How many of you guys here really, really enjoy cooking and planning meals?

[downsizingnow48]

Good topic. Since retiring I do a lot more. Biggest meal so far was for a daughter's private wedding reception dinner, outside under the redwoods for 30 people. Her husband's family is from Kansas City and a little suspicious of West Coast living! So we did mainstream -- steaks, barbecued chicken, potato salad, etc. I used 3 grilles. What I like the most is various chili and bean dishes, always something new to be learned and enjoyed. I spent a year baking bread just after retirement, got pretty good at pugliese loaves. That was in rural Virginia. Here in Sacramento great bread can be got just about anywhere so I stopped baking bread. My grandfather was a pastry chef in France and a bunch of his recipes have survived so I make apple pie, apricot pie, cherry pie as he taught us many years ago. That is always a hit. Anyway cooking is great fun.

 

[SPIKER]

I do cook a dang fine meals often myself, my 1st full on Thanksgiving Dinner I made 100% by myself I was 14, my sister got sick & someone had to cook... Everyone raved how good the bird and fixing came out most thought my sister did the cooking even though she was dog dead with flue (She could have been 5 star chef if they only cared what food tasted like.) I like a good steak on grill OR in cast iron with Onions & Shrooms.

Breakfast is always good too but we need better kitchen as its small ...

Mark

 

[MossRoad]

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Breakfast is always good too but we need better kitchen as its small ...

Mark

We call our kitchen a one-butt kitchen. We'd like to have a two-butt kitchen some day. :laughing:

 

[SirReal63]

I do all of the cooking and wouldn't have it any other way. I haven't baked from scratch in years, I still can but don't have the time. My Dad drilled it into me starting at an early age that life and eating were about flavor, not sustanence. I have tried to live up to that.

 

[gsganzer]

I cook frequently. The wife and I enjoy food & wine magazine and I pick different things to cook and pair with wines on a regular basis. I have a great butternut squash soup recipe. Also a great smoked barbecue vinegrette salad recipe. Sea scallops, venison chili, pot roast... Man I'm getting hungry ��

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

no way, I leave that up to the wife, am I the only one like that on here?

 

[gsganzer]

We should get Muhammad to creat a food and cooking forum. If he'd post a "recipe template", we could all post recipes that would fit a format that could be printed and saved in a recipe box.

 

[TomSeller]

My wife hasn't cooked in 30 years. Last time was around 1985. We had friends over and were supposed to eat at 6. I think dinner was ready about 9:30 and she hasn't tried again since. I can't say I enjoy cooking every day, but I do like to do it on occasion. But I need to eat so I cook.

 

[MossRoad]

no way, I leave that up to the wife, am I the only one like that on here?

Well, there's tens of thousands of TBN members who haven't replied yet, so there's hope for you.

 

[JDgreen227]

We call our kitchen a one-butt kitchen. We'd like to have a two-butt kitchen some day. :laughing:

The original kitchen of my 1950's kit house was barely a two-butt....when I built on to that house I designed a new kitchen 14 feet by 14 feet.