So.. do you?
My kitchen is very limited regarding space as well. Which doesn't stop me from cooking awesome stuff! Don't let your GF do all the stuff, get creative! Cooking can be so much fun, even in a small kitchen!
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That's right.
I also have a small kitchen, but I don't want to use delivery services every day, just because it's more expensive than a self-ccoked meal.
Besides this, it's fun to cook. And the more you cook the more you get used to it and get better meals.
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My kitchen is 2.5 square meters ;p Now add the fact that I have a lot of cooking utensils, ingredients, dishes, all kind of household goods - I actually had to move quite a lot of stuff out of kitchen and am bringing it in only when I plan to use it ;p But my main point is even in microscopic kitchen you can still cook a lot ;)
That being said I can somehow understand your situation as I'm in almost the same, just opposite one ;p My fiancee doesn't cook at all, her biggest cooking achievement is making herself a toast ;p She will not even put a frozen pizza into oven because "she is never sure if it's done already and will either take it out while still cold or already burnt" ;p So for me it's me who is doing "all that" and she doing eating ;p (and dishes! I cook then she gotta clean! ;p)
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My boyfriend is actually the cook. I'm so bad at it, I could screw up mac and cheese lol
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hehe homemade souvlaki giro,better than the thiefs in monastiraki
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+1, and then another 1, and then another 1 as the dishes pile up...
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find yourself second half that cannot cook ;p That's what I did ;p Then if he/she cannot cook it's easy deal - I am cooking, so you are doing dishes ;p
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I do enjoy cooking a lot myself . I used to like making sweets , but that almost always ended up as a disaster D:
One year i was trying to make a cake for xmas ... turns out they messed up and what i was making ware actually supposed to be cookies .
Anyway lets say that i literally had to use a saw the thing into tiny slices to be edible ..
It did taste pretty good tho :P
I just go follow up a recipe to the word now , then see how it tastes and edit it to my liking the next time i make it :P
Latest creation was a classic slav super secret babushka pork recipe i made .
Its basically Pork with Onion cooked in the water of pickles , some mayo , mustard , honey and thats pretty much it :x
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Depends if you are cooking opr baking ;) Baking is mostly chemistry and when you put something in the oven you're pretty much done for - it cannot be edited anymore, so for baking better follow recipes to the word until you become experienced with something. But for other cooking there is no reason not to experiment - in non-baking cooking - so boiling, stewing, frying, grilling and so on, you can always taste everything every step, you can correct your errors and it's not only great experience but it's also the fastest way to learn to cook greatly ;) Because you learn not only recipes, you learn tastes and how to use them ;) You can memorize hundreds and cook thousands of recipes following every step and you will not learn as much as you will experimenting just a few dozens of times ;)
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Yeah ... i dont really have issues when im steaming or boiling stuff , its mostly when i bake it in the furnace that i have issues with making stuff properly ... Its just you dont have the option to edit stuff midway there ... once you put it , thats it :P
And yeah , when i make soups or stir fry vegies i always manage to get them to my taste . You can always just give it a sip or a bite and see how its going :P
I did have several memorable disasters , when it come to baking stuff tho :P
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yeah - even if I love cooking and cook a lot, baking is my nemezis as well ;) I don't have some great disasters, but my baking is not even close to the level of my cooking. My cakes will be eadible but that's all ;p Funny enough it goes only for actually baking, aka cakes, bread etc. If I make something in oven but not this kind of thing - so for example pizza, bruschetta, some oven-roasted meat, casserole, things using puff pastry and so on and on it all usually turns out great. Just cakes, bread etc, turn out not good ;p
Maybe it's the case of making cake/bread/buns you make dough etc, but you cannot really taste it, edit it etc, while for other things there are elements you cannot but are also elements you prepare before putting things into oven, so while you don't have control over everything, there are some things you can control and elevate the weaker parts. While with cake it's lottery, you cannot know how it will be until it's done.
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I enjoy cooking. 3 days ago I made pork schnitzel, yesterday I made home made sriracha burgers with home made hamburger bread, and today I made okonomiyaki.
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You are cooking stuff I have never even heard of.
O.O
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I take it that you mean the okonomiyaki? It's a surprisingly simple dish to make, but making it for more people would be quite time consuming. If you want to, I could post the recipe.
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damn, wanna trade? My fiancee wants to help a lot but she simply cannot do it. I will sometimes give her easy tasks like to grate a cheese or hand me something but that's all. She loves to watch cooking TV shows and came up with an idea she will be my sous chef or kitchen helper, but despite her best efforts it wasn't working. In the time it takes her to dice onions I will be done with dicing all carrosts, celery, peeling potatoes and come help her dicing other onions, plus most of the time will have to correct after her so it will take more time. I don't hold a grudge ofc - she's great with other things I have absolutelly no talent for (she is great at sewing for example, sewing wonderful soutache jewelry, while my manual skills beside kitchen are non-existent), but anything cookign related is absolutelly not her thing ;p
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I'm actually right now preparing something similar, just without meat. Oven-sweet potatoe baked with fresh rosemary from my garden, self made tzatziki with lots'o garlic in it and a fresh salad, from the garden as well, with herbs, and carrots, and radishes, plus some roasted pumpkin seeds mixed in. Can't wait till it's done, really.
I cook for myself at least 4-5 times a week and eat out when at work, which is two times a week. the remaining day I might just skip a warm meal at all and have a slice of bread or an apple or something.
Guten Appetit!
:D
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As a student, I am naturally lazy, therefore I prefer cooking as long as the process of making the food does not take more than 10 to 15 minutes. I just made a really nice salat a few hours ago with tomato, cucumber, paprika and carrots. It wasn't much work, but it was quite good. But when I was younger, my parents "forced" me, to learn cooking in a short seminar. The main thing I remember now is how I hated standing for hours in a kitchen to make something that took me less than half an hour to eat :D
But since I have a rare liver condition (see "House M.D.", season 1, episode 15), I am kind of reliant on actually making my own food sometimes, since I can't eat mensa food everyday.
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I can cook but I oh so hate it :P Fortunately my gf loves to cook and she is fantastic at it - I am a lucky bastard. I always do the dishes though. She doesn't like it and I don't mind doing that. We are such a great match :P
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I was going to make a frozen pizza in the oven today. I turned it to 225 degrees and came back about 20 min later to put the pizza in. Thats when I noticed I hadnt turned on the oven. Hope that answers your question :)
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I can cook, but i don't stand with joy in a kitchen, a necessity like brushing your teeth.
And some take out they are just better and more professional at it, yesterday i had a pizza from Domino's with pulled pork, little bit of pineapple, it tasted good and only 5 euro (sometimes even 3 or 4, that's the same as a microwave one from the supermarket (New York Pizza is 10-12 and the one time i tried i didn't like it as much as Domino's).
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Gamer sind auch nur Menschen. Viele tun ja so als wären wir vom anderen Planeten -.- Natürlich gibt es einige die Kochen lieben oder allgemein Kochen können.
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I love to cook :) Last cooking experiment was a Mediterranean noodle salad with dried tomatoes, basil and tzatziki.
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I do love to cook. Not German or Russian, though. I cook Italian. And I make a mean Louisiana Gumbo.
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I've always been meaning to try a Gumbo. Has not happened in this lifetime yet. Damn!
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Make a roux
Add in the Holy Trinity: Celery, Green Peppers, and Onions
Pour in your broth
Add chicken parts, andouille sausage, and some shrimp
Simmer for many hours
Best served over rice with Tony Cachere's seasoning.
Serve with sliced baguette and cold lager
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I absolutelly love to cook, cooking is probably one of my 3 biggest hobbies beside gaming and reading, I try to cook at least few times a week, I am the only one cooking in my house (my fiancee doesn't cook at all - she would burn water if I let her into kitchen ;P), I try to experiment with a lot of cuisines, especially love italian, spanish, mexican and street-style asian, but I will generally try a lot of stuff. For last bday I got original cast iron wok, so last half year was a lot of experimentations with all kinds of different stir-frying with different ingredients and sauces.
Actually today was my fiancees bday so I prepared 3 course meal just few hours ago ;) Starter was involtini with grilled eggplant, parma ham, red pesto from dried tomatoes and anchovis and mozzarella di bufala, main course was crespelle filled with ricotta and chanterelle mushrooms under cheesy white sauce and dessert was minicakes filled with peach creme, coated in chocolate jelly and sprinkled with roasted almonds :>
You can see a little of the stuff I did here.
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Need. This. Recipe.!
I have a friend that is gonna fall in love with this one and it looks delicious!
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It's actually quite easy if you are able to multitask in the kitchen ;) The only hard part is oven-baking salmon - since salmon fillets vary in thickness you cannot really say how long to bake and you will have to keep checking to make sure you don't overcook it, cause there's nothing worse than overcook salmon ;)
Anyway, as for recipe:
You will need:
Salmon fillets
2 red onions
Potatoes
Garlic
Butter
Sour cream
Lemon
Salt
Pepper
Herbes de Provence
Bell pepper
Red beans (I used canned ones ;p if you want you can boild your own but it will take time ;p)
Fresh pepper mint
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Red Salsa:
- Cut peppers in half, remove seeds.
- Brush them outside and inside with olive oil, put into oven heat to 220C and keep there until skin starts turning black.
- Take them out, remove the skin (burned skin on baked peppers comes off extremely easilly), cut pepper into 1cm thick slices, then cut them into 3-4cm long pieces.
- Mix pepper, red beans and torn pepper mint, season to taste with salt, put into fridge to cool down - you have your salsa ready.
Butter and Garlic Purée (you should start bcooking your potatoes before putting salmon into oven and continue steps below while it is in oven so you serve both salmon and potatoes hot).
- Boil potatoes in salted water until they are soft. Take them out of the water. You can keep them for a minute or two in pot with no more water - it will help to dry them a bit.
- Mash potatoes until they are smooth. Add sour cream for nice purée texture.
- in the meantime on pan melt butter and add 3-4 cloves of minced garlic into butter, keep for a minute so butter gets nice garlic aroma but make sure you don't burn your garlic.
- Add melted garlic butter to your purée and mix everything throughly.
- You can also season your garlic-butter purée with freshly ground black pepper, but just a little bit. Garlic, butter and potatoes should be dominant and too much black pepper can quickly overwhelm other tastes.
Main star - Baked Salmon
- Remove skin and fishbones from fillets. Then cut fillets into portions.
- Cut red onion into thin rings.
- Season salmon both sides with salt, pepper and herbes de provence.
- At the bottom of heat resistant dish put onion rings, do not season them - salmon juices coming down to them will season onion wonderfully. Sprinkle olive oil over onions.
- Put salmon portions over onions, sprinkle them with lemon juice then olive oil, then put lemon slices on top of them.
- Cover your dish and put it into the oven.
- Nowe there are two ways of baking salmon. You can bake it in high temperature (230C) for shorter time (4-8min) or in lower temperature (180C) for longer time (15-25min - here it really depends on fillet thickness). In general in this meal it depends on how you like your onion - do you want them barely baked, little charred, but still almost raw (then go for shorter bake in higher temp), or do you want it soft, cooked and full of salmon flavor (then go for longer bake in lower temp). As I personally love salmon-tasting soft red onions in this particular dish I prefer longer cook in lower temp, while for other baked salmons I usually go for higher temp shorter cook.
- No matter the method, when time comes you gotta start checking your salmon. using fork try to pull it a little bit in thickest part. Salmon is ready when it's still glistening and pink but is already flaking easilly. If your salmon turns very bright pink / white pink and is dry on the outside it means you overcooked it and ruined it. If you are not expereinced with salmon it's much better to serve it a little undercook than overcook. Salmon can be eaten even raw, so being a little under while not perfect is not a tragedy, 90% of it will be delicious anyway, while overcooked salmon is disgusting ;p So long story short - if you are not sure but afraid it may overcook, better take it out than risk ruining it ;p When you get experienced you will know when it's perfect ;)
Serving:
- At centre of plate put rectangle of purée, slightly wider than your salmon portion, flatten it.
- Put salmon portion on top of it with lemons still on top (they will be mostly dry, but will give wonderful aroma While eating you remove them, but not until then).
- At one side put your onions cooked in salmon fat, on other side red salsa.
- Salmon is meant to be eaten together with purée, onions in meantime, red salsa is meant to clear your tastebuds every few bites, so you can then enjoy rich salmon taste again.
- Bon Appétit
PS. Sorry for all spelling mistakes - this comment turned out much longer than I expected and I'm too lazy to spellcheck it all ;p
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Wow, I was expecting a link to some recipe not you writing down everything, much appreciated! And good tip on the salmon, I've never cooked it before(not a big fan of fish even though I love other seafood) so will be careful not to overdo it.
Will definitely try this one out sometime this month, thanks!
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I couldn't link you to recipe, because it's my own recipe ;) Most of stuff I cook are my own recipes ;) Only first time I do something, like first time cooking using some ingredients I will follow recipe (still not word to word, but I will read a bit to understand what to do with it) and from then on I will start to experiment with ingredients on my own ;) So yeah - maybe there's recipe for something similar or even the same somewhere on the internet, maybe not, but this particular salmon dish is my own creation ;p
As for salmon - it's the best starter fish. I myself love fish, but my fiancee hates them. The only fish she will ever eat is salmon and baked cod, nothing else ;p Salmon is a great ingredient for people not liking fish to start with. First of all it's quite easy in preparation and eating as well - it's easy to fillet, to portion, it has very big and easy to remove fishbones, so no risk while eating that you will choke on some small bone. Also it doesn't taste too fishy. It's one of the fattest fishes there is, so it will be enjoyable for any meatlover because of that, it doesn't have overwhelming fish/sea aroma which many fishes do, it is juicy and salty, generally I know a lot of people who hate fishes, but most of them add right away "except salmon" ;p And ones who do not haven't tried salmon yet ;p
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I'm currently trying to make oreo-ice by putting milk + crushed oreos in a tupperware-box and putting it into the freezer. that should tell you everything you need to know about me preparing food.
Nah honestly, I barely cook (since I'm a poor trainee and don't have any money to get fresh ingredients all the time x_x') but when I do, I enjoy doing it :) I ain't really good, but as soon as I earn a bit more money I'll be able to cook a lot more often and lern new stuff since I enjoy cooking itself most of the time c:
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you are actually not so far with your oreo idea ;) Just replace milk with cream (or optionally use both milk and cream), heat it, add some sugar (oreos are not sweet enough on their own unless you add loads of them) add some beat egg yolks then your oreos and you will have your ice cream recipe ;) So you have right basic idea, just lacked a little bit of extra steps ;)
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I managed to get some sorta slush ice outta it. Just put the milk in the freezer for ~30min, added some crushed oreos, waited another 30min and added another load. It ain't as bad as I expected it to be xD
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like I said - you were not so lost with this idea of youurs ;) The basic concept was good, the only thing is that milk is not fat enough (store bought milk contains anywhere between 0 and 3.2% fat, while cream for example is 30% fat), so because it consists of so much water it will rather turn into ice than icecream ;) That's why you need some fat input which will give you this creamy icecream consistence ;) That's why you can use high-fat dairy products like cream, butter, yoghurt etc or egg yolks which are over 40% fat. Main principle is that egg yolks mix very well with milk-based products and almost all dairy products mix well together, so they will not separate while freezing. If you tried to put fat in form of let's say oil or lard it would not mix with milk, separate and no icecream just frozen milk topped with stagnated oil, while fat that will mix well will prevent your icecream base from turning into solid ice giving you icecream ;)
Try making icecream again, just do a little research before ;) Homemade icecream are awesome and because these are frozen unlike other homemade products (like making homemade ketchup for example, which while awesome you gotta use in like 2 weeks max) you can keep them for a long time not just for few days-weeks ;)
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Thanks for the advice :)
Well, that actually was the fun part - doing NO research and just trying :P
So the next time I might use like 1l Milk and 2 eggs (?) before I put it into the freezer. Add some sugar to sweeten it and basically done - right?
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not whole eggs just yolks and if yolks and amopunt ofc will vary depending on amount of milk ;) for basic recipe for 1l milk I'd suggest 3 big egg yolks (or 4 smaller ones), 1 cup of heavy cream and 1/2 cup of sugar. You can do yolks only but will need like twice as much of them and your icecream will taste yolky a bit - a little bit like advocaat liquor for example.
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thanks for those tips :)
i will surely try it out in the future c(:
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Yes but I love making stuff in general, food is just higher on the list. Until I find a partner in crime to wash up after me ill be sticking to one or two pot and stir-fry type of dishes though. If only life was like the old cartoons ...
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I go through phases, sometimes I cook every day for months and others I live solely on takeout for extended periods. Right now I'm in my cooking phase, today I made a delicious Veal "lemonato" (only a little more garlic-y and added thymes to the recipe), yesterday some chicken fillet with a mushroom sauce and tomorrow I'll probably make some "Fasolakia" (gotta have some days with no meat, right?)
And now that you had me think of cooking I should also make my delicious peach sorbet soon, haven't done so this year yet.
Truth be told I quite enjoy cooking, even though my kitchen is tiny so it's a major pain in the rear. I'll probably move though sometime next year so picking a house with a nice kitchen will be a priority. I also clean, am good with kids, know all the stores with the best discounts in my area and enjoy sitting on my ass so if anyone is looking for a trophy husband I'm available! ;)
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I don't like eating, so, naturally, I'm not into cooking either. :P
That being said I'll make my own pizza, spaghetti, tacos... "make" meaning building it out of ingredients. I'm not making my own pasta or growing my own corn or anything like that.
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but homemade pasta is amazing! ;p But I hope you at least make your own pizza dough? I find store-bought dough discusting and tasteless :/
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I buy pre-made crusts made by a local italian bakery :P
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better than store-bought shit I guess, but you should really try making your own dough some time ;) It's not that hard, plus you can freeze pizza dough after it raise and it wont be affected by it at all ;) When I make dough I usually make enough for 6-8 pizzas and freeze all the extra, then I can easilly make pizza over whole month whenever I want ;)
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My mom was a terrible cook. I watched lots of cooking shows when I was young and have excelled at making delicious meals ever since. Tonight is Burgers!
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Hey dudes!
So I just purchased some pork and realized that I have enough spices and garlic at home to make some decent gyros with some garlic-flavored baked potatoes pieces. Also, I love to do tzatziki myself so there I'll go.
Whilst doing so I wondered if you gamers also love to cook - or do you not? I cook as much as I can. Especially German/Austrian stuff like Schnitzel, Burgers, Hot Dogs or Russian stuff.
Have a great day you guys!
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