Cooks, do you use recipes?

[Valve1138]

I frequently use recipes if I'm making something specific for the first time.

Other things I just go for it and throw whatever tastes good into it.

 

[ZRH]

Why do brides wear white?

 

[SRC]

the only ones who should have never had sex .. otherwise you're supposed to wear off white or cream

 

[BeerAd]

Our last fight was my fault: My wife asked me

"What's on the TV?"

I said, "Dust Bitch!"

 

[ZRH]

the only ones who should have never had sex .. otherwise you're supposed to wear off white or cream

...

Because the dishwasher is supposed to match the refrigerator.

 

[SRC]

ewww @ a white refrigerator .. mine is stainless and black

 

[snoogit]

I'll use a recipe for the first couple times I make a dish, but generally I wont need it unless I haven't made the dish in a while.

And I always use them for baking.

 

[Kevlar]

I usually use recipes when I want to do something spacific. If it's something I cook all the time I don't. Every recipe I use for baking I have modified or come up with myself.

mmmm, pie

 

[Onnotangu]

i rarely use recipes. I mostly wing it..and apparently I'm pretty good at it.considering this tummy of mine.

 

[eileenbunny]

I'm still learning to cook, so I almost always use a recipe. Also, I use recipes to get new ideas for old ingredients. Food gets boring to me.

 

[SRC]

 

[APRIL]

I made grilled chicken raspberry vinaigrette salad with Gorgonzola tonight without a recipe. LOLOLOLOL kewl amirite?

 

[Akasha]

I have a few recipes for special dishes, but mostly I just cook from the heart. It just always comes out right.

 

[Thorn Bird]

i am the most uncreative person in the kitchen. i hate cooking because it does not come natural to me. i can, in no way, just come up with something to eat. i can't put this and this together and it make sense. food does not make sense to me. i would not ever be the one to put peanut butter and jelly together, or whatever the combinations. i just don't get it.
i also don't have a great taste for food. i couldn't tell you what's in a dish, and i can't pick out ingredients even when told they're in there. it's just not an easy thing for me, this cooking thing.
the talk about egg whites and folding and consistencies and all that does not ring a bell. i am the one that HAS to rigidly follow a recipe, and even with one, i can't just add another thing or two. doesn't cross my mind.

gah. i fucking hate cooking.

 

[BeerAd]

i am the most uncreative person in the kitchen. i hate cooking because it does not come natural to me. i can, in no way, just come up with something to eat. i can't put this and this together and it make sense. food does not make sense to me. i would not ever be the one to put peanut butter and jelly together, or whatever the combinations. i just don't get it.
i also don't have a great taste for food. i couldn't tell you what's in a dish, and i can't pick out ingredients even when told they're in there. it's just not an easy thing for me, this cooking thing.
the talk about egg whites and folding and consistencies and all that does not ring a bell. i am the one that HAS to rigidly follow a recipe, and even with one, i can't just add another thing or two. doesn't cross my mind.

gah. i fucking hate cooking.

Start with spices and move out to bigger things from there, thats what i did

 

[wanko80]

i am the most uncreative person in the kitchen. i hate cooking because it does not come natural to me. i can, in no way, just come up with something to eat. i can't put this and this together and it make sense. food does not make sense to me. i would not ever be the one to put peanut butter and jelly together, or whatever the combinations. i just don't get it.
i also don't have a great taste for food. i couldn't tell you what's in a dish, and i can't pick out ingredients even when told they're in there. it's just not an easy thing for me, this cooking thing.
the talk about egg whites and folding and consistencies and all that does not ring a bell. i am the one that HAS to rigidly follow a recipe, and even with one, i can't just add another thing or two. doesn't cross my mind.

gah. i fucking hate cooking.

That's the battle both my wife and I fight. I'm glad someone else on here isn't a fucking master chef.

 

[SRC]

not everyone needs to know how to cook .. that's why they have so many restaurants to choose from

 

[Thorn Bird]

not everyone needs to know how to cook .. that's why they have so many restaurants to choose from

send me your credit card and i'll make this our livelihood.

 

[thrawn]

i am the most uncreative person in the kitchen. i hate cooking because it does not come natural to me. i can, in no way, just come up with something to eat. i can't put this and this together and it make sense. food does not make sense to me. i would not ever be the one to put peanut butter and jelly together, or whatever the combinations. i just don't get it.
i also don't have a great taste for food. i couldn't tell you what's in a dish, and i can't pick out ingredients even when told they're in there. it's just not an easy thing for me, this cooking thing.
the talk about egg whites and folding and consistencies and all that does not ring a bell. i am the one that HAS to rigidly follow a recipe, and even with one, i can't just add another thing or two. doesn't cross my mind.

gah. i fucking hate cooking.

I gave you the best spice to start with. You can toss chicken in a pan with that and it will be great. Steam some vegetables and dash a bit in em, will be great. You can't go wrong with what I gave you.

 

[thrawn]

send me your credit card and i'll make this our livelihood.

Jennie has made some delicious stuff for us, don't let her fool you.