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March Question Month Part Seven
Mar. 29th, 2012 07:44 amThe ever brilliant and buff ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mort_83 asked:
Do you like to cook? If not, what don't you like about it or what's the issue with not doing it? If you do cook, what's your favorite things to make?
I do like to cook, but the only drawback is cooking for one, which for me is often not worth the trouble or time. Paula Poundstone once joked that if it takes more than three steps, you might as well cook. Often when I get home from work, finish a workout, and shower, the longing to cook anything is gone. I don't have a fancy kitchen with pricey pans or utensils. I make due mainly with a lot of hand-me down pans from mom and grandmothers.
When I do cook (usually on weekends), there are usually two dishes I enjoy making. One is a mastaccoli, which is basically pasta, tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, and various cheeses. You cook, add, mix and layer into a pan and bake. It's easy, smells great, and reheats well. A coworker gave me the recipe over a decade ago and I still make it (with various tweaks to try stuff out).
The second is a chicken "pocket" that another coworker taught me to make. It's basically chicken (or turkey, getting rid of those Thanksgiving leftovers), cream cheese, onions, garlic, peppers, etc., all mixed together and placed into two crescent rolls pushed together to make a square. Fold it over and bake until brown. I often tweak the recipe here and there, different peppers, flavored cream cheeses, etc. Again, pretty easy and usually with enough for leftovers for the week.
The best meal I ever made was over a decade ago, during my time in Kansas City. Again, the recipe came from a coworker. It was a beef brisket that took over a day to cook properly. With it, I made garlic and horseradish mashed potatoes from a recipe I found in an old Irish cookbook I found at a used bookstore. It was the tastiest dinner I've ever made. I knew it was a hit when two ladies from my office were caught dipping their fingers in the nearly-empty mashed potato bowl when I went to get dessert from the kitchen.
And just what do you like to cook?
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mort_83 asked:Do you like to cook? If not, what don't you like about it or what's the issue with not doing it? If you do cook, what's your favorite things to make?
I do like to cook, but the only drawback is cooking for one, which for me is often not worth the trouble or time. Paula Poundstone once joked that if it takes more than three steps, you might as well cook. Often when I get home from work, finish a workout, and shower, the longing to cook anything is gone. I don't have a fancy kitchen with pricey pans or utensils. I make due mainly with a lot of hand-me down pans from mom and grandmothers.
When I do cook (usually on weekends), there are usually two dishes I enjoy making. One is a mastaccoli, which is basically pasta, tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, and various cheeses. You cook, add, mix and layer into a pan and bake. It's easy, smells great, and reheats well. A coworker gave me the recipe over a decade ago and I still make it (with various tweaks to try stuff out).
The second is a chicken "pocket" that another coworker taught me to make. It's basically chicken (or turkey, getting rid of those Thanksgiving leftovers), cream cheese, onions, garlic, peppers, etc., all mixed together and placed into two crescent rolls pushed together to make a square. Fold it over and bake until brown. I often tweak the recipe here and there, different peppers, flavored cream cheeses, etc. Again, pretty easy and usually with enough for leftovers for the week.
The best meal I ever made was over a decade ago, during my time in Kansas City. Again, the recipe came from a coworker. It was a beef brisket that took over a day to cook properly. With it, I made garlic and horseradish mashed potatoes from a recipe I found in an old Irish cookbook I found at a used bookstore. It was the tastiest dinner I've ever made. I knew it was a hit when two ladies from my office were caught dipping their fingers in the nearly-empty mashed potato bowl when I went to get dessert from the kitchen.
And just what do you like to cook?
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BTW -- Only a few days left in March The Question Month. If anyone would like to ask a question, you can post it here. You can ask anonymously if you'd like, IP addresses are not recorded for the month. Comments to this entry are screened and if you would rather I not identify you, please make a note of it in your post there.
