I know how to cook and bake.

Well, feel free to share your culinary talents. I'm always willing to learn some new tricks in the kitchen.

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That sounds great! Hopefully your dog stays out of your Kitchen!

Oh no...all three of them are constantly camped out waiting for things to fall on the floor. I have to make sure I look down when I walk going from stove to fridge so I don't get tripped.

3 WOW.

I like cooking for the most part. I haven't had any fast food in over two months. I've actually lost weight during the lockdown.

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Thanks for sharing pictures, they are beautiful doggies.

That's great! Many Fast foods are not that good for Us!

Thanks ya it's poison and extremely addictive lol

Love those dogs ! I got a mini-pizza at Godfathers drive through tonight. The middle dog in the photo appears to be looking directly at the Godfathers box LOL

Knowing Berrie, she could smell the pizza through the Internet and just may be waiting for you to toss her some crust.

I'm trying to work through some of the stuff that been in the pantry for years, so I've got some dried beans currently soaking and will be making chili later today. It's been drizzly and dreary now for three days so it's the perfect time for it.

I love chili, it's one of my favorites to make . Even though I'm not a good cook, I can make good chili.

Ah, to be in Sweden where the restaurants didn't close. Of course, it doesn't matter who can afford to go to them anyway.

Don't like fast food. Love cooking and baking and BBQing. Oh my.

I'm a good cook, but on my own make too much, and have to eat the same thing for 3 or more meals.
I like to improvise with what's left to use, and sometimes make amazing dishes from unlikely ingredients.

If it doesn't work out, add more plain staples (rice, potato, pasta) and different herbs, spices, sauces, to change the taste. Get a bigger saucepan.

Never more than 3 herbs;
keep spices separate - don't mix curry mustard chili pepper, just pick one;
too spicy hot, or dry - add oil or butter or milk;
too oily - add carbohydrates - rice, potato, pasta, or cabbage;
too bland - add vinegar, sauces, spices, sweeteners;
too tangy - add oil or butter or more staples;

crunchy peanut paste makes instant satay; pan brown/roast cashews or almonds for tasty crunch;

avoid pine nuts - they go off and taste bad; avoid corn - use maize;

bread, bi-carb soda not yeast, warm kitchen, over 1 hr to rise, cool oven.
scones, cool kitchen, hot oven.

Stews, bolognaise: fry meat first, then stew, very low heat;

Worst improvisation: I used packet mashed potato powder to make a cake instead of flour, it was yuck; I didn't notice that the potato powder had onion in it, until I ate it. Then read the packet. Duh.

notbeold

Sounds like you like cooking and put alot of planning into your meals.


I cook mostly from packaged foods.

Even rubbish food can be made good.

When a student, I ate heaps of really cheap 2 minute noodles, but add 3-4 sprigs of broccoli before boiling, after cooked tip out 3/4 water, add the sachets supplied, but also herbs, turmeric, and a bit of anything else like sauces, cheese, pickles, whatever, another burst of heat - gourmet 2 min noodles.

Cheap supermarket frozen pizza, then add your own extras on top and good cheese, to make it edible. Or just pitta bread or pizza base, and do the same.

Tin of cheap potato salad, spoon some out, shake in tabasco sauce and some herbs, mix up, put the rest back in and mix, eat out of tin. I'm a bachelor.

Baked beans, but add chopped cooked real bacon, basil, chili, balsamic vinegar, cumin. Mushrooms if cooked in a saucepan. Can eat beans cold.

Potato in jacket, washed well, halved, microwave cook, knife criss cross the inside not the skin, drop in butter, salt, pepper, maybe a shake of herb, stir, and eat hot and runny, and burnt fingers. Grill cheese on top for luxury.

I think doing the dishes is the worst part of cooking. I eat out of tins, or the saucepan I cooked in. Two saucepans does everything, and the next meal depends on what is left in either saucepan, except fish, then I wash it.

I cook like I am camping: 1 sharp pointy steak knife does all knife work, even buttering; 2 teaspoons, 2 desert spoons; a fork; an egg flip; can opener; scissors; and a cast iron camp oven for roasting in. That's about it.

You are very creative notbeold. I do frozen pizza like you did, now.
I've never liked doing dishes, maybe that's one reason I don't like cooking.lol

I got out recipes I've had for 30 years. then decided to throw many away. They were Betty Crocker, a popular in my days.lol

You could have been a great Chef in US.

I'm sticking to restaurants.

I don't mind learning how to cook. Full service boy friends should in modern times.

Frozen microwavable veggies! They are the same price as fresh or lower.
I had to cook three meals and snacks every day for years. Could not have made it without them.

I'm not cooking anymore except with a microwave, so I've found that you can get good, healthy canned foods very cheaply -but you definitely have to do your homework and watch the sodium.