HOW MANY MEN HERE CAN...........

[02ducky]

Love to BBQ and like a lot of you guys I experimente with different spicies to bring out the flavor in the meats. Harder when your significant other was brought up on a lot of Asian dishes and there are certain foods dishes I just can't make the way she can.

Good topic!

[pookawa]

I like to cook also (single father most of my life; restaurants get too expensive for every-day!). Making Lamb stew right now. For me, it is relaxing. Baking on the other hand... I am just at the point where 50% turns out well.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Yes I can... and I love to cook.

The Chamorro rice was so good. I forgot to steal that whole thing when we were done.


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[Zach O]

Nope. Nothin. And that's fine with me. That's why I got married.

[encorehunter]

It depends on what we are cooking. I can make chicken with a sherry mushroom cream sauce from scratch, along with other italian food. She cooks all the Mexican food, like chicken enchiladas.

[whitbaby]

I can usually manage some pretty good stuff within reason. The trick is getting it all on the table at one time and still hot.
My specialty is hot dog gravy...

;->

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

I get home before my wife so I usually start dinner and she helps me finish up. I clean as I go but she finishes up the cleaning to make it fair. We are a good team. She does all the baking however.

[clodhopper]

Can and do. My boys are learning. At 11, the younger one can make simple complete meals from scratch.

[Ah Pook]

Here's one of the "spice" areasAttachment 40323
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The kid gave us 4 gallons of 1st pressing olive oil, from their friends garden ,they do every year.

That list was just a starting point. Gotta start somewhere.

Mmmmm, real olive oil.

[james_bond_007]

I do cook and enjoy it as a diversion from my regular job.
My most memorable complements were :
1) When my wife told me when would PREFER that I prepare some things at home RATHER than going out.
2) When some native Marylanders told me my crab cakes were the best they had ever had.
3) When I can get someone who hates something (i.e., eggplant) to eat my preparation, and then ask me to make it again, the next time they come over

My favorite reference to learn how to cook is Professional Cooking by Wayne Gisslen
This is a textbook used by the Cooking Institute of America.
It has some recipes, but more importantly has techniques for cooking and baking.

Learn the techniques, and apply to what you have on hand.

I have no box 'anything' on hand.

As a hobby, I have catered weddings, parties, and showers for 25-200 people, as well as prepared and hosted theme dinners, where the theme was cuisine of a given country or region.

I make my own vinegar, yogurt, sour kraut, etc.

Anyone wanting some vinegar "Mother" (aka vinegar "starter") , let me know and it is yours.