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The Best Cook!

I am!

73% (22)

My partner is!

10% (3)

The place I order food from, duh.

6% (2)

My parents.

10% (3)

I dumpster dive for charity. (And food.)

0% (0)

I have no taste buds, who cares?

0% (0)

Total Votes : 30

(last vote on : 7/21/2013 11:23:48 AM)
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RemoteUser -> The Best Cook! (12/12/2012 10:57:37 AM)
So, who makes the best food as far as you're concerned? If you want to name names go ahead - sharing dish descriptions and recipes wouldn't be a bad idea, neither!

Lucifyre -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/12/2012 12:31:07 PM)
Oh you KNOW how I answered! The difference in what I make and what Mr makes (even though He is a decent cook when He follows directions from moi) I am creative when I cook. I actually put quite a bit of thought into what I put on my table. There is always a considerable amount of "I really give a damn what you eat" in everything I make for my family, and they know it. While I am not always the healthiest of cooks, I do try very hard to make sure everything tastes good. I use real butter instead of that margarine shit, I use fresh herbs, I never substitute bland tasting ingredients for the real thing, if I need to cook healthier I just use less. For instance, a recipe for rice that I do calls for 4 tbs of butter, I only use 1 1/2 and it comes out delicious, In addition to just salt and pepper for a recipe, I will toss in some chopped onion and garlic for some added flavor (you can put garlic into almost anything and boost flavor) Instead of water for some of the things I make, I will use beef or chicken broth. I almost never measure anything, when I season I use the palm of my hand as my measuring spoon. Even when I make pre boxed stuff, I always add my own ingredients to it to flavor them up. BLah blah LOL Anyway, I am thw cook of the family and there's a good reason for it.

lmpishlilhellcat -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/12/2012 4:29:32 PM)
It's me. My husband would live off boxed and frozen things. We try to split the cooking duties now that he's working 8's. One night I cook, the next night he does. Except I by far eat much more healthy and he just doesn't have the patience. If it were up to him we would live on grilled cheese sandwiches and chorizo soup. I tend to be like Lucy and I put a lot of thought into what we eat. I do the grocery shopping and I try to plan meals ahead of time. We tend to eat more local and organic when I do. I can give him a recipe and he can follow it, but sometimes it just doesn't come out the same. For example, he loves chipped beef. It's his favorite and even though I gave him my mom's recipe and told him how to add the ingredients, it always comes out lumpy. He gets pissed because I make it right and in half the time. Plus, if he cooked we'd never eat vegetables. I had to break him in with veggies and cheese. I can rarely get him to eat raw veggies and so I typically add a ton of veggies to whatever dishes I make. Sometimes I get really lucky and I absolutely hit something out of the ball park for him. My lettuce wraps, or spicy shrimp vera cruz, mongolian beef, chicken fried rice, shrimp scampi.... those are a few of his favorites and fortunately I've been able to make them much more healthy than the original recipes.

littlewonder -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/12/2012 8:12:05 PM)
It's always been different for me depending on the dish and time. Master cooks really well. He sometimes cooks and can make a mean dish. He puts time into his dishes whereas I'm more of a last minute type of person usually. Master say he likes my cooking, especially the corn chowder I made yesterday which surprised me since I threw it together from stuff around the house at the last minute. My daughter can cook really well but just don't ask her to make anything roasted just yet lol. She loveslovesloves to cook and plans on going to school for a culinary degree. My daughter likes my desserts. she doesn't really like making such things. She's much more comfortable with stove top stuff. My mom cooked really well when I was a kid. She taught me to make Old World Slovakian foods. After we all left home though she stopped cooking and now rarely ever does. My one sister makes a really really good broccoli cheese soup and these caramel pecan tarts. OMG, they are to die for! But never ask her to make hamburgers. We call them "hockey pucks" when she makes them lol.

LaTigresse -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/12/2012 8:32:39 PM)
This is one area I can say quite honestly and with absolute conviction.............I fucking ROCK in the kitchen. I can make a kick ass bowl of soup from scratch in less than an hour. I just did it.......[:D] Or I can spend the better part of two days working on a huge feast for dozens of people. I've done that as well. I can cook just about anything. I am totally fucking fearless about trying new things. Simple to complex. I can imagine how certain things will work together, or not. I will often, try something new and through the wonders of googlefu I can find a recipe, imagine in my mind how the food I ate was created in comparison to a recipe, tweak it, and reproduce. I've even reproduced recipes via descriptions of what someone tastes and remember. I have no fav recipes. I can cook my way around the globe but Mexican, Italian and Vietnamese are probably 3 favourites. I also love to take the traditional midwestern farm foods I grew up with and make them better. The only thing I really struggle with is yeast breads, since I've moved into this house. Over all, no one turns down a meal in my house and no one goes hungry.

NuevaVida -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/12/2012 8:45:11 PM)
I love love love to cook, and I'm pretty much happiest cooking for people I love. The Mister can cook pretty decently, too, but I'm the one who spends the most time in the kitchen, and happily so. Often times he'll say he's in the mood for a particular dish and then I'll Google a bunch of recipes and take the best from all of them, and make my own version of it. It brings me much joy!

littlewonder -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/12/2012 9:00:38 PM)
that's one thing I've never been able to accomplish either....yeast breads. My mom used to make the best homemade bread when I was a kid. We'd slice it hot and top it with apple butter. It was like heaven. Me though, it just never works for me. It either doesn't rise at all or it just tastes funny after it's baked. I've given up on yeast breads.

lmpishlilhellcat -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/13/2012 3:40:35 AM)
I'm not really much of a baker. I can and sometimes do, it just doesn't bring me the joy actually cooking does. However, the one thing I always fail at is chocolate chip cookies. I'm not sure why. I usually tweak recipes if I find them online, often times I just typically tend to add the ingredients I feel go well together (I thank my chemistry background for that). For whatever reason it doesn't matter if I follow the recipe to a T or I deviate, I can never make a good chocolate chip cookie. So I avoid them at all costs. All this talk of soup makes me want to make my homemade potato or chicken n' dumplings. That was the first thing I ever learned to cook was homemade chicken n' dumplings and how to make a good chicken stock.

ashjor911 -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/13/2012 4:43:31 AM)
Sorry I was thinking of who has the best Cock?........ me[8D]

ChatteParfaitt -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/13/2012 5:02:35 AM)
For me, cooking is away to combine the spiritual, the artistic, and the physical. I'm a wonderful (not to mention, humble) cook. I learned how to * really* cook almost 40 years ago when I lived in NO. NO cuisine is a fusion of French, Spanish and African, with the foundation of many dishes based on traditional French techniques (like a roux). So I've been cooking fusion since before that was a name. I know recipes from every ethnic background you can think of, and routinely fuse styles, like a French sauce know how combined with Indian spicing know how (they know how to do marvelous things with spices, get your mortar and pestle out!) combined with some traditional American cuisine. I love to bake as well, yeast breads being one of my specialties, as are pies. I treat cooking as a labor of love, if I don't love you on some level, I won't cook for you.

theshytype -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/13/2012 7:36:11 AM)
I'm a great cook! My husband, not so much. He's been known to set a few pans on fire. My dishes tend to be more complex, and more time consuming. Due to my busy schedule, we do takeout about half of the week. When I cook, my family gets excited. Holidays are usually at my house. I cook a mean thanksgiving feast. I can cook just about anything. I always tweak new recipes I find to meet my tastes. Soups are my specialty. My husband's favorite is my beer cheese soup. When I was young, my favorite cousin was a professional chef and I loved watching him in the kitchen. My love for cooking began then.

zubedangina -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/13/2012 7:46:02 AM)
In my house, between my husband and me, I am the best cook. He will eat anything and will just put random disgusting elements together. One time he made this green muffins, I really don't know what he used, but I call them cow pie muffins because of their gross green color and the bits of stuff that looked like straw/hay sticking out of them. Those actually didn't taste bad, once you got past the unappetizing exterior. That said, I really hate cooking. If I ever had enough money, I'd really like to have a personal chef. Some dishes I make are pretty delicious, other ones are just okay. It seems like it depends on the day. So I wouldn't say I'm a great cook either. Just better than my husband.

DesFIP -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/13/2012 7:43:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: lmpishlilhellcat I'm not really much of a baker. I can and sometimes do, it just doesn't bring me the joy actually cooking does. However, the one thing I always fail at is chocolate chip cookies. I'm not sure why. I usually tweak recipes if I find them online, often times I just typically tend to add the ingredients I feel go well together (I thank my chemistry background for that). For whatever reason it doesn't matter if I follow the recipe to a T or I deviate, I can never make a good chocolate chip cookie. So I avoid them at all costs. Try this recipe. Follow it to a tee except you can double the amount of chips. http://books.google.com/books?id=-d2d47DHAnYC&pg=PT236&lpg=PT236&dq=jennie+grossinger+chocolate+chip+cookies&source=bl&ots=wdXqv1NOCi&sig=zuX1WZUBl5QpOhpPqIy32AZzsHo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7Z_KULnFMuSE0QHl7IFA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA

lmpishlilhellcat -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/14/2012 3:41:11 AM)
OOOO thanks!

Level -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/14/2012 5:42:40 AM)
I'm a decent cook, but I don't care much for doing it.

Thaz -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/14/2012 6:57:20 AM)
I do the majority of the cooking in my home. I suck at baking though! I think it's the combination of being vegetarian and loving good food, often you have to just do it yourself if ya wanna eat...and over the years I have done so. Soups and Stews remain a favorite.... Thaz

Aylee -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/14/2012 8:37:29 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: lmpishlilhellcat I'm not really much of a baker. I can and sometimes do, it just doesn't bring me the joy actually cooking does. However, the one thing I always fail at is chocolate chip cookies. I'm not sure why. I usually tweak recipes if I find them online, often times I just typically tend to add the ingredients I feel go well together (I thank my chemistry background for that). For whatever reason it doesn't matter if I follow the recipe to a T or I deviate, I can never make a good chocolate chip cookie. So I avoid them at all costs. All this talk of soup makes me want to make my homemade potato or chicken n' dumplings. That was the first thing I ever learned to cook was homemade chicken n' dumplings and how to make a good chicken stock. I will give you the secret to good cookies since it is the season for giving. Double the vanilla and lower your oven temp by 25 degrees.

absolutchocolat -> RE: The Best Cook! (12/14/2012 11:21:50 AM)
I'm good, but everything my mother touches in the kitchen is pure gold. Nothing she makes is ever bland, dry or burnt. Love that old Southern diva.

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