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WeirdAl
07-11-2003, 03:55 PM
With all the food that I eat, I have to cook quite a bit. I do most of the cooking at our house, while my wife does most of the baking. I've gotten to the point that I actually enjoy it! Anyone else?

scorpio
07-11-2003, 04:01 PM
I enjoy it, I cook more than my wife.

footballcat
07-11-2003, 04:03 PM
i enjoy eating

Harvey Balboner
07-11-2003, 04:05 PM
I love cooking, I just hate cleaning up afterward

WeirdAl
07-11-2003, 04:07 PM
What types of food do you guys like to cook?

I especially like grilling, and cooking chinese. Indian can be fun, too.

footballcat
07-11-2003, 04:08 PM
i likechicken, and sweet patotos in the Microwave. Rice

scorpio
07-11-2003, 04:09 PM
I like cooking chicken different ways, making new things.

Harvey Balboner
07-11-2003, 04:21 PM
grilling, chinese, mexican. I can make pretty much anything.

I make a homemade grilled pizza that is smack your momma good. Too bad I go on a no carb diet soon.

midwtchamp
07-11-2003, 04:25 PM
I love cooking specially off season!

Badgermoon
07-11-2003, 04:30 PM
I miss cooking somewhat. When I'm alone, it isn't near as fun or interesting to cook for just myself. My current living situation doesn't allow much other than microwave cooking for reasons I don't want to go into.
I like to bbq too. I think I cook the best chicken I've ever had and get a lot of compliments on it. "Fell on the ground chicken" I call it. One thing I found that interested me, was that while I was living in Santa Fe, I noticed a HUGE difference in how a bbq cooks due to the 7000ft. altitude. I thought it worked a lot better for me as it slows the fire down a lot, just takes a little longer to get it going. You can still get a good hot direct heat fire going if you are doing that too.

Badgermoon
07-11-2003, 04:31 PM
Al, do you cook Tandori (sp?) chicken? Man that is good stuff.

WeirdAl
07-11-2003, 04:44 PM
I cook various indian chicken dishes (chicken in various, mostly yogurt based sauces). I do them in the pressure cooker - they turn out awesome (and use goat yogurt due to family food allergies to cow's milk).

BTW, I can still make some awesome chinese dishes even when cutting, just using splenda instead of sugar, and of course, don't have it over rice! Vinegar, soy sauce, stirfried garlic and maybe onions, and splenda, with a little corn starch to thicken it, for a brown sauce! Or catsup instead of soy, and lose the garlic and onions, and more splenda for a sweet and sour sauce!

WeirdAl
07-11-2003, 04:45 PM
BTW, there are a ton of ingredients I can't use when cooking for my family due to various allergies and a disease that they have, so sometimes I have to get really creative!

Badgermoon
07-11-2003, 04:49 PM
Your making me hungry Al.

WeirdAl
07-11-2003, 04:53 PM
BTW, have you guys ever read the naked chef cookbooks (or watched the show)? There are some awesome, pretty simple and cheap to cook recipes in there! I have a recipe for butternut squash that my wife absolutely loves!

Badgermoon
07-11-2003, 05:00 PM
The only way I've done squash was to cut an acorn squash in half and bake it in the oven with a big ole chunk of butter in the middle and baste it while it cooks. You can add some brown sugar too but I usually don't.
I sure miss simple home cooking. Meatloaf, squash, some corn and spinach with a rhubarb pie afterwards. I'm drooling like a Pavlov's dog now.

huntergatherer
07-11-2003, 06:20 PM
i do all the cooking. mostly wild game...tonight is smoked wild turkey...damn bird's been in the smoker for 8 hours now...

we have a rule in our house...you cook, the other cleans. i cook every day...

Badgermoon
07-11-2003, 08:54 PM
Good rule Bro, I feel the same way. If someone takes the time and effort to cook food for me, I feel the least I can do is clean up. If we both did the dishes together, I always insist on washing. It can be hard on the hands and women like to keep themselves nice looking. Mine are already hopeless. :D and theirs are so nice and soft. I guess I'm showing my old fashioned age, but I feel like the man should do the dirty work.

Saks
07-11-2003, 09:58 PM
I grill all year around. I sometimes enjoy cooking on the stove, but if a grill is around, watch out. Oh and my wife DOES NOT COOK:angry:

bigshug
07-11-2003, 10:43 PM
I like cooking A LOT.....mostly country type stuff since my mom and grandma make the traditional "down home meals"........lately I haven't been trying too many new things though, gotta broaden my horizons

BTW, footballcat your new avatar kicks ASS

Saks, did you paint your truck....lol

Saks
07-11-2003, 11:17 PM
No it is still green. Just a wishin

sugaa
07-14-2003, 12:16 PM
Im like your wife Weirdal. I love to bake. THere's an old man on our street who gets everything I make becuase everyone yells at me to get it out of the house so they dont eat it. lol

BLEED GREEN
07-14-2003, 12:45 PM
Love to grill everything and anything in site- At leae 5-6 days per week.

auriflex
07-14-2003, 06:14 PM
I'm the only cook in my house. Always was, always will be.

Like the alpha and the omega. Except I'm not quite as omnipotent.

radical_P
07-14-2003, 07:53 PM
I enjoy cooking most of the time. Wife has no clue in the kitchen. Actually I started college at Johnson and Wales U. Learned how to cook everything and anything. I just hate the restaurant busniess. After two years I changed to another school and finished up in Exercise Phys. But I still enjoy lots of variety. Most of the French cooking I can't eat because it is not a part of the diet. LOL

rugbythug
07-14-2003, 10:28 PM
If I can't make it in 15 minutes I don't eat it. We both cook-actually her more than me. But she does all the cleaning. And every two weeks the housekeeper comes in. She always gets a pile of dishes.

FemFit
07-17-2003, 07:29 PM
I love to cook, but it would be so nice if someone else stepped up to the plate once in awhile :P

sundevil
07-18-2003, 04:31 AM
I enjoy it and am generally better at it than my wife. I do most of the cooking and this gets me off the hook for other chores.

Chemical Evolution
07-18-2003, 05:29 AM
Yep love to cook!

mcinfo
07-18-2003, 09:24 AM
Yup I'm with you Al. I do most of the cooking and the wife bakes - she like to cook, but I still do most and all the Grill work.

Choke03
07-18-2003, 12:00 PM
My girl is a great cook. I on the other hand I am a great eater, perfect combo !!!
Although I am Lord of the Grill !!!

Max-HC
07-18-2003, 12:03 PM
Iam with footballcat enjoy eating ,cookings ok i like
chicken on the grill with rice and green red & orange peppers....