Does anyone like to cook? If so, what is your favorite dish to cook? Mine is a nice lobster tail, grill steak, baked potatoes, and a salad.

I do

I love to cook for others... I can cook anything, really.. but my 'specialty' I guess is desserts.. tarts, frozen tortes, various cakes, cookies (which, technically, are cakes...), pies, etc.

-- although I haven't made a pie crust from scratch in years; I don't enjoy that so much...

I also make a very nice lasanga, and I've seen ppl fight over my cheesecakes

i hate cooking - i hate being in the kitchen!!!!!

but when i cook it turns out great... i don't know why - it just does

no one taught me how to cook - i worked it out myself and in the process made lots n lots of mush

i make great pasta dishes and my roast is sooooooo

PositivityNYC said:

I do

I love to cook for others... I can cook anything, really.. but my 'specialty' I guess is desserts.. tarts, frozen tortes, various cakes, cookies (which, technically, are cakes...), pies, etc.

-- although I haven't made a pie crust from scratch in years; I don't enjoy that so much...

I also make a very nice lasanga, and I've seen ppl fight over my cheesecakes

prove it!!!!!

i have a sweet tooth

physco185 said:

PositivityNYC said:

I do

I love to cook for others... I can cook anything, really.. but my 'specialty' I guess is desserts.. tarts, frozen tortes, various cakes, cookies (which, technically, are cakes...), pies, etc.

-- although I haven't made a pie crust from scratch in years; I don't enjoy that so much...

I also make a very nice lasanga, and I've seen ppl fight over my cheesecakes

prove it!!!!!

i have a sweet tooth

at my old job, I was also always the baker for all birthdays, baby/wedding showers, etc. - they paid me, too

a coworker loved the PowerPuffGirls, so I did this for her birthday.. Plain cheesecake, w/8 individual Almond cheesecakes. the edible heart came with the rest of the PPG cake decorations

the boss/owner turned 40

I think this was chocolate (fam recipe), with a whiskey-cocoa buttercream filling (I chose that b/c the consistency was a little gritty [due to type of sugar used], like dirt), and cream cheese icing I tinted green for the 'grass'. I bought the edible flowers; I don't have patience to make them, and mount them on metal skewers for bouquets and such..

2-layer hexagon petal shaped Strawberry Shortcake with fresh whipped cream

2 frozen tortes (one with chocolate covered strawberries & handmade chocolate leaves, other with Roches and edible gold Dragées [the one starting to melt, lol]), and a Spanish Almond cake

square plain cheesecake

Ice cream cake - found a huge pic of my nephew's fav. wrestler at the time, The Rock (mine, too.. LOL) .. Used my image editing program to add an insert of nephew, took to my bake supply shop to have and edible photo made for his 3rd birthday.. flew down to GA/SC in late july -- height of our summer -- with all my ice cream cake makin' supplies and spent a few hours in the kitchen with the air conditioning cranked all the way up putting it together.

the white "icing" is frozen homemade whip cream.. cake part was chocolate.. I forget what ice cream flavors I used (I had gotten experience making a mint-chocolate chip ice cream cake for a coworker)

Another one for the boss, his 39th b'day. I forget what kind of cake it was, but I stuck his face on Chirstopher Reeve's Superman body, coworker added cell phone to his utility belt (dude *never* was without it.. ) - I had the edible photo made

there's more, I just don't have 'em scanned..

various fruit-filled tarts

Carrot cake - made with honey instead of sugar

various cheesecakes, various sizes - from 4" to 14" - various shapes (round, sqaure, hearts), various toppings (sour cream, sweet cream, fruit, vanilla cream, kirschwasser, etc.)

Kahlúa cheesecake

Cocoa cheesecake (with Dutch-processed cocoa)

- a combo of the 2 above

Brandy cheesecake

Earthquake Cake

Black Russian cake (made with vodka and Kahlúa)

Whiskey-cocoa cake

cakes with fondant icing

various cream cheese and buttercream icings

this guy I couldn't stand (none of us could) asked for a cake that looked like a giant cookie, so I used 12" round pizza sheets to make 2 giant choc chip cookies and I used as the base and top of his 12" cake..

I love making stuff from scratch... I use organic products where I can, and never use imitation extracts (vanilla, lemon, almond, etc.)..

also, you know what you're eating.. and you can always modify in case someone can't have an ingredient ~ like, if they keep Kosher, or have certain food allergies..

I don't know if I like to cook, persay. I just happen to be good at it.

I make alot of Mexican food, and alot of what's considered "soul food".

I love to cook and bake, but seeing what Positivity can do makes me feel like a rank amateur.

Efan said:

I love to cook and bake, but seeing what Positivity can do makes me feel like a rank amateur.

PositivityNYC that is NOT cooking.... that is ART

Aw, thanks guys

I do a mean bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

I tend to only enjoy cooking when I actually don't HAVE to do it

for some reason, just before dinner time is when I feel really sleepy and lethargic, so standing in the kitchen making stuff is torture. I can make some things in the morning, but salads and fish and stuff need to be made prior to serving.

ZombieKitten said:

I tend to only enjoy cooking when I actually don't HAVE to do it

for some reason, just before dinner time is when I feel really sleepy and lethargic, so standing in the kitchen making stuff is torture. I can make some things in the morning, but salads and fish and stuff need to be made prior to serving.

I feel like that cooking for just myself..

PositivityNYC said:

ZombieKitten said:

I tend to only enjoy cooking when I actually don't HAVE to do it

for some reason, just before dinner time is when I feel really sleepy and lethargic, so standing in the kitchen making stuff is torture. I can make some things in the morning, but salads and fish and stuff need to be made prior to serving.

I feel like that cooking for just myself..

we need a live-in chef who is hot

ZombieKitten said:

PositivityNYC said:

I feel like that cooking for just myself..

we need a live-in chef who is hot

Amen!

I can microwave stuff. LOL. I can't cook worth anything. Maybe I'll marry a chef.

<---- I am such a fat bitch that I keep coming back to this thread just to look at PositivityNYC's goodies.

^And where there is a food thread, there is where I am!

wildgoldenhoney said:

^And where there is a food thread, there is where I am!

That's my gurl!!!

paintedlady said:

wildgoldenhoney said:

^And where there is a food thread, there is where I am!

That's my gurl!!!

I don't know if there's any art to this, but I just made homemade egg noodles. I'm making chicken and noodles entirely from scratch, because it sounded awesome on a cold winter day. Although egg noodles are ridiculously easy to make, this is only my second time doing it. I'm anxious to see how the noodles turn out.

I don't decorate shit. I just make food that tastes amazing.

XxAxX said: I used to make a mean tray of ice...but I lost the recipe. my toast it good though, and I sometimes dress it up with margerine, or jelly! jelly is such a silly name for jelly, isnt it?

Dear, can I confess here and now that I love you for your mind?

BlackAdder7 said:

XxAxX said: I used to make a mean tray of ice...but I lost the recipe. my toast it good though, and I sometimes dress it up with margerine, or jelly! jelly is such a silly name for jelly, isnt it?

Dear, I must confess here and now that I've never been able to say those two words real fast in succession. sillyjellysillyjellysillyjellysilly jellysillyjeougojjloof. See? not easy. not easy at all.

good for you dear. you are very talented.

Efan said:

I don't know if there's any art to this, but I just made homemade egg noodles. I'm making chicken and noodles entirely from scratch, because it sounded awesome on a cold winter day. Although egg noodles are ridiculously easy to make, this is only my second time doing it. I'm anxious to see how the noodles turn out.

awesome!! I've always wanted to do that (make noodles/pasta), but, it seems kinda intimidating...

Genesia said:

I don't decorate shit. I just make food that tastes amazing.

really? I'm surprised..

paintedlady said:

<---- I am such a fat bitch that I keep coming back to this thread just to look at PositivityNYC's goodies.

PositivityNYC said:

I do

I love to cook for others... I can cook anything, really.. but my 'specialty' I guess is desserts.. tarts, frozen tortes, various cakes, cookies (which, technically, are cakes...), pies, etc.

-- although I haven't made a pie crust from scratch in years; I don't enjoy that so much...

I also make a very nice lasanga, and I've seen ppl fight over my cheesecakes

If the pics aren't proof enough, my belly can vouch for her.

I love cooking for folk.
I'm not a very fancy cook. And I seldom follow a recipe to the T.

I pride myself on a lot of full (over-stuffed, even ) bellies.

My specialty would probably be Puerto Rican dishes, but I do a lot of other stuff (and make up stuff as I go too )