Do you ever feel like completely changing the way you cook?

[vernplum]

If you're on your phone, you just tap underneath the part of someone's copied text when you hit reply and start typing and it will break it up. i guess on your desktop you just use your mouse cursor to do the same.

This is a test.

Try it with my post.

Oh yeah it works lol!

thanks!

 

[JAS_OH1]

This is a test.


Oh yeah it works lol!

thanks!

You're welcome!

 

[vernplum]

For me, my dream cooking experience is to stay for a month in an Italian Villa with local markets right door and cook like a Nonna, an Italian Grannie

That sounds amazing - I might look into something like that.

 

[vernplum]

Anyway enough navel-gazing from me. I'm going to set out to change a few things.

First is to get better at cooking vegetables. That's always been something I've been reluctantly doing just to add some fibre and vitamins to the plates, but I'm going to really start to try and make my veges much more appealing and en par with other things I can do.

Second (and that will do for today lol) is each time I cook, i will spend a bit of time thinking about what I can do either new or different with that dish.

 

[JAS_OH1]

That sounds amazing - I might look into something like that.

I am slow as molasses most of the time and that's the way I like it. Cooking under pressure takes the fun out of it. I've often thought about going to culinary school to improve my time management and knife skills, though.

I'm a laid back cook.
Pretty decent, but I struggle to follow a recipe, even my own recipes

I don't even try. The only time I've followed recipes is when trying something new to me like chicken marsala the first few times I made it. I hate measuring.

So, I can "design" a good dish but I could never cook it day in day out. I definitely would be the worse line cook ever

Mine will taste good but will be different every time. So yep, I'm with you.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

I am slow as molasses most of the time and that's the way I like it. Cooking under pressure takes the fun out of it. I've often thought about going to culinary school to improve my time management and knife skills, though.

I don't even try. The only time I've followed recipes is when trying something new to me like chicken marsala the first few times I made it. I hate measuring.

Mine will taste good but will be different every time. So yep, I'm with you.

When I was in my early twenties, I applied and was excepted to CIA in Hyde Park ... I was over the Moon!
But, my mother squashed that by saying that there was no way that I was going so far from home by myself
And like an idiot, I listened to her.

 

[JAS_OH1]

When I was in my early twenties, I applied and was excepted to CIA in Hyde Park ... I was over the Moon!
But, my mother squashed that by saying that there was no way that I was going so far from home by myself
And like an idiot, I listened to her.

Ah, that's a shame. But you might not have met your DH if that would have happened and your life would be vastly different.

It never even occurred to me in my 20s. I grew up in a household where we ate a lot of frozen pizzas and boxed dinners. My mom worked 2 jobs when I was young and was never home, so she bought a lot of convenience foods. When I was in my mid-20s, I started my own business and was very busy, so I didn't really cook much, but I dated a chef so I picked up some knowledge then, even though I did not help him in the kitchen when he was cooking for me other than cleanup. It wasn't until my 30s that I started getting interested in cooking, and late 40s before I was able to turn out some pretty great food (other than seafood, I always had a knack for that).

So yeah, I missed out on a lot of the basics.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Ah, that's a shame. But you might not have met your DH if that would have happened and your life would be vastly different.

It never even occurred to me in my 20s. I grew up in a household where we ate a lot of frozen pizzas and boxed dinners. My mom worked 2 jobs when I was young and was never home, so she bought a lot of convenience foods. When I was in my mid-20s, I started my own business and was very busy, so I didn't really cook much, but I dated a chef so I picked up some knowledge then, even though I did not help him in the kitchen when he was cooking for me other than cleanup. It wasn't until my 30s that I started getting interested in cooking, and late 40s before I was able to turn out some pretty great food (other than seafood, I always had a knack for that).

So yeah, I missed out on a lot of the basics.

JAS_OH1 exactly! Another life event that got knocked down, in my Junior year of high school, I was excepted to the top school for Dental Hygiene - that's what I wanted to do since I was a kid! This slap up side the head was that I didn't qualify for ANY student loans and that place ain't cheap! But again, had I gone to College in another State, I would never had met DH.

As to cooking, I know that I've made mention in the past why I cook: my mother can not cook for sour owl and I wanted to have edible food from before I could even reach the cook-top!

 

[JAS_OH1]

As to cooking, I know that I've made mention in the past why I cook: my mother can not cook for sour owl and I wanted to have edible food from before I could even reach the cook-top!

We just didn't have the ingredients on hand for me to do that, but I did the best I could.

 

[Morning Glory]

First is to get better at cooking vegetables. That's always been something I've been reluctantly doing just to add some fibre and vitamins to the plates, but I'm going to really start to try and make my veges much more appealing and en par with other things I can do.

I'm probably more accomplished at cooking vegetables than meat, since I was vegetarian until my late teens, also cooked vegan for a few years when my son decided to go vegan. These days I eat vegetarian most of the time. My practice with meat is less assured partly because its too expensive to experiment with.