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Old 08-20-2012, 03:56 PM   #1
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Sunflora Mercutio's: The Cookery Thread!

Hello UPN!

Spurred on by a comment in the ASB section (yes, I know, we should be shunned and stay in our corner) of UPN, I thought I'd create a cookery thread!


Can you cook? Do you like to cook? What have you cooked?

I want your favourite recipes and stories of experiences with cooking, baking, basting, anything you like. It can be family recipes, experiences of great cookery or just a list of your favourite food. A full on roast dinner or just the best darn recipe for beans on toast there is. Drink is great too, if you have a recipe you think we all need to know about.

You might find a new recipe for it here, or you might just a easily find a new food to stuff in your face. It doesn't matter, just post something about food and let's all try and be a bit less hungry by the new year!

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Old 08-20-2012, 04:07 PM   #2
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I know how to cook spaghetti, scrambled eggs, and grilled cheese.

I am pro cooker, right?
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:08 PM   #3
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:09 PM   #4
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Everyone in my family is a good to excellent cook except me. I really should learn.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:09 PM   #5
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So I kinda want to learn to cook. If anyone has any suggestions for some simple stuff to start off with or some easy recipes that would be super awesome.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:12 PM   #6
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This thread is awesome and Kush should feel awesome.

I'll probably post a recipe or two of mine tomorrow. Then again I only have like three things I cook regularly.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:12 PM   #7
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I'm a pro when it comes to crockpots or grills. Everything else is of foreign tongue.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:14 PM   #8
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I can make a few things, spaghetti, tacos, hamburgers, pretty much anything that involves boiling water and putting stuff in it.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:14 PM   #9
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I can cook quite a bit and now that I'm on my own in an apartment, I've started cooking a lot.

Cooking is fun.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:16 PM   #10
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I'm don't really have a large repertoire of dishes.

But I'm great at desserts! Ask me anything dessert related and I can probably answer it (?). Dessert decoration included.

I'm also a master of the microwave, like how long you should microwave certain leftovers :P
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:25 PM   #11
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I'm a pro when it comes to crockpots or grills. Everything else is of foreign tongue.
Yeah every time I see the word 'crockpot' I think of cocks. This is why I can't have nice things. Great for cooking stews, though. I like when the beef in a casserole gets so melty that the veg inside the pot tasts like beef. A huge amount of wine in there helps a treat too.
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I'm don't really have a large repertoire of dishes.

But I'm great at desserts! Ask me anything dessert related and I can probably answer it (?). Dessert decoration included.

I'm also a master of the microwave, like how long you should microwave certain leftovers :P
I'm rubbish at deserts. My Dad was a miller and I did break and cakes as a child but I don't remember it now. Trifle counts though, right? Hah.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:29 PM   #12
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Yeah every time I see the word 'crockpot' I think of cocks. This is why I can't have nice things. Great for cooking stews, though. I like when the beef in a casserole gets so melty that the veg inside the pot tasts like beef. A huge amount of wine in there helps a treat too.
My absolute favorite thing to make is beef stew in a crockpot. It's super easy, and delicious to boot. Just about one of the only things I can make well.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:36 PM   #13
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I just tend to make things up as I go along and use the internets for occasional inspiration. Don't actually enjoy cooking all that much, but I do enjoy eating so I try to learn a fairly wide range of relatively easy/quick stuff. Quite a lot of things I do are of the "bung a load of stuff into a single pot" style, although I'm not adverse to meat and two veg style things. Also cakes/biscuits/etc are always a win.

Made epic meatballs tonight (like, size of my fist epic :p). Tomorrow I'm thinking some sort of chicken curry.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:39 PM   #14
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If they were that big, how did you stop them from falling apart?
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:43 PM   #15
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Half of them did fall apart :p. Other than that, egg and sufficient squishing (plus I don't exactly have particularly big hands). This is why I only made six and froze three.

Perhaps I should make them smaller in future, but this was funnier.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:50 PM   #16
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Yeah, egg and a bit of sauce in the mix?
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:53 PM   #17
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I'm a baker, mostly. I also can do some awesome things with meats and fish.

Also, my fish and chips are to die for.
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Old 08-20-2012, 04:57 PM   #18
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My brother's trying to get me to start cooking fresh fish, as opposed to shop battered/breaded stuff. I have no idea what to do with fish. Or what various fish tastes like (though I know that swordfish is amazing).

Someone tell me how to do fresh fish and what to put with it?
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Old 08-20-2012, 05:00 PM   #19
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Depends on the fish. Most of them you can pan-fry or grill just fine. Personally I like dipping a fillet of white fish in whisked egg then breadcrumbing it before frying it.

I highly recommend Monkfish as a roast dinner.
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Old 08-20-2012, 05:02 PM   #20
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I'm a baker, mostly. I also can do some awesome things with meats and fish.

Also, my fish and chips are to die for.
I still would like to try your homemade bread one day :o

As for me, I can cook rice! With a rice cooker! B'D

I can fry eggs and make french toast too, but anything else I'd need my mom's help :<
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Old 08-20-2012, 05:04 PM   #21
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Depends on the fish. Most of them you can pan-fry or grill just fine. Personally I like dipping a fillet of white fish in whisked egg then breadcrumbing it before frying it.

I highly recommend Monkfish as a roast dinner.
Roasted the same as, say, a turkey (adjusting for size)?
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Old 08-20-2012, 05:08 PM   #22
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Yeah. Basically you buy a monkfish tail, cut out the backbone, stuff it with whatever you choose (Rosemary's good), tie it up with string like a skillet of lamb, wrap it in foil and roast it up.
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Old 08-20-2012, 05:11 PM   #23
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I can cook most breakfast foods (eggs, french toast, pancakes/waffles, bacon, etc.), but I don't know many recipes. I can do tacos, spaghetti, nachos, sonoran style hot dogs (the extent of my grilling skills), a coupla stir fries (but I barely remember how to do them), and fried chicken.

I'm also pretty okay at cookies, brownies, and cakes.
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Old 08-20-2012, 05:18 PM   #24
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I made a pretty good chicken noodle, too, with home made egg noodles. It was great, and we needed it.

Home made egg noodles are great.
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Old 08-21-2012, 03:46 AM   #25
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Just wondering, why is this called "Mercutio's: The Cookery Thread!" instead of just "The Cookery Thread!"? Is Kush going to be sharing some of his recipes here or something? :P

I live in quite a healthy house at Uni so I'm really good at making anything involving chicken, vegetables, salmon etc. Chicken breast is incredibly overpriced so I usually by a whole chicken which I direct and freeze since I'm not fussy about legs, wings, gristle etc.

For some on topic food porn, I could sure eat this Cookie Pizza right about now D:

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