Cooking For One Or Many?

[Gomendosi]

Do you prefer to cook for others or just yourself?

I hate cooking when its just me going to be eating it, having said that, I know my tastes and can then cook whatever I like, which is usually weird but tasty.
I love stews where I can add a whole bunch of stuff together and then add something odd, like I put sultanas and currents in a stew recently! Delicious ; ]

If I was going to be cooking for others I'd go all out and try to make something intriguing, but I don't get the opportunity as people have seen me eat some weird stuff.
Because I was bought up with an elderly, blind grandmother and an elderly father (offal was normal to them and cheap, now it cost the same as other meat), I was taught never to waste anything and so if something is going off, it isn?t actually off just yet and so, is clearly still edible! Nowadays everything has to be sanitized and sterilized and pasteurized and? yeeeeach.
Eat an apple with a worm in for goodness sake, it won?t kill you, just don?t eat the bit where the worm is. Oh, and then eat the core... and spit out the seeds, because you don?t want an apple tree growing out of you belly button :lol:






That?s why we see a lot of sick children in this era, they aren?t allowed to scrape a knee or eat bugs or run around in the rain and so they have no natural tolerance to things. The stuff I got up to as a kid would kill these children today, whatever happened to dropping food then picking it up, washing it off and eating it, if nobody was looking you just brushed the dirt off and then ate the damn thing!

 

[Kelly]

I let my little girl eat stuff that's fallen on the floor inside, if it's outside I pick any bits off then she can still have it(unless it was somewhere really filthy), as for 'off' food I personally can't stand any food that is even close to the use by date or doesn't look right wheras my husband is the opposite, with him if it smells okay it is okay and he will just cut the mould off bread, cheese etc. My daughter is kind of a mix of both of us she doesn't go by use by dates but if it looks bad she won't eat it, she's also fussy like me when it comes to burnt food.

As for cooking I can't cook, I was never taught and was never allowed to cook, my mum always did the cooking and I was far too interested in other things. My husband does all the cooking and he gets quite annoyed if I go in the kitchen when he's cooking, he cooks 3 different things, his own meal, my meal and our daughter's because we all like different things, different textures, temperatures etc.

I can however bake (cakes, cookies etc) and I can be quite experimental with it as well, usually with good results (there was this one disaster involving a flan and some gelatine...it was gross)

 

[2010Dolby]

I've never cooked for anyone beside myself, unless you count frozen pizza. Ill take girls out to restaurants but I don't cook for them because I consider a homecooked meal to be 2 packages of bacon :lol:

When I lived with my family we head meals like roasted chicken with mashed potatoes and garlic tomatos, real good cooking like that. My dad was an amazing cook but my mom isn't really that great at it haha. I completely agree with you saying that kids are over-sheltered these days. When I was 9 I was given my first pocket knife, got my first hand saw and carpentry tools at 13, and fixed up the family truck at 14. Kids are missing out on important skills by being protected so fiercely. Drinking out of the garden hose isn't going to kill anyone!

 

[Arashi222]

I hate cooking when its just me going to be eating it, having said that, I know my tastes and can then cook whatever I like, which is usually weird but tasty.
I love stews where I can add a whole bunch of stuff together and then add something odd, like I put sultanas and currents in a stew recently! Delicious ; ]

Heh I love to cook. I will cook for myself or for my mom. I actually don't let her in the kitchen. As to stews I have a great throw it all in stew called spice stew. Its great and its good for vegetarians or meat lovers. Eh weird food choices are great and tasty I agree.

 

[The Penguin]

For others but since no one in my life it just me.

 

[Cerulean]

I love cooking for me and my boyfriend but it's really hard. We both have conflicting food preferences- he likes as much meat as possible and hates my two favorite vegetables, broccoli and peas. I haven't cooked meat in years and have no idea how to do so, so he usually ends up making half and I make half. But it's discouraging sometimes because I want to make good things for him but we're both so freaking picky.

 

[atrocityexhibition]

I can cook a variety of things for myself, but when I cook for someone else, it always seems to result in bitching of some kind.

 

[King_Oni]

I can cook a variety of things for myself, but when I cook for someone else, it always seems to result in bitching of some kind.

This.

I don't even bother to cook for my parents, because they have zero sense of taste and spices. My mom cooks very bland and still complains it's spicy... without any actual spices. So chances are that someone like me, who eats chili peppers raw and peppers pretty much everything because I like things spicy and seasoned, will end up with a lot of food left because they don't like it.

My girlfriend, is quite a picky eater (well so am I; we're aspies afterall, lol) but her pickiness seems to be different than mine which makes it hard to cook for the both of us, unless I decide to heat up a pizza or make fries.

The one person who I can cook for/with and doesn't complain is an aspie friend of mine who shares my fondness for spicy stuff. He's the type of person who wants extra hot sauce if you make him a chili pepper stew and dunks his sandwiches in wasabi (so to speak).