who likes cooking

gavinlit · 09-11-2005, 02:49 AM

So it's a sunday night here and I've just finished an hour or so of chopping & preparing and truth be told I really enjoy it. Not every night after work but I love the feeling of opening a bottle of wine & spending a nice leisurely hour or two whipping up a tasty meal. I'm wondering how many others share the pleasure.

Victor · 09-11-2005, 02:52 AM

Love it - just had the extended family over for dinner. Must be the Italian/German Australian lineage...............

dhoward · dhoward's Garage

Since my wife injured her back in 2000, I've done most of the cooking. It's become relaxation.

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

I love to eat good food and my wife loves to cook and she's a fantastic chef, so I'm the winner! I brew my own beer but don't do any cooking...

dweymer · dweymer's Garage

yea homebrew...me too; along with bbq

gassy · 09-11-2005, 06:15 AM

I'm hunting epicurious.com for what to grill for dinner tonight. My wife and I do tht almost every Sunday--decide on a recipe, go get the ingredients, fire up the grill. Maybe pork chops tonight.

Joeaksa · 09-11-2005, 06:43 AM

Like Art Z, I love to eat and thus get the cooking duties! Do something special on the weekends or if I am going out of town the next day...

Its BBQ weather in AZ all the time so that helps but the oven is used about 40% of the time otherwise.

JoeA

tabs · 09-11-2005, 10:10 AM

Take a look at a picture of me and then guess if I like to cook...

Living in LV I regret not being able to have my friends over for a nice dinner that I prepared...

aways · 09-11-2005, 10:34 AM

I BBQ and have done the occassional home-brew. I mostly leave the Kitchen cooking to the women folk, although I do make a kick-ass chili.

efhughes3 · efhughes3's Garage

I voted that I only do it once a week on Sundays, and it is typically BBQ in the Summer, but I do have a good setup, and enjoy it a lot.

kycarguy 935 · 09-11-2005, 11:39 AM

I love to cook a nice meal. Im not married so if I want to eat a nice meal at home I have to cook it.

It is really enjoyable especially when you cook for others and they say "this is the best .... I have ever tasted and you should open a restaurant".

I don't have time to make a nice meal everyday though.

VINMAN · 09-11-2005, 01:07 PM

Luv cooking! definately in my top three passions!

vash · vash's Garage

agree with vinman. i love it. started off by just loving the tools. then i got the nack. my stepdad is a retired chef, so i am always calling him for instructions. not a big butter and cream guy. and i have gotten to where i can eat a meal at a restaurant and taste enough information to try it at home. my best is three tries and i can copy it.

ironically, i am chinese and cannot cook chinese food. about to convert my turkey fryer/burner over to wok duty, to start the practicing. my home stove is weak!

craigster59 · craigster59's Garage

I like to cook, though mostly BBQ. I do have a knack for coming up with some easy quick meals since I hate to do the dishes. I also homebrew and find myself watching the Food Network occasionaly. I think it's because of the instant gratification of eating a good meal after all the work.

gassy · 09-12-2005, 10:41 AM

How much physical space need to home brew, minimum?

craigster59 · craigster59's Garage

Enough room to store 2 glass 5 gal. water bottles, a large stock pot, 5 gal paint bucket ands beer bottles.

VINMAN · 09-12-2005, 11:54 AM

Just started on a batch of I.P.A. !! (india pale ale). Wait to see how it comes out. My last brew of beer came out decent.

Hugh R · 09-12-2005, 03:46 PM

I don't mind cooking, I do it because I like to eat well. Put a little effort into it, and its much better. Don't just dump the spaghetti sauce in the pan and heat, simmer some mushrooms, brown some green peppers and sausage, add a little basil and garlic.

bryanthompson · bryanthompson's Garage

I hate eating, but I love cooking.

jyl · jyl's Garage

I usually do the cooking for dinner parties. I specialize in roasts and other major meats; soups; sauteed and creamed vegetables; and grilling. My wife does the appetizers, desserts and salads.

For everyday meals, my wife does the cooking.

When alone, I eat Top Ramen. I can eat Top Ramen for a month straight.

Hey, here's a neat way to do a roast. Take your meat, rub with olive oil, herbs, stud with garlic, whatever you like. Line a deep roasting pan with aluminium foil. Place 1 inch of rock salt on the bottom. Place the meat on the salt. Fill the rest of the pan with rock salt, mounding to cover the meat. There should be 1" or more of salt around all parts of the meat. You'll need 2 to 3 pounds of rock salt. Bake at 450F until your meat thermometer says when. Lift out the salt-encased meat, break open the salt, remove meat, and slice. The salt holds in the juices and adds just enough saltiness. Kids love to break open the salt case.

And here's a dessert that is fun. Peel six apples. Core the apples, but not all the way through - you want the bottom of the apple intact. Fill the cored-out apple with sugar. Spread out a sheet of filo pastry, brush with melted butter, place another sheet on top at an angle, brush, repeat six times. Place apple in the center of the fanned-out stack of filo. Wrap the apple with the filo dough, gathering and pinching at the top. Bake at 350F for sort of more or less roughly 20 minutes (choose one apple as the sacrificial apple and poke with knife every now and then to check doneness.)