11/11 I want to impress a girl with my wonderful cooking skills. Problem
is, I can't cook for shit. Any recommendation of recipes?
\_ The long term approach is to cook for yourself all the time,
so that you learn for future reference what works and doesn't.
\_ good luck.
\_ check out <DEAD>soar.berkeley.edu<DEAD>...or http://marthastewart.com (click on
"cooking" and then peruse her recipes archive).
\_ Any favorites? -kitchen virgin
\_ there are some easy favorites in my recipe index (separate of
soar, which is someone else's project). Email
me (chris) if you want to take it offline. I don't feel
like posting detailed recipes on the motd.
\_ a tip: if you're doing this for a special occasion/to impress
a date...and you've never tried/cooked the recipe before, do a test
run before the actual date. and go simple at first. most girls
are impressed of a guy who cooks at _all_.
\_ it's true. -been there
\_ That's pretty funny. -male who can't cook
\_ Buy clams, garlic, parsley (or cilantro). Get flat pasta.
Simmer clams in garlic + butter, pepper and throw in some
clamjuice (from the can) garnish with parsley. Boil the flat
noodles for 15 minutes; strain. - paolo
\_ Hear hear. Any sort of pasta is pretty easy to do well.
\_ paolo cooks some good stuff -paolo No. 1 fan
\_ also, try http://epicurius.com for a recipe index.
\_ that's really sweet of you, thinking of making a meal
from scratch. If you follow recipes from any
good food site (i.e. not the KRAFT website), you should
come out ok. Don't try anything too complex; I helped
my friend one summer, it's an experience I'll never
forget. We ended up working 24 hours straight to get
this stuff together...we're talking little stuffed tomatoes,
pate appetizer, roasted squab, salad, that fancy rice
dish (Italian) that I can't remember the name of right now,
\_ risotto?
and our feeble attempt at tiramisu. Not that it tasted
bad, it just didn't taste like tiramisu. This was all
sort of a thank you for a girl. The funniest shit was that
this girl had a boyfriend who also came to the meal.
shortly thereafterward, the boyfriend got dumped and
my friend accomplished "the hostile takeover" as we
like to put it. And this, all from recipes found on the
internet and a little effort. good luck! |
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