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Cooking
There have been a few "cooking" based threads on here before, where people tell us all about these absurdly complicated dishes they like to cook and make out like it's a regular occurrence in their kitchen.
Anyway.
This is a bit of a tangent from that "what do you do well" thread we had a while ago.
Gordon Ramsay inspired me!
If you had to make a dish against a "random" person (ie it could be anyone) for a prize of £1million, what dish would you choose to make (they would have to make the same dish)?
And why? (obviously "best tasting dish" wins)
Cost and amount of ingredients are not an issue.
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Re: Cooking
A human liver broiled in it's own juices, covered in seaweed and guinness.
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17 Jul 2006, 21:03
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Re: Cooking
French cut fried potatoes. I am brilliant at cooking French cut fried potatoes.
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It would probably have to be...
Roasted Gammon Joint glazed with Honey and Mustard.
It tastes orgasmic, in fact id pass up sex to it.
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Re: Cooking
GAMMON?
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17 Jul 2006, 21:31
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Re: Cooking
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GAMMON?
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You've obviously not had decent gammon like pig (hahahaha the irony) describes. I don't know about passing up sex but it certainly makes an awesome meal.
If I could cook any meal, it would have to be a Braised Lamb Shank in Red Wine, with new potatoes, mange tout and peas. All washed down with a fantastic red wine.
Shame I can't cook it really I can cook a pretty decent steak though.
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17 Jul 2006, 21:33
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Re: Cooking
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If I could cook any meal, it would have to be a Braised Lamb Shank in Red Wine, with new potatoes, mange tout and peas. All washed down with a fantastic red wine.
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But surely that is easy for someone to do just as well as you?
I mean apart from the lamb+wine, the rest is just a case of boiling water and throwing them into it and not being a complete spastic with the timings
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Re: Cooking
i'd probably make a lasagna. i'd probably lose, but it would be less embarassing to lose after serving a good lasagna than, say, an excellent bagel sandwich.
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17 Jul 2006, 21:35
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Re: Cooking
Oh in answer to my own thread.
I have quite a limited number of dishes I can cook well, and none are particularly spectacular. I consider myself quite a good cook, but I concern myself more with substance and taste than trying to come off as some sort of magnificent masterchef.
If I had to cook any dish it'd probably be lasagne. Simply because most people (from my experience) aren't that great at cooking it without the use of premade sauces (both for the mince and for the cheese sauce).
I also think my lasagne is pretty good
Oh snap with acropolis - you wrote your thread as I was writing mine.
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17 Jul 2006, 21:49
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Re: Cooking
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But surely that is easy for someone to do just as well as you?
I mean apart from the lamb+wine, the rest is just a case of boiling water and throwing them into it and not being a complete spastic with the timings
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If you'd read the last line of my post, you'd have seen that I can't actually cook it. Also, it's not that easy to cook - it's quite easy (I think) to do a passable braised lamb shank but a lot harder to do an amazing one.
My choice of meal there would be a steak of any type - as I'm pretty good at cooking a steak exactly medium-rare, exactly medium-well, etc, no matter how thick the steak is. I'm sure that lots of other people can do it too, but there's really not much I can cook .
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17 Jul 2006, 22:01
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Re: Cooking
all of your lasganes would pale in comparison to mine because you wouldn't put in bacon and chicken livers!!!
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17 Jul 2006, 22:03
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Is there nothing in which you DON'T put chicken livers?
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17 Jul 2006, 22:06
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Re: Cooking
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French cut fried potatoes. I am brilliant at cooking French cut fried potatoes.
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17 Jul 2006, 22:09
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Re: Cooking
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all of your lasganes would pale in comparison to mine because you wouldn't put in bacon and chicken livers!!!
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I would put in bacon actually!
But not chicken livers
(gross!)
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Re: Cooking
Coconut duck with vegetabales, fried rice and mango. Its awesome, I swear.
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17 Jul 2006, 23:25
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I have a tendancy to add beer to the pan to a good steak whilst cooking it...Some have called me odd but I like it.
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17 Jul 2006, 23:30
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I'd probably do cottage pie, purely because even if I loose i'd still get a cottage pie at the end of it .
also: semi-on topic, how does one cook rosti? what ratio's of potatoes to onion are needed? anything else i need to know etc?
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Re: Cooking
Breakfast Tacos.
-scrambled eggs and onions and Mexican rice in a Taco shell. It's unheard of but it's good with coffee.
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Pasta Surprise.
Chicken in a wok, brown it. Mid brown add crunched garlic and chilly (lazy variants is fine but the chook has to be fresh).
Burn the ass of the chicken but turn it down when it browns. Add onion, pepper, and trimmed beans, cut to your pleasure.
Let it simmer then throw in the mushrooms. Now I don't dig fungi but everybody else seems to, and I'm not cooking this for me.
Meantime get your pasta water on the boil with a bit Sussie Salt and PercyPepper. A knob of salted butter is a must. No marge, just good old butter.
Add your sauce. You should of home made this earlier by grilling 8 tomatoes. Asbestos fingers required to peel them, more garlic, some WS and whatever herbs takes you’re fancy. This has to be left over night but if you are feeling naughty quickly fry some Pancetta or some polish sausage. Add it and let the spice, entice. You can over flavour at this stage but for me, a sprinkiling of good old Italian spice does the job.
Ok, take your sauce; drop it in the wok and cover. Put pasta in (your choice of pasta at this point depends upon your mood I guess).
Ok, pasta is tender, drop in wok, stir along with grated cheddar and grated Mozzerella. Serve with a cheeky Rose.
Just a thought. I love to cook.
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Re: Cooking
a tuna steak baked in olive oil with Indonesian badjak (a sort of chili sauce) and onions with simple white rice and a vegetable mix cooked in a little bit of garlic.
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i'd probably cook sushi, with all sorts of different fillings. Because i love making it, and there is a bit of a knack to getting the rice right (apparently sushi chefs spend 7 years learniing to cook the rice, but i suspect that is bollocks), so i'd be likely to beat a random person just on the rice cooking alone.
and you can make so many different pretty things.
and because i cooked it yesterday and couldn't think of anything else
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Re: Cooking
Braised Monkfish on Spinach and Potato Cakes with a white wine sauce.
or Roasted Stuffed Peppers are pretty good anytime.
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Re: Cooking
pot noodle??
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You can't go wrong with well-made sausage and mash (with onion gravy). Or steak and ale pie.
The classics, people, the classics.
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Re: Cooking
hey internet ive grown up and i can cook
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Re: Cooking
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Re: Cooking
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Simply because most people (from my experience) aren't that great at cooking it without the use of premade sauces (both for the mince and for the cheese sauce).
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This statement makes me want to cry. In particular, people who use premade sauces for the mince should burn in hell.
I also make a fairly decent lasagne (with bacon (when I remember to buy it) but no chicken livers). Also, do you actually make a cheese sauce for lasagne?! Strange :\ The secret of my white sauce is a bit of nutmeg ;)
If I had to cook a dish it probably would be lasagne because it's simple and I've made it a million times, yet it would be easy for someone who hadn't made it before to **** it up or make it bland.
Or possibly fajitas without the aid of an 'Old El Paso fajita kit' thankyouverymuch.
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In particular, people who use premade sauces for the mince should burn in hell.
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Re: Cooking
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Or possibly fajitas without the aid of an 'Old El Paso fajita kit' thankyouverymuch.
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an yo should teast mi jurk chuckken man
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Re: Cooking
if i want nice food sainsburys always has a good selection
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Re: Cooking
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As long Canadian chedder is there with me I'll be fine. Best cheese there is (in the supermarket, I'm sure there are wonderful fresh cheeses but who has the time)
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Re: Cooking
i bet you prefer botswanan brie and chinese champagne ...
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Is this your subtle way of telling us you work in mcdonalds and aren't a district attorney?
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Re: Cooking
It's these sorts of threads that make me realise my culniary skills are lacking.
For example, I have never cooked a joint in my life; not one single chicken have I roasted, and not a ham have I pressure-cooked. This is mainly because there's not much point doing it for one when I'm at uni, so basically I'll be ****ed when I eventually have to do such things.
I tend to do more "adjustable" meals such as curries, special fried rice (I do this quite well if I say so myself), stirfry, omlettes etc. In other words standard student type fare.
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Re: Cooking
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I tend to do more "adjustable" meals such as curries, special fried rice (I do this quite well if I say so myself), stirfry, omlettes etc. In other words standard student type fare.
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That doesn't mean you're not a good cook though. There's a world of difference between what sounds good and what tastes good. In fact, in my experience there's next to no correlation between how good a cook somebody is, and how good a cook they sound like when talking about food.
I think most people who 'just make food' often end up being better at it than people doing meals with specific names. I mean, some people just *get* seasoning and what fits together. On the other hand people who follow big recipes and buy fancy ingredients often end up with merely edible food.
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Re: Cooking
i would probably do chilli actually, as its something thats very subjective to taste
or sausages with an onion gravy and mash with some wholegrain mustard is also very tasty
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Re: Cooking
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i would probably do chilli actually, as its something thats very subjective to taste
or sausages with an onion gravy and mash with some wholegrain mustard is also very tasty
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it depends, as i tend to put worcestershire sauce in my gravy anyway
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That too. And some ale or red wine, depends what kind of sausage you're using.
****, right I'm going shopping.
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for bangers and mash, i thoroughly reccomend walls' 'with a hint of black pepper' ones
avoid toulouse sausage like the plague unless you want to be left alone the next day
(also, i have a cast iron mortar and pestle thats really nice to use)
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Re: Cooking
At around midday today, I shall start cooking around 150 sunday roasts in addition to the standard menu that we serve.
So, excuse me if I don't participate in this thread - I hate cooking!
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Re: Cooking
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At around midday today, I shall start cooking around 150 sunday roasts in addition to the standard menu that we serve.
So, excuse me if I don't participate in this thread - I hate cooking!
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I do.
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so what the **** are you doing cooking for that amount of people?
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Computers have to eat too!
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im pretty sure that if you gave a computer a sunday lunch it would just sit there and not eat it
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im pretty sure that if you gave a computer a sunday lunch it would just sit there and not eat it
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so what the **** are you doing cooking for that amount of people?
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