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Posted: 4/17/2008 2:42:29 PM | How about a baked trout with a home-made "hollandaise-tartar" "vinegrette" on a bed of petit salade with a low-fat Canadian ice-wine cheesecake?
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atwork,bored wrote:
Signature dish is French Toast (don't laugh), nothing special about it or anything, I've just never come across someone else's French Toast that has matched mine.
How do you do it? :)
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Posted: 4/17/2008 2:46:27 PM |
The most fun is cooking together
I love to share cooking duties
Yup. Yup. I agree... Cooking with someone is fun... and... you never really know where it lead... there might not be food at the end after all.
Hate cooking -- if you can call making kraft dinner cooking?
Kraft dinner is better than eating babies... I remember You...
Gourmet Microwave Chef
Hey! Microwave and Foreman Grill - two inventions that the likes of me should thankful for.
A casual romantic evening might call
for linguini and clam sauce, perhaps
served with vegies of her choice, and
a nice wine.
Excellent choice. Something that every nice guy should know how to make.
I'd only find it enjoyable to cook for someone else if I knew she liked it going in. Otherwise, no.
So... you ask a gal first if she likes the dish? That's a good approach.
I'd love to make it for you sometime Red
Oh, my... Is it just me or is it getting hot in here?
Lemme check my schedule... and get back to you...
*starts making the list of guys who can cook*
*merge the list of guys who can cook with the list of those who wash their sheets regularly*
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Posted: 4/17/2008 2:49:18 PM | | [/I love to share cooking duties. I really enjoy food prep. The cutting, dicing, slicing often more than the meal. I can show off in the kitchen but it is really fun to work as a team. It's even more fun with a nice bottle of wine.] | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 2:49:23 PM | | Hmmmm....not sure this could quite be called cooking,but my signature dish would be pasta shells,baked beans and lots of grated cheese ( the cheese melts into the shells and the baked beans provide the sauce )....very simple,but absolutely delicious...honest,lol! | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 2:49:24 PM | | Yeah i can cook and i enjoy it,i find it a piece of cake,no pun intended. Favourite dish is either cottage/shepards pie or a roast with all the trimmings. | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 2:50:07 PM | [I love to share cooking duties. I really enjoy food prep. The cutting, dicing, slicing often more than the meal. I can show off in the kitchen but it is really fun to work as a team. It's even more fun with a nice bottle of wine.]
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Posted: 4/17/2008 2:53:19 PM | I love, absolutely love, to cook. And most of my guy friends can cook, and most of them can cook well. Most people I know though don't usually feel like cooking (at least dinner) when they get home- mostly because if you are only cooking for yourself it's easier to go for carryout or make a sandwich. Most men, IMO, at least after college, will have at least the ingrediants for a sandwich- our favorite food.
If I am not cooking for a dinner party or a date, I usually fall into the 'throw-it-all-together' cooking, which invariably is panfried veggies and rice, maybe with some sort of meat. My other favorite is making my own bread (no really, it's easy) then eat with some olive oil and a glass of wine. I don't grill much, but I should.
FOR MEN reading this: most men will be comfortable grilling- just don't overcook it! and remember the side dishes. Also, most importantly!, that we guys like to do 2 things most women don't- mix food together, and over'spice'. No, the ladies will not want overly spicy or pungent foods (unless they ask for it)- whereas we men pile on the hot sauce, garlic, stinky cheese, spices (for god's sake don't put rub on the steak unless you absolutely know what you are doing!) As for the mixing the food together- most raw ingreadiants have great flavor on their own... women seem to have a more sensitive pallate, so do a veggie meddley apart from the rice. Simple Rule: Less is More. And yes, that applies to you!
favorite easy pasta- kiebalsa sauted in little oil, with bowtie pasta, capers, pine nuts, salt & pepper. (never cook with olive oil, only serve with it)
Fun with the grill- portabela mushroom caps marinated in red wine toped with melted white cheese and red bell peppers. (don't mix your colors on side dishes!)
simple, overlooked desert: mixed berries with angel food cake drizzeled with honey, cool whip | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 2:53:34 PM |
that was supposed to work as a quote
^^^ but it did not... again! 
roast with all the trimmings.
What are the trimmings? (a clueless gal here... hello)
How about a baked trout with a home-made "hollandaise-tartar" "vinegrette" on a bed of petit salade with a low-fat Canadian ice-wine cheesecake?
Methinks: When's dinner?
Most men, IMO, at least after college, will have at least the ingrediants for a sandwich- our favorite food.
There. I am a dowd... That's why I always snoop around this board... Sandwich it is...
kiebalsa sauted in little oil, with bowtie pasta, capers, pine nuts, salt & pepper.
A guy who knows how to use pine nuts?
*adds him to the list*
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:18:35 PM |
*starts making the list of guys who can cook*
*merge the list of guys who can cook with the list of those who wash their sheets regularly*
I also mop and sweep weekly, take out the garbage when it's full, clean the bathroom and do dishes. | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:27:06 PM | I enjoy cooking sometimes. Just like almost everyone else, there are times when I spend most of the day cooking up a storm, and other days when I don't want to get anywhere near the kitchen.
My favorite thing to cook is jambalaya. All fresh ingredients, none of that packaged stuff. On average it takes me about 3 hours to make a batch, from the prep stage til it's done.
As for other household duties, I clean the house on a weekly basis....that includes washing the floors, vacuuming and all that fun stuff. The bed sheets get washed on a regular basis, and the bathroom and kitchen are always, *always* clean. | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:32:09 PM | Couldn't figure out how to do the quote bit (roast with all the trimmings)
If its roast beef i would do yorkshire puds,roast potatoes,carrots,parsnip(all rosated) brocolli and not forgetting gravy. | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:37:21 PM | Msg 34 & 35 - Bringing other skills as well.... Excellent. 
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:41:59 PM | like to cook a lot if i have the fresh ingredients, I cooked for someone i was dating 5 years ago on a total suprise for her. fresh salmon in lemon juice with cooked veggies .... yeah 3 weeks later she dumped me lol guess it wasnt that good
haven't cooked for anyone like that since | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:42:57 PM | | oh but i do cook for my church's bringo every week | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:54:05 PM |
Excellent choice. Something that every nice guy should know how to make
That's okay, Red,
I still own handcuffs and a paddle.
And know how to use them.
A more laidback romantic evening might consist
of serving the special lady a nicely prepared dish
of Hamburger Helper, with a glass of fine, $8. per bottle
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:56:21 PM | | I love to cook, as long as i have the time. I make an amazing lasagna and have been told that my cheesecake can cure cancer. | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 4:07:26 PM |
I also mop and sweep weekly, take out the garbage when it's full, clean the bathroom and do dishes.
OMG...some of you men have completely impressed me. 
Amazing how even the thought of seeing a man humbly engaged in domestic pursuits...really lights a fire in a gal
*is OD'in on testosterone*...
*starts making the list of guys who can cook*
*merge the list of guys who can cook with the list of those who wash their sheets regularly*
Red... I'll help ya out on this *always up for man rating*...as soon as it hits 5 pages...we'll start eliminating contestants.
*whispers*...boys...will give you a heads up...if you want MY vote... make sure you own overalls and a tool belt 
Red and I shall discuss ...what the winner gets  | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 4:08:09 PM | Spent 3 years with my ex... cooked 97.45% (roughly ) of the time.
same with long term girlfriend before...
cooking for myself is a bit dull so i tend to live off biscuits and sandwiches at the moment.. till start feeling really shit... then i start on the veggies for a few days | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 4:12:28 PM |
That's okay, Red,
I still own handcuffs and a paddle.
And know how to use them.
*looks at her soft-girly-hands*
Furry handcuffs?
$ 8. per bottle champagne.
Meh... you'll have to invest more...
Thanks Kyn... I will need help...especially now when all the other offerings are coming in....
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Posted: 4/17/2008 4:22:24 PM | I like the IDEA of cooking, but I've never really made the time to learn to do it well. When I'm on my own, food is fuel. It's generally just grilled meat and nuked veggies. I can follow a recipe with some semblance of success, but I'm not gonna impress anyone with my culinary efforts, unless it's just the "aw, it was so CUTE how he TRIED to make me dinner!" kinda thing.  | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 4:27:38 PM | I guess if I had a specialty it would be the mexican shrimp dish I make. Could not tell you its name because I was trying to remake somethimg I had at a restaurant. I could not find a recipie for it so I altered a different recipie. Don't know any spanish or I guess I'd name it.
I had never made stuffed tomatoes before so the other night I took some tuna a couple of different kinds of cheese, the meat of the tomato, some spices and mixed something up. Carved out a couple of roma tomates, put the filling in and baked at some temp for awhile, until the cheese was lighty toasted. Sounds very precise I know but it turned out good.
Bought a whole pork loin last week. Cut part of it and froze marinated in a lemon pepper seasonong, part in italian spices and part of it I suffed with mushroom, onion, peppers butter and garlic. This lets me cook decent meals through the week without going to a lot of work each time. Most of it is done at once when i have more spare time.
Maybe I should learn to cook. Whenever I desrcibe something I think I made up, I usually find out it already has a name. The things I know how to cook that I didn't realize I knew how to cook... | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 5:14:20 PM | Thank you Red..... I'm taking notes here....
Already we've got two men that can make breakfast... this is a big plus.... and one
that sweeps and mops.... and one with handcuffs and a paddle.
YUP. I'M DONE...................................... * but I'm stickin' around for the rest...............
meow meow meow meow meow....... | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 5:15:40 PM |
*whispers*...boys...will give you a heads up...if you want MY vote... make sure you own overalls and a tool belt
Damn. I suck with that kind of stuff. | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 5:19:14 PM | I can cook. I'm a good cook.
When I used to date, I liked cooking meals for my date. Usually, it was a great lead-in to sex. Sometimes sex happened before dinner, which was good too since I was able to concentrate better on the preparation of the food and it was much more relaxing. Of course, sex in the middle of the meal was ok too. | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 5:20:25 PM | I always cook breakfast for women that spend the night. Eggs, bacon, pancakes etc.
I also do all my own cooking. It's rare I eat out. | |
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