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I stink at making pretty much all types of beef. Even my hamburgers are somehow lacking. I'm just really bad at beef dishes. Which is fine, since I don't like them that much, but it's a fact of my life: if I want people to enjoy what I cook, I don't cook beef. I let my roommate take care of that.

If I'm going to make meat/fowl, I stick with chicken, turkey, or lamb. I'm especially good with chicken and turkey, but I make an incredible lamb tajeen, if I do say so myself. (You can do a net search for tajeen, tajin, tagine... it's phonetic, so you can probably find it with a lot of different spellings, and they're all more or less correct).

I'm better at fish. If the fish is fresh, there's nothing you can't do with it. I'm especially fond of salmon and tuna, but I've been known to make a trout amandine (trout with almond and lemon butter sauce) or red snapper amondine, and I've been good with fried fish such as halibut or crappie.

I'm actually much better at vegetarian cuisine, since that's what I learned when I was first learning to cook, but my RLSO is lactose intolerant, so I've learned to just stick with meats and fishes for protein sources, and leave the cheese out of it for the most part.

Right. I chiefly make meat in very small amounts. For example, I only put three or four ounces in a whole huge wok full of stir-fry, which is about four to six servings of stir-fry. That way, a pound of meat will last for over a week even if I make it every single night. I usually eat fish for lunch in the form of tuna or salmon on salad, or a tuna/salmon salad sandwich. It's about 2.5 ounces for each mini-can that I open. I hardly ever use eggs except as an ingredient in other dishes; I never just eat eggs. The closest I get is frying some veggies and then pouring eggs into them to make a scramble, but even then, the "star" of the dish is the vegetables.

Alton Brown did an episode of Good Eats about frying turkeys. Loads of safety tips to keep you from needing the emergency room. You should see if you can find it in reruns or on DVD before you try frying your turkey.

DO NOT MOCK THE TURKEY DIPPING DERRICK!

ALTON BROWN IS ALWAYS RIGHT, except when he says that pork and shellfish are good eats.

I'm sure it's delicious to some. I had it too -- no one in my family ever kept kosher, so I'm the first in living memory -- but I found it to taste dirty and disgustingly greasy. I never liked it.

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Fish is also my favorite. That's why I can't go completely vegetarian.

The best is when you catch it and clean it yourself though :3 .

I made really good snapper once (after catching a bajillion of them.) by wrapping them in foil with some kosher salt and some lemon basil and just grilling them.

The only downside is that they're small and have lots of bones.