Rubbish at cooking :(

[futuremum]

I am trying to cook fresh foos everyday but managed to cook only one decent meal. i tried a pudding today and according to the picture it looks quite solid whereas my pudding is all runny it has to be in the freezer until firm, i think i will let it totally freeze and eat it as a sorbet maybe Do you get better practising or is it a gift you have or do not have? lol

 

[Rosieroo]

I'm crap at following recipes - they always go wrong! I can never work out how if I've followed all the steps I can cook a roast etc, but give me a recipe book and I'm doomed!!

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

i can not cook to save my life lol
last time i cooked i burnt the sauspan completly it was just black lol so im not allowed to cook anymore hehe

 

[Urchin]

I think a casserole (eeek how do you spell that?!) is probably the easiest and one of the healthiest things to make, shove it all in a casserole dish then cook it for like 2 hours and eat i...easy peasy!

It comes with practice though don't worry you'll get there

 

[Kim]

YAY for casseroles, they're sooooo easy!!

 

[tracyM]

At least you know what a sorbet is - I thought it was a cake until you mentioned frozen And I've never cooked a roast (other than Xmas turkey). We live off casseroles, shephards pie, anything that I can shove in a pan without it mattering too much if it goes wrong.

I can follow recipes ok, but OH gets sick of being sent out to buy stuff mid recipe

 

OH gets sick of being sent out to buy stuff mid recipe

LOL Sounds like me trying to cook! I have mastered the art of a roast dinner (after spending a year trying to do so!) and can make simpe stuff like chilli con carne, spag bol, casseroled anything!, but I'm pretty naff witha recipe book too, plus Mark budges his nose in and changes pepper to chilli's and other hot things

 

[Urchin]

I do a roast at least once a week, lamb and mint sauce is our fav.

If anyone wants to do a casserole, just go and buy one of those swartz sachets for the first few times, they're really tasty and the only other thing you need to do is a huge pile of mash
Somerset pork is a lovely one, you put apple in it too yummmmmmmmmy!!!

 

[melhoney]

Yea, I am really crap at cooking...but my husband is a real chef!!! who would think a pakistani man would be in the kitchen more often than his wife, hey!!!?

When I cook, I either have to follow a recipee to the line, or I buy those cream, like "chicken tonight", or "uncle bens", etc... just fry chicken, add the sauce and boil some rice! yummy!!!!! creamy mushroom is my favourite!

Mel xx

 

[nicki]

I have to say (without blowing my own trumpet) that I can cook, have made quite a few disasters before tho. but then again so have the likes of Jamie Oliver! but like you TracyM & Sami i'm a good one for sending my DH out for stuff, I often start cooking without checking i've got all the ingrediants first (oops!)

I think cooking does take practice but like with anything the more you do it the better you become.

As for following recipes don't worry if they come out wrong. In one of my cookbooks I made a pudding (can't remember what it was now) but it was foul! My Mum asked if I had put in sugar & I said no, she said it was supposed to & when I looked through the recipe they had missed it out! so its not always our fault if things turn out crap.
Also there are many variations for the same thing (like yorkshire puds) that you have to find what one suits you best!

 

[lauramumof2]

Im hit and miss with the cooking. I can follow simple recipes and even some harder ones but i dont actually like cooking so I dont suppose that helps.

I find weight watchers recipe books really easy to follow and stuart doesnt know the low fat recipes from the full fat ones. I tend to not use half fat products and exagerate the amount of cheese required.

Casserole is by far a favourite though, you can chuck anything in it and it still tastes good.

I think cooking though is something that you get better at with time. You will have a few disasters and then you will have a few really nice meals and think 'hey, im not so bad at this'.

 

[Minxy]

I'm really crap at cooking

But then, you can't be SENSATIONAL in every room of the house can you??

 

I just thought, try getting Colman's or Shwatrz (sp?) mixes. I get mine from over the freezer food section in Tesco. They are packets of powder which have the ingredients and recipe's to make some scrummy dishes. Easy peasy (honestly!) - worth a go, and they are only about 66p!

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

kayleigh braydon is the same but in tesco heinz do like foods from 10 month that is like food ud cook B loves em lil piggy hasnt eaten 2 packs today lol

 

[BubbleB]

hehe im so glad bayley still likes jars and sera loves beans hehe. shove the beans in the pan and you cant go wrong. well once i burnt the beans to the pan

but i cant cook to save my life. the other day i managed curry but it was waaaaaaaaay too hot lol
luv b x

 

[Rosebay]

I've been a lone veggie in a family of meat eaters since I was 6 years old so I've made so many mistakes etc that by now I know what I can do and what I can't with veggie food! I can't do pastry, cakes or anything requiring careful measurement but pastas, casseroles, curries, stir fry I'm ok at. When I moved in with my DH 8 years ago I had to start cooking meat for him though and I was totally lost! Especially as I can't taste it. What I did was to get some of those monthy cookery magazines you can get- not the posh expensive ones but the ones that have things like "5 ways with mash potato" and "6 sausage recipes" and then basically worked out a list of about 10 meals I could do. It's much cheaper to make your own food, especially if you shop at a green grocers and buy whatever is cheap, we couldn't afford to buy ready meals to be honest, it just takes time but to be honest I quite like the time I have to cook as I listen to the radio and since Mel has arrived my OH takes over baby duty while I do it so it's a bit of a break strangely!

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[petchy]

i love cooking, i'm just gutted i have less time and energy to do it now, and end up with quick fixes... they're still home cooked, just not the same things.

i don't usually follow recipes, i use my recipe books as inspiration more than anything. the exception is cakes and other things where the ratio needs to be spot on.

 

[Amanda]

I love cooking! But I get sooooo bad tempered if ever anything goes wrong! I scream at anyone, throw things around, usually smash something, then throw the lot away and go bed hungry!!! Luckily that doesn't happen very often.