Do You Cook?

[Teofilo]

Becoz I only cook for breakfast!

[Sparky415]

Yes 

Breakfast is always a good place to start cooking 

[ryan1835]

yes....


when the parents go on holiday and the gf isnt around to cook for me 

[Sparky415]

Teofilo, what would be a typical breakfast in the Philippines?

Here's a typical 'full English' 

[Teofilo]

Teofilo, what would be a typical breakfast in the Philippines?

Here's a typical 'full English' 

What a sumptous breakfast, Sparky!

The Filipino breakfast is composed of fried rice, scrambled or sunny side-up eggs, sausages, fried fish and hot coffee or chocolate.

[Millhouse]

Teofilo, what would be a typical breakfast in the Philippines?

Here's a typical 'full English' 

What a sumptous breakfast, Sparky!

The Filipino breakfast is composed of fried rice, scrambled or sunny side-up eggs, sausages, fried fish and hot coffee or chocolate.

I'd eat both. 

[AimlessWanderer]

Here's a typical 'full English' 

Good to see the black pudding on there sparky, but where's the fried toms & HP Fruity??? 

Yeah, I cook - favourite quick dish is the Five P's
Pasta
Pancetta
Pesto
Peas
Parmesan

YUMMY!!! 

I also make a wicked fish pie, and Christmas 09 I went over to a mates house Boxing Day (as is tradition for us) and cooked a 10 course meal - never again We were eating & drinking from 3PM till 10PM 

(Well, we actually started drinking earlier - LOL)
 

[Teofilo]

Here's a typical 'full English' 

Good to see the black pudding on there sparky, but where's the fried toms & HP Fruity??? 

Yeah, I cook - favourite quick dish is the Five P's
Pasta
Pancetta
Pesto
Peas
Parmesan

YUMMY!!! 

I also make a wicked fish pie, and Christmas 09 I went over to a mates house Boxing Day (as is tradition for us) and cooked a 10 course meal - never again We were eating & drinking from 3PM till 10PM 

(Well, we actually started drinking earlier - LOL)
 

What a Chef!

Hey Trad, could you send me a pm re your pesto receipe? The wife just loves pesto. I wish to someday surprise her by cooking this one pasta dish!

[Sparky415]

Thanks guys    I'm starving hungry now 

+1 for any pesto recipes

Just lately I have been using Google for recipes it comes up with great ideas 

[AimlessWanderer]

Here's a typical 'full English' 

Good to see the black pudding on there sparky, but where's the fried toms & HP Fruity??? 

Yeah, I cook - favourite quick dish is the Five P's
Pasta
Pancetta
Pesto
Peas
Parmesan

YUMMY!!! 

I also make a wicked fish pie, and Christmas 09 I went over to a mates house Boxing Day (as is tradition for us) and cooked a 10 course meal - never again We were eating & drinking from 3PM till 10PM 

(Well, we actually started drinking earlier - LOL)
 

What a Chef!

Hey Trad, could you send me a pm re your pesto receipe? The wife just loves pesto. I wish to someday surprise her by cooking this one pasta dish!

The Pesto's easy ...
1) Buy jar of pesto
2) Open jar of pesto
3) Insert spoon .....
 
I've never made my own pesto sauce - well not yet 

If you meant the dish ...
Cook peas and pasta as standard in seperate pans (the pasta twists work best for this), and dry fry the pancetta. The trick is have the meat and peas ready when the pasta is cooked, strain the pasta and throw it straight back into the hot pan along with the meat and peas - spoon in a good dollop of pesto and stir through allowing heat of food to warm sauce through. Serve immediately with fresh grated parmesan on top, acompanied by garlic bread and wine of your choosing - easy job!

If you have a pan steamer you can steam the peas over the cooking pasta, and use the steamer as the strainer with the peas in - cuts down on washing up slightly and on fuel

[Teofilo]

Got it Trad! Thankyou!

[Whoey]

I try to cook. My wife seems to like most of what I cook, so I must be doing something right! I use the internet to get a basic idea of a recipe by comparing several recipes for the same item, then make my own based on that. One site I love for obvious reasons:

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

Although I've only ever used the Clam Chowder recipe. I like making soups and have several in my repertoire that the wife loves.

I sometimes make the effort to do a batch of Lasagna. If it wasn't so much work, I think I could live off the stuff daily!

I've also been known to make the odd batch of Butter Tarts since they don't have them over here, and I get cravings from time to time.

Think I'm gonna have to make something before my shift now...

[asupernothing]

I can cook. Had to learn young since the parents were always at work, and I had a younger sister to feed, so I started cooking at around age 12. The food has gotten substantially better since then.

Pesto is pretty easy to make:
Basil (you will need a lot)
Olive oil
Parmesean Cheese
Garlic
Pine Nuts

It all goes in a blender. (I didn't give quantities because you can adjust to suit your taste. Start with the basil and oil and just play with it until it tastes right.)

My friends/family have started to call me and ask for recipes. Obviously I don't know everything, but I love trying new things.

[SlackOne]

Oh yeah, cook quite a bit.  I like making breads and meat pies especially.  I make a fine pasty when I get to, and everyone seems to like my bierocks.  My favorite dish is chicken marsala, as it is fairly easy, but seems really fancy, and I make a loaf of focaccia to go with..

[Woz]

Sure!

I love to cook, in fact my blade-addiction started when I began collecting high quality kitchen knives. I love traditional Austrian cuisine, but like Italian, Swedish, Asian, Tex-Mex and many others too. I normally do not use recipes, I just read one to get the basics, and modify it to my taste.

Cooked breakfast is not common here, normally we have cold breakfast.

[Mike 56]

I love to cook.

A few of my specialties Portuguese beans with Linguica, Portuguese Sopas, spaghetti sauce with Italian sausage and pork spare ribs.

I all so do a lot of out door cooking. I smoke Hams, tri tips, chicken, prime rib and turkey in my barrel smoker. Sometimes i smoke tri tips and chickens for 100 to 200 people.
I all so do the normal barbecue stuff on the grill and have been known to deep fry a few turkeys.

Mike

[Carlos]

A few of my specialties Portuguese beans with Linguica

 


I do most of the cooking around here. Mostly grilled stuff and chilli beans, but I do other types of cooking once in a while.

[BIG-TARGET]

My breakfasts I cook are comprised of homefries, scramble eggs/ommlettes, and scrapple!!

[Singh]

Yes.

My spouse and I both cook... a LOT.

Recommended reading: "How to Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman. One of the most useful cookbooks you will ever own.   It's  literally is about how to cook everything and Bittman gives your room to play with the recipes.

But if you don't like wiggle room in your recipes and yhou want to follow a recipe tot he letter and get guaranteed results, then look into America's Test Kitchen  cookbooks (we also have those). And we also subscribe to Cook's Country.

[edcgear]

I cook... It's my excuse to play with knifes a little more  and it calms me when I'm edgy...

A lot of different meals, and I like to try new stuff and experiment. I never follow recipes (hm, hope I spelled it right), just let it flow and use a imagination... My favorite is to make something extraordinery out of leftovers. My wife gives me credits for that, and I believe that she deliberately leaves them to me just to see what I will come up with...

[ducktapehero]

I can cook(a little) but since I'm a married male chauvinist pig I expect my wife to do it. 


Hey...at least I'm open and honest about it.

[jekostas]

I landed my wife because I *can* cook.  I learned about two years in that she can cook and cook well, but doesn't like to do so.

[Styerman]

I love to cook , bit of a problem as I'm basically a recluse .

Chris