I will go first. I cant cook meat. Most of my friends on here know i'm a terrible cook, but thanks to my getting a hold of some helpful books, I have been improving my skills to cook a mediocre dish of veggies, sea food or eggs. But I have given up when it comes to meat & i 'm ok with it. Some things arent just for someone. Lol
I have lived in my residence for many years. During that time, I believe there was only one occasion where meat was actually brought to my house raw and then cooked -- when my former boyfriend made steak. Otherwise, I never have cooked any raw meat where I live.
The only time I actually have "cooked" in many years is when I make eggs, or the one time a year I make a homemade cranberry dish for Thanksgiving.
Other than a basic middle school Home Ec class, all my cooking lessons largely came from watching Justin Wilson on television. My philosophy, such as it is, is to just go for it. Like most guys I gravitate towards fire (grills) over stoves if possible. Damn near burned down the deck once ... or twice.
I quit cooking in the nude because food seems to have a strange affinity for my belly button! Flour, strawberry glaze... whatever, it always finds its way into my navel!
When I turned 18, I moved out of my father's house and into my own place. I decided to invite he and my step-mother over for dinner to show off my independence. I made macaroni and cheese out of the box. Being the man that I was, I skipped reading the directions. Boiling the pasta would've helped.
I was taught to cook by a slightly older woman who seduced me while cooking. I then learned the power of preparing food and seduced many a woman with dinner and deserts.
I still get a chubby when I'm making a large or intricate meal.
It's AFTER eating a large meal that I get chubby.
This is fairly common in Cajun country. I have traveled the whole world with the Air Force and have not seen it anywhere else. We sometimes eat our Gumbo with potato salad in the same bowl instead of rice. I usually have some both ways.
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When I was first married I would try to create multi-course meals and would cry when I would get distracted and forget something on the stove. Usually it seemed to be broccoli or green beans. Now when I get teary, hubby asks, "What happened? Did you burn the beans?"
No matter what I'm going to be making, if I want to wrap it in aluminum foil to spare myself from scrubbing pans and such, I may find it one time out of ten. I consistently misplace the dread foil...and end up scrubbing the stinking pans.
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I can't taste salt due to a genetic lack of taste buds. I use it only because I was told that my food needed salt. Now I have someone taste it for salt in a new recipe. I didn't even have salt in the house when I was single.
Oddly, I am good cook.
Eggs gross me out. When I am preparing a dish that calls for eggs, I have to have my wife or daughter crack them and blend them in. If the family wants eggs for breakfast, they have to cook them and I don't watch them eat the eggs. Of course they like to tease me by offering me toast dipped in the egg yolk. I always gag!
While I am a white Anglo-Canadian, my specialty menu when I cook is Indian (a spicy chicken, red lentils, eggplant, basmati rice). Basically, my wife and I got into Indian food way back when were dating, a buddy of mine (who later was best man at our wedding) found out and he and his partner gave us an Indian cookbook for Christmas one year.
I am addicted to ground cayenne pepper.
Will put it on almost everything.
Eggs. Rice. Pasta. Veggies. Burgers. Sweet potato. Literally everything savory.
I cook more often than my wife.
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I use mayonnaise instead of butter on the outside of grilled cheese sandwiches.
It's not weird, it's actually fairly common, but I've been called weird for doing it...at least until people have had my grilled cheese sandwiches. It toasts up the bread nicely like butter and gives the bread a really good flavor (especially sourdough).
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