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Post by glendo on Nov 23, 2002 7:10:15 GMT -5
BOILING WATER!!!!  |
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Post by Wycco on Nov 23, 2002 18:05:27 GMT -5
I make a handfull of dishes fairly well...Much prefer experimenting though... I much prefer just trying things than following a recipe; however, since I've got married, I've not had to do much cooking- my wife is an awesome cook- and she enjoys cooking too! I'm one very well fed man!!!!  |
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Post by Cine_Man on Nov 25, 2002 1:26:02 GMT -5
We go to restaurants for a break now and then... and they do things that I wouldn't...just because its too messy or wasteful for me to do it... deep frying for example. My daughter worships calamari... which is not on the home menu. Otherwise, it takes a pretty good restaurant to come up with something that isn't perfectly pedestrian and commercial. Mostly I'm worried about being poisoned.
Cine_...
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Post by Srrchef on Nov 25, 2002 9:53:38 GMT -5
Hehehe...Grand-ma was british...Thus cooking was a foreign concept to her. (I'll see her majesty's loyal subjects in the fight zone soon I guess)
I am actualy considered the best cook of the familly, Mum and Srrhgf's mum's included. And Srrhgf's mum use to own a restaurant.
I am a bit on the limited side when it comes to asian. Certain chineses raw products are still difficult for me to find/prepare.
The only type of food that remains rather alien to me is Central Africa's. I love it, but that's were it ends...(In Mtl, there is a place called the blue nile, they serve ethiopian food, yamy)
X-mas this year, is at my house again. Menu will included carrot, ginger and orange soup, A tartarre of salmon, Quails and
white grapes.
New-year's eve? The Royal Sauerkraut.
Cine,
Clamari are no problem for home if...you have an electric deep fryer.
Dip the calmari rings in flour
Then in egg white
Then in bread crums.
Dip in 350 degree oil for 1 1/2 minutes,
Lift, let cool 3 min
Dip again for a minute
Serve with lime or lemon
PS This being said, I am pretty good at eating too.
S.....
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Post by dani on Nov 25, 2002 12:24:27 GMT -5
hahaha!i'm the burn boiling water one! sometimes i amaze myself at how bad i am. the other day i decided to jump off the deep end and make a curry! (big mistake) it was hillarious, because i suddenly realised that i don't know the first thing about chicken preperation!!!rofl! and then i was like "ok so i cut it, now what!!!" and i was all like "eeew, why are there bones in the middle?!" rofl! and then i was shocked to discover you can cook chicken in a pan!!! i just assumed chicken was special and had to be cooked in the oven (god knows what goes on in my head!) lol! it actually turned out ok!!! but the worst cooking disaster of mine i have to spill. when i was 14 we had to do manditory cooking classes in my school. one day we had to make scones. my friend's turned out perfectly light and fluffy looking and then i took mine out and they were flat!!!rofl!!! and they tasted like flour!!! so i put cinnamon on them cause it seemed like a really good idea at the time. the teacher used to taste all our food, but when she came to mine she recoiled!!! and was like "erm...lovely biscuits!" and on my report card where all the teachers used to write posative comments, hers was priceless "danielle's work is always very interessting" LOL!!! i have about a billion more stories...ah what the hell here goes! lol one day our assaignment was to make a snack, i was gonna be smart, i was gonna slack so i decided to make ants on a log (celary with peanut butter and raisins) when i got to class my friend informed me however that i had to use an element!! i was freaking out, so i just decided to boil some water and i threw the celary in!rofl!!! when they were done she looked at me like i was insane when i wa slike "steamed ants on a log!" rofl!!! she was like "what exactlly does throwing them in some boiling water do?" and i said "why that's the secret, it brings out their colour and erm...flavour!!!" rofl!!! oh dear, i'd better stop here before i embarass myself even more, because i could!  |
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Post by JWK on Nov 26, 2002 2:21:24 GMT -5
Im average at cooking but i looove baking!
last night i baked a loaf of Haloumypotsikin(?SP??) i made the last half of that up, its haloumy-somethingodd. A native cypress bread with goats cheese inside(i had to substitute goats cheese with feta mashed up with rock salt and herbs and compacted again)
I cant follow a recepie... so i improv-bake, allways adding in bits of this and that. Most of my loaves(bread is my favourite food, aside from chicken) turn out really well, and i always used to take them into uni, and after a while aquired the nickname bakerboy, which i dont mind ;D
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Post by Henrik on Nov 27, 2002 0:38:53 GMT -5
What can I say, Greg and I really only go to restaurants when we are travelling, as we don't have access to a kitchen!
I love to cook, especially Asian food. By Asian, I mean all of Asia, from Afghanistan to Japan. Several favourites, such as sushi (duh!) various Thai and Indian curries. The best is that we can get most of the proper raw materials at home these days, so you can really get all the exquisite flavours stand out. No need to make a curry excessively spicy (although personally I love it to be eye-watering strength). Oh, the other thing is that there are no good Asian restaurants in our area.
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Post by glendo on Nov 28, 2002 0:34:34 GMT -5
i gotta ask Srrh, african restaurants? what do they serve? food drops? UN food sacks? i am gonna cop it now.... |
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Post by greg99 on Nov 28, 2002 0:43:19 GMT -5
You taste my cookin' and you won't want to leave my house  |
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Post by Srrh on Nov 28, 2002 16:48:41 GMT -5
Glendo,
African food is usually meat (goat, lamb, beef etc...) in a thick mild sauce. And you eat it with your fingers, using a sort of thin sour pancake.
You rip a peace of that pancake/bread and pinch the food with it, before bringing it to your mouth.
Many african nomadic tribes....as many different meat in thick sauces...lol...
Of course they are also your couscouss and such, but those are not really African, as much as "arabian"...
PS the Blue Nile in Montreal is not only african, but Ethiopian...every time I go, people crack jokes...
S....
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Post by Henrik on Nov 29, 2002 0:32:21 GMT -5
Srrh, I bet they don't crack anymore jokes once they have tried some Ethiopian food though. That stuff is good!!
I sometimes go to a local Ethiopian place in Geneva with an old school buddy who is Ethiopian. I just love it when he talks to the waiter in his native tongue, with the distinctive clicking/clucking sounds. Come to think of it, I haven't been for a while, so I better get me some of that when we are back home...
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Post by Cine_Man on Nov 29, 2002 2:20:01 GMT -5
Last time I got a good haircut in Soho, I stopped out at a place called "Lee Ho Fook's" for to get me a big dish of beef chow mein. AAAA--OOOOOOOooooooohhhhhh...
Topped off the night with a Pina Colada at Trader Vic's...
Good thing it wasn't a full moon during the USGP...
Were-Cine....
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