How do you cook? recipes welcome.

[bilbous]

Do you cook for yourself? Do you cook from scratch mostly or from mixes or do you just heat up prepared meals and/or order out?

I like to make soup to take to work and it goes something like this:

1/2 head of cauliflower
15-20 baby carrots
1/2 a large spanish onion
3-5 stalks of celery
10-15 small white mushrooms
4-8 large brown mushrooms
4-6 whole potatoes (including skins)
2-4 chicken breasts

Chop up all the ingredients to relatively small pieces and place in a large pot.
Fill with water until the ingredients start to float.
Add spices to taste, I usually use garlic powder, crushed chillies and oregano, a little salt and pepper.
Bring to a boil with the pot covered then simmer for a couple hours on low heat.

[Narure]

Woah yeah i got some great recipes.

Get some beans, some bread and some butter.

Stick the beans in a pan over the heat and jam the bread in the toaster. When the bread comes out of the toaster add butter and pour beans over.

Get some pasta and sone cheese.

Put the pasta in boiling water for however long it says on the packet then grate cheese over it after shoving it in a bowl. Also tuna goes nice with this.

[emeraldfool]

I'm a pretty good cook, I just don't do it all that often.


I love to bake though. Specifically things you can't strictly get in Ireland ('Cinnabons' are my favourite things in the whole world, yet they don't exist in Ireland. But I think I've perfected the art of making them to the point that regular American ones are icky )

I'd also bake birthday cakes, or maybe make a quiche for Thanks-giving (my mom celebrates that), but generally don't do it regularly. (But when I do it kicks ass )

[John80sk]

The closest I've come to cooking in the last week would either be preparing an MRE or microwaving something from a can

[Parallo]

1 packet of Tayto cheese and onion crips(The ones from the north, southern ones are icky).
2 slices of bread.
a whole load of butter.

Thats the closest I come to cooking.

[bilbous]

I'm usually a meat and potatoes guy my self, I'm practically allergic to eating anything green. Soup seems to fit the bill better on a 3-11:30 shift. Used to be I'd eat one meal a day about 6pm. not really practical anymore.

[Robinmagus]

Last time I cooked I forgot to take the plastic off before microwaving the meal. Damn, that was one naasty meal. Though it did fill me up good.
I also go to Vons and have the dude behind the meats and cheeses and stuff make me a sandwitch.

[emeraldfool]

1 packet of Tayto cheese and onion crips(The ones from the north, southern ones are icky).
2 slices of bread.
a whole load of butter.

Thats the closest I come to cooking.

Psch, I'm surrounded by culinary retards

[Xordan]

1 Pizza.
1 Oven.
20 Min.
Yum.
Potential death at 40.

[steuben]

though i am a charter member of the smoke detector school of cooking...

i have this one that i like to run up

about 1 pound of navy bean
1/2 cup of ketchup
1/3 cup of molasses
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
1 tablespoon of vinegar
1/4 pound of bacon, cut small
1 large onion, cut large

if you start with the dried beans soak them over night.
add water to cover the beans, and then dump everything else in.
set on low heat or in the oven around 250F
stir it every hour or so. but you should be about to leave it
about 6 hours in take out one cup of beans, purree them and mix back in. cook about another 2 hours

[Idoru]

Do you cook for yourself? Do you cook from scratch mostly or from mixes or do you just heat up prepared meals and/or order out?

I like to make soup to take to work and it goes something like this:

1/2 head of cauliflower
15-20 baby carrots
1/2 a large spanish onion
3-5 stalks of celery
10-15 small white mushrooms
4-8 large brown mushrooms
4-6 whole potatoes (including skins)
2-4 chicken breasts

Chop up all the ingredients to relatively small pieces and place in a large pot.
Fill with water until the ingredients start to float.
Add spices to taste, I usually use garlic powder, crushed chillies and oregano, a little salt and pepper.
Bring to a boil with the pot covered then simmer for a couple hours on low heat.

Just curious but is that several weeks worth of soup or do you cook for everyone at work

[bilbous]

Actually it last me for 2-4 days and I don't eat much else that doesn't come out of a snack machine. I tend to keep it light on the fluid so it is like a stew except the liquid is a broth and not a gravy. The first couple days I just leave it on the stove and take a thermos bottle with me to work. As long as I bring it to a boil when reheating it is fine, after that I put whatever is left into a plastic tub and in the fridge. I suppose if I was going to spread it out I could freeze it in plastic tubs after the first meal and then microwave it or heat portions in a smaller pot. It doesn't usually last that long. Also I use chicken breasts because that is what I buy, The dark meat parts would probably be cheaper and might be even better for this purpose. I could use ground beef as well but I haven't bought any of that in a while. Soup is easy and nutritious, boil a bunch of stuff then pour it in a bowl. Takes a while to get the flavors all in the broth.

[Eliseth]

1 packet of Tayto cheese and onion crips(The ones from the north, southern ones are icky).
2 slices of bread.
a whole load of butter.

Amen to that Parallo. I for one can't cook to save my life, I'd like to learn though, maybe this thread will be useful.

[Kiirani]

I'm not much of a chef, but geez, even I seem better than some of you :/

I usually live on the cooking of my parents, or those instant pasta things, but sometimes I make up some pita chips or cinnamon pinwheels.

Pita Chips  :

Take pita bread, cut into triangles, pull the halves apart, stick on a tray, spray with oil, sprinkle with garlic salt and put in oven.
Wait until they go brownish, take them out, dump them in a container and sprinkle with more garlic salt.

I like to use garlic butter filled pita. Yum.

Cinnamon pinwheels :

I can't be stuffed going to get the recipe, find one online >_<

[Kixie]

Everything I make comes out of a box :/