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re: Are you a natural when it comes to cooking??
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:50 am to hungryone
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:50 am to hungryone
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Nothing natural about it....competence comes through study and repetition. It's a craft like any other, requiring practice, application, and good tools.
I agree with this
but I will say that I was naturally drawn to cooking, as I was the only kid in my family that always wanted to help my mom cook
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Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:56 am to Langland
Grew up in a family full of cooks...my mom and all of my aunts can work a kitchen. All of the men in my family have an understanding of how to prepare delicious meals, but we all have southern wives who learned how to cook, so we just serve as taste-testers.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:12 am to dexy82
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cinnamon to the chili
Not that unusual at all......Doesn't take but a little bit & that accompanied by some unsweetened chocolate will give a chili a much more rounded flavor.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:21 am to Degas
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Cooking is sort of like the subject math in school. You need to be taught everything about it, but math comes much easier for some people and some people just can't understand it. No one is going to be able to use the Pythagorean Theorem unless they're taught about it and understand how it works.
I've always had an interest in cooking. From early on, when my Mom would begin anything in the kitchen, I would pull up a chair to stand on so that I could see and watch everything with great intent, and she was a stay at home Mom (now I'm showing my age) so I saw many cooking lessons while my Brother and Dad opted for television. Watching my Mom cook was far more fascinating than television, even at an early age. She admittedly isn't that good or very creative, but I learned from everything.
I know Martini remembers Shakey's Pizza. There was a glass window where you could watch the pizzas being made and that was awesome for me as a kid, and I still find myself wanting to sit at the counter in restaurants and watch cooking unfold. It's an undying love to observe and learn.
Sounds like me growing up.....If I wasn't practicing football or fishing/hunting I was in the kithcen.....remember Shakey's well too & that was always fun. I'd say I have a natural affinity for cooking & the great fortune to have learned well from many sources.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:31 am to dexy82
I wasn't until I married a vegetarian. Then I had to fend for myself and really figure out what I liked other than take-out and pizza.
After about 10 years of this experience, I now cook decent enough to where my family, friends, and in-laws look forward to coming over for dinner.
So for me, it was definitely a learned behavior, and I now love to cook
After about 10 years of this experience, I now cook decent enough to where my family, friends, and in-laws look forward to coming over for dinner.
So for me, it was definitely a learned behavior, and I now love to cook
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:13 am to dexy82
I enjoy cooking.
IMO, I am a competent cook. I have practiced cooking for years and have learned a lot through observation, study and practice.
I still have a ways to go to reach my goals as a cook.
I am a natural eater, breather, sleeper and was fairly skilled at those three things from birth. I have good potty habits that were taught to me by my mom at a fairly young age.
IMO, I am a competent cook. I have practiced cooking for years and have learned a lot through observation, study and practice.
I still have a ways to go to reach my goals as a cook.
I am a natural eater, breather, sleeper and was fairly skilled at those three things from birth. I have good potty habits that were taught to me by my mom at a fairly young age.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:18 am to dexy82
I'm 1/3 natural.
1. I learned a lot about cooking from watching my dad when I was a very young child. Mom was a horrible cook so I avoided watching her.
2. I learned a lot in my 20s by watching cooking shows on PBS. I took tips that seemed to make sense and discarded those that didn't.
3. I'm natural in that I never measure anything. I never use a meat thermometer. I know how much stuff to mix in and I know when meat is cooked.
1. I learned a lot about cooking from watching my dad when I was a very young child. Mom was a horrible cook so I avoided watching her.
2. I learned a lot in my 20s by watching cooking shows on PBS. I took tips that seemed to make sense and discarded those that didn't.
3. I'm natural in that I never measure anything. I never use a meat thermometer. I know how much stuff to mix in and I know when meat is cooked.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:19 am to dexy82
Yes. I make mistakes (and plenty of them), but for the most part, I am very frequently lucky with my instincts.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:30 am to dexy82
not even close.. i seem to struggle with everything. Constancy is not one of my strengths.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 11:44 am to LSURoss
I think i'm somewhat of a natural. Obviously i didn't start that way. But i learned from watching my mom. Then, when i got to college, i'd call her up for recipes or how to cook something, and when i went home i'd get her to cook soemthing and watch and take notes.
I'm 33 now, with a wife and a son (6 months old) and i do the majority of cooking. Weekends are for the good meals. Weekdays are quick tasty meals. My weekday standards are P90X chicken (chicken thighs with molasses, lemon juice, garlic,and worcestershire) with broccoli and pasta sides, shake and bake porkchops, easy quesadillas, and almond and parmeson crusted tilapia.
Weekends are the big meals. The well crafted Gumbos, Jambalayas, Spaghetti, etc... are done every other month, rotating. These are meals that take at least an hour or more to cook. Gumbo takes about 4.
I also experiment with new dishes that i love now; oxtail stew, rabbit sauce piquante, wine braised beef short ribs, wine braised chicken with shallots and pancetta, Orecchetti, Meatballs and Kale with Pine nuts, Fettucinni, roast quail, etc...
Every other week or so i'll get the urge to cook something new that is somewhat fancy. I cooked something with lemongrass for the first time, and it was fantastic. Never realized how close to lemon lemongrass tastes. The Chinese stir fry didn't go over too well. My stainless wok is not stick resistant, and caused me to burn a bunch of shite. Chinese is the hardest thing to cook, IMO.
Right now, i'm currently crafting a multi-course beer dinner menu to cook for family friends. I'll start a thread on that later. This weekend i'm making one of the dishes to try out. It's called Coq Au Biere.
I have found i can cook almost anything if i have a recipe. I'm not too great at winging it though, unless it's for simple stuff, like gravy's, gumbo's, etc...
One of my pride and joy meals is my smoked duck and sausage gumbo. I've posted the recipe before, buy i smoke the duck in the smoker, collect the fat in a drip pan, and use that fat for the roux. It's incredible. And if my wife will ever let me do it again, i'm going to cook Gumbo Z'herbes again. I cooked it once and it was fantastic. Wife doesn't care for greens, though.
One of my new favorites, however, is cooking with brussel sprouts.
I'm 33 now, with a wife and a son (6 months old) and i do the majority of cooking. Weekends are for the good meals. Weekdays are quick tasty meals. My weekday standards are P90X chicken (chicken thighs with molasses, lemon juice, garlic,and worcestershire) with broccoli and pasta sides, shake and bake porkchops, easy quesadillas, and almond and parmeson crusted tilapia.
Weekends are the big meals. The well crafted Gumbos, Jambalayas, Spaghetti, etc... are done every other month, rotating. These are meals that take at least an hour or more to cook. Gumbo takes about 4.
I also experiment with new dishes that i love now; oxtail stew, rabbit sauce piquante, wine braised beef short ribs, wine braised chicken with shallots and pancetta, Orecchetti, Meatballs and Kale with Pine nuts, Fettucinni, roast quail, etc...
Every other week or so i'll get the urge to cook something new that is somewhat fancy. I cooked something with lemongrass for the first time, and it was fantastic. Never realized how close to lemon lemongrass tastes. The Chinese stir fry didn't go over too well. My stainless wok is not stick resistant, and caused me to burn a bunch of shite. Chinese is the hardest thing to cook, IMO.
Right now, i'm currently crafting a multi-course beer dinner menu to cook for family friends. I'll start a thread on that later. This weekend i'm making one of the dishes to try out. It's called Coq Au Biere.
I have found i can cook almost anything if i have a recipe. I'm not too great at winging it though, unless it's for simple stuff, like gravy's, gumbo's, etc...
One of my pride and joy meals is my smoked duck and sausage gumbo. I've posted the recipe before, buy i smoke the duck in the smoker, collect the fat in a drip pan, and use that fat for the roux. It's incredible. And if my wife will ever let me do it again, i'm going to cook Gumbo Z'herbes again. I cooked it once and it was fantastic. Wife doesn't care for greens, though.
One of my new favorites, however, is cooking with brussel sprouts.
This post was edited on 3/26/15 at 11:48 am
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:24 pm to BugAC
I say natural in the sense that I don't measure very much, I just have a sense of how much is enough and what's too much.
I can put things together in my mind and see them to fruition at the dinner table. Perhaps I sub consciously acquired skills along the way, but I think some people are just better at it regardless of length of time in the kitchen or desire to cook.
example.
My wife loves to bake
I do not, never baked as a kid etc.
we both follow the directions exactly
9 times out of 10 she agrees I bake a better product then her.
I dunno
I can put things together in my mind and see them to fruition at the dinner table. Perhaps I sub consciously acquired skills along the way, but I think some people are just better at it regardless of length of time in the kitchen or desire to cook.
example.
My wife loves to bake
I do not, never baked as a kid etc.
we both follow the directions exactly
9 times out of 10 she agrees I bake a better product then her.
I dunno
Posted on 3/26/15 at 5:00 pm to dexy82
I don't have "it " just yet but I love to cook. Makes me think of my dad, who is my hero.
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