Your favourite food?

**loft306** · 12-16-2005

hmmm this is too hard

earl grey tea
boiled loblster with drawn butter & baked with scallops sometimes (whole live lobster(fedex'd from maine or plymoth MA)
eel sushi and other sushi
caviar(grey)
whats that moldy french chease?
shortbread
a nice atleast 1" angus porterhouse
roast duck
venison(bamby)
rabbit
buffalo
pigeon stew (not city pigeons)
haggis
lasgna
tiramisu
rainbow trout fried in butter mmmhmmm

well that is the short list

EDIT: now im hungry.....damnit if i go to the store now i'll be broke!

**daacosta** · 12-16-2005

At home only mom cooked and I was pretty much forbidden to do anything in the kitchen. When I earned my BS I moved to another city and lived alone in an apartment. Since eating out was too expensive, I had to start experimenting. My early attempts were disastrous but as I learned from my mistakes I started creating a repertoire of recipes and with time I started buying better gadgets for the kitchen. As you may have guessed I became a fan of the Food Network and I started mimicking Alton Brown's recipes, Jaime Oliver's techniques and some others... The upside of this is that you can't take me to a restaurant because I am aware when I am cheated and hate paying for food that was cooked without soul [Last experience: Trying to find good gumbo... Shrimp was rubbery, the roux was burned, the aromatics were rather old... What did I end up doing? Cooking my own gumbo!]

I am a beginner... I don't cook professionally...

I like to entertain my friends...

**fingal** · 12-16-2005

Originally Posted by loft306

pigeon stew (not city pigeons)

I have visions of you chasing pigeons with a large net.

And maybe a buffalo or two.

**Indefatigable** · 12-19-2005

My mother always let me help out in the kitchen... I have memories of sitting on the kitchen counter in my family's first house (so I must have been three or four years old), scrambling eggs with a fork.

I decided to go vegetarian when I was sixteen, so I did a lot more of my own cooking then.

But I wasn't clueless about it before that.

One of my best friends from university grew up in a household where her mother did all the cooking and was very proprietary about the kitchen. I ended up teaching her a lot of the basics when she moved away from home and into an apartment building on campus. (I think she still has my copy of the Clueless in the Kitchen cookbook.)

**fingal** · 12-19-2005

My parents were very much into cooking the traditional 'meat and two veg' that you used to find in so many British households, but when I was 18 I started doing yoga, and I was very serious about it! I did it every single evening for about an hour.

The side effect from this was that I became a vegetarian (which I no longer am). Honestly ... something happens to your body if you do yoga for long enough ... You no longer want to eat meat.

So my parents went along with it and at first there were one or two mistakes. I think the first really tasty veggie recipe I had was called piperade.

I used to grow herbs at one time too. It was never a very formal herb garden, but I knew what I was doing ... Well, I didn't kill anyone anyway.

**jaboua** · 12-20-2005

Originally Posted by fingal

Those might be fishcakes?

Nope, not the fishcakes... It's the white bolls you see on this picture: http://www.lilleskare.info/3_oppskri...karriefisk.jpg

However, the picture has another sauce, I usually eat it with white sauce, karri and potatoes.

**fingal** · 12-20-2005

Originally Posted by jaboua

Nope, not the fishcakes... It's the white bolls you see on this picture: http://www.lilleskare.info/3_oppskri...karriefisk.jpg

However, the picture has another sauce, I usually eat it with white sauce, karri and potatoes.

Hi Jaboua - Hope the birthday LAN party went okay! I don't think I know that dish: it must be more common in Norway. Can you find a recipe and post it? I have a Norwegian friend I could ask sometime, but she flew back home a few days ago!

**onlinebacon** · 12-20-2005

I'm 14 years old right now, and I have been cooking (or helping to cook in the kitchen) for around 11 years now (I know, !) and I am pretty OK at cooking now. I definitely think it is a good life skill, because if you dont know how to cook, what do ya think you will do when you move out and have to fend for yourself?

**fingal** · 12-20-2005

Originally Posted by onlinebacon

I'm 14 years old right now, and I have been cooking (or helping to cook in the kitchen) for around 11 years now (I know, !) and I am pretty OK at cooking now. I definitely think it is a good life skill, because if you dont know how to cook, what do ya think you will do when you move out and have to fend for yourself?

I think that's pretty impressive! Your parents must have the right idea, because starting things young is the way to go. It gives you more confidence, and believe me when I started university (as a mature student) I lived with someone who had trouble doing cheese on toast. He could programme in C++ but he could bearly boil an egg. What is that all about!?

So yes! And later on, the girls love a man who can cook.

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