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re: How did so many of you learn to cook so well?
Posted on 1/6/11 at 12:39 pm to Rohan2Reed
Posted on 1/6/11 at 12:39 pm to Rohan2Reed
Watching Mom and lots of cookbooks and family recipes...
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Posted on 1/6/11 at 12:39 pm to Tigertown in ATL
I spent a lot of time with Mom and Grandma..
The key to being a good cook is actually pretty simple. The ability to read and follow directions is what seperates the awful cook from the good cook. I'm amazed how many people cant follow a recipe.
What seperates the good cooks from the great ones is that the great ones can look at a recipe and modify it to their own tastes. Often making the recipe even better..
The key to being a good cook is actually pretty simple. The ability to read and follow directions is what seperates the awful cook from the good cook. I'm amazed how many people cant follow a recipe.
What seperates the good cooks from the great ones is that the great ones can look at a recipe and modify it to their own tastes. Often making the recipe even better..
Posted on 1/6/11 at 12:42 pm to Count Chocula
I never heard it called a grease gravy growing up. It was just gravy, and no matter what protein was used it was always done the exact same way.
When I started researching the different gravy techniques and found that's what people call it I just thought 'frick them'. They can try to denigrate it all they want, I know the truth. I'd eat rice and gravy at every meal if it came down to it.
When I started researching the different gravy techniques and found that's what people call it I just thought 'frick them'. They can try to denigrate it all they want, I know the truth. I'd eat rice and gravy at every meal if it came down to it.
Posted on 1/6/11 at 12:46 pm to Tigertown in ATL
Everyone in my mom's side of the family can cook, except my mom 
. Been watching and helping since I was a kid. Practice makes perfect.
. Been watching and helping since I was a kid. Practice makes perfect.
Posted on 1/6/11 at 12:54 pm to Gaston
quote:This, and we had it with most meals, except when we had gumbo or seafood.
I know the truth. I'd eat rice and gravy at every meal if it came down to it.
Posted on 1/6/11 at 1:01 pm to Tigertown in ATL
Mostly self taught through trial and error, reading recipe books and picking up some tips from others incl. this board....this board is an excellent source. 
My mom was a good southern cook but couldn't or didn't want make cajun dishes like gumbo. My mawmaw was the cajun from Lake Chuck and would make gumbo and yell at me in cajun french. I wish I remebered some of the words she used.
My mom was a good southern cook but couldn't or didn't want make cajun dishes like gumbo. My mawmaw was the cajun from Lake Chuck and would make gumbo and yell at me in cajun french. I wish I remebered some of the words she used.
Posted on 1/6/11 at 1:15 pm to Zach
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What's Cushaw?
cook it down with butter, sugar and cinnamon
goes great IMO with roast beef rice and gravy..
maybe just that I was brought up on it.
This post was edited on 1/6/11 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 1/6/11 at 1:27 pm to Kajungee
Okay, but what do you do with that big veggie?
Posted on 1/6/11 at 1:30 pm to CITWTT
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Okay, but what do you do with that big veggie?
ISWYDH
Posted on 1/6/11 at 3:43 pm to Kajungee
Last one i had like that I got to smother down, I needed an axe to bust it open. (Machete was broken.)
as to the topic, no cooking experience is a bad one. Relax and enjoy the process. You learn something everytime you try if you make yourself eat it when its done. don't rely on Tony's or the like to finish off every dish. Finally, in spite of the health benefits, mass quantities of garlic are not required in every dish.
as to the topic, no cooking experience is a bad one. Relax and enjoy the process. You learn something everytime you try if you make yourself eat it when its done. don't rely on Tony's or the like to finish off every dish. Finally, in spite of the health benefits, mass quantities of garlic are not required in every dish.
Posted on 1/6/11 at 3:55 pm to Tigertown in ATL
my mom taught me some stuff. but ive learned most of my cooking skills from my current bf.
i actually hadnt tried many foods til i met him. ive eaten a lot of ethnic food and even tried to execute it. im not so good at that stuff just yet.
i actually hadnt tried many foods til i met him. ive eaten a lot of ethnic food and even tried to execute it. im not so good at that stuff just yet.
Posted on 1/6/11 at 4:07 pm to skygod123
quote:Sounds like he wont be around much longer since he is your "current" boyfriend
from my current bf.
Posted on 1/6/11 at 4:15 pm to Count Chocula
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Sounds like he wont be around much longer since he is your "current" boyfriend
good catch.
She's using him for his cooking skills.
Posted on 1/6/11 at 4:26 pm to Tigertown in ATL
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Sounds like he wont be around much longer since he is your "current" boyfriend
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She's using him for his cooking skills.
Surely his "current" cooking and "current" other skills no doubt
Posted on 1/6/11 at 4:32 pm to Count Chocula
Motherfricker I got more skills than you got marshmallows
Posted on 1/6/11 at 4:32 pm to Tigertown in ATL
Granny Mum and Granpa taught me... 
thank god they did Mrs. CanFan can't cook worth shite ah well she's got other talents 
thank god they did Mrs. CanFan can't cook worth shite ah well she's got other talents 
Posted on 1/6/11 at 4:34 pm to LSUCanFAN
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ah well she's got other talents
Any hot divorced friends for Summer 2012?
Posted on 1/6/11 at 4:35 pm to Tigertown in ATL
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I'm going to buy some Kary's or Savoie's roux and try a gumbo. Even if the roux is easy, it is one step I don't have to worry about. Start simpler.
In the future, bake your roux in the oven. It's as easy as whisking the flour into the oil and putting it in the oven and you won't burn it.
I learned to cook at the hunting camp. When I was little they made stand in front of the pot and stir so nothing burned. As I got older, I was tasked with cutting things up. You keep doing that over and over and you learn what goes in and how to prep it beforehand.
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