Pets Things that please me

[The Lemon]

All the women in my family have been excellent home cooks, nothing masterchef like, but really tasty, filling, heart food. My dad is one dimensional, makes a great pasta but literally nothing else (no, we aren't Italian). Being a DIDO worker spending months living by himself at a time I thought he might have learned a bit more over his life, but nope, Just that pasta.

I reckon I cook a mean steak, stir fry, or deep fried things, but outside of that pretty useless. I take pride in my simple man food and doing it exceptionally. A mate came around the other night and cooked some chops, now I don't wanna sound ungrateful, but I really wish I had cooked them.

Is there a social change happening in kitchens where men not only do a good deal of the cooking, but enjoy it?

We are family I think

 

[the_interloper]

All the women in my family have been excellent home cooks, nothing masterchef like, but really tasty, filling, heart food. My dad is one dimensional, makes a great pasta but literally nothing else (no, we aren't Italian). Being a DIDO worker spending months living by himself at a time I thought he might have learned a bit more over his life, but nope, Just that pasta.

I reckon I cook a mean steak, stir fry, or deep fried things, but outside of that pretty useless. I take pride in my simple man food and doing it exceptionally. A mate came around the other night and cooked some chops, now I don't wanna sound ungrateful, but I really wish I had cooked them.

Is there a social change happening in kitchens where men not only do a good deal of the cooking, but enjoy it?

I cook and enjoy, as a fat campaigner I love food so it's kind of necessary. Plus if you're the cook you can do it the way you want. Plenty of garlic? Sure!

But you don't need to use blood oranges, quinoa or whatever ingredient is flavour of the month. Good fresh food doesn't need much with it, if you've got a good quality steak salt and pepper is all it needs for example.

 

[Jimmy1992]

Mine goes "what are you cooking?"


Low 5's

and 2's

You win.

 

[Jimmy1992]

Like a lot of people in this thread I find cooking therapeutic.
I paint like I have Parkinsons. Musical ability is not great, but I play guitar and also find that therapeutic.

 

[revival_mode]

My Grandpa cooked his first ever meal when he was 85. Went straight from living at home to living with my Grandma. From her hospital bed, my Grandma write instructions to give to him about how to turn on oven, stove etc etc

mine just started coming to ours for dinner every night the cheeky bastard

 

[the_interloper]

Like a lot of people in this thread I find cooking therapeutic.
I paint like I have Parkinsons. Musical ability is not great, but I play guitar and also find that therapeutic.

Yeah cooking and guitar are great. My guitar ability ain't great either but I find if you have enough distortion and it's loud enough you don't really give a * anyway!

 

[Big Sauce 21]

I needed this cat in my life yesterday

 

[Rankine2Rachele]

I have all the artistic talent of a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs ... in a bag. Cooking seems to be one thing I'm semi-competent at.

 

[Richo is God]

I have all the artistic talent of a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs ... in a bag. Cooking seems to be one thing I'm semi-competent at.

Are you good at making stuff by just throwing stuff together and not following a recipe?

 

[Rankine2Rachele]

Are you good at making stuff by just throwing stuff together and not following a recipe?

On occasion. Sometimes I just chuck any old thing in; and others I take an existing recipe and tweak it in some way.

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[peternorth]

I cook and enjoy, as a fat campaigner I love food so it's kind of necessary. Plus if you're the cook you can do it the way you want. Plenty of garlic? Sure!

But you don't need to use blood oranges, quinoa or whatever ingredient is flavour of the month. Good fresh food doesn't need much with it, if you've got a good quality steak salt and pepper is all it needs for example.

so true. though somtimes i just need some fast food like nandos

 

[NSWCROW]

s**t was lost

 

[Quivorir]

Brilliant.

 

[Papa Juggs]

I learned how to cook from cooking shows and youtube.

Cookbook? I do have a couple buried deep in a cardboard box but never really used them.

I can curry up anything. Chickpeas, lentils, potato, goat. Not so much the goat these days though as I stick to mostly vegan food.

Sometimes I use a paste, sometimes I just mix some powders together in the right ratio.

 

[Dagless]

Use cookbooks for ideas not necessarily recipes. Unless you stick to a pretty boring diet of cooking 4-5 staples perpetually, you have to get new ideas from somewhere.

If there's an ingredient I specifically want to use, that's always a good place to start, otherwise * trawling through Internet cooking pages.

 

[The Lemon]

I love cookbooks and Internet recipes. Fantastic stuff

 

[Gough]

I only have a few cookbooks, everything else I get off the net. Looking US recipe websites is intersting though, I don't if anyone else has noticed that American food is quite different to ours, the recipes all seem to be sweeter, and the Mexican influence pronounced.

 

[the_interloper]

I only have a few cookbooks, everything else I get off the net. Looking US recipe websites is intersting though, I don't if anyone else has noticed that American food is quite different to ours, the recipes all seem to be sweeter, and the Mexican influence pronounced.

Yeah they use some weird ingredients. Baking is harder cause you kind of have to be exact, I don't do much of it anyway. If you're cooking you can be a bit more approximate and interchangeable with ingredients.

If you watch those American BBQ shows they pretty much put sugar in all of their meat rubs. With pork I get it for sure, not sure it's needed for beef or lamb personally.

 

[revival_mode]

I only have a few cookbooks, everything else I get off the net. Looking US recipe websites is intersting though, I don't if anyone else has noticed that American food is quite different to ours, the recipes all seem to be sweeter, and the Mexican influence pronounced.

so much US stuff is that sweet its actually disgusting

 

[iluvparis]

Don't mind cooking but absolutely abhor cleaning up afterwards - that and the fact I am normally cooking for one (#foreveralone) means usually I cbf

 

[Catfish Alley]

Got to clean as you go along. My wife is the worst at using what seems like every pot and pan in the house. Tidying up takes forever.

 

[Croweater]

Royal Croquet Club pleases me greatly.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Tying each shoelace to the exact same strength as the other.

 

[Dagless]

Royal Croquet Club pleases me greatly.

Enjoying the $10 350ml Heinekens or the $30 Pimms jugs?

 

[King Elvis]

It's a gyp, but it's still awesome.