When you cook...Are you a "One Trick Pony"??

[the ringo kid]

Im pretty good at baking most anything but, I mde several home made pot pies over a week ago--then caught a :bug: going around so couldnt eat them. I wound up feedig a lock of seagulls. Anyway, I make some mean bacon and eggs.

 

[wbraswell]

I have to be disciplined to stay with the recipe. I like to wander a little, but usually I will err to the side of conservative, and not put enough in it. But, that's better than too much. The kitchen is the best science lab there is. And you get to be the guinea pig!

 

[MOONDAWG]

The cardinal rule en mi casa es...

Never trust a skinny cook, and understand what properly seasoned means, or stay outta da kitchen.

 

[357-RevolverGuy]

My mother taught me to cook at a young age. I started out with scrambled eggs and then pancakes and biscuits. She had me get one thing right before I moved on to learn to something else. Eventually I learn to cook meats, rice, stews, etc. It paid off because all through my college days I taught all the women I dated how to cook things the right way (which means NO microwaves). Finding a woman who can cook in my generation is a rare thing! Also you have to try new things now and then or you'll get bored with what you eat.

 

[msinc]

I guess I am a 13 trick pony...I don't stray too far from what I know works. I got these nailed down cold...they will make your tongue slap your brain. I sometimes get accused of being a chef and told to open a restaurant but I aint that happy yet...

1. Beer butter injected grilled pork tenderloin
2. Homemade yum sauce
3. Oysters Rockefeller
4. Homemade egg nog
5. Irish boxty
6. Cream of crab soup
7. Oyster stew { with a lot more than milk and butter}
8. Hot buttered rum
9. Sauteed flounder on the grill
10. Steak
11. Grilled garlic chicken breast
12. Stuffed rockfish imperial
13. Anything on a Japanese grill

 

[cmort666]

Do you ever look in your fridge or pantry and think "I'll bet that would taste good"?

Not if I'm doing the cooking...

 

[bigolddave]

My wife has thousands of cookbooks, plus a file of thousands of recipes she has run off from the computer. Good thing, because she can barely boil water without a recipe. She has a Master's degree, plus forty additional hours of graduate work, but has to ask me how many ounces in a cup, and the concept of fluid ounces and ounces by weight totally escapes her. Tonight is white chicken chili in the crock pot; good thing Marie's Pizza is on speed dial!

She is constantly amazed that I can whomp up something without a recipe, although what I make is pretty simple. Fry up some smoked sausage, remove, fry up a bunch of potatoes. With onions, of course. When potatoes are done, throw the sausage back in, along with a double handful of shredded cheddar. Cover, and cook five more minutes over low heat. Serve, enjoy, and wait for the coma to set in!

 

[revho]

I boiled some frozen red box chipped beef for s#!+ on a shingle tonight for dinner. Then prepped a Lasagna and it is curing in the fridge for tomorrow nights dinner.

Boil water and then brown ground beef? Now you know why the Mrs. keeps me around.

 

[ralph7]

Not trying to be sacrilege but I'll put garlic salt and sriracha sauce on maple bacon as it cooks and make a meal of just that.

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I made a note to try that.