eddiemunster Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 buying a set of digital kitchen scales is a worthwhile investment for portion control, that stat about pasta above is true enough for me. I just put the pasta into the bowl I'm going to eat it from before cooking. If you allow for a bit of expansion it's usually a no bad way of cooking a reasonable sized portion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 How the f**k do you ingest food? My favoured ingestion method is by mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 I make damn fine omlettes, all the Mrs. RNs have told me, plus all 3 stepdaughters, so must be doing something right. Can't bake though. and desserts are not my thing either, never really wanted to make them as I rarely/never eat them (don't have a sweet tooth) Baking is much more rigid as timing and temperature can be critical in deciding whether you have a cake or a piece of carbon or a piece of goo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 I cant do presentation of food at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unleash The Nade Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 I cant do presentation of food at all Have you tried just putting it on a plate and saying " here's your dinner"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 I cant do presentation of food at all Just call it either "rustic" or "deconstructed" like they poseurs do on the cooking shows on TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 What I will say (this goes for professional chefs) we work through service obviously (so don't get normal meals at normal times); but we end up eating shite fast food just to get calories cos we are on our feet 10+hrs a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock001 Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Just call it either "rustic" or "deconstructed" like they poseurs do on the cooking shows on TV Rustic means you couldn't be arsed chopping the ingredients finely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 I cant do presentation of food at all A complete waste of effort anyway imo. Give me a good messy looking feed rather than a mostly empty plate with a little tower in the middle any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Hey i am more than happy to have a plate like this on the go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamaldo Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Have only ever managed to put together fry-ups and very basic pasta dishes. After that everything else is frozen food getting banged in the oven. Would love to be able to cook proper food, but like others I simply can't be arsed and buying all the different ingredients would cost too much money for my liking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Based on some of the stories in here, yes, I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Other than a couple of sausages, what is actually on that plate?? I can spot carrots, potatoes and parsnip (I think). Edit onion, chicken breast (maybe) bacon (maybe) Edit II: Make that red onion. Not sure about the rest. Tonight I am cooking spaghetti carbonara which is possibly the easiest dish ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Other than a couple of sausages, what is actually on that plate?? I can spot carrots, potatoes and parsnip (I think). Edit onion, chicken breast (maybe) bacon (maybe) Edit II: Make that red onion. Not sure about the rest. Tonight I am cooking spaghetti carbonara which is possibly the easiest dish ever. Chicken, Bacon (hidden underneath the bacon is stuffing), Sausages, Red onion, Parsnips, Carrots, Butternut squash and gravy. Was a dece end to a shitty Monday Nae potatoes though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Far's the mince though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP9BtScBQaI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 When I was young I worked for a guy who, despite being in his mid-fifties, hadn't the faintest idea how to cook anything. Anything at all. His mother and then his wife had made every meal for him. At one point, his wife had to go into hospital for an emergency operation and I genuinely think he would have starved to death if it hadn't been for the kindness of their friends who took turns feeding him. I don't think he even knew how to work a tin-opener. What was pathetic was they'd raised a teenage son to be just as useless. The first time they went on holiday and left him alone, he lived on cornflakes and crisps for 2 weeks and wondered aloud why he had no energy. No way did I want to be like that. If you can put ingredients in a pot and stir them, you can cook. And there are a million books aimed at beginners which will allow you to expand your horizons beyond that. Pizza and takeaways are fine occasionally, when you're in a rush or working late but if you're just going to be at home for the evening, why wouldn't you want to make something good to eat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 If anyone is reading this thread thinking, 'I can't cook to save my life!' but would like to try something very simple. Try making soup. Just throw things together and it usually works as long as you have the basics right. Here's an awesome spicy Mexican bean soup dish you can make simply by using the micro. Link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1stleandr0se Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 When I moved into a flat and had to cook for myself I just ate instant junk as did the other guys but someone suggested that we take turns to scale up and cook the same rubbish for four, thus only having to cook one day in four, and out of nowhere we designed the blueprint for Come Dine With Me and it became ultra-competitive. We all learned from each other, including what not to do, and in a kind of upwards spiral all became adventurous cooks and even looked forward to our turn to cook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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