cooking

I just saw a Facebook post of a woman on a frugal cooking group I follow that said she had set herself a goal of spending no more than a 1000 pounds total this year on food despite this years crisis. She's a budgeting expert, mind you. But it did inspire me to create this thread to share our...

I was wondering how often you guys and gals do this. When you start cooking something, and at some point in the process you decide to change your mind and go another route with your recipe, ingredients, ect..... My example below isn't anything drastic. It had me thinking, so I thought I would...

Hello everyone, My name is Bill and I am a food lover and freelance developer. I've been cooking for over 15 years and recently I created a mobile app called CookIt that's designed for chefs who want to find recipes and plan meals. Some of the key features of the app include exploring and...

Afternoon all! I come with a question regarding cooking times for a roast pork loin. I am hoping to do this for Mother's Day (which is tomorrow - nothing like last minute, eh?!) and wondered on cooking times and any general advice for folks who may have done this recipe before. Basically, I'm...

I'm looking for keen cooks to take part in a survey entitled 'Cooking from Recipes'. This is for an educational research project to understand where people find recipes, and how they interact with them. I'm not collecting your data or advertising, just looking to learn :) Thank you! Survey...

Hello everyone, my hobby is photography, but my friend and I often go out into nature to cook something for cooking recipes from different countries, it would be nice to learn new recipes on this forum and at the same time present our own, thanks!

how many here know how to cook meat without using a thermometor ? it seems like nowadays its a lost art , while i do think its a great tool for people just learning to cook meat , i think the new cook should learn to tell the doneness of meat by touch or in some cases even sight, as i said...

one of my pet peeves is that they never show a fully cooked egg , the yoke is never cooked , yes i know some people like eggs that way but you would think someone would fully cook an egg once in a while , another one is how everyone eats on these shows , when they take a bite of anything the...

Hello, i am switching from gas to inductive plate (elecriticty), but i don't have it yet. I will need pan compatible with both! It incredibly hard to find healthy pan, there are no information almost no studies. I have chronic pain anyways and don't have strength to research this. SO i am...

I'm Indian and wondering how to cook it. I've never cooked them before. Do I cook it like soft lentils? I cook soft lentils like this way. 1) 1:5 lentil to water ratio (after being soaked for some time). 2) Put it in pressure cooker, add salt and wait for 3 whistles. What else do I need to do...

In these troubled times I'm Looking for economy so I would like to try cooking a Ham weight 1.2 kg in a microwave oven but have no idea how long it would take so I need some advice please. While I’m online is it possible to cook a casserole of about four-pint size by Microwave oven and if so how?

Any low carb cooking ideas? Female, 28, Maryland

Cooking lamb for my wife's bday. They had shoulder and leg in the supermarket and my mother in law said to get both. We both love to cook and obviously she has a lot more experience than me and her food is great just she is old fashioned. First thing I said was will the leg and shoulder not need...

How good were your parents at cooking? I got to thinking this when I saw caseydog 's remark on the American Goulash/Chili Mac "Even my mom couldn't mess it up.". Both my parents are still alive and these days (both in their 80s) pretty much subsist on convenience foods. Back in the day...

Did you ever lose your love of cooking. Just needed a break or got in a rut ?

To my granddaughter as per her requests. She wants to bake/ cook for her family and well. Shes 12 but very mature. She has requested Shortbread Choc chip cookies Butter chicken. Our son is away with the kids for a week in queenstown. School hols here. (2 weeks) So when they get back shes...

Other than the halogen oven, the air fryer and the rice cooker our fuel for cooking (hob and oven) is bottled gas (LGP propane). Last year for the first time I recorded the date that I changed the bottle (2nd June). That bottle ran out today. The current price for a 15 kg bottle is ฿400.00...

I have 6 chicken breasts that I got from my work that have tomorrow's date on them. Not gonna eat them tonight so wondering what is the best thing to do with them. What would be the best way to cook them so I could maybe use them for a couple of dinners/lunches this week and what could I make...

Hi all. There’s been some discussion elsewhere for cooking eggs in the microwave so I thought I would start a new thread to make it easier to find in future

Hi all, Looking for some advice for a recipe I want to try but haven't had experience of. I've just bought 2 racks of lamb (already French cut, with the bones showing) from my butcher, both weighing around 500g each, just over 1kg in total and wondered what the cooking process/time should be...