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EEYORE

Sat Mar 18 2006, 06:54AM

Registered Member #99 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:10PM
Location: florida, usa
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Now that im in college i cook everyday. I used to simply eat noodles and chicken wings until my GF came along a few years back with her Colombian food...Now i cook lotsa things such as steaks, chicken, pork, pizza, rice+beans. She actually banned me from noodles and chicken wings (except every now and then) but i still sneak them

My fav thing to cook-Grouper, grilled. Filet Mignon is good too, but way to $$$ for me(my roomate will buy it and I will cook it).
I actually find it fun to cook and relate it to HV and other projects. Everything becomes a circuit to me

Now, if i can just get a cooker and my dad's championship BBQ recipes

Do drinks count?I love to "cook" up drinks!mmmm Bloody Mary, screwdriver and MARGARITAS!
(I think ill have one now...)

Matt

GimpyJoe

Sat Mar 18 2006, 07:02AM

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Don't worry about getting everything done at the same time. I suspect if you really researched it you would find that there has never been a group of people who arrived at their dinner table on time anyway, so you might as well just let things get cold and then pop them in the microwave. Or you could set the table and then heat everything at once with a big HERF...

ragnar

Sat Mar 18 2006, 07:38AM

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... wrote ...

As to the getting everything done at the right time...

Most people just do it by practice but if you have the capability to count in hours/minutes/seconds you can make like a lot easier by taking a guess as to how long it takes to cook a dish (x minutes) and the time when everyone will be sitting down expecting food (y o'clock) and using some confusing math to put it on at the right time.

Aww I've found it's never that easy. Things go wrong, stuff gets burned, stuff is ready early and you need to work out how to keep it hot etc. Just a matter of better future co-ordination for me, I'll get the hang of it with practise.

Plasmaniac

Sat Mar 18 2006, 10:05AM

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Mhhh... marshmallows...

I'm living with my parents, but both of them work and I have to cook 1-5 times a week. No, I actually don't "cook" marshmallows every day

I really love to make xtra hot ghoulash soup(my sister doesn't...), pizza or pancakes and saucages(yeah, right). But I often haven't got enough time to cook and just threw in a pizza from the fridge.

Madgyver

Sat Mar 18 2006, 11:26AM

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blackplasma wrote ...

Aww I've found it's never that easy. Things go wrong, stuff gets burned, stuff is ready early and you need to work out how to keep it hot etc. Just a matter of better future co-ordination for me, I'll get the hang of it with practise.

Yeah. Actually I can somehow solve this with practise, but I realy screw up at friends kitchens. Because the heat intensity of the stoves are different. Also I am NOT used to use gas.

Heiders

Sun Mar 19 2006, 08:01PM

Registered Member #268 Joined: Tue Feb 28 2006, 02:44AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Any else have/use a slow cooker? Solves all timing issues, you just make your veggie/side dish and whenever its done, you serve the slow-cooker! Great and hilarious slow-cooker recipes here.

GODSFUSION

Sun Mar 19 2006, 10:50PM

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I LOVE to cook. i really want to appriciate the food im about to consume and i want it to taste good and original. I can make a lot of stuff with reasonable accuracy. my rents refuse to get an electric oven so i cant really bake anything and have it come out unburt of fully cooked. i love to tkae on a new challange and love to do foreign dishes to broaden my abilities. Epicurious is my favorite website, cooking related. and umm...

kinda sad...i cant even make a good pizza

- wayne -

Ben

Mon Mar 20 2006, 03:58AM

Vigilatny
Registered Member #17 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 02:47PM
Location: NL
Posts: 158

Whe I can work up the gumption, I'mactually a pretty decent cook. Lst good thing I made was kind of accidental. I left some chicken marinating in the fridge for ~2 weeks. I found it yesterday. I was just about to go to the gym so I put it in the oven at 250 deg. F. I came back a few hours later and it looked kinda bad, dark brown and all the marinade was crispy black. But it tasted amazing. I ended up making some alfredo sauce and mixing in the chicken cut up with some sun dried tomatoes. It was great with some linguine. My mouth ached for more afterwards.

Simon

Tue Mar 21 2006, 12:16AM

Registered Member #32 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 08:58AM
Location: Australia
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What's an alfredo sauce to you?

I once went to an Italian restaurant and saw an alfredo sauce on the menu. I'd made an alfredo from a recipe in a book once so I thought I'd try a "real" sauce - it turned out to be a completely different sauce! I think one was cream based and the other a tomato based sauce.

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Tue Mar 21 2006, 01:12AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
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To me alfredo sauce is a thick/creamy white sauce, usually served over flat noodles and possibly with chicken/seafood mixed in. There is an italian chain about 5 minutes from here that has a huge (like a pound of pasta in there) bowtie pasta with the best alfreido/sun dried tomatoes and chicken. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it

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