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[nuka]

so what do you guys like to cook? or bake?

i prefer baking myself.. it's much more fun.

last week, i went for this creme brulee making course. it was amazing! i didn't know it was so simple
all i need to get at home is a blow torch, and i'm all set.. haha

please share recipes if you have them!

[openur3eye]

I love making m&m cookies

[Slovakov]

My kitchen diesn't like me I can make pancakes and I don't dare to do anything more as it's too easy to break something down
Maybe you know some recipes for total newbies like me?

Edited by Summer Glau, May 31, 2011 - 01:50.
no text speak

[Sandwich]

I didn't use to like baking much but I'm gradually growing to enjoy it because the people I live with are really enthusiastic about it I've made various cakes, cheesecakes, brownies (the recipe I have is amazing for brownies), tarts etc.
Baking is, IMO really easy. It's also very non-experimental. It's just about having a precise formula and following it. If you do that, it never really goes wrong.

Personally I prefer general cooking Experimental and with way more flavours. To some extent you can just make it up as you go along. Also less time sitting and watching an oven/weighing things out. Not all of my experiments have worked, but quite a few have. I tend to cook for my flatmates in exchange for cake

[lafalan.]

I absolutely love baking but I'm so terrible at it when I try to bake from scratch. Give me a box with directions and I'm fine but with a handed-down recipe everything is a mess. Though this is probably somehow related to my horrid cooking skills I still like to think my culinary skills aren't totally bad.  

[Ezeh]

Mexican burrito casserole!

[pumkinns]

I LOVE THIS THREAD  

i learned how to bake this year, i've been going all around the house baking everything i can find in my nana's cook books.

lets see, (IN MY OPINION) i've perfected:

Creme Brulee
Cheese Cake
Red velvet muffins/ cake
Chocolate puffs
Hot fudge cookies
chocolate truffles

well that is it, really cause i'm a full time IB student. but i love baking sweets

[Gaby]

Oh, I also love this tread. I don't like cooking very much, I'm not good at it, I'm not brave enough to try mixing things, I can only cook with a very specific recipes and I also have problems with touching raw meat. Impossible to explain, but I do. However, I totally adore baking and from everyone says, I'm quite good at it. I've absolutely mastered chocolate chip shortbread, pink apple pie and white chocolate and walnuts cake. But when I bake, I have one rule: no one can ever enter the kitchen. If someone does and, what's even worse, tries to give me "good" advice, I can as well throw everything out, it's never edible. But it's something I adore immensely, even though nobody would every suspect me of that.

Unless they try my shortbread. Then I only hear: can you make more?

[Chris Kuno]

Well I cook...but thats only cause my dad can't really cook and sometimes we need to eat. I don't think I have enough time to bake...bake as in cake and stuff right?
...Guys can cook too...

[Ipos Manger]

Lmao, i love cooking with my microwave.
I'm an expert now haha. (Reason: All-nighters. )

[Summer Glau]

I must bake everyone banana bread someday! Soooo tasty =)

[wombat123]

I like cooking more, because you don't have to adhere as strictly to a recipe. You can change things up really freely as you like along the way. More freedom to impromptu and be creative =).

[Furud]

Baking is therapeutic, especially when making a secret recipe Ferrero rocher cake

[Emy Glau-ski]

To be honest I can't really bake...I leave that to my little sister. I prefer eating the baked goods as opposed to baking the food itself lol.   But her brownies are really good, I can't lie.

[cheshie04]

I love to cook. Baking, not so much. To me, baking is not at all relaxing. I get more stressed than ever and nothing ever turns out right anyways!

Ah, cooking. More freedom- you don't have to mix it a certain way for results. And I'm not really a fan of sweets either, but I love savory. I am seriously in love with my spice cabinet and spice merchant.    My favourite thing to do is take a very basic dish, say eggs, and mix in a random concoction. So delicious! Have you ever had eggs with paprika and cinnamon?

[Emy Glau-ski]

No I haven't...but that sounds really good. How much paprika/cinnamon do you use when you make eggs?

[cheshie04]

emyski, on Jun 08, 2011 - 23:16, said:

No I haven't...but that sounds really good. How much paprika/cinnamon do you use when you make eggs?

I kind of just eyeball it. "Hey, that looks about right."

The key is to add the spices before you cook.

[Zathera]

I really like making these brownies, and they actually taste really amazing you should give them a try.
http://2.bp.blogspot...00/3minutes.jpg

Edited by Zathera, Jun 11, 2011 - 01:22.