Are you a cook?

[jackdanielsesq]

Home-made cheese is definitely not your everyday event ... especially with home-made pizza
Gave home-made beer a real go once - wrecked the basement of my mountain house
Bravo for all your superb effort

Jack

I've got homemade pizza on tap for tomorrow with the cheese I made yesterday. I have to get my homemade pizza fix on once or twice a week. :)

[JayM]

Home-made cheese is definitely not your everyday event ... especially with home-made pizza
Gave home-made beer a real go once - wrecked the basement of my mountain house
Bravo for all your superb effort

Jack

I've got homemade pizza on tap for tomorrow with the cheese I made yesterday. I have to get my homemade pizza fix on once or twice a week. :)

(Now I'm craving pizza.)

[scottr954]

Home-made cheese is definitely not your everyday event ... especially with home-made pizza
Gave home-made beer a real go once - wrecked the basement of my mountain house
Bravo for all your superb effort

Jack

I've got homemade pizza on tap for tomorrow with the cheese I made yesterday. I have to get my homemade pizza fix on once or twice a week. :)

Hi Jack! Ya know I've been trying to perfect pizza (dough & sauce recipes) for a few years now. Although I *like* my pizzas, and others do as well, I've yet to produce my 'perfect' pizza. What's amazing is, as you know, there's so few ingredients. But amazingly it's no easy task to create the perfect pizza.

My very latest is the two ingredient dough: self rising flour and plain greek yogurt. I actually was quite good! If you haven't tried that one, please do. As far as quantities of each of the two ingredients, I'd say use enough of them to create something that "kneadable/", but a tad on the moist side. Just mix, rest 30 min, knead, rest 30 min, make pizza. :)

[scottr954]

Home-made cheese is definitely not your everyday event ... especially with home-made pizza
Gave home-made beer a real go once - wrecked the basement of my mountain house
Bravo for all your superb effort

Jack

I've got homemade pizza on tap for tomorrow with the cheese I made yesterday. I have to get my homemade pizza fix on once or twice a week. :)

(Now I'm craving pizza.)

Hi Jay! Haha funny how that works! :)

[Gordon Cooper]

Have made good bread and very good pasta with Spelt. Not tried it for pizza yet, but willdo soon.

[scottr954]

Have made good bread and very good pasta with Spelt. Not tried it for pizza yet, but willdo soon.

Interesting, definitely report back with the verdict!

[rokytnji.1]

Fried up some left over enchiladas with eggs and cheese . Broke out the leftover bag of 7 up biscuits and apricot jellied em. Chocolate milk and hot tea on the side.



Breakfast is served.

[Cristobal]

A bit of context
Not a cook here, but I like to cook, especially since I've been in the UK (humour). As a French, it's kind of a part of my culture, although I'm rather into cheese than wine (moderately, one glass of good wine on special occasions). Unfortunately, quality cheese, wine or charcuterie (French broad term to designate specialty sausage so to speak, from ham to sausages, and pâté)

Since the processed food is so so in England, my latest attempts were to try to cook some beef Madras (although it's not really an Indian dish and it's supposed to have been created in Glasgow in the 60s or 70s). What is formidable in the UK (especially in London), is that almost every food from all around the world is available in supermarkets. The choice of spices is so vast.

My specialty is the caramelised pork belly, which was the dish my Asian (Chinese-Cambodian) Grandmother used to cook for me as a child, but I also had an Italian Grandfather, so the Carbonara spaghetti or linguini is also one of my favourites (guanciale is harder to get by so I use pancetta). Both dishes are indeed very easy to make. I did try some mac and cheese too, rather easy once you mastered the Bechamel sauce part. Chicken fricassée is also my go to dish, with quiche lorraine.

I bake too, with ups and downs. Biggest failure: macarons, never managed to bake correct ones ... Usual successes: Strawberry cake (fraisier in French) or Far breton (some kind of very dense and filling flan from Brittany).

Currently, I'm toying with spices (mainly cumin, mild Madras curry and 5 spices powder) and have been cooking for a week Chicken curry (I find it tastier when marinated in advance in curry powder with chopped green onions), with some onions and coconut milk (and a wee bit of crème fraîche, unorthodox, but that's the French touch), accompanied with Basmati or Jasmine rice.

Next project, baking my own bred, without kneading, in a covered cast iron pan in oven, T65 flour, salt and fresh baker yeast (don't know the exact English term).

[Adrian]

Definitely not a cook, was able at most to boil an egg and pasta, but I've subscribed to a couple of meal kit services for a while and was able to learn some basic cooking (also like that I get exactly what I need without having to go grocery shopping), actually with good instruction I feel like I cook pretty much everything now. Now I have some favorite meals that I cook for myself.

I highly recommend using a meal kit service if available in your location: https://www.self.com/story/the-12-best- ... -smoothies

[scottr954]

Fried up some left over enchiladas with eggs and cheese . Broke out the leftover bag of 7 up biscuits and apricot jellied em. Chocolate milk and hot tea on the side.



Breakfast is served.

Nice!! Did you make the 7-up biscuits? Share the recipe?