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 Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:01 am
Feel free to introduce yourself here, and get to know each other. You are welcome to include:
Where you live (not addresses, people. more like "I live in South Florida)
What's your favourite thing to eat/make.
If you lean towards baking, or more towards cooking.
Favourite flavourings (herbs, spices, extracts).
Skill level (beginniner, intermediate, expert)
What cooking does for your well-being.
What are some of the occasions that you like to cook for?
Anything that's about you is fair game, as we can all get to know each other better as time goes on.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:05 am
I guess I'll start.
I'm Dino, and I live in South Florida. For the most part, I cook, but I do love to bake. I particularly enjoy casseroles and other sorts of comfort foods. They just fill up the house with all those lovely smells, and eating it is a calming, comforting experience for me. My favourite spice would have to be cumin. It's good at lending an earthy flavour to whatever you add it to. I like to cook, because it's almost a form of meditation for me. When I'm prepping the food, I'm on auto-pilot, and my mind can wander as it pleases. The process of combining the ingredients, and flavourings, and the cooking techniques are an intricate art to me, and I really enjoy it. My favourite occasions to cook for are the spontaneous parties or hang outs that just spring up out of seeminly nowhere.
I do a lot of cooking, and I like to experiment with things that I haven't tried before. I eat a lot of different kinds of vegetables and beans, so you'll find a lot of my experiments in the vegetarian sections. I particularly like having a variety of vegetables, because the contrast in colour, flavour, and texture makes the meal interesting and good tasting. I'm forever ready to help people who are unfamiliar with a certain food they haven't tried before.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:57 am
As far as all y'all are concerned, my name's Cassi. I've lived in Massachusetts most of my life, until moving to New Hampshire in September 06. I've been a chef ever since I was little. My first recipe, when I was about ten, was "pepper eggs" - fried eggs with enough ground pepper on 'em to make the damn things grey. I like pepper. And even before then I liked to make my own food. My favorite recipes are probably my chicken-&-rice meals, or my improv beef stew. I own a stack of cookbooks and love playing with my mom's recipe; I cooked the ham for 04/05 New Year's.
I have self-esteem issues and cooking makes me feel better. I'm a bit of a perfectionist with certain meals, though, which can result in my losing all the good feelings I get out of the actual cooking if the end product isn't up to my standards. Getting things perfect the first time makes it a devestating experience for me to ******** up when the second time is more important. Fortunately, most of my meals have some level of improv involved, and since perfection is unattainable I just do my best and I always wind up enjoying what I get.
Improvising is probably my favorite part of cooking, actually. Even when I ******** up the important dinner, my mom's spontaneous potatoes with the help of my leftovers helped cheer the mood and made me feel better, even though I hadn't actually done anything besides let her use what I couldn't. And on a less emotionally intense level, I think one of my greatest accomplishments was adding mushrooms to the beef stew for the hell of having mushrooms in my beef stew.
For the sake of convenience, I'll put my skill level at intermediate. I have no real future in the cooking industry, but I know what I'm doing and I'm good at it (excluding those two times I fill the house with smoke... a year later there's still ramen marks at the bottom of that one pot).
Aside from all that, I'm an artist, an online & offline RPer, visual & vocal artist (I sing and draw), novice pianist/keyboardist, two-time former Gaia mod, and unofficially engaged to my boyfriend of five years.
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:34 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:40 pm
Hi! My name is Rose.I live in South Texas.I like many types of foods I usually lean towards tortillas,vegetables(beans,corn,potatoes etc.)fruits(apples etc.)Mainly food without meat.I have been a vegetarian for abou 4 and 1/2 years.
Skill level:beginner
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 9:07 pm
I'm Violetta, Vi for short. I'm twelve years old. I live in California. I really love pasta with shredded parmesan, and anything with chocolate in it. I also love foods that have VEG written all over them, since I'm a vegetarian. Veggie burgers? Mmmmmmmm. Tofu? IT SHALL RULE THE WORLD!!!! I like baking and cooking, but I don't often bake. (Actually, I haven't cooked in a while either, unless you count turning a frozen veggie burger in a skillet and making my dad mad because he thinks I'm gonna set off the smoke alarm.)
My favorite extract, ever, in the world, is almond. I had it in a cake once when I was around 5, maybe younger, and LOVED it. Now I use it instead of vanilla when I make chocolate chip cookies. I also use it in Wiccan remedies. (Yes, I'm a Wiccan.)
I'm definitely a beginner chef. The only thing I can make (not counting pre-cooked foods and stuff like toast) without someone helping me is pasta.
One thing cooking does for my well-being is allowing me to make "vegefood" for myself. I got this BIG cookbook off Amazon, all veg. It's really cool. I wish I used it more, though. It's nice because my dad is the hugest carnivore ever. It's a bit disturbing to see a huge, bloody, mangled deer's liver on your kitchen counter. So the cookbook and the ability to cook is an asset to my dwindling mental health. (If you haven't noticed, I'm crazy.)
I cook mainly for my own dinner. Sure, when I was little, I peeled potatoes and stuff for Thanksgiving dinner, or helped fruit salad for Christmas brunch, but didn't we all? I mean, I'm sure most of us did something of the sort.
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:11 pm
I really don't have that much to say. I like eating more than cooking(you can tell just by looking at me in person). I live in Jacksonville, Florida. I am really good at making omelettes... I come up with these weird creations. I never make the same omelette twice. My favorite flavor is sweet and tangy. I love all foreign foods. My favorite veggie is the onion 4laugh . I'm in the seventh grade. That's all I have to say.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:11 pm
Call me Zel. I currently live in Massachusetts, and I'm from New York.
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My favorite thing to eat has to be... corn! I love the corn.
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Reason? It tastes good. It's a vegetable. People use huge cornfields to make mazes, and I constantly get lost in them. They come in the can or on the cob.. and and.. I like seeing, and tasting, the different things people can do to make corn taste gewd.
And I'm not just talking about salt and butter. wink
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I love cooking even though I suck at it. The only thing I could properly make on a stove is ramen noodles. x-x.. and maybe chicken cutlets. Cooking is fun whenever I attempt it. All I know is that I hate cooking with oil.. 'cause.. it.. scares me...
I do make a good fruit salad, btw.
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Favorite flavorings... chives! I love them. Once, my friend had some growing in her backyard.. and I ate them. x3
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Skill level? No skill level?
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I really ain't much of a cook or baker. I mostly just mix things together, and, as any other cook would say, it's a work of art. pirate
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I cook for breakfast.. and on special events- like my birthday! I'm trying to learn from my mom and dad how to cook other than what I already know.
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My dad's a better cook than I will probably ever be. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:31 pm
I've lived in Manchester UK, London UK, Toronto CAN, Victoria CAN, Seattle USA and now currently reside in sunny Orange County California.
As I'm vegan, I pretty much have to be interested in cooking because there are like no vegetarian restaurants in Newport Beach. I really really enjoy being experimental and cooking with what I have and seeing if it works or not. Lately my obsession has been vegan muffins (I've posted one recipe on the forum already).
I find myself switching over between cooking and baking, I love doing both, but I'd say my cooking skills are stronger.
I'm in love with cajun spice and nutmeg.
I'd say I'm an intermediate cook.
I'll cook for any occasion, pretty much every night I cook for my family.
If I'm not cooking/baking, I'll be reading, listening to music, hanging out with friends, surfing, and other trite teenage activities.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:30 pm
West California
I like to eat salad and make veggie soup. I like to bake more though.
I like vannilla extract, cinnamon, salt, and garlic.
expert
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Lent,and Christmas
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:21 am
Location: TUlsa, Oklahoma.
Age: 24
Favorite foods: I liek anything pasta.. Rigatoni, ROtini, Fedaccini Alfredo, Spaghettie & meatballs. I also enjoy Pizza. All kinds (No anchovies ><), I prefer the taste of Canadian bacon and Pineapple, but I looooooooove Jalepenos on a supreme or pepperoni pizza.
I'm a spice fanatic. I love spicey foods. Especially Crayfish, Gumbo, CHili, and Hot Wings.
I like VEgan SPaghetti, too. Never thought I would, but I tried it and I must say that it's delicious! I like Caesar Salads, Chef Salads, Garden Salads, and my favorite dressing is Italian, or Vinegarette. Curtons and bacon bits are a must. Speaking of Bacon bits, I also like Baked Potatoes. Hell, I like potatoes of any kind (So long as it's not that nasty canned crap...guhhh..)
I love burgers. Worked at a few too many fast food joints, but I still love burgers. And I was always one of those guys that made the "Perfect Burger". Got positive feedback fromt he customers all the tiem at the bowling Alley I worked in.
I love Fish. Any kind of Fish.. I am very sufficient with making Salmon patties with lemon&pepper seasoning.
I've tried Sushi. I like it, but I don't like Wasabi. I don't liek it because it has Horse Raddish in it. And I don't liek Horse Raddish at all..Not because of the fact it's got a real bite to it, but because that bite is accompanied by not only a good flavor, but a rather pungeant and distasteful one at the same time.
I'm proficient at cooking stew, chili, Steak, Lobster, fish, and fowl.
My all-time favorite food, however...the one that tops them all....is Oriental cuisine. I can't get over how godo the food tastes. So many sweet flavors, and their sweet and sour is to die for. Soy sauce is a must on eggrolls, but not too much. You don't want to overpower the flavor of the eggroll. ^^ I eat all manner of oriental cuisine with chopsticks. (I've discovered that it IS possible to eat Jell-o with chopsticks without stabbing it to death..o0) I figure if one is goign to eat the foods of the orient, they should eat with the utensils of the orient.
I think that about sums it up. for now ^^.
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:09 pm
I'm Jessi; I live in Pennsyltucky (aka PA). I'm 20 1/2 years old. =^ ^=
I consider myself a very novice chef-- as in if it doesn't come with explicit instructions, I'm done for. Seriously. It's sad.
Lucky for me my boyfriend & his dad are all but professional chefs-- they both love to cook, and they both scoff at the thought of "recipes". = heart heart =
Anywho. . . I do enjoy cooking, when I can handle it. I can make easy stuff, such as pasta dishes, taco stuff, and pies.
I think pies would have to be my favorite things to make; the whole ritual of the process and the fact that with my family--we are Italian and all-- pie is always synonymous with some holiday (pumpkin for Thanksgiving, apple for Christmas, ricotta for Easter-- my favorite! *drool*) are comforting to me.
My favorite thing to eat (besides pie) would be Asian cuisine (Chinese, Thai, Japanese). I'm quite fond of crab rangoon and salmon sushi, and the first time I ever had mangoes was with my boyfriend at a Thai restaurant near his apartment.
It was like a fruity orgasm in my mouth. whee
My favorite flavors are very strong flavors. I like things like strawberry daquiris, deviled eggs with copious amounts of paprika/whatever-the-hell-is-on-'em, tiramisu (the love of my life!), etc.
. . . Yea, I think that about covers it all.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:16 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:28 am
Where you live (not addresses, people. more like "I live in South Florida)
Hello! My name is tulokyn, tulo for short and ease of typing. I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and only started cooking much when I moved out of my parents house. I'm 24.
What's your favourite thing to eat/make.
I like far too many things far too much to choose a favorite, but I am rather partial to chocolate. I'm not much a baker, though I make a really good Brownie Bran Muffin. In my household (of two) I tend to be the Chooser of Recipes, and I prepare the ingredients for the most part. My boyfriend does a lot of the actual cooking, simply because he isn't so much a fan of cutting up meat. He does most of the baking, and makes a mean chocolate chip cookie and fudge pie.
Favourite flavourings (herbs, spices, extracts).
Favorite flavourings of mine would have to be cumin, vanilla, and a bit of really nice cheese, though please not together. Recently, I've discovered chipotle chili powder at the grocery store, and have been experimenting with that. I've also recently discovered that couscous doesn't have to be nasty, and it's ranking pretty high up there right now too.
Skill level (beginniner, intermediate, expert)
I'd consider myself to be an intermediate skill level, despite my above mentioning that I do most of the prep and my boyfriend does the cooking. I can hold my own in the kitchen, and will experiment a little, though it's usually based off a recipe that I've already made at least once. I'd say that I cook better for myself than the avereage person my age does, in that I make recipes like pork tacos (from scratch) and have a small library of cookbooks.
What cooking does for your well-being.
Cooking well makes me feel taken care of, like I'm worth the effort.
What are some of the occasions that you like to cook for?
I don't really like to cook for occassions. As long as it's not ridiculously expensive, sometimes it's nice to do up a fancy meal "just because." Though there was one time I tried to bake a cake for my boyfriend's birthday before he got home from work. He came home early, and saw the cake, cooling on the rack. He didn't realize until a few hours later that it was a birthday cake. mrgreen
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