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clarke2001
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Topic: How good a cook are you? Posted: April 17 2012 at 18:09 |
Somewhere between 3rd and 4th option.
I make excellent tortillas, tasty dressings/stews, very good goulash and amazing oyster mushrooms coated in breadcrumbs - mostly when I want to impress a girl. I use spices a lot.
But since I'm living alone, most of the time I'm doing ready-made foods, scrambled eggs and such.
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smartpatrol
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:53 |
I can put mini doughnuts on a plate. That's about it really.
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 23:12 |
If I stick to the types of stuff I'm good at, I receive many compliments.
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Proggernaut
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 21:50 |
I'm a pretty reasonable cook - can make a hearty meal to feed that family - including a killer bolognaise sauce and some rather spectacular casseroles, but living in far more temperate climes than many on here (it's warm to hot and sunny 8 months of the year) I love a good BBQ - I can turn out a perfect steak from rare to well done - your choice, and my BBQ lamb chops and cutlets have friends and family begging for more!
BBQ - the great Aussie tradition and the perfect accompaniment to beer and kids in the swimming pool.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 19:55 |
The spectrum of named cooks runs from Ray Ray to Wolfgang Punk?
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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stonebeard
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 19:49 |
Cooking usually isn't a big deal. Follow some directions, take things out of the oven, put 'em in. Pretty hard. Pastries are harder. Doing BBQ right is fairly intensive. It's the difference between typical BBQ and "surely this is a meal for the gods" BBQ.
Edited by stonebeard - December 07 2011 at 20:20
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Catcher10
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 18:48 |
Jim Garten wrote:
Dean wrote:
The only cooking I'm not a fan of is grilling or barbeque - that's not cooking in my estimation, that's a revival of the viking practice of outdoor cremation |
Especially when a novice BBQ cook decides to do chicken without pre cooking it first, so you get that wonderful delicacy, 'double crunch chicken' (ie burnt on the outside & still frozen inside)
No, that wasn't me... |
That's why its an art to be able to grill correctly, any meat, which I do very well. In the kitchen I do well also, I would have no problem serving my cooking to anyone.
I enjoy cooking.......And in the kitchen if you make a mistake, cover it with sauce throw in a potato and call it goulash and ur good to go!
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Lizzy
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 18:03 |
I am a fairly good cook, but for some reason quite a few accidents occur when I'm the kitchen. The scars on my hands are proof of that.
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Atavachron
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 17:29 |
looks good Jim, I have yet to master a really good English fry-up with eggs and tomatoes and bacon and stuff
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Moogtron III
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 02:57 |
Yummy. The British are good in breakfasts.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 02:43 |
I don't cook it that much (as I quite like being alive), but I can do a mean breakfast fry-up:
Canal boat holiday a couple of years ago
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Man With Hat
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 22:33 |
Epignosis wrote:
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I can burn toast, pout water into a pot, and set fire to many things. |
That is quite a skill!
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Thanks. Took many years of practice.
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Atavachron
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 20:25 |
Epignosis wrote:
Man With Hat wrote:
I can burn toast, pout water into a pot, and set fire to many things. |
That is quite a skill!
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If only as a child I could have focused my pouting into culinary skill...
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Epignosis
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 20:22 |
Man With Hat wrote:
I can burn toast, pout water into a pot, and set fire to many things. | That is quite a skill!
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Man With Hat
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 19:26 |
I can burn toast, pout water into a pot, and set fire to many things.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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CPicard
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 19:26 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
Worst sausages should probably be the andouillette and the boudin from France. They should leave this to the Germans or the Czechs and stick with the pate, the mousse, etc.
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Okay, this means war. En garde and all that jazz.
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 18:58 |
Gotta say I'm impressed at the response. Figured I'd get one page if I was lucky.
I personally voted "fraid I'll poison people" even though I haven't yet poisoned myself (knock on formica). My repertoire is pretty limited - I tend to do old standbys, e.g. burgers, pasta, baked chicken or fish - easy stuff that's hard to mess up. I admit I rely too much on frozen and/or pre-made stuff. On occasion I'll get ambitious and do a meatloaf or chili or something. One of these days I'll break down and get a crockpot (slow cooker) so I can load it up in the morning before I go to work and have a tasty dinner waiting when I get home - assuming my building hasn't burned down in my absence.....
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 18:53 |
I'm a terrible cook. I can cook one thing well and even that goes wrong sometimes.
I only cook for myself though.
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: December 06 2011 at 18:41 |
Worst sausages should probably be the andouillette and the boudin from France. They should leave this to the Germans or the Czechs and stick with the pate, the mousse, etc.
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