Men who can cook.

[Shangas]

To prove, Harry can cook, I been making a 'wartime' murkey (mock turkey) Christmas dinner.

Enjoy

[video=youtube_share;IGFgOF0x9d8]http://youtu.be/IGFgOF0x9d8[/video]

I'd still like to know what the music is, in that video.

 

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

Mr Shangas

Its on this Cd the track in question is "Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy"


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beethoven-Wrote-It-But-Swings-/360376448480#ht_500wt_922

[video=youtube;QinhBmJTJ5g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QinhBmJTJ5g[/video]

 

[Shangas]

Ah-hah! Thanks I really got hooked on this tune...

 

[DNO]

I cook for my family every day and quite enjoy it. I enjoy variety and often try out new dishes. As for cleaning...the best advice ever was 'clean as you go'. Can't be beat...when you finish, the kitchen is clean, the pots are clean and put away. All that is left are the dishes, and the dishwasher welcomes them readily.

My son is starting to take an interest as well. I'm quite pleased with that...a man should know how to cook.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Same here DNO.
I've been cooking since I was 12, starting as a hobby.
Then of course as I got older, it was daily.
Hamburgers are rarely cooked here.
Mostly it's full meals, because the wife isn't eating sandwiches every day.
I've got all sorts of pots and pans, as well as a NuWave oven (my 4th in 8yrs).
It's sad when I ask my wife to get me a semi-professional cutlery set and a pressure cooker FOR CHRISTMAS! Better than black socks I guess.
On occasion I'll fix a dessert (cake, pie, etc) but I'll change the recipe to exclude lots of sugar.
Should I get excited when I find a new recipe site? :eeek:

 

[PoohBang]

Warden, your knife work makes me nervous... cool project though.. Will you do a mock-ham for Xmas?

not sure about this thread though. Why can't men cook? Should we have a thread called women who can spit?

Professional cooking is male dominated realm.

 

[DNO]

Same here DNO.
I've been cooking since I was 12, starting as a hobby.
Then of course as I got older, it was daily.
Hamburgers are rarely cooked here.
Mostly it's full meals, because the wife isn't eating sandwiches every day.
I've got all sorts of pots and pans, as well as a NuWave oven (my 4th in 8yrs).
It's sad when I ask my wife to get me a semi-professional cutlery set and a pressure cooker FOR CHRISTMAS! Better than black socks I guess.
On occasion I'll fix a dessert (cake, pie, etc) but I'll change the recipe to exclude lots of sugar.
Should I get excited when I find a new recipe site? :eeek:

Anybody who cooks knows that a good chef's knife is the most useful tool in the kitchen...hope you get your set! Not pro level but I've had good luck with Victorinox. I have some Henkel and some Sabatier, but I keep going back to the Victorinox.

 

[Tomasso]

Warden, your knife work makes me nervous...

lol....I was thinking the same thing.

 

["Skeet" McD]

An excellent brand of knife almost unheard of outside of Germany (it seems) is Fissler MAGIC CHEF. Crappy name: good steel. And REALLY good prices. I found them in a Kaufhaus in Essen (which, for those of you whose knowledge of German geography is only slightly less good than my own, is right smack-dab in the center of the Ruhrgebiet, i.e.: Pittsburgh....Steel-land). It's a national brand, however...mostly known for its pots and pans. The knives are great, and a fraction of what you'd pay for Henckel, made just down the street. They don't seem to have a real web presence...so only useful if you are in, or are going to, Germany or Austria. But if you are—and if you are looking for a good set of kitchen knives—buy one of the sets they offer. You CAN NOT BEAT the value or the quality. Whoever begins to import these to the US will do well.... "Skeet"

 

[Philip Adams]

I've been cooking since I was a teenager and quite enjoy it.

I don't think I'm a particularly good cook, but no one has died as a result of eating at my place.

Sadly I still haven't mastered the 'clean as you go' approach.....

 

[Shangas]

I've received large amounts of praise from friends and relatives for my desserts. I can cook most things provided I'm given everything that's required.

I can do rice and pasta dishes with no problem. I can cook sausages. Eggs. I can make fried rice with no problems. Meat, eggs, veggies, rice, seasonings & sauces.

I'm not very good with fish, though. I'm not a fan of fish-fillets at all. Canned, smoked, fish-fingers etc, yes. Fresh fish-fillets? Absolutely not. A fishbone in my throat as a child left me very weary of stuff like that. As a result, fish is one thing I never bothered to try and learn to cook.

 

[Chasseur]

I am the cook in my familly and make all the dishes. I am good at old style French country food, and at basics of Italian and Tex-Mex. I am pretty good at Indian food as well, though I do cheat and use many sauce bases and do not grind my own spice mixtures. I am only OK at baking, but would like to get better at making desserts.

My mother taught me the basics of cooking since we all had to rotate cooking days while I was growing up. I then got a job as a prep and then line cook in a restaurant through college which taught me some more things. I am pretty active in trying new recipes and things, but have been too busy to be as creative as I once was...

 

[rue]

I believe all men should know how to cook at least basic things in order to survive on their own (I taught my son), but I have a horrible problem with letting them do it. I have to leave the kitchen or I start giving advice

Cleaning up afterwards... now that I would be crazy about

 

[fortworthgal]

^ My husband almost always cleans the kitchen up. In fact, he rarely *allows* me to do it! :lol:

I cook most of the time, but he can cook and he's pretty good at it. He's actually in charge of our Thanksgiving roast turkey every year!

 

[Tomasso]

I love the preparation but I hate the cleanup.

 

[Bad Co]

I'm a chef by trade

 

[Lancealot]

I'm a chef by trade

I have to ask since I'm in Greenville, where?

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

I started cooking when I was a kid and my mother went to work. I started supper each night. I can make anything now. My wife doesn't go in the kitchen unless she makes microwave popcorn or frozen pizza in the microwave. I do the shopping also to keep us in budget also, my wife at the grocery means a couple hunderd dollar bill.

 

[JimWagner]

My wife and I both love to cook, separately and together. And we both clean up afterwards. That's the way it's been for the past 40 years now.

 

[Miss Stella]

My husband is an awesome cook! We cook together sometimes but for the last 7 years or do, he does the majority of it now. (He's getting better at cleaning up )
I did all the cooking the first 24 years we were married while raising our three children, along with daily bread and dessert making. Today, I still do all the breads and desserts leaving the rest to him. Throughout the year we make our own sausages, salamis and home cured olives, his specialty is potstickers and sushi
We've got a grandson now who likes to be in the kitchen...I'll teach him to be a good cleaner upper and papa can teach him to create great food!