I love to cook, and it shows. I am overcoming my fear of baking, the pastry trauma from childhood has taken a lot of work to get past. So how about a few questions about the kitchen.
1: Do you like to cook?
2: Do you like to bake (pastries, cookies, cakes)?
3: When cooking do you follow a recipe or wing it?
4: When baking, do you follow a recipe or wing it?
5: How did you learn to cook and or bake?
My answers:
1: Do you like to cook? Well I answered this above, I love to cook. I like shopping for interesting and quality ingredients and cooking.
2: Do you like to bake (pastries, cookies, cakes)? Baking is harder for me. I am getting better at it. One issue, is if I bake it, I eat it, and I need to control that. I have been baking most of my bread for the past 5 months.
3: When cooking do you follow a recipe or wing it? I wing it. If I look at a recipe, it is a starting point for me, never to be followed precisely. I can sometimes replicate a dish I have eaten, without being told what is in it or how it is prepared. I drive hubby crazy, because I don't write down how I made something.
4: When baking, do you follow a recipe or wing it? I am more likely to follow the recipe. Slowly I am learning technique. What things should look and feel like, so I can stray from the formula, and wing it.
5: How did you learn to cook and or bake? I spent a lot of time watching my English grandmother, the one who was not a great cook, a little time watching my mother, and a lot of time experimenting. I have read hundreds of cook books, watched cooking TV, I am largely self taught. I would like to go take a cooking class one day - just for fun - and to drive the instructor crazy by winging it.
ReplyDelete1: Do you like to cook?
No
2: Do you like to bake (pastries, cookies, cakes)?
Yes....cakes
3: When cooking do you follow a recipe or wing it?
wing it..
4: When baking, do you follow a recipe or wing it?
Always ..you cannot wing baking
5: How did you learn to cook and or bake
My grandmother, who was a basic but wholesome cook
1: yes
ReplyDelete2: yes
3: wing it
4: wing it
5: my maternal grandmother, then trial-n-error on my own
1-Sometimes. When the kids were little I didn't enjoy it as much as some of them had narrow tastes and making multiple dishes to accommodate them sometimes was a PITA. As I have gotten older I only enjoy cooking if it is something special I am making. But the bigger issue is that I enjoy EATING GOOD FOOD, and no one else here will cook mostly so I have to cook. lol
ReplyDelete2-I don't bake often anymore but I use to be a bread making demon.
3-There are dishes I have cooked so often I don't need a recipe anymore and usually I tinker with it too. I can replicate some dishes just from tasting them.
4-With baking it is necessary to follow the formula/recipe. Baking is science. If you try to improvise you will be sorely disappointed.
5-My mother was a natural Southern cook who taught me a lot. Cooking was her passion. My father was a very narrow eater and I know it frustrated her as a married woman. In later life after her divorce she blossomed into her passion. I have read and studied since leaving home as a teen how to cook/bake better. It has helped with my kitchen experimenting that I married a person who will eat almost everything(because his mother was such an awful cook). lolz
#1: NOOOOOOO!
ReplyDelete1) I enjoy cooking.
ReplyDelete2) I love to bake
3) Wing it
4) Usually recipe but am winging it more and more.
5) My mom.
1: I LOVE to cook. LoveLoveLove it.
ReplyDelete2: I don't bake often; Carlos is the MasterBaker™ in our house.
3: Sometimes yes--when I'm doing something new--but more often than not I just do my own rendition.
4: If I bake, I always follow a recipe; I heard once that "Cooking is an art, but baking is a science," and I am no good at science without instructions.
5: My mom, and I have several friends who are professional chefs.
1: Do you like to cook? yes
ReplyDelete2: Do you like to bake (pastries, cookies, cakes)? no
3: When cooking do you follow a recipe or wing it? recipe
4: When baking, do you follow a recipe or wing it? recipe
5: How did you learn to cook and or bake? trial and error