/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15504373
I don't really listen to stuff like 'white wine goes with fish' or 'steak goes with potato fries'. I just make my meals from whichever ingredients I like to have with one another. However, if I'm making a particular dish such as a Croque Madamme or a Sunday roast I don't reinvent the wheel and follow the custom.

I'm pretty ridgid with recipes and conventional ways of making a dish, I'll maybe change one thing or add a different ingredient but it's usually something calculated or that I've heard is good. If I have limited options I'll improvise and can do so successfully but I don't prefer to.

>>15504373
The only time I follow the recipe is when I'm baking because if you don't get it right it won't work like it won't rise or it will have the wrong texture. Everything else I just put whatever I think will taste good in it in whatever amounts I feel like.

>>15504391
female?

Any time im cooking with my gf and she gets a recipe from her dumb ass website, very often there is no mention of browning the meat. I suspect it's because it's just lazy bullshit like stir fry and catered to "one pan" methods.

Any time I tried going away from the recipe to brown the meat, she would start getting really upset as if me actually thinking and wanting to cook was challenging her intellect. Eventually she shut the fun up and let me do it and it tasted better so she stopped complaining and lets me diverge a bit from recipes

>>15504373
When I try something new, mostly I look at different recipes online and try to make my own recipe based on what I like. When I cook something that I've cooked before I usually do it without a recipe.

>>15504373
I usually just cook meat and serve it with a side of carbs and vegetables whatever those may be. But I'm cooking for one. Very occasionally I'll make something from a recipe or an actual dish like lasagna or whatever.

>>15504373
I like making variations of classics until I find something that works then I drill down deeper right now I’m working on Chinese food sandwiches.

Almost never use recipes unless it's for something I don't know how to make like a hollandaise or some kind of fancy side dish. I guess I could be more adventurous and start making eccentric lemon cream chicken dishes or apple braised pork chops or something. But then you end up spending 20 dollars on ingredients for a dish that isn't that much better than just a good piece of well seasoned and cooked meat. 95% of the time it's salt, pepper, garlic, onion for all meats and vegetables beside a nice beef steak which gets salt and pepper only or eggs which are only salted. Sometimes I'll add some lemon juice and parmesan cheese to my roasted vegetables. Sometimes I'll steam them, sometimes I'll pan fry them. Really just depends on the day.

>>15504759
Lemon cream chicken dishes already exist and combining fruit with pork has been around for hundreds of years you unimaginative twat.

>>15504759
There he is
The most boring man who ever lived

>>15504798
Nope. I am. 90% of my meals are just chicken breast with salt and pepper and either steamed broccoli or Brussels sprouts with salt.

>>15504787
I said maybe I'll start making those types of dishes at some point, not that they don't exist. I just never go out of my way to make any kind of fancy sauces
>>15504798
90% of what you're ordering at a restaurant is cooked exactly how I do it at home save for a few unique dishes at certain restaurants. I make tacos and spaghetti and all the generic shit. If I have a dinner party I'll go all out. But when you cook for one it gets extremely expensive spending 20 plus dollars on a variety of ingredients and spices for a one off dish you'll not want to eat for another 6 months.

>>15504407
beat her next time
if im making something new I follow a recipe. if ive made it before I will just go off whatever I can sub in or out

>>15504373
Why is your dinner looking at me?
I cant tell is that is a frog, or a big lipped nigger.

>>15504373
When trying something new, I'll first try to do it properly a couple times, then I start to add my own bullshit twists, 50% of what I eat are meals loosely based on actual recipes.

I also enjoy coming up with what I think are original recipes, which are most likely not, they tend to end up bad anyways, but I'll eat whatever.

>>15504373
I don't cook. I buy ready-to-eat food from the supermarket and I eat it.

Actually I do buy some microwaveable meals and I stick them in the micro. That's the extent of my cooking these days.

Actually I also make sandwiches sometimes.

>>15504872
Why

>>15504391
“ridgid”?

>>15504852
racism isn't cool, anon