Only prefab foods..?
Is cookin from scratch..more or less prominent..?
I have friends who cook pretty much from scratch and are excellent cooks. Then I have friends who would rather buy the pre-cooked/fixed meals than to bother with it.
I'd say with my age group of ladies, whatever is easier is what we tend to do.
I kin boil water….
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Originally posted by chuckv97I kin boil water….
I kin burn water 
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Originally posted by STUD figmo AlOnly prefab foods..?
Is cookin from scratch..more or less prominent..?
I would say that most of my friends and family cook more meals from scratch than pre-prepared. My kids are now 15 & 17 and pretty capable in the kitchen starting with raw ingredients. I think its an important skill to have, what they choose to cook when they move out is down to them, but I want them to leave home with the ability to be not only self sufficient but creative too.
My family all cooks, but I know many who rarely or never cook. Brad
I make a mean bowl of cold cereal and frozen waffles.
Well, I don't bake, so any bread things are purchased, including dried pasta, but I do start with fresh meat and veggies for most meals. We do not purchase much in the way of canned or frozen stuff. But we do eat simple; a chunk of some grilled meat and potatoes or some pasta dish with a salad is common. I will admit to buying my marinara and alfredo sauces in a jar, so not all fresh but not too much prefab either.
I can cook,but I lack the patience to be a serious cook. The few times (and long ago) that I tackled serious, multi-step recipes, they came out fine—but none intrigued me enough for a second go-round. My tastes are pedestrian, so it’s worked out ok, but I admit to more serious cooking when my wife (who would do more complex cooking) was alive. She was on oxygen, so being at a stove wasn’t the best idea. I would prepare meals as she told me what to do.
I can't speak for the majority, but IF Bill and bill-e and I were solving world problems over coffee, it would be a minority of 3. 
Jacques Pepin has helped me master eggs and omelets and has lots of free great advice available online. With his help I have made a French Omelet---just egg, butter, and chives---- and a Shallot Omelet that were better than anything received from a restaurant. Highly recommended for those who appreciate simple dishes done very well.
Growing up, if I wanted a pizza ,I had to make it from scratch. Now that Im older, its good to see my 12 and 16 year old grandsons cooking.
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Originally posted by banjo bill-eJacques Pepin has helped me master eggs and omelets and has lots of free great advice available online. With his help I have made a French Omelet---just egg, butter, and chives---- and a Shallot Omelet that were better than anything received from a restaurant. Highly recommended for those who appreciate simple dishes done very well.
Love my omelets. It took a while but I did finally master the art of the flip. Worth the effort!
The more we learn about what's in prefabbed meals, the more we try to cook from scratch. Might not be so bad in other parts of the world but here in the US people are routinely being poisoned in the food supply. Obesity, Diabetes, Alzheimers in record numbers are the sad result. Breakfast cereals are some of the worst.
Some days I can boil water but sometimes I'm liable to burn it.
When I was a kid we lived on a farm. Every Saturday my mom took my sister and my younger brother to her mom's place in town. I stayed home, helped with chores until eleven-thirty, then went in the house and cooked my dad and me lunch. I am not a great cook, but if my wife kicked me out, I wouldn't starve.
I cook both from scratch and from the pantry. Actually it seems most things wind up being mostly from scratch. I also use recipes especially if it’s something I haven’t done before. I like to experiment once in a while. I made Ina Garten’s Soufflé with Cheddar and Spinach once just to see if I could do it. It came out really good. I thought it would be more difficult than it was because years ago I was at someone’s house while they were making a soufflé, and it collapsed in the oven. Mine rose nicely, turned out good.
We try to make from scratch as much as possible, and avoid pre-cooked or fast food.
Most food for dinner is from scratch, but we do use ready made stuff as well, especially pasta sauces and the like for those times when time is short, or when I simply can’t be arsed. Tonight we’d been out at an event in the local town so we called in at the grocery store and picked up frozen chips, chicken kievs and goujons and had a very lazy dinner. Sometimes it just hits the spot!
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Originally posted by STUD figmo AlOnly prefab foods..?
Is cookin from scratch..more or less prominent..?I would say that most of my friends and family cook more meals from scratch than pre-prepared. My kids are now 15 & 17 and pretty capable in the kitchen starting with raw ingredients. I think its an important skill to have, what they choose to cook when they move out is down to them, but I want them to leave home with the ability to be not only self sufficient but creative too.
Oh there are other reason Jonty wife em up so they will not be at the door every time mom is cooking. Now if the new wife can cook a point for your/our side. The kids don't come back for a meal as often Every now and then is fine. My wife's Dad lived by himself after her mom passed and there was this one neighbor guy that would always come around on Saturdays and Sundays knowing my wife's dad was cooking. He could cook a pot roast that would make you reach across the table and slap someone. My wife would say oh he's just keeping my Dad company and besides my Dad enjoyes watching baseball games with him. I would say sure but I think that pot roast has more attractive attributes
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Originally posted by banjo bill-eJacques Pepin has helped me master eggs and omelets and has lots of free great advice available online. With his help I have made a French Omelet---just egg, butter, and chives---- and a Shallot Omelet that were better than anything received from a restaurant. Highly recommended for those who appreciate simple dishes done very well.
Love my omelets. It took a while but I did finally master the art of the flip. Worth the effort!
Some how(must be my age) I read that second sentence as the fart of the lip. Good grief!
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Originally posted by 5B-Ranchquote:
Originally posted by Mad Hornetquote:
Originally posted by banjo bill-eJacques Pepin has helped me master eggs and omelets and has lots of free great advice available online. With his help I have made a French Omelet---just egg, butter, and chives---- and a Shallot Omelet that were better than anything received from a restaurant. Highly recommended for those who appreciate simple dishes done very well.
Love my omelets. It took a while but I did finally master the art of the flip. Worth the effort!
Some how(must be my age) I read that second sentence as the fart of the lip. Good grief!
I do that ...
Allthetime..mr. 5B... :0/
I can follow a recipe.
But I'd rather eat food, than cook food.
Lucky me! Mary likes to cook, and is VERY good at it.
And she's well aware that I'm diabetic, so she cooks things that are keto-friendly.
Heaviest I ever was = 219 lbs.
After marrying her, I got down to 179.
This topic has triggered an Unhappy Childhood Memory!!
Dear old Mom was going to be gone all afternoon and evening, so she told me to make supper for all the siblings.
But not pancakes.
Not fried eggs.
Not anything I'd ever cooked before.
She handed me a recipe for crabmeat souffle!
Little did I know that souffle is not easy to get right.
But I did it.
Did not enjoy it, but I did what I had been told to do.
Of course, because my sibs had NEVER had crabmeat ANYTHING before, they were extremely reluctant to even TRY what I had made.
Having one's Beginner Efforts rejected is almost always a sad thing to happen, be it cooking, carpentry, sewing, or banjo picking.
If we meet again, in some sort of Afterlife, in a Place of Perfect Happiness, I would be Perfectly Happy to have her apologize for putting me in that situation.
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Originally posted by 5B-Ranchquote:
Originally posted by Mad Hornetquote:
Originally posted by banjo bill-eJacques Pepin has helped me master eggs and omelets and has lots of free great advice available online. With his help I have made a French Omelet---just egg, butter, and chives---- and a Shallot Omelet that were better than anything received from a restaurant. Highly recommended for those who appreciate simple dishes done very well.
Love my omelets. It took a while but I did finally master the art of the flip. Worth the effort!
Some how(must be my age) I read that second sentence as the fart of the lip. Good grief!
haha that would definitely convey a different meaning!
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Originally posted by Wet SpanielOh there are other reason Jonty
Great advice!!
Being a half decent cook as a young single man put me in good stead when inviting young ladies over for a meal. I have taught my son to cook hoping that it helps him out. I've also taught my daughter to cook even better so she doesn't get taken in by young men who's fathers have said 'hey son, you need to learn to cook like i did'....
