Can you cook?

Question

I don't mean heating a birds eye ready meal. I mean like your nan used to. Everything from scratch.
Can you cook a propper roast dinner. Meat, veg, stuffing and home made gravey from stock.

Answer 1

Yes i can i am proud to say,all of the things you like my roast dinners are delicious,and my sponge puddings and custard always go down a treat,everything made from scratch as you say.But then again I am an english nan.

Answer 2

Yes I can cook, I had a good teacher (my mum), and we had proper cookery classes at school, not just buns or beans on toast, but everything from fruit cordial to Christmas cakes, decorating them I still use the recipe and did so for my own 4 tier wedding cake. I can cook for large numbers 70 plus no problem to meals for 1. It's a skill I truly believe is being lost with our younger children who if they do take up home economics at school possibly only do it for a term. If you can't cook may I suggest that you ask an older person to show you it will be something they will probably enjoy.

Answer 3

Yes, I can and so can you. If you have not tried it before, get a beginner's cookbook from your local Barnes & Noble or other quality bookstore and get started!

Take it slow - learning to cook does take a bit of practice. Don't try a seven-course meal your first time out. Try something relatively easy, like baking a cake and branch out from there. When ya regularly succeed at the simpler recipes, it gives ya the confidence to move on to more exotic cookery.

You will need a basic set of cookware. You don't need to rush out and spend hundreds of dollars per item - a simple set of pots and pans and a skillet need not cost more than a hundred bucks.
Leave Le Crueset, at a hundred to two hundred per pot, to Chef Emeril. But when you are comfortable in your cooking skills - well of course feel free to kick it up a notch! Good luck, buddy. You'll impress the heck out of some real classy women if y'can sit 'em down to a fine meal prepared with your own hands!

Answer 4

Yes I can. But I'm of an age when if you didn't cook you didn't eat. No ready meals, no fast food and the only take away was fish and chips. I went to college and we lived in hall - meals provided. Sunday evening cooks off therefore no hot food. I used to feed my friends on hot soups and casseroles cooked on gas rings in our dormitory building - could make a pan of broth and a chicken casserole from one boiling fowl (very cheap in those days), 5 carrots, 1 swede turnip, 3 leeks, herbs and seasoning. And could finish off the casserole in a hay box - didn't even need the gas ring. Even now, give me raw ingredients and I'll make a good meal. I feel sorry for young people who don't learn the way I did. But then I suppose they don't need to . .

Answer 5

Most definitely!
I was lucky enough to grow up in a three-generation home. From the time I could walk, I was in the kitchen, learning.
My mamere did everything from scratch.
From her I learned how to glance at a recipe, then turn it into a meal of 'my own', if that makes any sense...
My heritage is Irish & Cajun, so you gotta know, food is kind of a focal point for us. It's what brings family & friends together.
Oddly enough, the Love of my Life happens to be a man who's been in the restaurant biz for his entire adult life (and even as a teen!). One of our greatest joys is being in the kitchen together, "creating". (That says alot for him...cuz I don't usually like to share my kitchen when I'm cooking. LOL!)

Anywhoo, to answer your question...YES! I can cook. And am at my best when I'm doing just that!!

Answer 6

Of course! It takes the fun out of cooking if you use things from a box or can.
We have a full meal every evening...90% of the time it's homemade.
Why - do you miss your nan's cooking? I'm sorry...come on over for dinner some time!
:)

Answer 7

Of course I can cook from scratch, without looking in a cook book! Just gonna have to prepare a meal, invite you for dinner and convince you.

Answer 8

My Mum and Gran weren't great cooks, so I taught myself. I can cook a roast dinner, but I don't like fat or grease so it's gonna taste a bit different, but I like it!

My best meals are my own creations where inspiration leads the way...

Why do you ask? You gonna invite us all over for dinner?

Answer 9

I can't cook to save my soul! Thank GOD I married a man who could! I can heat water, I can heat hot dogs, I can even put a frozen pizza in the oven, but a real home cooked meal? Nope, I seem to either over cook or undercook.

Answer 10

yes, yes, I luv making cookies from scratch.
But do you know what sounds REALLY good right now?
fried chicken, not just flour and salt but with my special ingredient that I will not share cuz it's special, and greens mmmmmmm yum! With home made corn bread, and some f my aunties ice tea!

i think I can cook pretty good for a 14 year old

Answer 11

How can anybody not cook a good roast...I am a great cook, can do better than a roast though, prefer to cook Spanish, Italian and Indian meals. My Roasts are good though. Although...I don't bake, I don't do cakes or pies or crap like that. Can you?