What's your best dish..?

[OUTSIDER]

I'm still digesting sunday lunch and I was wondering what would you say is the best dish you cook.

Here's mine :-

Roast chicken with herb's and garlic.

Vegetable curry.

Chicken curry (todays lunch yummy).

Sausage meat and pasta bake with a green salad and a baked potato.

Chicken Balti (another type of curry).

Spaghetti Bolognese (sp).

Vegetable soup with herb and spice dumpling's.

And when I can be bothered I bake my own bread too (and no I don't use one of those machines), so what do you like to cook and what are you good at..?

 

[unusuallyconfused]

Well, unfortunately I wasn't blessed with much in the way of cooking, but I can bake a great homemade cherry and blackberry pie. I do well with homemade sugar cookies. I can make a great barbeque sauce and the chicken will fall off the bones. Uh, I think thats it.

 

[OUTSIDER]

Oooo you've got to send me your BBQ sauce recipe and never worry about your cooking as long as you like it, I've found that cooking is all about timing at least so far anyway

 

[Simply Me]

I don't cook much anymore, but when I do, its usually:


Country Fried Steak with gravy
Mashed Potatoes
Corn on the cob
Broccoli with cheese sauce
And the best Banana pudding ever made, taught to me by my grandmother.

And Unfortunately, canned biscuits. Just can't seem to make a decent one.

But these days, its usually somthing frozen that can be nuked.

 

[OUTSIDER]

you know later on I might sit down and write down a couple of the recipes and post them and if every body did then it could be quite a good thread.


Mmmmmmmmmmm Banana cake

 

[Guest]

Oooo you've got to send me your BBQ sauce recipe and never worry about your cooking as long as you like it, I've found that cooking is all about timing at least so far anyway

If I have to claim my own recipes, then I'm really in trouble. I use the better homes and gardens cookbook for all of the above. I am just so bad at cooking, these particular items turn out great. Usually, I overcook, undercook, burn, or somehow someway screw it up!

Did I mention I almost flunked cooking in home economics?

 

[OUTSIDER]

If I have to claim my own recipes, then I'm really in trouble. I use the better homes and gardens cookbook for all of the above. I am just so bad at cooking, these particular items turn out great. Usually, I overcook, undercook, burn, or somehow someway screw it up!

Did I mention I almost flunked cooking in home economics?

that's ok I flunked woodwork and now I love it and do quite a bit, so hang on in there

 

[Andra_Jenny]

I am a wiz

with tortillas. My family won't eat bread anymore. I never follow recipees, I just know what I like and by smelling foods and seasonings, I know what will taste good. I use lots of rice, maize, frioles (sp? - my spanish is worse than my English), native game meats (no, I don't eat roadkill, unless it's fresh deer, or rabbit, or squirrel...) and cheeses, and sauces, warmed, fried, marinated, cooked over mesquite, fried in the wok...,

I think I'll start the Bubba-Burrito Company and become a millionaire (again).

 

[lavender]

 

[riff]

dunno

I enjoy cooking.

I don't know what my "best" dish is, but recently I learned to make an anise salad.

You take garlic, lemon juice, and salt and mash it all into a paste. Then toss slices of fennel or anise bulb into the dressing. It's really good!

 

[OUTSIDER]

forgot to mention my favourite breakfast.....Banana mashed onto hot buttered toast, sounds awful tastes wonderful.









PS you'll need a big cup of tea or coffee with that.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

What are you really Elvis?

Hey, I think some of you are elitist cooking snobs! Hell some of that don't even sound like real food. What in the Sam Hill is anise? It's just a plot to make me feel stupid, I tell you hee hee hee.

 

[Blackbich]

OUTSIDER

I wanna know when you're inviting me to dinner!!!

Everything you mentioned sounds very yummy. I haven't 'cooked' in a long time - once we get a deep freezer that will change. The freezer we have now sucks - you can't put a package of anything in there without it taking up 1/2 the freezer!!

I make a pretty mean home made spaghetti sauce. Other than that, I just throw stuff together and see how it turns out.

 

[OUTSIDER]

OUTSIDER

I wanna know when you're inviting me to dinner!!!

Everything you mentioned sounds very yummy. I haven't 'cooked' in a long time - once we get a deep freezer that will change. The freezer we have now sucks - you can't put a package of anything in there without it taking up 1/2 the freezer!!

I make a pretty mean home made spaghetti sauce. Other than that, I just throw stuff together and see how it turns out.

LOL, Sweetheart you pay the air fair and I'll cook you anything you want.

I also work on the keep throwing it in till it tastes good theory to some days, but mostly I'll take a recipe and just add stuff to it to make it better.

By the way my fridge is a tiny one with a ice box in it so I tend to buy fresh stuff all the time and cook it on the same day or the next.

 

[OUTSIDER]

Re: What are you really Elvis?

Hey, I think some of you are elitist cooking snobs! Hell some of that don't even sound like real food. What in the Sam Hill is anise? It's just a plot to make me feel stupid, I tell you hee hee hee.

LOL, By all accounts elvis loved deep fried peanut butter and jelly sarnies, compared to that mashed banana on hot buttered toast is health food

 

[beckbabe]

I'm a good cook, but a better baker. Fudge brownies, and chocolate cake are my specialties. I learned to bake when I was really young because I wanted that"bake sale" taste.

 

[ManOSafety]

Chocolate Eclair Cake
Grilled fish (depends on what's in season, has to be fresh though)

 

[Darien]

chicken and rice casserole,, fry chicken,, cook rice,, mix in a can of chicken and mushroom soup,, layer rice in baking dish, place partially fried chicken on top,, place in oven to thoroughly heat

 

[morninggirl5]

Sausage Jambalaya The school I worked at last year had potluck luncheons for staff birthdaysevery month. The teacher in charge of the "menu" added this dish to the top of the list every time. I could bring something else but it had to be in addition to the jambalaya.

I've been tinkering with it a bit and almost have the spices right with shrimp and chicken added.

 

[fgarvb1]

fgarvb1

I don't cook much nowdays and when i do, unless it's something simple like steak & potatoes i look up the recipe.

I started cooking when i was six. We moved out into the stickes when i was eight. Way out in the sticks! I made my own chocolate syurp. i thought anyone who used cake mix was lazy.

We butchered our own meat and always raised one hell of a garden. no way you can starve this country boy out.

the only thing i have a lot of trouble with is hot rolls,because my mom never used a reccipe and made them from scratch, a dash of this,a pinch of that, going by looks, feel,and god knows what. let's them rise twice...damn i cam smell them now!

 

[OUTSIDER]

I love wild rabbit stewed, roasted, toasted you name it, it tastes good.

 

[CW]

I love wild rabbit stewed, roasted, toasted you name it, it tastes good.

Try slow roasting with an orange based BBQ sauce.

I really enjoy cooking,,, everyday fare or holidays,,, just the family or large groups,,, I like it all.

One of the things that I do best is a rolled stuffed beef roast ( or pork roast ) with a stuffing of garlic, spring onions, diced carrots, diced celery, parsley, chives and mushrooms served medium/ medium well with a side of horseradish.

I also do a mean chunky style pasta sauce as well as homemade cream style corn that is anything but mushy/soupy.

Bake anything EXCEPT biscuits,,, just can not get the hang of it at all.

 

[Naked Hunny]

honestly I suck at cooking normal food!! And I only seem to know how to cook for a large group!! im great at making things like the following!

Italian Pasta Salad
2 boxes Rotini or Rotelle
2 large bottles Zesty Italian Dressing (honestly try Kraft or Wishbone)
4 large slicing tomatoes diced
2 medium red onions diced
4 celery stalks diced
1 green bell pepper diced
1 yellow pepper diced
1 red pepper diced
1 lb sandwich pepperoni diced
1 lb capicola ham diced
1 lb shredded mozzorella cheese
1/4 cup kraft parmasean cheese (that sprinkle stuff)
3 tablespoons oregano

cook the pasta according to directions..let set til room temperature
add all ingredients except 1/2 dressing and mozzorella
cheese.
chill overnight.
Add leftover dressing and cheese before
serving!

 

[Shylady]

Well I am a good cook, but mostly just add things until I like it.

I do make a great enchalida casserole.

I bbq beef from scratch reciepe is about the only thing I don't add or subtract from.


Man O'Saftey you can't call chocolate eclair cake cooking cause if it is the same one I make there is not cooking involved

 

[beckbabe]

Would that be the Cool Whip chocolate eclair cake?