Can you cook?
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I can make some awesome BBQ ribs. Not too bad at pasta dishes either, but those aren't really that tough.
I'm a pretty good cook! Even better when I have a recipe book in front of me (because following instructions is easy, once you get past the 'setting fire to and/or cutting yourself every time you try cooking' stage)
Planning meals and shopping? That's a lot of work.Ambi said:I'm sure you could cook some simple things, at least. Don't let a few failed attempts make you judge yourself as incapable at cooking. Takes practice, trial and error, that's all7 said:
I occasionally accidentally evaporate all the water too, if I leave it to boil and go do something else. I learnt to only leave it on the highest heat setting when I am there watching it, and when it starts boiling, I will turn the oven down a few notches.
I can cook and bake. Some of my family don't like the of lack of meat (too bad, I'm vegetarian, and make sure the food I make is abundant in nutrients), or find some meals not flavorful enough because I don't add a heap of salt.
Following a recipe isn't difficult, and I usually make slight changes.
I experimented with food from a very young age. I learnt that making crackers with flour, water, and powdered coffee at the bottom of a square cake tin is disgusting and requires the tin to be soaked to get the dried stuff off, I also learnt that five year old lemon flavouring and milk tastes foul, that adding sultanas to an improvised sugary baked pancake did not justify the name "health nut sultana patty", and that the idea of milk added to vanilla coke was kind of gross. I'd even poorly designed a "vanilla spider" logo and wanted to market and sell it, at eight years old.
Nowadays I don't do so many crazy things. I can bake lemon meringue pie, chocolate chip cookies, carrot cake, brownies, and cheesecake.
The dinner recipes I can cook without a recipe in front of me are spinach and cheese rolls, vegetable curry from scratch, pasta with sauce, coconut rice, vegetable bake, lasagna, and I can't think of what else.
Then cooking and having leftover's rot.
If it's perishable it will perish before I get to it.
If I burn/ruin my food - time & money down the drain.
The best have tried to teach me, all have failed.
Everyone says how simple, easy, and fun cooking is...
and how I'm just faking or not trying.
It's like a disability for me; and no one gets it.
My last girlfriend said she'd fix Thanksgiving dinner for us last year.
I wanted to pick up a pre-cooked dinner --- but no.
She insisted how traditional cooking it herself is.
Then when that fatefull morning arrived, she asked me to help out
by cooking the turkey.
I told her that me and cooking always ends badly.
"Anyone can cook," "I'm being a baby" etc...
Anyways the turkey wasn't edible because after 8 hours
in the oven it came out burnt on the outside and raw on the inside.
Then I got into trouble for ruining the turkey.
She still doesn't believe that I can't cook and I'm scamming her.
Dude, I'm old.
I'll build you a house, but I can't fix dinner.
Fix me dinner, and I'll help out by cleaning the house.
If by cook you mean putting bacon on a plate and then in the microwave, boiling an egg or putting a potato waffle in the oven then perhaps. In all honstly I don't know if I can cook or not. I'd rather eat something which takes 20 mins to cook in the oven with no maintenance than a meal full of wholesome goodness prepared with love and care.
