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Do you cook? Do you love to cook? Heck, do you just love eating what other people cook? Or do you just suck at cooking altogether and love to fawn over the fancy meals your friends/family make?

If this thread survives longer than an hour, feel free to discuss it here! What sorts of foods to you like? Talk about great cooking experiences, disasters in the kitchen, anything cooking related is A-OK!

*fires tiny pistol* Go!

While I do not have much skill in cooking, I occasionally will attempt to make something new.

My last attempt was eggplant fries, and they came out quite well.

I make a mean lasagna...
;3

I like to put together wierd combinations and part of culinary arts is risk to make something great. From risk comes progress ^^. I'm really good at cooking but I think where I excell is pastry. God knows the stuff I've come up with combining fruits with pastry and finding a good binding so both will go together.

I don't really cook except for the random teenage Migivering of food together. But god do I love steaks. The bigger and more marbled, the better.

Mmmm steak.

Whenever I make lunch, I like to add cheese to it. The weird thing is, I hate cheese in it's standard form, hate it to the point where it makes me gag. But I love cheese when it's melted, like on pizza or in grilled cheese. So I always put cheese on my sandwiches, and then melt them down. Recently I was distracted by South Park, and the cheese was burnt when I took it out of the oven. I didn't want to waste the cheese, so I ate the sandwich, burnt cheese and all. I discovered that day that burnt pepper jack tastes really, really good on a sandwich. Not joking, I now burn all the cheese I put on sandwiches on purpose.

Edit:
Before I say this, let me stress that I do not mean this as a flame, it's the absolute truth. Before that post, I was about half sure that Yash was actually a computer program made to monitor the boards for spam topics. I swear, I seriously thought that. Now I'm awaiting the blows and punches that are sure to be a response to this post.

That is actually quite a common thought in this forum. ~Yash

Thus far my favorite thing to make that I consider "fancy" for me is something I call Iraqi Potatoes. Don't get ahead of me, it was catchy when the freaking war started.

Basically you take three or four good-sized spuds and slice them diagonally into half-centimeter thick strips. Don't skin them! The skin is the best part! Get out a large cookie sheet, you'll probably need two, and line up the potatos neatly in rows. Brush on melted butter to one side of each and then sprinkle a *light* layer of garlic salt over them.

Put then in the oven at 500 degrees and keep an eye on them. I don't have a specific time for baking but I just pull them out after 10ish minutes after they turn toasted brown.

Pour them into a large bowl and let them cool for a bit before eating. :) You've got yourself Iraqi Potatoes.

Speaking of steak, I made the best Philly steak and cheese sandwich the other day. I mean, its not like its hard to make but I swear when I bit into it my eyes melted shut -_-


As for culinary disasters, I was make some sort of concoction about a month ago and when I took it out of the oven it exploded and fruit filling went everwhere. I had burns *twitches* strawberries everywhere and blisters O_O *twitches* was like a bomb went off.

(O_O) I once... um... touched a hot pan. JESUS CHRIST, WOMAN!

My worst culinary faux pas? When I was 16 my mother asked me to boil some noodles so she was a step ahead for dinner.

I put the water in the pot. Put the pot on the stove. Put the noodles in the water. Boiled the water.

...yeah... pasta briquettes.

I can cook meat on a stove. In a frying pan. With a spatula. But no, no special culinary treats. Though I'd like to learn...

I once put a magazine in the freezer. It made so much sense at the time. Prollay' My biggest screw up.


I can use a microwave, and that's about it.

Ooh, I forgot to put down a cooking disaster I had. I was trying to make a smoothie with a hand blender (you hold the blender and press it into a cup of blendable food) and a piece of frozen strawberry got caught in it. Not realizing that my other hand was still on the button, I put my finger in there to dig it out. I removed it, and the blender started whirring again. One hour later, I had a numb finger with eight stitches down a line. The stitches were in for a month, and even a year later I still have no feeling in part of my finger (except unfortunately for pain, which I can still feel if I poke it or bruise it or something). I even have a scar along the side of my finger, and it's completely screwed with my finger print.

Do what I do and learn through experimentation. Teaches you to have a strong stomach at least, :x


@Drisk: ...omg

*slaps self* aww man, I forgot, I have one more cooking disaster. I was making Fettucini Alfredo for a school project, and I accidentally chose too little a pan for the alfredo. Part of it bubbled over the side into the burner, and that's when the stove CAUGHT FIRE. It was a small fire and there was no permanent damage, but still, it caught fire.

I question your sanity...

I make grilled tuna melts with American cheese(American not cheddar because cheddar is to sharp for good tuna)most advanced food i have made was fettuccine Alfredo and the sauce was a bit lumpy...