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yeah, many things are good with hot sauce, but it can be taken to far, my little brother went though this phase where put hot sauce and/or katsup on EVERYTHING. it went to far and we finally hid the hot sauce after he started adding it to chocolate milk...


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I like eating macaroni and cheese after it has sat out for an hour :?


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Ah food... I've liked to cook (or at least read cookbooks) ever since I was a kid. I'm not *too* incompetent in the kitchen... usually :-)

Recent things: I thought, for some reason, that there was a One True Fritatta(TM) recipe, so when I thought I'd do one recently I google'd for it. NAH, turns out that fritatta means basically "Some number of eggs and anything else you've got left over" so I made what's been labelled "UG's Random Fritatta" but it was good. Yay feta!

Oh, and a friend of ours turned us on to what's basically the sweet-potato version of Iraqi potatoes mentioned above. Peel some sweet potatoes and chop them into long thin strips, brush with olive oil and broil. Awesome...!

Heh, and don't tell her, but I've got to do a cake today for my wife's birthday... I found a "5 minute cake" recipe years ago that only takes me about half an hour :-) but it always turns out good. Maybe make some cream cheese frosting, but I don't think we have cream cheese... hmmmm...

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Just had some of my daughter's home-made Baklava... yum... we've raised her right :-) . For the record, it's Armenian-style, which uses a syrup of sugar water with a bit of lemon juice, rather than Greek-style which uses honey. The Greek-style is great, of course, but the Armenian is just a bit lighter, which is nice.


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Wynni wrote:
I cook, and these days, I cook pretty well. However, I'm also easily distracted. The number of times I have burned pans and pots I forgot I was boiling water in...ah well.

and of course, the number of pans that got charcoaled bottoms from forgotten pastas. ><.

It gets interesting around here.

and yes, I have charcoaled microwave popcorn before, too. It was how we discovered the timer on the microwave no longer worked.


Eep, yeah I always forget things when I go to cook...well not ingredient wise, I don't think I've ruined a dish in 8 years. Bout the most common incident in my household is my room mate likes to put the pots and pans in the oven...and I don't tend to check the oven before I go to pre-heat it. Otherwise I love cooking, especially German and Mexican food. Thinking about making Jagerschnitzel in the near future, haven't in ages. ^^


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My main problem is that I don't have enough experience to really set up any kind of order to what I try cooking. There's a hundred things to do and I've no idea what the best order to them in is.

I stick to the simple stuff like hot dogs, omelets, anything with microwavable instructions... :3

Oooh, double bacon burgers & Nutz Deep II. http://www.nutzdeepbar.com/


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SO... a story of world-class, grand-champion mega-FAIL for you to marvel at me. And what an IDIOT I can be. And it involves cooking!

So I'm making a quiche-like main dish, which involves the usual suspects: Cheese, onion, some flour (and another spice or two) and lots of milk. The cheese and onion are waiting patiently in the baking pan for the milk etc. to get mixed up. Like an idiot (but only a minor one, so far) I used the stand-up mixer to mix this up, full well knowing that the beater doesn't really get down to the bottom of the bowl, so the flour will wind up stuck to the sides. So I carefully scrape it off, and did I mention that I'm somewhat tired as I do this? Anyway, it all goes into the baking dish.

Those of you with a clue will be thinking, "Gee, where are the eggs?" which didn't occur to me until I stared at the mix wondering what seemed wrong. Check the recipe...

Ooops. Four eggs. D'OH!

So I agonized for a while about whisking them separately, and then somehow mixing them in with the stuff in the dish already, but then decided the heck with that and (carefully!) poured the whole mess back into the mixer after breaking the four eggs in, and using a knife to bust up the yolks.

That all mixed fine, went back into the pan (after getting strings/strands of grated cheese off the beater) and then into the oven.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand... that little voice at the back of my head kept wondering if something wasn't quite right... and sure enough, check the recipe again...

Ooooops. Half a cup of parmesan! D'OH!

Pulled it out of the oven (at least I remembered to use potholders, it had only been in a minute or so, but a 400-degree oven does amazing things) and dug out the parmesan. Which was blobby, but not TOO badly, and so I measured a by-golly-pretty-dang-close-but-generous-of-course half cup, and distributed it more-or-less evenly over everything. Then spent a minute or two (A) breaking up clumps and (B) distributing it more or less evenly and (C) sloshing it beneath the egg-n-milk mixture so it wouldn't just burn on top.

Sigh...

But here's the good part: It turned out really good! And it's what I wanted to say when this thread first started: MANY recipes don't really need super-exact measurements, or super-exact following of steps. So improvise, try stuff out, it'll probably be okay.

But before we ate it, I felt like the last panel in this comic. Without, you know, the blonde hair.


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Oh, I can cook. Barbecue, crock pot, saute, stir-fry... I can bake, too.

I learned from my mother, mostly. When I turned 14 I got the 'alright, you get to help' speech. And by the time I left to live on my own, I could cook a pretty good meal from scratch. Baking was just something fun to do, and almost always turned out well.

Except for the shortcake. I was making shortcake, bisquick recipe, but I grabbed bread flour instead of bisquick (they were all in tupperware tubs). What came out wasn't light and fluffy. It weighed well over 2 pounds, probably closer to 4, in a 9-inch cake pan. Dense as a brick, but pretty sweet. No one else wanted to try it, so I got to take hunks with me for a 'light' snack.

Sometimes even disasters turn out well.


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How did I miss this thread?

I love to cook, I cook up something for breakfast and dinner every single night. Breakfast is usually just eggs and bacon (and supererogatory amounts of coffee), but dinner. Oh man. Over the years I've had many nights with not much to do, so I really learned to cook out of boredom and hunger - not every place in the world has fast foot everywhere like America.

Steak, chicken, and my specialty, fish. I can grill a mean salmon. Chicken and steak I both pan fry with either barbecue sauce our seasoning salt (Lawry's), depending on how I'm feeling. If I'm cooking any kind of fish other than salmon, I pan fry it with butter, garlic and lemon. Salmon I grill with lemon and Cajun spices, and will sometimes pan fry if I'm too lazy to grill.

Once in a while I'm known for making some ham steak too, but that's pretty easy, and doesn't really require much flavoring. Steak, chicken or fish are how I'd try to impress someone if I had them over for dinner.


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My Ramen is top notch. No, seriously, you'd never think that a 12 cent bag of noodles could taste this good...

But, that's about it. I love food, though. Wow, what a waste of a post...


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I've still got to say that my chicken-donut (or is it donut-chicken?) has been the best, and maybe worst, thing I've ever cooked. What can I say? I don't cook. But I'm hoping that the cooking class I'm in will change that for better or for worse.


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SpikeRulesHell wrote:
My Ramen is top notch. No, seriously, you'd never think that a 12 cent bag of noodles could taste this good...

But, that's about it. I love food, though. Wow, what a waste of a post...


Agreed. I have a literal crate of ramen downstairs, a good 100 packs of it in varius flavors.

One thing that is really good to do with ramen is to take and soften the noodles, then before they are completely done, fry them in some canola oil ( or vegetable oil or whatever else you want) the mix them in with something like stir fry and rice or something like that, it will make enough food to last for days and is actually pretty good.


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Chhhheeeeeeeeeezcaaaaaek.

plis?


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SpikeRulesHell wrote:
My Ramen is top notch. No, seriously, you'd never think that a 12 cent bag of noodles could taste this good...


I GUARANTEE mine is better, for I have discovered the secret to making the perfect pot of ramen! (...please be my first friends...)

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Wow, what a waste of a post...


No, Spike...

Kho, cat-girl. wrote:
Chhhheeeeeeeeeezcaaaaaek.

plis?


...THAT was a waste of a post.


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Cheesecake is DELICIOUS! How can you turn down it's rich-dry flavor and delectableness?


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Garrett wrote:
SpikeRulesHell wrote:
My Ramen is top notch. No, seriously, you'd never think that a 12 cent bag of noodles could taste this good...


I GUARANTEE mine is better, for I have discovered the secret to making the perfect pot of ramen! (...please be my first friends...)


Oh, well, I never boil it, i just nuke it. It doesn't matter how good it is, I'm not waiting more than 5 minutes for packaged noodles.

So, yeah, that right there ensures that yours is better then mine. But, mine's still bigger. And it has more power. It gets things done in half the time.

I'm talking about my microwave oven. I forbid any "micro" jokes.


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