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

gelbes_gilatier

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

Jul 29, 2018 23:43

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 ( Read more... )

recipes: mexican, recipes: spicy, recipes: vegetable, recipes: asian, the great cookbook challenge of '17, recipes: meat

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pax_athena July 30 2018, 05:27:05 UTC

Huh, I would have never thought that you are not a confident cook! The way you write about recipes sounds super knowledgeable and you also seem to experiment a lot in the kitchen! Also, I did not know that these kind of cooking boxes exists in Germany - only have known them in the USA. But then again, Germany also moved on in the five years that I've been away.

Saved the recipes, definitely to try the Turkey breast and perhaps the sweet potato - are the potatoes really done after just five min cooking and another three in the pan?

gelbes_gilatier July 31 2018, 12:27:59 UTC

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 ( ... )