Cooking

[kimpossible]

Anyone else here into cooking?

[wylin]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 8 2002, 08:29 PM
Anyone else here into cooking?
yah i am, i like making chinese food u know the stir fry kind or deep fry kind.

- noodles - chow mein, wills crunchy noodles etc
-pork chops - battered pigu fan style
-dumplings- home made not store bought!
-stir fry veggies or steak

i tried baking but that takes too long.

[Saiko]

If I'm bored enough, I like to cook and experiment. It often turns out pretty good for me, but it's probably way too spicy for other people.

[achtungbaby]

I'm such a damn useless guy. Not only am I clumsy with cars and I don't work out, I can barely boil water.

Is it an indication of maturity I wonder, one's culinary preferences?

I'd eat fast food every day if I could.

[amietron]

Originally posted by achtungbaby@Aug 10 2002, 07:14 PM
I'm such a damn useless guy. Not only am I clumsy with cars and I don't work out, I can barely boil water.

Is it an indication of maturity I wonder, one's culinary preferences?

I'd eat fast food every day if I could.
fast food isn't healthy. good grief, AB! every day? eat cereal or oatmeal, even. i think oatmeals kinda yummy (only sometimes). TRY it.

eat fruits and vegetables. just wash, peel (sometimes..), and consume! :)

[kimpossible]

I love cooking. Not in a slave in the kitchen cafeteria style type of way but the whole culinary thing. It's like a big science project every time except I get to eat the results. Looking back, I should have majored in Food Science.

I love this cookbook I have, On Cooking, it has the most morbid description of cooking meat. "Preparing carcasses for consumption."

My next regional cooking to delve into is going to be Provence (provincial? how would you say this?). Lots of lemon, lavender and seafood if what I read is accurate.

[thaite]

My momma didn't raise no slouch. She taught me to cook, clean and all that other stuff, telling me that I'd make a great husband someday.

I'm still waiting...

:lol:

[princess]

i like to cook, but lately i havent done much cuz its so hot. i make a little of everything and i experiment a lot. im not that artistic at arranging food on platters and such, tho. i leave that to my mom

[karizma]

>> experimenting is the best part of cooking for me =)... coming up with my own recipes sometimes good sometimes horribly disasterous...the only thing bad about cooking is cleaning ^_^...in the future when im married [distant future] an ideal setting would be me cooking and my hubby cleaning up after me haha...

>> i always had this competition with my brother to see who was the better cook [ 'course he was totally unaware of this competition ]. he beat my chicken with his grilled salmon =(

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 12 2002, 11:07 AM
My next regional cooking to delve into is going to be Provence (provincial? how would you say this?).
what do you mean?

[kimpossible]

MK-

Provence as in France. On the Mediterranian I believe. My husband is a bit of a Francophile and loves the food. I don't plan on perfecting the flavors but they do have some certain styles and traits that are easy enough to incorporate. An extra goody is that they cook whole fish also. Keep the tasty head and tail.

[Barbs]

how about just eating? =)

i'm from that useless generation of females who can't cook worth shit. i don't know what my poor kids are going to eat.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by Barbs@Aug 12 2002, 10:41 PM
how about just eating? =)

i'm from that useless generation of females who can't cook worth shit. i don't know what my poor kids are going to eat.
it's all about the ramen!
best of all, you can just teach them to cook the ramen themselves!

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 12 2002, 10:08 PM
MK-

Provence as in France. On the Mediterranian I believe. My husband is a bit of a Francophile and loves the food. I don't plan on perfecting the flavors but they do have some certain styles and traits that are easy enough to incorporate. An extra goody is that they cook whole fish also. Keep the tasty head and tail.
can you do shanghai dishes too?

[kimpossible]

Then they'll prolly learn to cook. That was my motivation. I love to eat and I like my food to taste a certain way. Thank god I have a fast metabolism or I'd be like 500 lbs. by now.

If you love to eat we'd get along well. But I think we would get fat too.

[Barbs]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Aug 13 2002, 03:55 AM
Originally posted by Barbs@Aug 12 2002, 10:41 PM
how about just eating? =)

i'm from that useless generation of females who can't cook worth shit.  i don't know what my poor kids are going to eat.
it's all about the ramen!
best of all, you can just teach them to cook the ramen themselves!
i think i need to marry a shanghainese men. i've heard that they cook and do all the housework as well.

[kimpossible]

Originally posted by Barbs@Aug 13 2002, 04:23 AM

i think i need to marry a shanghainese men. i've heard that they cook and do all the housework as well.
I heard that too! Thought someone was just pulling my leg though...

[SunWuKong]

i do think we happen to have a shanghainese man right here on this site.


wonder if he'll show up on this thread.



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[artsfartsyjanet]

I absolutely love to cook. My parents own a restaurant. So, I always experiment there with all the ingredients available there. Fortunately, I have enough people who are willing to be my guinea pigs... I mean my guests. :rolleyes:

I love to eat, but I'm also a health nut. So, I cook food that tastes good and balanced at the same time.

[kimpossible]

Heeeeeey, what kind of restaurant? I'm looking for a good recipe for shao long bao. Found one online but the dough doesn't look right. It calls for a risen dough and I'm not sure that's right. To me, and by all means this doesn't mean I have it right, but shao long bao tastes like it shouldn't have a yeast/risen skin.

Any opinions? Or any recipes you'd like to share... very much appreciated I assure you.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 13 2002, 10:02 PM
Heeeeeey, what kind of restaurant? I'm looking for a good recipe for shao long bao. Found one online but the dough doesn't look right. It calls for a risen dough and I'm not sure that's right. To me, and by all means this doesn't mean I have it right, but shao long bao tastes like it shouldn't have a yeast/risen skin.

Any opinions? Or any recipes you'd like to share... very much appreciated I assure you.
i'm sure there's more than one way to make a shao long bao right? ok i don't know much about cooking (however, my father was a cook, and my grandmother even makes her own tofu :) ), but people tell me that whether or not a shao long bao is good depends on how good the soup inside the skin is. i think if you can make it such that when you bite into it, the soup squirts out, that would be really good. :)

i love shanghainese food...



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[tapestrybabe]

A-ha... i've kinda been cooking tonight... my sister... she gave me the left over thanksgiving turkey for me to take home... you know what was left over that was still on the bone... and so like yeah... i put the whole thing in water and let it boil for a few hours... and i've made a whole pot of turkey broth... I've never done this before... this is my first time....

anyways tomorrow i'm gonna have to buy potatoes and vegetables and some other stuff to actually put into it....

[kimchee63]

Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 8 2002, 11:29 AM
Anyone else here into cooking?
The only reason I haven't opened a restaurant is that it would kill my love of cooking. This Thanksgiving I was on my feet for 10 hours and loved it. But doing this for a living would spoil it.

[kimchee63]

My Korean mother didn't teach me anything about how to cook. When I moved out to California and got sick of eating out all the time, I finally went out and bought Martha Rose Shulman's "Vegetarian Feast." When I told her that I'd discovered bread baking, her response was: "Oh really .... with yeast?" My mom still thinks it's bizarre that I cook, and that I married a woman that describes herself as "cooking impaired." She's finally stopped harping on it, thank god.

I have four books by Ken Hom, but my favorites are "Easy Family Recipes from a Chinese American Childhood" and "Ken Hom's Chinese Kitchen." Asian American cooking is a reflection of Asian American history, and it really shows in these 2 cookbooks. The Black Bean Chicken Wing recipe is killer.

I've not had as much luck with Korean cookbooks. I have Jenny Kwak's "Dok Suni," but the chapchae recipe was a complete disaster for me.

So ... for father's day I got an electric smoker, which looks like a giant prozac pill with legs. So far I've smoked ribs and chicken, but it's so time consuming (5 hours at a time) that I haven't had a chance to really mess with it. Yet.

I could go on and on ...

[bigwong235]

i love cooking, but my rents haven't really taught me how to. just kinda picked it up. i kinda had to learn how to cook cause my rents would get home late from work so it was either i cook or starve till they came home.

i'd really love to be able to cook fancier foods though... maybe when i have my own kitchen and some free time...

[Craig]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Aug 13 2002, 11:38 AM
i do think we happen to have a shanghainese man right here on this site.


wonder if he'll show up on this thread.
Looks like Lama missed out on putting the moves on Barb :rolleyes:

[Adaon]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Aug 13 2002, 08:25 PM
Originally posted by Hello_Hapa@Aug 13 2002, 10:02 PM
Heeeeeey, what kind of restaurant? I'm looking for a good recipe for shao long bao. Found one online but the dough doesn't look right. It calls for a risen dough and I'm not sure that's right. To me, and by all means this doesn't mean I have it right, but shao long bao tastes like it shouldn't have a yeast/risen skin.

Any opinions? Or any recipes you'd like to share... very much appreciated I assure you.
i'm sure there's more than one way to make a shao long bao right? ok i don't know much about cooking (however, my father was a cook, and my grandmother even makes her own tofu :) ), but people tell me that whether or not a shao long bao is good depends on how good the soup inside the skin is. i think if you can make it such that when you bite into it, the soup squirts out, that would be really good. :)

i love shanghainese food...
mmmmmmmmmmm Xiao long bao.....sounds like a great breakfast.....time to call up some sleepy friends and go grab some grubbings :lol:

Yeah, i love to cook and try and imitate most of the things that i see/eat in restaurants, some GREAT stuff, some not so great, but hey, it's all in my tummy :lol:

I'd prolly cook a lot more and game/hang out a lot less if i could do that sort of thing in my kitchen at home, but my parents rule that room in the house like every other room...... <_<

[hormiga]

Cajun and Creole.

[axi0m]

Well, my goal this summer is to actual learn to cook Japanese food. Does that count?

-Satoshi-

[wylin]

all i know is that my wife shall be the master of cooking and shall be doing it every night.

[Craig]

Originally posted by axi0m@Dec 2 2002, 05:37 PM
Well, my goal this summer is to actual learn to cook Japanese food. Does that count?

-Satoshi-
Ramen is Japanese food B)

[luv]

I love to cook, but I have a few setbacks in my parents kitchen: no oven, and they insist on doing everything with chopsticks -- including flipping omelettes.

Favorite to make: congee, chicken wings, pasta, steak, salsa....i guess I need to work on the list...

[kimchee63]

Originally posted by luv@Dec 2 2002, 06:22 PM
I love to cook, but I have a few setbacks in my parents kitchen: no oven, and they insist on doing everything with chopsticks -- including flipping omelettes.

Favorite to make: congee, chicken wings, pasta, steak, salsa....i guess I need to work on the list...
The pancakes at your house must be really small ...

[hormiga]

Originally posted by luv@Dec 2 2002, 06:22 PM
I love to cook, but I have a few setbacks in my parents kitchen: no oven, and they insist on doing everything with chopsticks -- including flipping omelettes.

Favorite to make: congee, chicken wings, pasta, steak, salsa....i guess I need to work on the list...
No oven? What do you cook on? :huh:

[axi0m]

I cooked Ramen today! :)

-Satoshi-

[atyc]

Originally posted by Craig@Dec 2 2002, 11:14 PM
Originally posted by axi0m@Dec 2 2002, 05:37 PM
Well, my goal this summer is to actual learn to cook Japanese food. Does that count?

-Satoshi-
Ramen is Japanese food B)
If my memory is correct, I think Ramen is written in Katakana which means it's actually not a Japanese word, to me, the word Ramen actually sounds like "Pull Noodle" in Mandarin, so Ramen, strictly speaking is actually chinese food but like many other things, the Japanese made is popular....

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by atyc@Dec 22 2002, 07:59 AM
Originally posted by Craig@Dec 2 2002, 11:14 PM
Originally posted by axi0m@Dec 2 2002, 05:37 PM
Well, my goal this summer is to actual learn to cook Japanese food. Does that count?

-Satoshi-
Ramen is Japanese food B)
If my memory is correct, I think Ramen is written in Katakana which means it's actually not a Japanese word, to me, the word Ramen actually sounds like "Pull Noodle" in Mandarin, so Ramen, strictly speaking is actually chinese food but like many other things, the Japanese made is popular....
yeah i think it's the same thing as ÀüI (la mian). for those of you who don't know, it's called "pulled noodles" because noodles are hand-made by pulling on the dough.

[luv]

Originally posted by kimchee63@Dec 2 2002, 08:50 PM
Originally posted by luv@Dec 2 2002, 06:22 PM
I love to cook, but I have a few setbacks in my parents kitchen: &nbsp;no oven, and they insist on doing everything with chopsticks -- including flipping omelettes. &nbsp;

Favorite to make: &nbsp;congee, chicken wings, pasta, steak, salsa....i guess I need to work on the list...
The pancakes at your house must be really small ...
Actually, we make normal size pancakes and omelettes. My mother is fantastic at flipping off the pan. Forgot, for a while my favorite dish to make was parsley ginger stuffed cornish hen with chardonnay. (You can actually bake stuff in a wok, but gotta learn the technique. I have no patience for that.)

Last year my favorite dish was filet mignon in mushroom marsala sauce. (also tried to make fettucine alfredo -- the sauce from scratch-- but that ended up costing more than going out to eat-- be warned good parmesan is $$$).

Summers are avocado-tomato-shrimp-bacon sandwiches with mango-carrot-orange juice. Or vegetarian tomatillo lime salsa on tostadas & chicken fajitas...

God, I need to start cooking again-- don't think I've really attempted to cook in a while. (I hate McDonalds!)

[luv]

Originally posted by hormiga@Dec 3 2002, 11:29 AM
Originally posted by luv@Dec 2 2002, 06:22 PM
I love to cook, but I have a few setbacks in my parents kitchen: &nbsp;no oven, and they insist on doing everything with chopsticks -- including flipping omelettes. &nbsp;

Favorite to make: &nbsp;congee, chicken wings, pasta, steak, salsa....i guess I need to work on the list...
No oven? What do you cook on? :huh:
Stove and microwave....steamer, pan, and wok pretty much what you need, but when I have to work off recipes I get stuck with the temp and times when converting to broiler/wok.