The Great Cookbook Challenge of '18: No, I haven't forgotten about it.

[gelbes_gilatier]

I just kept thinking "Oh, I'll just make an entry tomorrow" and hahahahahahahahaha, yeah. Which is why there will be four recipes in one entry (yes, okay, I haven't done much cooking from cookbooks since last year. I have done some cooking but most of that was with Kochhaus recipes, not from cookbooks) from four different books. Be prepared

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[gelbes_gilatier]

I come from a family of very good (and confident) cooks, and I only started really getting into cooking like maybe four or five years ago (while my sister have been cooking really well and kind of ambitiously since their early twenties), so it's in relation ;) I'm a confident baker but I really feel like I lack an actual talent for cooking. I do like to experiment but I treat cooking lie baking: keep to the recipe, and don't stray. That is to say, I love ambitious or unconventional or exotic recipes but I'm not really creative when it's about cooking (unlike my sisters and my mother, who excel at this). Also, I hate all the multitasking cooking entails - baking means one step after another, with the exact same ingredients that are in the recipe and the steps straight along the recipe while cooking often means several steps at the same time and improvising and switching steps around etc. Mom is really good at the latter, not so good at the former, which makes her an excellent cook and a not so excellent baker ;) My sisters can do both, so compared to them, I'm, err, mediocre at best. But I'm working on it!

are the potatoes really done after just five min cooking and another three in the pan? >

The cooking does soften them up but it doesn't hurt keeping them in the pan for longer. I usually don't follow the exact time measurements and I think I kept them frying in the pan for longer than three minutes. One has to be a little careful to get the potatoes done without burning the broccoli but if they aren't done after three minutes of frying, it's possible to keep it on just a little longer until they are.