Do you cook? Show us your food!

I've got the week off, so I decided that today should be Super Awesome Cooking Day! I rarely cook since I eat a big lunch at work, and usually just make a sandwich when I come home. I still like to experiment in the kitchen from time to time, but it's difficult to find the time and energy for it. However, since today is payday I went shopping and bought tons of stuff for pizza.


Pizza #1
Alright, so I bought some pizza flour and toppings. My perfect pizza is disgusting to most people. It has shrimp, blue mussels, bell peppers, mushrooms and fresh mozarella on it. I bought some finished tomato sauce since I'm lazy, but I think I'll make my own next time. It only takes 5 minutes.

The result:

Pasta dishes and

before or after we've eaten it?

if you count instant ramen, mac n' cheese bowls, and frozen taquitos, then yes i do make food. though im in college so all i have is a microwave. chef ramsey would not approve

I do cook, but I'm rather lazy so I tend to just stick to the stuff I can throw in boiling water and come back ten minuets later and it's done or the throw in the oven/microwave and forget kind of meals. I don't have any pictures, but one thing my mom and I invented when I was a kid was pizza rolls. You take egg roll shells and put a table spoon of pizza sauce in the middle, then fill it with whatever pizza toppings you like, we just did cheese, pepperoni, salami and a few other meats, then close it up and put it in a deep fryer for 5-10 minuets depending on heat. Let it sit out to cool off and the grease to get absorbed and they are done. They are sooooooooooo good.

Fried turmeric chicken!

I don't have any resent pictures, but here's a meatloaf I cooked. It was yummy.
 

before or after we've eaten it?

if you count instant ramen, mac n' cheese bowls, and frozen taquitos, then yes i do make food. though im in college so all i have is a microwave. chef ramsey would not approve

Homemade pizza kicks ass. Gotta be thin with mozarella though. I quite like using Heinz tomato ketchup as the sauce, because I'm basically a savage.

Well, I do have a bowl of pot stickers right in front of me that I made, wrapping the raw meat up in the bean curd skin and all.  Hell if I'm going to try to find a camera for it though.

These pretzels are making me thirsty!

@Jimbo: Damn, that must be sugary.

I make my own pizzas every friday night. It's a tradition now. I've got a bread-machine, so I use that to make the fresh dough.

@ZimboDK said:

@jetsetwillie said:

before or after we've eaten it?

Poop: No longer food. Puke: Sure, post a picture. It's technically still edible.

@kermoosh said:

if you count instant ramen, mac n' cheese bowls, and frozen taquitos, then yes i do make food. though im in college so all i have is a microwave. chef ramsey would not approve

I can't eat ramen. It's too salty. If you want to save money, you could just buy some noodles and frozen vegetables, and cook them in the microwave. It's definitely better than ramen, and probably better for you. Of course, if you don't have a freezer for the vegetables this doesn't really work.

yea i'm cutting down on ramen and many processed foods in general. trying to eat healthy and what not

I'm interested in this topic, so I'll come back after I cook something. DON'T GO ANYWHERE NOW!

i'm thinking about making some fried pickles, some border sauce stuff from taco bell.

@Panpipe said:

@Jimbo: Damn, that must be sugary.

I make my own pizzas every friday night. It's a tradition now. I've got a bread-machine, so I use that to make the fresh dough.

Pizza dough made with a bread machine is the best thing ever.

I recently made some psychedelic pancakes.

Alternate title: Show me yo food!

Listening to Patrick telling how he doesn't eat very well when his girl's out of town just makes me sad. Someone needs to teach him how to cook a few basic recipes.

I cook for myself daily. Mainly because I like it, but also because it saves me a lot of money and I know what I'm eating.

Here's a bowl of instant noodle I made.

My wife and I cook 95% of what we eat. Here are a couple of recent baking projects of mine (everything is from scratch, it's cheating otherwise).

My second photo didn't make it.

Challange accepted!

I'm going to the store now. I'll post a picture when it's done.

EDIT: And here we are. Chicken filét with broccoli and potato mash, drowned in cream sauce.

@Kerned said:

My second photo didn't make it.

Looks like a penis with a disease.

I taught myself to cook a number of dishes while in the process of teaching myself to eat better.

Various fish and chicken dishes, mostly.

Eating healthy and one the cheap. It's a good thing.

You guys suck! You're making me hungry!!

I have, sadly, lost the pictures that I had of my duck and pomegranate salad, chicken cacciatore and one-pot chicken chasseur with a roast sweet potato and squash mash. I'll have to rustle them up again soon to get sexy pix uploaded for your consideration.

Im about to make some grilled cheese I will be back with a picture if I remember to.

@Legion_ said:

@Kerned said:

My second photo didn't make it.

Looks like a penis with a disease.

Fuck!! I thought the exact same thing. LMAO!! I just didn't wanna say anything.

Ok, posting some of my own stuff.

@NMC2008: It's a pretty phallic loaf of bread, there is no getting around it.

@Kerned: Are you a professional baker or something? Your food looks immaculate.

@isomeri said:

Ok, posting some of my own stuff.

Is that capicola gabagool I see?

As a single man who lives alone, all I do is cook for myself. Pizza making is great, I'm still trying to find a good dough recipe. Don't have any photos of the food I make though.

@Jams said:

@isomeri said:

Ok, posting some of my own stuff.

Is that capicola gabagool I see?

Prosciutto.

@WilltheMagicAsian said:

As a single man who lives alone, all I do is cook for myself. Pizza making is great, I'm still trying to find a good dough recipe. Don't have any photos of the food I make though.

That dough is a livelong quest.

@WilltheMagicAsian said:

As a single man who lives alone, all I do is cook for myself. Pizza making is great, I'm still trying to find a good dough recipe. Don't have any photos of the food I make though.

I'm in the same situation as you, but making anything seems like more work than it's worth. How much does the cost end up being after you buy everything? I always ending up with spoiled food because you can only buy things that are packaged for a family of 4.

This is from a blog I did on Screened awhile back. I tend to eat a lot of fish as I go fishing pretty often, although I haven't really gone much this past winter. These are either Atlantic Sharpnose or Blacknose sharks or it could be some of both, I don't remember. Sharks are by far my favorite fish to catch and eat so hopefully I'll be able to catch some more pretty soon.

@isomeri: That burger looks amazing.

This is what I cook ;)

I can make a mean breakfast sandwich:

That's about the extent of my "cooking."

We saw this on food network a few weeks ago, so my made it for the football a few sundays ago. It's Breakfast Lasagna. Pancakes instead of noodles. Scrambled eggs in between each lair and then bacon and sausage lairs. It was insane and delicious.

@Hippie_Genocide: Thanks! But no, I'm not a professional. I just love cooking and baking and I enjoy taking my time with things and making them as awesome as possible.

I cook quite a bit, but can't seem to find any photos... but also, I brew beer... so here's a pic of my latest experiment, a cranberry wheat beer.

@isomeri said:

@Jams said:

@isomeri said:

Ok, posting some of my own stuff.

Is that capicola gabagool I see?

Prosciutto.

@WilltheMagicAsian said:

As a single man who lives alone, all I do is cook for myself. Pizza making is great, I'm still trying to find a good dough recipe. Don't have any photos of the food I make though.

That dough is a livelong quest.

Yeah, I was also looking in how to to maintain a sourdough starter, and that's almost like taking care of a child or pet.

"Sourdough starter at room temperature must be fed no less than twice a day. If you feed it less than twice a day, it will lose vitality and eventually become useless and die."

Harsh stuff.

@Jams: Heisenberg!

@WilltheMagicAsian said:

@isomeri said:

@Jams said:

@isomeri said:

Ok, posting some of my own stuff.

Is that capicola gabagool I see?

Prosciutto.

@WilltheMagicAsian said:

As a single man who lives alone, all I do is cook for myself. Pizza making is great, I'm still trying to find a good dough recipe. Don't have any photos of the food I make though.

That dough is a livelong quest.

Yeah, I was also looking in how to to maintain a sourdough starter, and that's almost like taking care of a child or pet.

"Sourdough starter at room temperature must be fed no less than twice a day. If you feed it less than twice a day, it will lose vitality and eventually become useless and die."

Harsh stuff.

Not sure where that quote is from, but it's not entirely true. We have had our sourdough starter for several years now. You don't keep it at room temperature, you keep it in the fridge. It comes out, gets fed and lives at room temperature for a day or two once every several weeks. It's very tough to kill it.

Pro tip: sourdough chocolate chip scones.

You guys are making me feel like an amateur.

That's it. Next time I go shopping I'm gonna buy enough food to spend the day grinding cooking until I rank up.

@ztiworoh said:

I cook quite a bit, but can't seem to find any photos... but also, I brew beer... so here's a pic of my latest experiment, a cranberry wheat beer.

I've wanted to start brewing for a long time now. But as an apartment dweller I'm fearful of the space needed,

@TopSteer said:

This is from a blog I did on Screened awhile back. I tend to eat a lot of fish as I go fishing pretty often, although I haven't really gone much this past winter. These are either Atlantic Sharpnose or Blacknose sharks or it could be some of both, I don't remember. Sharks are by far my favorite fish to catch and eat so hopefully I'll be able to catch some more pretty soon.

How is shark? What would you compare it to? The meat looks a lot like pike.

@isomeri: I love it. I'm not so good at comparisons but I've heard it compared to swordfish before. I've never had pike before as I'm in Florida and there's not really pike down here.