Do you like cooking for the people you care about?

[Crossbreed]

I do not particularly like cooking, but I will step up to the plate if no one else is going to, or ready-to-eat favorites become too expensive. It is not as difficult as I feared and I have added a few meals to my repertoire.

Most of mine are a hybrid of cooking & RTE items.
For chili rotini, I cook the beans & noodles but add store-bought chili sauce.
For RAGMOP pizza, I buy a ready-made cheese pizza and prep all of its custom toppings.
Our air fryer puts french fries within our reach for fish & chips night (both frozen).
Our oven grill[?] makes it so we don't have to flip the fish nor frozen corndogs.*

*Unlike burritos, frozen corndogs have been a fail in the microwave.

 

[Masaniello]

My daughter had some depression one morning as a young person, so l threw together an exquisite muffin of carmel, apples, brown sugar, and named it after her, it really lifted her spirits, and l could see her depression leaving for that day. So cooking is a gift.

Probably good also for the person with depression to do cooking. It's an activity with outward focus.

 

[Mary Terry]

I do not particularly like cooking, but I will step up to the plate if no one else is going to, or ready-to-eat favorites become too expensive. It is not as difficult as I feared and I have added a few meals to my repertoire.

Most of mine are a hybrid of cooking & RTE items.
For chili rotini, I cook the beans & noodles but add store-bought chili sauce.
For RAGMOP pizza, I buy a ready-made cheese pizza and prep all of its custom toppings.
Our air fryer puts french fries within our reach for fish & chips night (both frozen).
Our oven grill[?] makes it so we don't have to flip the fish nor frozen corndogs.*

*Unlike burritos, frozen corndogs have been a fail in the microwave.

I sometimes take shortcuts, too. Jarred marinara sauce for Italian dishes, frozen puff pastry and pie dough, cheese pizzas that I add toppings to, frozen French fries, tater tots and hashbrowns, canned beans instead of cooking dried beans from scratch, etc. I recently discovered frozen beer-battered cod at Costco which doesn't require thawing and just bake in a hot oven. It tastes really good.

 

[honeytoast]

I do, whether it is tossing a frozen pizza in the oven or making the pizza from scratch, I share it with the people I love and care for the most.

 

[Stuttermabolur]

I cook for my partner whenever she visits. She sometimes helps, but she doesn't cook at home. I haven't lived by myself for the most part, but when I do, I quite enjoy cooking, whether it is for myself or others. Eating however is even better. One of the positives of cooking for yourself is that you can cook what you actually want and like, give it the preferred texture, etc. You don't have to "settle" for anything.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I don't cook, happy opening a can of beans have good background in chemistry so understand what cooking is about how it works just not interested in doing it. Sort of like have aptitude for languages but do not follow up on it.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

One thing I am learning the matriarchal culture that had developed in North America prior to the Europeans was better, more stable. Sort of like Bonobos culture versus Chimpanzee.

 

[Crossbreed]

For chili rotini,...

I prefer to use rotini because macaroni traps air inside, making more gas.

 

[AprilR]

I like doing things for my friends but i am not a good cook. I get anxious when i have to Cook something for someone else

 

[Rodafina]

Cooking for others feels like being cast in the spotlight and anxiety takes over. I do not enjoy cooking for others at all.

I don't really enjoy having others cook for me either as I am too specific about what I like and what I do not. It's a terrible feeling to have someone make something perfectly lovely for me but because of the textures and the smells it makes me want to puke.

 

[Neia]

This thread is simple. Do you like being a good chef/host to your friends and loved ones?

I hate cooking, can't stand having to wait. So I usually end up by letting food burn.
I can burn water

 

[Kayla55]

Tastes like pork, doesn't it, Mr Lecter.

Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period.

 

[Jonn]

Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period.

Not a good idea to eat sick people, nor sick animals.

 

[DrBadStrings]

This thread is simple. Do you like being a good chef/host to your friends and loved ones?

Chef yes, host no.

I enjoy preparing a meal and all of the cooking, but under one condition and that is everyone else in the house stays out of the kitchen. I don't even want their physical presence in the room when I'm cooking as they will inevitably just get in my way.

But I really do like cooking for my family, I live with my folks, so we take turns with cooking supper. Working Monday to Friday I typically cook on weekends and it is something I look forward to as on the weekends I have the time to relax and enjoy my time in the kitchen with some good music. It's a nice "me time" moment when I'm in the kitchen doing my thing.

Now once the cooking is done to be perfectly honest I prefer just to go and eat by myself. Eating with others around a table is a love/hate thing as sometimes I do enjoy the company but other times it gets to me. Also not a big fan of the sounds of others eating. So if I am eating with others I typically like to have music or radio/tv on just to cover up the sound. It's one of my sensory things. I had a elderly relative that couldn't help be a messy loud eater towards the end and as much as it made me sad to do, I had to leave the room whenever she ate. But the sound just was a trigger, I couldn't focus on anything else in the room. I didn't understand the response then but I do now. Conveniently when they were over I could use the excuse that there was not enough room at the table so I would volunteer to eat in the living room.

 

[Kayla55]

AF seems to be cliquey, if that is what you mean.
Venting is frowned upon by the power group.

I Usually watch to see what's happening.
He left shortly afterwards, you alerted him.
We identified some of last psycho gang, methods were similar to what we have seen in past, the involvement was more than asd sexual dysfunction.
Some of these people are dangerous.

 

[Mary Terry]

I love to cook, especially for my family. If you're not a good cook or dread having to cook for someone else, I recommend you pick one or two dishes that are easy to make and that you can master without a lot of effort.

Chili is easy (to me, anyway) and people usually love it. Just don't make it too spicey.

Soups can be very easy to make and you can customize toppings like cheese, some lemon juice, oyster crackers, etc.

Hamburgers, pork chops and steaks are fairly easy to cook.

Loaded baked potatoes are easy.

Frozen pizzas can be customized with toppings like additional cheese, pepperoni, ham, jalapeno slices, tomato slices, olives, etc.

 

[Rocco]

I do like to cook for people I care about. Especially if I’m not tired after a days work.
I am more a master chef of the frozen food isle at Trader Joe’s, than I am good at making things from scratch. I can only make a few things from scratch, like Ricotta pie, eggplant Parmesan, red pasta sauces, and a few variations on meatloaf.

I prefer when others cook for me though. Food always tastes better when someone else makes it. Even something as simple as peanut butter and jelly is vastly superior when someone else makes it.