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Subject:  Re: What's cookin'? Date:  5/24/2001  9:19 AM
Author:  Shadowfen Number:  6 of 21259

Hi guys,

Thought I'd stop by and check out the cool new cooking board!


Stainless steel (because that's what I have and it cleans easily).
Turn the stove on?

<G>What's your favorite spice? Your least favorite? Why?

Most fave is garlic!!!!
Least fave is a thai spice of unknown name that I call "the wet dog spice" because I think it tastes like a wet dog smells.

What are your favorite type of things to cook?

Things that don't require a lot of prep or fiddling or slaving over a hot stove forever: crockpot recipes, bar-b-que/grilling, wok, oven dishes.

Do you specialize in any ethnic cuisines? What appeals to you about them?

I routinely do Tex-Mex, Greek, Thai, Italian, and Chinese but I consider that to be plain home cooking. American is an exotic type for me.


I generally push them to the back of the fridge until they become unrecognizable and then throw them out. :)

What do you see as the biggest challenge in your cooking?

Cleaning up.

Do you cook or bake, or both?

Primarily cook - but that is because if I were to bake regularly, I would eat it. :)

Do you use recipes? Only as guides? Need absolute measurements (you probably won't like this board so well)? Just make it up as you go along?

I use recipes for new things that I have no idea how to make, but unless I'm preparing it for the recipe "owner" I'm more than likely to use the recipe as a "suggested procedure/ingredients list" and make changes where I feel like it.

When baking I'm a lot more likely to follow the recipe because the ingredients and proportions are important to seeing that the desired chemical reaction (dough rising, etc.) occurs properly. (Yes, I majored in Chem Eng in college for a while. <g>)

For something that I'm more familiar with, I'm more likely to experiment with or flat out make up as I go along. Unfortunately, I'm very bad about recording what I do then so I can reproduce it if it turns out well.

