I enjoy cooking and I am sure some of you do to so this thread is about cooking. Discuss cooking, food and the impliments used for cooking. What kinds of foods do you like to cook and how do you cook it. Also included will be cooking tips. To start off I will give you a (not a) recipe for my very own Recipe Free French Onion Soup Cook time: 1 to 4 hours Ingredients: large red onions large white onions beef broth cans (enough to cover onions 1 can per onion should work) melting cheese (mozzarella, Swiss Gruyere) butter loaf of french bread olive oil garlic ramekin or other oven safe bowl To start choose your onions. You should have an even number of red and white onions if you have an odd number of onions then get one more red. It should take about one pound of onions per person you are trying to feed and one can of broth per onion. To make the soup: -Peal the onions then cut each onion in half and slice it -Put a large pan on the stove on medium high with some butter in it and when melted drop the onions in to sweat them. Don't worry if the onions are to the top of the pan; they will shrink. gently sweat the onions for half an hour or more till they caramelize. Cooking longer will help bring out the flavor of the onions but if you're in a hurry you can put the onions on at higher temperatures and cook them faster. -When the onions are caramelized put a tablespoon or two in the pan and mix in well; this will provide thickening for the final product. -Pour in beef broth to cover the onions and leave to simmer for at least half an hour. Once again longer time spent in the pot with meld the flavors more but over an hour and a half isn't really worth it. -In the mean time get out a frying pan and heat olive oil and crushed garlic on medium heat. -cut as many slices of bread as the number of servings you will be making and toast both sides in the oil -when the soup is done simmering place a piece of toasted bread in each oven safe bowl then fill with soup and finally top with grated cheese. -Broil the bowls of cheese topped soup on the BOTTOM rack of the oven till the cheese is melted and bubbly. -serve and enjoy ===== Anyone else enjoy cooking and/or have any good recipies
I love cooking but I am not fond of recipes: recipes are just conformist and formal ways to cook to me, while cooking can be something personnal, creative, genuine... and a bit lucky lol. Ok, it's also because I am too lazy to read books and general too rebel to apply rules, but once you understood some basic rules, like the differences between the salt-based and sugar-based meals, what you can really cook (understand steam/burn) and what you can't (because it's too delicate), what you have to put in a frying pan or in a saucepan (english is definitely not the best language to discuss this kind of topic though, unless this is my vocabulary that is too limited), what you can mix together (types of meat / garnish / vegetables / bread / drink / etc), it's all about fun then.
I was waiting for someone to create this thread. I found like 10 ways to make eggs Haha. Anyways, If your hungry and dont have money, and all you got are some leftover chicken from last night and some veggies, heres a How to. For a Nice Ramen soup (2 min instant noodles Beef), boil the water for about 3 mins, toss in the veggies first, i usually throw in a few slices of tomatoe, some cilantro, and some small patato pieces, then i throw in some lemon juice. (you can change anything you want!) Let that boil for a bit, then toss in your soup packet, let the water boil at a low temp, then toss in the sauce packet, afterwards, let it boil at a low temp for 1 min so the noodles soak in some good tasting broth. Should stil be a soup, add your chicken bits in, let tha soften up and then serve n eat. Good for when you want something quick and is fullfilling and tasty.. Found this out by experimenting. Was lucky it wasnt horrid tasting.
Ya I'm not a fan of recipies either. If you'll look at what I had above all it lists is what you should have not how much you should have. Also I didn't list any spices because spices are for YOU to add the kinds of flavors YOU like. Cooking is an art form not a science (except for baking) so perfect proportions don't do anything besides stunt the production of the food
yeah, I find Ramen comes in handy as a base to throw a bunch of crap in. Leftover beef teriyaki is SO good. Or a poached egg. And of course some chopped up vegetables.
I make food, give me a recipe and I can do it. I often make my own stuff and it's simple but I'll do more complex and intricate stuff if I cook for others. I like cooking a lot but sometimes after i cook something I'm not hungry anymore xD
Kuria. You don't need a recipie. Cooking is not a science. It is the art of throwing food into a pot with spices. On a different note. I just got an Arkansas stone for mah knives
Cooking's an art, and I love throwing a bunch of ingredients together, but it really sucks when it tastes like crap and you have no other food in the house.
chop some hotdogs, open a can of cornbeef, and get some eggs... about two add some cooking oil in the frying pan put the cornbeef in, about 30secs then put ze eggs after the eggs are cooked halfway, add the hotdogs my breakfast of choice "omelet ala ursa"
Hot dogs and corned beef, that's uh well odd. Anyone here know how they get scrambled eggs in resteraunts so fluffy? I hear they put baking powder in them. Is that true, because I can spend half an hour whipping eggs and have them still be flat
Haha, but you then painfully learn to not, never repeat the same mistake! Always have some canned or frozen food at hand when you decide to experiment new recipes. Well, actually I think sticking to recipes are interesting when you go to a restaurant for instance: when you order something you like and you know how it looks and tastes, you expect to have this meal and not some "Oops sorry" failed experience from the cook, but when you are at home and cooking for yourselves, I think it is really enjoyable and interesting to do whatever you feel like doing, and to have some fun cooking originals meals when you have some guests.
The chefs shouldn;t experiment on your food but that doesn;t mean they have to have exact measurements written down. After you have cooked something for a while you get a feel for what it should be like and know how much of what to use at which point you don;t really need a piece of paper giving you exacting amounts of ingredients. When I say I'm not a recipie person I mean that you shouldn;t really use something giving exacting ingredients and cooking times. You should learn to understand how ingredients relate to each other so you know how much of something to use in proportion to another as well as be able to tell when something is done by its taste and texture and not a clock. When you are learning to cook its ok to follow a recipe but you shouldn;t be constrained by it, you should get to know the food.
i do throw things together? i'm just saying i can really cook anything. i prefer my own stuff, however. Stop jumping to conclusions and what is that? *looks at name* did you typo me? you bastard =P Everytime i cook i try to do things my own way, and it often turns out really good. chicken, noodle, and beef dishes are ones i prefer making. I don't cook very often though because my mom and dad cook so epically and i'm so lazy. Their food is the best, it really is. My mom makes all these really cool italian dishes and my dad just does whatever. my mom loves cooking, so i might have caught that from her. A lot of times my parents don't even really use the recipes, they just look at the basics of it and change all the ingredients or add things. You're looking at the person who put garlic and honey into hamburger meat before she cooked it, along with about a dozen other spices. ^_^
Typo? I did no such thing. Maybe you read it wrong. I approve of garlic in hamburger but want to know what you were thinking when you though the honey would be a good idea
no, you read my name wrong =P and idk, i was bored. it ended up tasting really good though :3 \ even my family liked it
