Whacha cookin?

AmlanceJockey · 2016-06-21T01:33:47+00:00

I like to make spicy stir fry. I mix it up and try all kinds of recipes. The best part is I liberally use ghost peppers and carolina reapers. It aint exactly fine dining but man is it good.

givecake · 2016-06-21T02:32:55+00:00

Here are some of the things I like to do.

Home-made peanut butter (avoid cancerous shitty brand stuff [the peanuts they use often are mouldy or something]), you simply shell some peanuts, put them in the oven on a baking tray for about 10-15 minutes on 200c (they should start smelling super nice when they're done, and they should be getting slightly darker). After letting them cool, put them in a salad spinner and shake em up or something to remove the outer skin, but if you don't mind a darker butter, leave the skins on. If you do remove the skins, and can only do it by hand, it takes ages. After that, just put them into a seed blender (one of those typically smaller blenders which turns stuff into powder) and blend until it's not powdery, but oily. I find it easy to do a small handful of nuts at a time. After it's all processed, put into a nice little seal-able bowl, add some olive oil or some other oil, bit of salt, and mix. After that, keep it in the fridge, and eat on whatever. I think it keeps for about 2 weeks or so.
Home-made tortilla wraps are easy to make. You put flour, salt, melted butter/oil, baking powder, and warm water into a bowl, and mix it up well. You can make these as healthy as you like with wholemeal flour and good quality ingredients, and they're not too glutinous as they're pretty thin. Once mixed, take off chunks and grab the edge points pulling them into the middle to create a soft round edge all the way around. Flip over and use a rolling pin to thin out into a round tortilla. Chuck that into a pan, and cook on low/medium heat for a couple of minutes, flipping when it bubbles. You don't need oil in the pan, just a dry pan. You can do a stack of these and they'll keep for a bunch of days in the fridge. I don't need to remind you that you can put a ton of stuff into tortillas. They're very good. Follow this recipe for ratios.
Home-made pizzas are super easy too. But they can take a bit longer, because of the wait times. Make a dough like Jamie's here. I like to add herbs to the base too, like Oregano. While you're waiting for it to rise, throw some onion, garlic and fresh chopped tomatoes into a frying pan with some oil in it. When the tomatoes become like the canned tomato consistency-ish, add some seasoning to taste with herbs and whatever, and then when it's cool enough, throw it into the blender and make it smooth. When pizza dough has risen and is ready to roll out, follow the same kind of procedure as with the tortillas to make it round and even, before using a rolling pin to flatten it into a good-sized base. Smear the sauce on top however the fk you like, and add fresh toppings of your choice, followed by diced cheese cubes and finally a sprinkling of herbs. One thing you can do to make pizza toppings nicer is to marinate them in a dressing of some kind for a couple of hours previously. If you have the foresight to do this, it need only take an extra 2-3 minutes. You can literally use any kind of dressing that you like, from salad dressing to BBQ sauce or whatever.
Black-bottomed cupcakes/muffins are super good, but not healthy so skip this is you are at all health-conscious. This lady knows her stuff, and is more of a traditional woman. I recommend these because for many people, who simply have never tasted good quality cupcakes or muffins, these are a revelation.
Home-made hummus is great because you can tailor it the way you like it, and has a good amount of protein. This recipe is pretty good, I've made it a ton of times with different variations. The lemon juice is a key ingredient for me, because I like sour and sharp tastes. If you make a big batch of this, you can leave it in the fridge for 3-4 days and it will be good snack food. You can also put it on buttered toast for breakfast. If you have chips or salad sticks, they're great to dip too.

Some of these ideas might be slightly better for more than one person, but can all be made for a single person too, and eaten over a couple of days.

I'd like to help if anyone gets a question.

DEG23 · 2016-06-21T00:22:51+00:00

I've been making all sorts of things in the kitchen. Like you I never really gave much thought to the kitchen but I'm really enjoying cooking now, I even signed up for some classes to help expand my knowledge.

Lately though I've been focused on making desserts and baking. I've never been good at making things like cakes before even when I followed the instructions but I'm improving and really enjoying myself at the same time. Cooking has quickly become one of my favourite hobbies in recent times.

Botanical-Concepts · 2016-06-21T08:50:01+00:00

Plants

Mgtowredpillonroids · 2016-06-21T05:33:53+00:00

Nothing complicated, mostly meat & veggies, egg-based stuff such as omelette with various additional ingredients, stuff like that. I rarely ever eat out because I don't know what's in it.

hollybegin · 2016-06-21T06:54:35+00:00

Anything I want depending on my mood.... ;D

Sn0man79 · 2016-06-21T07:25:26+00:00

It varies. Easy stuff most of the time. Been on a bit of an indian/asian style food kick lately though - but being new to this style most of the dishes i've tried so far haven't turned out very well lol

I keep intending to take some classes at the local community college but just never seem to get around to it. One day!!

weaklion · 2016-06-21T12:09:13+00:00

For some years prior to my present situation I had just not kept much of a kitchen.

I'd say that's very common for young single guys (especially in their 20's, and probably even early 30's); some of it may have to do with roommates, etc, but I think at the root its more that -- when you are in that age range, you're often very much "on the go" and so doing the kind of "stock the larder" much less plan some meal out of X elements, well it's just not high on the priority list.

Plus when you're young like that you generally not only renting -- but also "moving house" fairly frequently -- and that too doesn't exactly promote building up an array of cookware, or a larder of canned & dry goods.

Same thing often with other things -- like power tools, hand tools, and what I'll call "workshop machinery" -- most rental places don't have garages (and even if they do, they generally don't want tenants working on cars in them), and so don't have room for floor jacks, welders, table saws, etc.

And then of course even if you did have A rental place you could acquire and use all of that -- what happens the next time you move? Will the next rental unit be the same (unlikely), and would you really want to be shlepping ALL of that stuff from one place to another (and then another...rinse & repeat) every year or two (or even 3 or 4).

-- That's actually one of the big reasons IMO why eventually most people (including "MGTOW" bachelors) decide they want to own a house.

And once you do, well suddenly a lot of the things you may have been subconsciously/unconsciously "avoiding" -- like cooking, etc -- become a lot more practical.

What are you cooking to gnosh on as you go your own way?

Well, I'm planning on making BBQ pork ribs tonight, with baked po-ta-toes, and probably corn on the cob. This past Sunday I roasted a whole chicken, so yesterday & last night was basically finishing off the last of that (about half the chicken).

While I'll still do my fair share of quick-cook meals -- i.e. stir fry & other single pan things -- I'm finding that recently (for whatever reason) I'm back to doing bigger chunks of meat (hams, whole chickens, pork roasts, etc), either baking/roasting or broiling in the oven -- or tossing the whole thing (with veg, etc) into the slow cooker... and then freezing part of it and/or sticking the leftover into the fridge & eating off of it for a couple days. Both/all of those methods of prep are actually fairly fast (about the same time as a single-meal-prep), and -- especially with modern grocery or butcher bought meats and electric stoves/ovens -- the actual "cooking" take a lot LESS work than most men (esp old-school "married" guys) think it does... basically it's just occasionally "checking" the internal meat temp, etc.

nightshadez94 · 2016-06-21T02:23:14+00:00

Steaks, eggs and my favourite; cheddar-stuffed burgers.

KingreX32 · 2016-06-21T10:52:16+00:00

Ive been cooking since I was a single digit age dude. I can follow a recipe but I like to experiment. I make my own burgers and fried from scratch. I perfer baking though. Dont mean to brag but my banana bread.......IS TO DIE FOR!!!!!!!!!!

One of my favorites is what I call a grilled cheeze burger. Its lierally a grilled cheeze sandwich but with a burger in the middle. My best accident was hasbrowns, scrambled eggs and bacon all mixed in the same pan. Each was cooked separately on its own then for the hell of it I just threw em into the same pan and mixed it up. It came out pretty good.

TVTestPattern · 2016-06-21T14:44:40+00:00

I struggled a bit with this actually.

http://allrecipes.com/

Sort of like the reddit of cooking. Users submit recipes and others comment/vote on them.

Game changer for me.

cashmoney_x · 2016-06-22T07:07:12+00:00

It's summer so lots of steak and grilled fish.

Whacha cookin?

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Well, while "WHAM. PANS." is definitely a succinct way of summing it up...

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