Can you cook?

[Dwarfman]

I'm a qualified chef and have been working in restaurants for the last 12 years or so. So yes I like to think I can cook.

My signature dish is salmon (skin on mind) cooked in a pan till the skin is crispy and the inside only just turning pink (prefably still a little medium in the center).

People love my maki and nigiri. I can make people eat their yucky vegetables.

Not so great with desserts but I get by and that's what patissiers and flour monkeys are for anyway.

Dude...made me hungry. NO FAIR!

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I usually serve my salmon up with a nicoise salad or with kipfler potatoes that have been sauteed in butter and lemon with green beans, spinach and proscuitto.

When I serve steak and mashed potato I like to truffle my mash. This means I buy truffle infused olive oil and mix it in before serving. If I can't get truffle oil I confit whole garlic in duck fat. I add the mushy garlic cloves to my butter and cream and allow the flavours to infuse before adding the mix to my potatoes mmashing and mixing whilst hot to ensure the mash is fluffy and to avoid lumps .

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Kinda. I've been experimenting more and more lately. My mum has taught me some things, other things I've worked out myself.
Oh and my signature dish is chicken curry.

 

[FamoFunk]

I can cook quite a lot of things from scratch, Burgers, Curry, Stew, Pastry items...

My favourite to make though is Bolognese, can add whatever you want in ti like peppers anc carrots and make it spicy, too.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I would say I'm a great cook. I didn't really learn to cook anywhere, I just learnt by doing. Started with random recipes I found then experimented with whatever I thought worked. My signature dish is chicken in a honey mustard mint and chilli sauce with roast potatoes in sesame oil. I should think of a shorter name for that... it's probably the easiest thing to make but it tastes the best.

I also love to make spiced turkey burgers filled with feta.


Edit: SHEPHERD'S PIE! How could I forget that. The dish of my childhood.

 

[The Human Torch]

I can cook, but find it incredibly boring to do. So mostly I just follow a recipe and it turns out well enough.

 

[MassiveGeek]

What do you cook? Do you actually cook? What's your signature dish? Where did you learn how to cook? What kind of foods do you typically cook?

I cook on occasion, either when I have to or want to, since I'm not gonna go force mom to make me something else because I don't want what's on the table.
I have little problem cooking from a recipe, but I do have one signature dish I know by heart; chili. I remember that me and my buddy at my grade school had to decide a meal for the cooking class, and we chose Chili con Carne. Now I'm not a big fan of beans, and I practiced beforehand making the chili at home for me and my brother and father to eat. It turned out really well, and it's a favourite here now.

I also love egg dishes, and learned how to make Tamagoyaki for the lulz. Oh and bacon dishes. Mom makes these delicious bacon wrapped chicken breasts it's SOOOO good, and I have to learn to make it for when I move out...

 

[TheFrost]

sure I can cook... grenades that is

 

[Merkavar]

i can cook 2 minute noodles, toast, cans of soup, chicken drumstick with a soy suace suace.

does that count. i havent really tried to cook but im sure its not too hard.

 

[s0denone]

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I usually serve my salmon up with a nicoise salad or with kipfler potatoes that have been sauteed in butter and lemon with green beans, spinach and proscuitto.

You should try serving smoked salmon with pollack. Delicious.

On topic:
I cook daily. Been doing it since about 15 at home. I have a passion for food and cooking, and consider myself an exquisite amateur chef.
I cook everything. I know it's broad, but sometimes the money is tight, and sometimes it isn't. I've cooked biiig meals for holidays, and cooked pasta for myself on a boring Wednesday night.

My speciality is my barbecue marinade, usable for both pork, chicken and steak - but works best with chicken. You haven't lived til you've tasted it, I tell you
Liquid smoke, cola, tomat purée and spices. It is un-fucking-real.

 

[varulfic]

I cook all my meals. Saves me a ton of money. It's mostly brain dead simple stuff like spaghetti, meat and potatoes or the occational pie (because I'm hungry now dammit and don't want to wait two hours to eat), but I try to vary my meals and improve my skills every now and then.

My signature dish is called Janssons Frestelse (swedish dish, rough translation "Janssons Temptation"). It's a potato gratin with anchovies, and it's just about the most satisfying meal ever, both to cook and eat.

 

[SimuLord]

I can apply heat to food to make something edible, but you've really got to share my love of greasy, bad-for-you food to think I'm a capable cook.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

*is a guy*

I can make meatballs, I can make Lasagna and spaghetti, I can make this simple hungarian chicken stew, I can make the best damn chocolate chip cookies EVER, and I have the old fallback, instant noodles with an egg cracked in!

Not a bad start.

 

[Dwarfman]

You should try serving smoked salmon with pollack. Delicious.

On topic:
I cook daily. Been doing it since about 15 at home. I have a passion for food and cooking, and consider myself an exquisite amateur chef.
I cook everything. I know it's broad, but sometimes the money is tight, and sometimes it isn't. I've cooked biiig meals for holidays, and cooked pasta for myself on a boring Wednesday night.

My speciality is my barbecue marinade, usable for both pork, chicken and steak - but works best with chicken. You haven't lived til you've tasted it, I tell you
Liquid smoke, cola, tomat purée and spices. It is un-fucking-real.

I like to serve my salmon on an avocado, prawn salsa and topped with horsradish cream and a watercress salad. I can also cold smoke my own salmon. Alas I'm in a unit and don't want to be evicted anytime soon.

I've heard about using cola in marinades. The acidic ingredients would work well. I had a sous chef that had a similar recipe only instead of cola, he used bourbon. Worked very well for pork ribs and buffalo wings.

If your passionate about cooking incidently have you considered taking up an apprenticship? It's a hard life, but we play as hard as we work.

 

[Apathetic Flamingo]

I took a Culinary Course. I know how to cook well, just don't know many recipes.

 

[s0denone]

I like to serve my salmon on an avocado, prawn salsa and topped with horsradish cream and a watercress salad. I can also cold smoke my own salmon. Alas I'm in a unit and don't want to be evicted anytime soon.

I will definitely need to try that out myself. Avocado, prawn salsa and horsradish sounds like an excellent mix.

I've heard about using cola in marinades. The acidic ingredients would work well. I had a sous chef that had a similar recipe only instead of cola, he used bourbon. Worked very well for pork ribs and buffalo wings.

Indeed. My brother is a chef, and he uses similar recipies too. Chickenwings in the barbeque marinade... There is simply nothing better!

I've used a number of alcoholic beverages instead of the cola. Red wine when cooking steak/veal is a particular hit
I could start listing any number of marinade combinations, but it wouldn't make much sense. Who am I to give you advice?

If your passionate about cooking incidently have you considered taking up an apprenticship? It's a hard life, but we play as hard as we work.

Oh I have. I was out in an internship years back, when I was in school. My brother was already the finished article then.

The fools had me peeling quinces for hours. You probably have a good idea of how mindnumblingly stupid that is. I expected something like that though, given word from my brother, and that's not what's kept me from undergoing the education... I just have other interests that I value higher. I appreciate you asking me here, I really do, but I just try to live out my cooking dreams in my own kitchen!