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Jude's avatar

Can you cook? And, if you can, what's your speciality?

Asked by Jude (32198points) February 26th, 2009
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Dorkgirl's avatar

Not sure I have a specialty. I like to cook and makes lots of different things.
I don’t like things that take a lot of pots and dishes to prepare. I prefer simpler foods with fewer steps.

EmpressPixie's avatar

Yes, I love to cook! I don’t really have a specialty. I suppose I am the queen of the fast, delicious, and simple meal.

I’m also a huge fan of baking. It’s my favorite thing to do, possibly.

tabbycat's avatar

Yes, I really enjoy cooking. I think my specialty is really soups and stews, usually done in my slow cooker. Another specialty is salads. But these are the things I most enjoy eating on a regular basis.

elijah's avatar

I love cooking, I wish I had the time and money to learn more indepth recipes and techniques. I’m famous for my german potato salad. I make it for every party. People I don’t even know love it.

poofandmook's avatar

I love it… my specialties are potato salad and homemade vodka sauce. My boyfriend raves about my chicken salad, but I don’t do anything out of the ordinary to it.

aprilsimnel's avatar

Yep, I can cook. I’d say I’m best at Southern Italian and breakfast, but I can pretty much cook whatever.

marinelife's avatar

Cooking is a joy. I love to cook with my husband too. We like all different types of foods. One of the things we love to make is lamb tagine.

Artem's avatar

I would love to qualify myself as a chef, even though I haven’t gone through any specific classes. I consider myself a king of cooking the “throw it in the pot” style. ...where basically, I start throwing things onto the counter, look at what I’ve pulled out, then mix it altogether into something new.

ubersiren's avatar

I am the potato master.

wundayatta's avatar

I do enjoy making up new dishes out of whatever’s on hand. Generally the concoctions go down well, although recently I had something of a failure, but I can’t take full credit for that. I was trying to rescue a chicken preparation of Whole Foods. Inedible the first day. Inedible even after I tried my best to fix it.

eponymoushipster's avatar

red wine risotto.

also, i make a really nice slow-cooked roast lamb.

dynamicduo's avatar

I love cooking all styles of food. My specialty is handmade bread and all of their derivatives (breadsticks, pizza dough, poor man’s beaver tails, etc).

jonsblond's avatar

I can easily spend 2–3 hours an evening preparing dinner for the family. My favorite (and easiest) meal to make is Thai style drunken spaghetti. I’ve been told that my lasagna is pretty awesome, as well as my chicken n’ dumplings.

I prefer to bake though. Peanut butter cookies are my specialty. I also like to make pumpkin bread, coffee cake and lemon bars.

Grisson's avatar

I hate eating my own cooking.

Fortunately my wife is an excellent cook, and it’s more than a fair trade-off to set the table and do the dishes in order not to have to cook.

Triiiple's avatar

I like cooking Breakfast meals out of everything, if not pasta is always easy and pretty much idiot proof for me :)

forestGeek's avatar

I love to cook and my specialty is tofu and veggies. I am horrible when it comes to baking though! Sadly I don’t cook as much as I’d like to because I am single, and it’s not as fun for one.

Emdean1's avatar

Lasagna. Its the best.
I make a pretty good chicken chili (if you like scipy)

galileogirl's avatar

I started cooking when I was 7, as soon as I could read. I made my first full Thanksgiving dinner when I was 12. I became a good home cook and a pretty good baker. When my daughter was small, I stayed home and became a good scratch cook.

I wasn’t particularly creative except with cookies so that would be my specialty, I guess. Of course baking can be dangerous when you live alone. You know, a moment on the lips, forever on the hips.

My greatest compliment on my cooking came when my ex-husband called and asked for my Swiss steak and arroz con pollo recipes for his new wife. I never asked if she used them.

susanc's avatar

I can cook anything in the French/Italian/Spanish/high-British traditions but fall flat in the
areas of most Asian or even spicy Mexican. (Strangely, I do well with Cuban.) I can’t eat hot stuff. We have 18 bottles of different hot sauce that my husband had to have because my beautiful European food was too bland for him. Alas.

I can bake, but like anyone else living alone, I don’t. My son has specified he wants a coconut cake with coconut icing “and no fruity stuff in the middle” for his birthday party tomorrow. I got it at Safeway – strange to say, they do a great, great job.

Standswithacane's avatar

I can cook “fancy” stuff – if Im forced to do it. But it takes planning. Where I shine, however, is when I’m creating on the fly. My speciality? The grilled cheese sandwich. Most likely to happen sometime around 2:30 a.m. following an evening of alcoholic induced revelry, which is not that often anymore, thankfully.

Standswithacane's avatar

… Freakin edit function. That’s “alcohol-induced.”

charliecompany34's avatar

i love to cook. guess you could call me “mr. mom.” i do all the cooking at my house even though i have a full-time job and a part-time. my specialty is “latin” and “italian” dishes with urban twists. also love to cook soul food, which is not a “black thing” at all. any nationality has ethnic dishes that taste full of love. and, well, that’s “soul” food in anybody’s house.

mzgator's avatar

I’m a Cajun Girl, so , cooking good food is in my blood!

kevinhardy's avatar

i can cook, i get tired of it

casheroo's avatar

i am a master microwaver.

i plan on making more meals once my kid is older, i make him small meals already, but not actual dishes.

my husband is a chef though, so i don’t feel the need to learn to cook. haha. i’d say his specialty contemporary ecclectic american cuisine. but, he can do anything and everything.

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