Everybody is good at cooking something?

[Bretrick]

What are you good at Cooking?
I very often make Beef Lasagne, Moussaka, Pasta Carbonara, Egg and Bacon Pies, Sausage Rolls

 

[dilettante]

I can make a pan of ground beef enchiladas that never has any leftovers unless I'm home alone.

 

[dobielvr]

Bulgar Pilaf....that's what some people tell me. So I'll make it for them.

 

[Old Salt]

I am good with lentils, either as a soup or as a vegetable dish! Also make homemade Pasta regularly! Oh, and Swabian Potato Salad! All learned by looking over my mother's shoulders.

 

[Rossana]

I am best at Italian and French cooking. However, I do like to experiment in the kitchen as well.

 

[Pinky]

Cumberland Chow Mein .. a Japanese chow mein made with special, very thin dry noodles.

Chicken stroganoff, derived from a Mennonite beef stroganoff recipe.

 

[Wayne]

Good here making homemade biscuits and opening lids on jars.

 

[Alizerine]

With much effort I put together a decent Thanksgiving dinner but got distracted and then burned the gravy. Fortunately I had one of those packets of instant turkey gravy on the shelf. If I'm smart I wont try this again next year.

 

[Jules]

Let’s put it this way, no one is losing any weight in this house.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Veggies (not over-cooked)

Indian food (well, I’m learning; what I have made tastes pretty good)

Pancakes— my FIL asked me one time, “what do you put in these to keep ‘em on the plate?”

 

[Old Salt]

With much effort I put together a decent Thanksgiving dinner but got distracted and then burned the gravy. Fortunately I had one of those packets of instant turkey gravy on the shelf. If I'm smart I wont try this again next year.

Poor you, since gravy is so important to a good turkey dinner! Whose brand of gravy mix did you use @Alizerine? Since I am terrible at making a good gravy I have used Knorr's Demi Glace for years but am never quite satisfied since my wife made such wonderful gravy! Are there any mixes that taste close to the real thing?

 

[Lilac]

German food & what I describe as mid-western comfort food.

 

[birdy]

I make good meatballs. And a nice chicken marsala.

 

[hollydolly]

I am told I make the best Bacon & Lentil soup.....also Bacon & egg pies.... and Parma Ham & Parmesan Palmiers

 

[timoc]

Everybody is good at cooking something?​

That may well be true, Bret, but, but, but, everybody is a better cook than I ever will be.

 

[debodun]

I make some beef vegetable & barley soup that's almost edible.

 

[Alizerine]

Poor you, since gravy is so important to a good turkey dinner! Whose brand of gravy mix did you use @Alizerine? Since I am terrible at making a good gravy I have used Knorr's Demi Glace for years but am never quite satisfied since my wife made such wonderful gravy! Are there any mixes that taste close to the real thing?

Honestly I don't know the brand. I think I picked it up at Aldi. There were some pan drippings left so I boosted it up a bit.

 

[Trish]

I love cooking. I think I am good at curries, I like trying out different spices.

 

[dilettante]

I am told I make the best Bacon & Lentil soup.....also Bacon & egg pies.... and Parma Ham & Parmesan Palmiers

Whew. Glad the theme changed. I was starting to hear chanting Vikings.

 

[hollydolly]

Whew. Glad the theme changed. I was starting to hear chanting Vikings.

...but...but.... that's my heritage...

 

[JBR]

What I cook from scratch, mainly... a Mexican-style soup (generically called 'taco soup'), pizza, and a quiche of my own recipe.

 

[jujube]

Soups for me. I can make soup out of anything.

 

[chic]

Soups for me. I can make soup out of anything.

Ditto. Like stone soup.

I am good at every type of cooking from learning from my family who all were all very good cooks, even the men. I enjoy cooking too so this helps. I love to experiment and create my own style and dishes. I really enjoy rich tasting food but enjoy healthy eating more which makes it challenging because often the healthiest stuff doesn't taste the best and I will only consume certain foods rarely because of the immunocompromised health issues in my family.

When I was in my twenties, I was so good at making desserts, my boss wanted to set me up in business. I was in college and didn't see myself arriving to work at 4 am everyday to start baking for strangers. Some days I wonder if this was the best decision. It seemed so at the time. Now I'm not so sure. But I still love food and cooking so this is a really fun thread.

 

[Della]

Everybody tells me I make the best apple pie they ever had, and that's because we had apple trees on our property, so in the summer I would make one almost every day. My brothers' friends came over in the evening and it was gone in seconds along with any cakes or cookies I had made.

 

[officerripley]

The only thing I'm good at cooking is scrambled eggs and I loathe and despise scrambled eggs. I have to make them for Huzz sometimes if he's sick and it almost makes me sick having to make them.