So basically
-just answer the question "can you cook?" maybe give a reason why you can or cannot
or
-share a cooking experience
or
-share some recipes or fun little food things you like to make!

I'll start. let's see, i can't cook because i am not comfortable around knives and hot things, plus my parents think i might blow up the kitchen or something.(ok actually i did blow up something but it was the drink i was making and I'm goign to share it with you guys!)

Cranberrycoke
this drink is really easy to make, the thing is, it might explode
so first you pour some cranberry juice and coke or pepsi(they all taste the same) into a shaker or cup that you can shake.(DON'T shake too vigorously because the top will come off if you don't have a tight grip on the cup. Then fill another cup with CRUSHED ice, pour the drink in and enjoy!

another one i like to make is hot coca, shaken not stirred. Just be aware that hot milk will explode.

are sandwiches, scrambled eggs and microwaveables considered cooking? if so; YES *proud*

Cooking Experience:
Scrambled eggs and pancake flipping motion will not result in something cool, it'll just make hot eggs land on you and force you to clean up the kitchen.

Recipe: My comfort food

Cold mashed potatoes, BBQ sauce, microwave.
Mix until sauce and mashed potatoes have a color between...blood and puke, then microwave.

Eat warm infront of the TV. ALWAYS with a spoon.

I cannot cook.
Why.
Does Everything.
*BUUURN?* O':

Easy Mac? Yeah, I burn that shit right up. ;D

I'm a greak cook. Thats all you need to know.

There's a thread kinda like this, but doesn't really matter.

Shoving something in the oven doesn't count as cooking if you haven't done any preparation beforehand.

Shoving something in the microwave....if you can't do that at 8 years old, don't even attempt to cook. Microwaving is just heating something up, not cooking.

Microwaving something counts as cooking if you do it with enough style... Shoving it in obviously doesn't count as very stylish but finessing it in does, bonus points if you use a kitchen utensil (non-pointy) to push the buttons.

As for an experience... Well that'd have to be my first attempt at frying rice (And silly me I didn't ask my mother...) I ended up with rice that was well, tolerable. (Too little frying...)

I tried making pancakes (they were gross). My scarmbled eggs kick ass. *nods* And my toast is the best.I also make the best banana shakes..

I need to learn to cook.

I cook a little. I've baked sugar cookies with icing and vanilla/lemon cake. I've also made mini meringues. Besides that, all I make is like... beef steak, rice, scrambled eggs, etc.

i can make pizza, hot dogs, cereal, and every type of sweet that exists.

*is a bread artisan* Sadly I cannot release a recipe for anyone. Everything's under contract; I would be fined and lose my current job.

Experience:

There were two things that I've done wrong in my entire baking career: 1) I didn't change the units on the scale when measuring out the yeast. Therefore instead of 1 lb worth of yeast in a bagel, we had 1 kilo worth. Two words, big bagels.

And 2) I mixed up salt and sugar when making sweet muffins.

Yes I can! My parents own a deli and a restaurant so I have to cook whenever I work or it gets too busy. It's hard cooking for 30 people at once. Someone should try it once in a while. It's sometimes fun to yell back at the customer who tries to cheat you out by not paying their bill but say they have.

I've learned how to (and still learning!) cook from my parents. My dad worked at a restaurant when he was younger (chinese restaurant.....) and learned more on cooking by watching the cooks there. ..... And learned gourmet foods from the Navy cooks he hung out with..... >_>
Either way, I can pretty much cook a lot of things..... rice (Is this considered cooking? All you do is put it in the rice cooker..... >_>), lo mein, meats, pancakes, eggs (suck at flipping -.-), vegetables, and other crap. Here's the recipe for Crab Rangoons.....

Ingredients:
Cream Cheese
Artificial crab meat (that's what I use..... I think you can use other crap, but.....)
Wonton skins (square)

Preperation:
1: At a 2:1 ratio (2 ounces of cream cheese for 1 ounce of crab meat..... or was it the other way around? Hm..... >_>), mix together cream cheese and shredded up crab meat.
2: Beat an egg. It's used to hold the skin together.
3: Place a small amount of cream cheese/crab meat in the center of the wonton skin. Fold one corner past the cream cheese towards the opposite corner, like you're making a taco or something. (...) Then, placing your knife (or whatever crap you're using..... knife works best though. Butter knife, that is.) to keep the point in place, roll the wonton skin so that the small corner will be overlapped. That way, it will be secure. Then you fold the two corners of the wonton skin towards each other. Apply some of the beaten egg to the corners and attach them.

Cooking:
..... >_>
1: Preheat a deep fryer to..... um..... 350 degrees? ..... Okay, just go google the recipe..... -.-;

Oh yeah, I can make hot dogs and spagetthi. Can't spell it though.

I can make pancakes and scrambled eggs...that's all, in terms of actually cooking.

Weird crap I like to eat:

CROUTON SNACK:

1 bowl of croutons
Salad dressing

BREAD SNACK:

Take a couple slices of baguette bread. Drench in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Top with butter and/or goat cheese. Enjoy.

wow you guys have such interesting recipes! i wish i can cook. my uncle taught me this easy little desert
all you do is get a slice of pound cake, add some banana pudding on top of it, and then top it off with some fruit, like blueberries, peach slices, and strawberries and voila!!! =D

*is a bread artisan* Sadly I cannot release a recipe for anyone. Everything's under contract; I would be fined and lose my current job.


yet i seem to have a copy of your bagel recipe XD

yes i can cook everything except bread, for some reason baking isnt my fortay.
experience: good old fashined helping out in the kitchen and being interested. i can cook a brilliant stir fry, and have several family recipies which will not be disclosed. pasta is my best, but im learing new suff all the time. god bless delia smith, gary rhodes and rick stein

heres a nice dish when your in a hurry.

salami slices (cut into small pieces)
pasta,
red pesto,
creme fraise,

simply cook mix and serve with usualy some lightly done brocoli, nothing to powerfull in falvour.

*is a bread artisan* Sadly I cannot release a recipe for anyone. Everything's under contract; I would be fined and lose my current job.

Experience:

There were two things that I've done wrong in my entire baking career: 1) I didn't change the units on the scale when measuring out the yeast. Therefore instead of 1 lb worth of yeast in a bagel, we had 1 kilo worth. Two words, big bagels.

And 2) I mixed up salt and sugar when making sweet muffins.

do you then charge the same for the big bagels???

i can cook...the basic stuff....dont usually burn or blow up the place.....but i do make a great mess in the kitchen.....:heh:

ahhh messy kitchens, i hate messy kitchens!!!!

Oh, I cook all of the time! I do it as a obby, then leave it for someone else to tidy up! I make ANYTHING. Try me ^_^

Oh, I cook all of the time! I do it as a obby, then leave it for someone else to tidy up! I make ANYTHING. Try me ^_^

oh ok, is this without a recipie?
coz id choose souflay, hard enough with the recipie, making mini ones is fun.
or lesange or...hmmm. sushi

if by lesange you mean lasange then yes. I don't do sushi because A it is hard to find ingredients in England and B I am vegetarian.

I only do vegetarian recepies.

it gets messy.....but i do do the cleaning up afterwards!!!!

I don't!

I can't really 'cook' per se, but I improvise sometimes. Like if my parents aren't home, I can make brekfast or lunch. No, not cold cereal and milk, but I do settle for that often. I also make drinks sometimes, like the stuff you normally find at the store...

cleaning is eas0[y if you pit your head into it!!!!

if by lesange you mean lasange then yes. I don't do sushi because A it is hard to find ingredients in England and B I am vegetarian.

I only do vegetarian recepies.

No fishy???!

Urm.. i could live on my cooking. Mainly make desserts, other meals are just made out of things i find in the fridge/cupboards, unless it's something special

Easy dinner, not too much washing up or mess (well for me :sweat: )

Shove some rice in the rice cooker.
Mean while slice garlic, dice somes onions and chop chicken breast into easy to chew sizes. Open small can of sweetcorn and half can of chicken soup. Fry garlic and onions till sligtly brown (begins to smell nice ^__^) Then fry chicken till it's cooked, add the sweetcorn and chicken soup, you can add some water or milk if you prefer the sauce to be thinner. Simmer till it's all nice and hot. Then eat with the rice! ^__^ yummehhh!

I cook meals and desserts more than snacks. Well, I occasionally make Cola, Lemonade and Orangeade... <_<

I adore cooking *_*
I'm not the best, but I'm always trying to become better ^^

I have a fetish for cooking appetizers for some apparent reason... ^^;
My current favorite thing to cook are these Pita-chip things...I got the recipe from a book but i dont remember where it is D: So...I'll try to share it the best i can @_@

ingredients:
pita bread
olive oil
chopped garlic
salt
pepper
thyme

first, slice up the pita bread into little strips and put them on a cookie tray. then mix um... maybe 2 tablespoons of olive oil and the garlic together, and then brush it onto the pita strips (im sorry...i cant remember exact amounts...i usually eye measurements -_-; ). then sprinkle salt and pepper and the thyme on the strips...dont overseason though D:
after they're prepared pop them in the oven (um...i usually do it at 375 degrees?) and take them out when they look crispy, but not burnt.

i know this recipe is choppy (i really need to find the damn cook book i got it from) but these pita chips are addictingly good, i swear *__*

I bake a lot...like cakes, biscuits.
Oh, but once, I put 160g of Icing Sugar into my Vienesse Fingers instead of 40g...And they got stuck on the baking tray. Yeah, it wasn't fun trying to scrape them off...:sweat:
I can also make bread, and I tried to make those Chinese style egg tarts. They were nice ^_^

I can cook. Just the ordinary stuff though.
Sometimes I cook dinner for the familiy, but usually I'd be too lazy to do that..
And oh yeah, I can bake cakes too.

I love cooking...





...babies.

I love cooking. Anything really. Fried rice. Lemon loaf. Oatmeal cookies. Lemon meringue pie. Lemon salad. Lemonaid.

Grilled peppers...

<3

if by lesange you mean lasange then yes. I don't do sushi because A it is hard to find ingredients in England and B I am vegetarian.

I only do vegetarian recepies.

You can make vegetarian sushi with just the carrot stick or cucumber slice in the middle.

Can you make croissants? They look quite hard to do.

ive made them, years ago, i was ickle but i dont remember it being that bad

Can you make croissants? They look quite hard to do.

I've never tried to, but isn't there a special dough to make them?
I'm not sure, but it's called something like 'Danneroll' here in my country.
It's like a sheet of dough that you can roll and if you put it in the oven it pops into a croissant..
(I'm not sure whether this counts as actually making them though, since you don't really have to actually make the dough anymore).

Yes, but they made me sick...

I don't like them...

I made pizza for Dad. It was a little OTT on the flour but it was nice all the same...

=[
I burnt my brownies yesterday.


and my brothers still ate them x_x

Aww... you are so sweet X!

:wub:

i made brownies for my girlfriend
it was that time of the month and she was craving chocolate...and me being the nearest thing it was either bake or die...
i had to unleash all my stored femininity to bake and cook for her XD

Aww...

I have given up Chocolates, Biscuits, Sweets ("Candy"), Cakes and Ice Cream of any kind for Lent (http://Lent). Also, I am vegetarian so there I have a limited variety of things that I can cook... :(

aww didums

ive just gained a new toy... i mean peice of cooking equipment. a metal giddle pan which i can place right over the hob =D
on the other side its a completly flat surface which is a god send. Steak anyone?

my parents get me the best prezzies

No thanks.

how about fresh roasted veggies lightly spiced?

Mmm

Cheese loaf with egg salad, cucumber slices, more cheese and lettuce in it.

Yes, I cook.

Pork Fried Rice (Seafood style)

Ingredients: half-cup of Oyster sauce
a pot of white rice
a cupfull of peas and carrots (chopped).
a half-cup of chopped scallions.
roast pork cutlets (you can get them from most chinese resturants or meat markets.)
cooking oil
a freaking wok.

Instructions: turn the heat on to medium, and wait for the wok to heat up for about a minute. Place your hands directly over the wok to feel if any heat is rising. Once you feel that the heat is beginning to rise from the wok, pour 5 tablespoons of cooking oil of your choice and wait one and a half minute. (The reason being is you dont want the oil to be too cold so your rice will be oily and you dont want the oil to be too hot as it will explode and burn you everywhere.) Put the white rice in and stir for a few minutes. dump in the peas and carrots, stir again for a few minutes, repeat but this time dump in pork, repeat again and dump in chopped scallions. Make sure you stir well so that the oil distributes evenly and that the flavor is extracted from the veggies and meat to the rice. After a few more minutes dump the oyster sauce all around the rice and stir one last time for a few minutes.
(Note if you would like to add eggs to this recipie then you must fry the eggs first before you place the rice as the eggs wont get cooked quickly and instead of fried rice you get sticky egg rice, which is another recipie for another day.)

You can add any other condiments if you wish but please do not stir the condiments with the rice because the rice is already saturated with flavors from the different ingredients. However, it can be stirred individually by the eaters discression.

Note that the oyster sauce is relatively strong, therefore the ratio of oyster sauce to everything else must be around 1/8. If you wish to use soy sauce, then use it really little (around 1/24) because soy sauce is incredibly strong, and you already have oyster sauce in the rice which will only amplify the sourness of the dish.

If you wish to not have the seafood flavor involved, then you are free to remove the oyster sauce ingredient and replace with with a sauce or seasoning of your liking (sesame sauce is reccommended).

Most important of all, enjoy the dish!

yep, i can cook. i can cook just about anything...anything relatively easy, that is.
mainly stir-fry, fried rice, steak, pork chops, caramelized onion and garlic mashed potatoes, spaghetti sauce, hmm..what else?
oh yea, i can bake too - cookies, cupcakes, cakes, muffins, basically anything if you give me a recipe ^_^
dang, i'm getting hungry just talking about food! lol :P

:P, i need to get to baking soon...
or my gf will kill me since she wanted me to make brownies for her b-day....
she's craving chocolate

I suck at cooking, I couldn't cook to save my life. It's actually kinda surpising because I'm good at following directions. I made brownies once and they turned out like brownie soup....and another time I caught my hair on fire making boiled eggs...kitchen knives are good at carving wood though, cept mom wasn't too happy about that :P

I'm lazy when it comes to cooking, but I love it. I cheat at making choloate diserts. I go to the store and buy alot of snickers and other types of cholate bars. I go home quickly before anyone notices, run in the kitchen, and then melt the choloate bares into a mole then let them dry. Thats all.

wait...hair catching fire BOILING?!?!?!?!
wow...worst i've done is almost burn my hand off...never burned my hair...then again...never was long enough XD

In kitchen I spilt hot pasta-water on my... well... between my legs... :cry:

In kitchen I spilt hot pasta-water on my... well... between my legs... :cry:
:eek:
and is it all fine again? :heh:

I think it shrank in the wash...

O__O wash....wtf anway off topic guys XD

my brownies are done...x], i'd eat em but i gotta wait till i go see my gf

Oh my goodness...

It seems that the only cooking Americans can do is brownies! Where has culture gone!? Down the plughole, in my opinion.

Oh my goodness...

It seems that the only cooking Americans can do is brownies! Where has culture gone!? Down the plughole, in my opinion.

You shunk yourself whilst cooking pasta ;) and you wonder why America sticks to brownies.

You shunk yourself whilst cooking pasta ;) and you wonder why America sticks to brownies.

That could have happened to anyone! :bleh:

lol i can cook more than brownies XD my girlfriend just requested them
i can cook tons of filipino food, and at some point i'll prolly ask my girlfriend's mom how to cook thai food since she makes me eat alot at her house anyway...i <3 my gf's mom XD

After I watch someone cook a dish, I'll be able to make it pretty well. I generally stick to the basic things like soups, pastas, stirfry, cookies/brownies, etc. My learning to cook consists of either watching the Food Network, or hovering over my Mom. Even though I'm pretty competent, my Mom still thinks I'll cause some kind of accident, like setting something on fire.

>_>

In kitchen I spilt hot pasta-water on my... well... between my legs... :cry:

Haha, my sis did that to me before. But I guess it'd hurt you more than me...:heh:

:cry: Just a little :cry:

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lol, i cant afford to be adventurous. I have herbs de provance.... my only seasoning left, and someone has nicked most of my pesto...grrrrrr

My easy-to-make-I'm-so-cheap dish: dry, raw chow mein noodles and orange juice. So much better than it sounds.
Experience: I baked a chocolate cake...without the chocolate. Not so smart of me.
That's about all the cooking I do.

Just made Spaghetti with Meat Sauce :) .

Cooking's actually relatively not too hard. What really matters is the preparation and adding ingredients and stuff. Hopefully, I'll actually get to HANDLE raw meat sometime soon....... I know how to cook a lot of things, and very well too, but to be self sufficient with providing myself with the nourishment I've grown up with, I must learn to prepare the food. >_>
. . . I've lost count on how many times oil/water has jumped out of the pan and attacked me. It stings, but doesn't hurt. >_>

Oh yea, I was making this pancake once, and it was ginormous. The chocolate chips were absorbed by it. It was so huge..... it was so good, though..... giant pancakes of death.....

My mom asked me once if I had no taste buds or something cos the food I made sucked...

awwww, my mum fears the days when i make chilli or curry, coz i like something realy strong and spicy. I allways put the greek yogut next to her place at the table XD

XD
i cant have food thats too strong in chilli.....i get er....erm....things develop on my cheeks~~~~ :heh:

tinola aka chicken soup with rice...
yum ^___^

I can make Ramen noodles and pancakes. Woot for me!

I can make Ramen noodles and pancakes. Woot for me!

Thatsnot even cooking =_=

well if cloud's not talking about the instant shiz which is flavorless and tough and disgusting but i still randomly and occasionally eat anyway...then that could actually be cooking at which point i demand could to teach me....
pancakes...meh those will suffice....if he actually makes everything
if it's instant shiz i agree with jaso (but still give me food anyway cloud i'm always hungry XDDD)

Sure thing.