of course!

What? My answer to this is none other than no!

I consider "cooking" to be doing something besides heating a pre-made item up in the microwave. So I don't personally count Hot Pockets as "cooked" items. I think you at least have to mix a couple ingredients before heating for it to be considered cooking.

On that basis, I can get by...pasta and veggies aren't hard to do, and cooking meat and rice isn't that bad. I've found it delightful to figure out which spices I enjoy and then "re-seasoning" a few dishes more to my tastes rather than the book directions. Chicken with a Cheesy Red Pepper Sauce is a personal favorite.

 

[Perfection]

The rule is:
"If there are directions on the box it is not cooking"

 

[Ansar]

The rule is:
"If there are directions on the box it is not cooking"

Well, I sometimes follow the instructions and add a extra direction that I usually follow for all my dishes.

So, would that be not cooking?

 

[bd41094]

The rule is:
"If there are directions on the box it is not cooking"

hmm, guess i don't cook then. My idea of cooking is opening a box and stickin it in the oven

 

[Raisin Bran]

I cook and I cook well

I took professional cooking classes when younger at l'I.T.H.Q..

I love cooking but I dont want it to be work so I dropped out of the courses after 1 year.

But Im a good cook !

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Yes, one enjoys the whole process and engages in it on a regular basis, leaning towards North European cuisine (specifically Scandinavian and British) as well as Australian necessities.

 

[Perfection]

Well, I sometimes follow the instructions and add a extra direction that I usually follow for all my dishes.

So, would that be not cooking?

Depends on the step, if it's "add hotsauce" that's a definite no if it's "serve with 8 layer cake baked from scratch" that's a definite yes in between and we take on a case by case basis.

 

[mrlaze]

I like eating, hate everything else involved with it, buying, making, cleaning, etc.

 

[Antilogic]

Simply because I like eating, I have experimented a little to make dishes more to my liking.

 

[Sidhe]

Yep I cook well, I'm no michelin star chef, but cooking is a prerequisit for modern life. If you can't cook you end up eating crap.

 

[Antilogic]

Yep I cook well, I'm no michelin star chef, but cooking is a prerequisit for modern life. If you can't cook you end up eating crap.

Precisely. I would prefer my concoctions over some of the stuff I see on the market today, especially the "microwave meals".

 

[Irish Caesar]

I can cook to, I simply choose not to.

Sophie, you're welcome here anytime.

 

[warpus]

I love to cook.

I'll bake a roast, or a steak, then fry it up in butter with some mushrooms and onions. I'll make mashed potatoes with garlic, sour cream, and mm yes, you guessed it.. butter.

I love making stirfry.. I'll marinate the meat overnight in teriyaki sauce, garlic, pepper, salt, other spices.. then fry it up the next day in a wok (just got a new one for xmas), add veggies, beansprouts, rice.. or noodles.. more sauces.. I'm a sauce/spice freak. I have like 15 sauce bottles in my fridge and a huge spice rack. I use them often.

I also looove making spaghetti. I usually make it with chicken, I add tons of my own spices, I buy authentic looking sauces, add mushrooms, peppers.. black pepper.. garlic.. tabasco sauce.. then when it's all done I sprinkle permesan cheese all over everything and then mix in some grated mozza.. mmmm

So yeah, I'm pretty good at this stuff. Usually I follow a bit of a recipe but then go wild and introduce my own elements.. This usually works well

For New Years Eve I made something I dubbed 'magic stirfry'. I made weed butter.. If you don't know what that is or how to make it.. take the most obvious guess.. it's butter with thc I fried some mushrooms in that, and then went on to make stirfry with chicken, pepper, bacon, onions, tons of tabasco, black pepper, and jalepeno peppers.. oh yeah, and lots of soy sauce and even more teriyaki sauce. Then in the end i mixed in the "magic" mushrooms and fried all that for a bit in my wok.

The magic stirfry was a huge success