Do the guy's on here cook

[longers]

I was encouraged to cook and so was my sister, our parents wanted us to be independent when we left home and until we did leave home they wanted their tea on the table when they got home from work.

 

[PaulB]

Well my first "propa" jobs were in catering and in time, I became a chef in three upmarket restaurants eventually catering for upwards of 200 meals on busy Saturday nights. So yes, I can knock out a mean tinabeanz but you know what? I'm cooked! I have no real desire to cook now as I got it all out of my system but if called upon, my wife reckons I'm brave and very imginative in the kitchen.

 

[Flyingfox]

..... to help make Banana Crumble Cake for dessert.

Sounds yum can you post the recipe

 

[Aperitif]

Sounds yum can you post the recipe

It's Crock's usual one...10 x Cider - drink those: Take a few ripe bananas and a packet of digestives and mix in a bowl. Cover with single cream and stick in the fridge.
Drink any bottles that are in the way of you putting the bowl in the fridge.
Serve when capable.

 

[Brains]

No a clue - I can't cook and don't know where to start, beyond boiled eggs/toast/tinned things/stir in pasta.

The 'easy cook' meat/rice thing sounds easy enough but I know from experience if I cooked it, it would tase foul, it always does.

Flat mates when I was in my 20's and later my wife would not permit me to cook as it a waste of food and she wants something she can eat, and too many years of boarding schools means never learnt to cook at home and it's only now they are talking about actually teaching cooking in schools in the near future, 30 years too late for me.

 

[Brains]

Having done 20 years of camping with Scouts aged between 15-20, I would say the majority of persons of this age are unable to cook even pasta or rice and incapable of following the instructions on the packet. (Girls are as bad as the boys)

If anyone fancies running a 1 hour lesson on getting the kids aged 15-18 to individually cook a basic pasta based meal, on a Trangia in the Greenwich area, then I can supply the kit and the class.

You supply the knowledge.

 

[domtyler]

The kitchen is my wifes domain mainly, she loves cooking and I love eating, so we are quite a good match like that!

 

[Stan]

Most certainly. I've found that most women appreciate a man who can cook well

 

[Maz]

I find that if you use normal long-grain or basamati rice, it ends up very slightly stuck together, like the rice you get in a chinese takeaway (which I like), whereas the easy cook stuff tends not to stick together in the same way.

Are you using enough water? We normally use 1 mug rice:2 mugs water, then turn the heat right down when those 'holes' start to appear on the surface of the rice.

 

[colly]

Yes often. So does one of my grown up sons, the other struggles with a boiled egg.

 

[ianrauk]

I am the cook in our household. Love cooking. Out of the kitchen wife.. shoo shoo

 

[Danny]

We share the cooking in our house and we're both pretty good cooks - we tend to do a whole variety of stuff from Italian to Japanese and make a lot of our own ingredients (including pasta and tofu). We also have very nice (and very sharp) Japanese knives...

I enjoy cooking and probably do most of it in our house.

Have always been proud that I avoid ready made meals, but can't compete with home made tofu.

 

[PrettyboyTim]

Are you using enough water? We normally use 1 mug rice:2 mugs water, then turn the heat right down when those 'holes' start to appear on the surface of the rice.

There's no explicit heat control, just a timer. Our steamer looks like this:

I'm not sure the exact proportions of water / rice I use, I just do it by eye. Certainly the rice is nice and soft when done and I do like it when it sticks slightly to itself, just like it does when you get it in a takeaway...

 

[Maz]

There's no explicit heat control, just a timer...

Ah mate, I misunderstood. I thought you meant your rice was sticky when you boiled it up in a pan of water (old school).

I used to live with a load of Malaysians at Uni and they made all their rice in a rice cooker. Nice piece of kit.

 

[oxbob]

I'm waiting for Yenrod's rabbit stew recipe