Learning to Cook
by Malibu and I have found that we need to learn to cook. Not that we plan on being the traditional house wife-staying home all day to prepare a meal for our husbands-anytime in the future, but knowing to cook is a good survival skill. Eating is also good and to eat yummy food-when no one wants to make it for you-you have to know how to cook. Anyone know of any good recipes? Deserts, soups, salads, bread, entrees..anything will do!
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katie knows how to make MAD good veggie chilli.. mmm mmmm mmm she can make good brownies too... heck, everything she makes is OFF THE HOOK! lol...
I love to cook... and obviously love to eat! Some of the best things you can do to enhance the flavor and appeal of some basic meals is seasoning. For example, marinade steak in some red wine and garlic for 1/2 hour before cooking... if you want to make pasta, use a high quality sauce (like Newman's or Five Brothers) and add a little red wine and basil to enhance the flavor. Cooking is easy and sometimes the simplest touches can enhance flavor tremendously! Also, get to know a crock pot really well... it's a busy person's best friend.
oh OH! that just HURT to read! "use a high quality sauce (like Newman's or Five Brothers)" what happend to making your OWN sauce? Jar sauce?!?! thats like sacrelige in my house. haha
thats right using fake sauce, burn him at the stake i say!
yea seriously i was about to say the same thing, and you call yourself italian... i shun you!!!!!
i think i've had jar sauce maybe once in my life...
Um.. I DO make my own sauce, as Katie, Mike and a few others can testify... but I don't want to overwhelm the girl by giving her a sauce recipe. BUT, if you must know, I make it in a crock pot, 2 cans tomato puree (usually Pope brand tomatoes), 1 can crushed tomatoes, 1 can paste, a few handfuls of fresh basil, plenty of fresh garlic, some romano cheese, red wine, salt and pepper and olive oil. I cook it for AT LEAST 2 days.
OH MY WORD?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!? HIGH QUALITY SAUCE FROM A JAR?! you want to die dont you? i can hear them coming from a far... all the italian grandmothers plotting against you. Dave im gonna cook you some real sauce... good lord.... >:-/
women should know how to cook. its part of their inherent skills and abilities. i mean if a woman doesnt cook, than what kind of woman is she? its like an oxymoron
solomon says the capable wife wakes up before the sun to make dan eggs and waffles
I hate to agree with the guys on such a macho thing but it's true. A woman should know how to cook at least something. She doesn't have to be a chef but ... you need to know how to make something. I know a girl who got married and couldn't even make pasta.
hahahah it sounds like me. i swear. one time my mom told me to make for dinner an already made pizza, easy right? NO! being the bad cook i am i figured i was being good and read the directions- put pizza on pan and bake for ex. amount of time. and you know what i forgot? that there is cardboard on the bottom of the frozen pizza. i am such a dissapoint my to my italian, puerto rican, and irish family's.
i agree. a woman without cooking skills is like a man without a gut.
I Agree to this also, woman just know how to cook, or should anyway.
I have a great way to make pinapple chicken,,its to die for, atleast I hear
Pinapple Chicken
Pieces of chicken breast boneless
bowl with a lid, tupperware, yada yada yada
clean chicken
pour some canned cut pinapple on the bottom of the bowl
place your clean chicken on top
pour more pinapples on top of your chicken, depands on how much chicken your gunna make, but you might need 2 cans of pinapple.
then pour some honey all over it.
put the lid on
shake it make sure it all mixes up,pinapple juice , pinapples, and honey
then pack it away in the fridge for sometime, depands on how much you want your juices to seep in.
then cook
then get some more pinapple for its last few minutes of cooking, and through em in there,
its really good, and really simple
i also suggest in investing in a crock pot they're GREAT, you can have food cookin while your away at work or school and come hoem to a nice soup or london broil, or sausage sauce,, soo good...
hahahahahhahahahahahhahahaa i know im not supposed to laugh at certain comments cuz i AM a girl.... but... seriously... you guys are hilarious
yo tina i think you know funny stuff when you see it...like, jahanna showing up everywhere in plaid...it's humorous..if nothing else tina, i dig the sense of humor (although your mom is pretty cool too)
hahahahha! yo, Dan, i think i'm gonna have to bring my plaid pants this w/e...just to amuse you.
so true! i owe you money or something cuz jahanna wore her plaid pants to bma... but dont you owe ME money for something... eh lets call it even.
There is this really amazing recipe or TGI Friday's potstickers here. Working and pioneering there is no time to be cooking for hrs so this book "Cooking w/ 5 ingredients" is like my best friend. So great. In it there is this awesome recipe for a broccoli side dish-you steam broccoli then drain it and moisten w/ butter or margarine. Then you sprinkle garlic powder, grated cheese and breadcrumbs on it and mix. you should try to find this book. And the internet is great too.
i love cooking. recipe or not, remember it's an art. i find myself watching alot of emeril and other shows. don't worry so much about amounts, but pay attention to which spices go with which foods. i tried cinammon on my fish once...BIG mistake.
also, don't overcook anything. rubbery fish, charcoal chicken, and leathery steak are not very appetizing.
let's kick it up a notch! yo does anyone ever watch the naked chef, jamie oliver?? soo cool...that guy is all over the place in England...his wife is SOOO hot, too..."and none of that low-fat malarky", he's always saying
did you just say that you watch a naked man handle a crock pot?
why on earth would you think cinamon and fish??
seriously. I don't cook and I know that. it sounds horrible. CINNAMON? ughg.
haha yeah, it sounds growse!
cinnamon on fish ? what was this guy thinking. yea i'm gonna try some salt on pretzels next. weirdo !
it was the only spice i had. i like cinnamon & sugar on toast, so i thought it would sweeten up the fish. i guess that was the sugar...
In prison they made us this great goulash, i'll have to get you the recipe.
women belong in the house by the stove around the children, barefoot and pregenant is what i say
I say that you are just looking for conflicts... nobody reply to alex when he is acting like a little girl....
hmm, u eplied to me. r u acting like a litle girl too?
whatever floats your boat baby.... **wink wink**
pleaase please alex. we all know what u speak is the truth. but we dont tell the womenslaves that. let them dream.
hahahahahaahahahahhahahahaa oh wait, do you have a girlfriend? haha
waiting for u tina.
hahahahaha then youll be waiting for a loooooooong time....hahaha
so your saying theres a chance?
WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
you have a husband? what was all that "one in a million" talk?!
Get pissed alex! that'll show em!
Sounds weird, but tastes great...a recipe for canned ham. The big can (not spam). You put it in a pan, stick some cloves in it, cherries with the juice, pinnapple with the juice, and a bottle of coke. Stick it in the oven at 350F for about 5 hrs covered then uncover it for about 10 mins. It's soooo good!
i don't understand where the cherries come into play.
for the first half of reading that, i thought you were quoting a jingle from an ad or something, it rhymed so much
haha You're right!