Sunday Stealing: Cooking

Sunday Stealing

1. How often do you make food and eat it?

A. I don't "make food," Mother Nature does that. I prepare meals, which I do with great frequency. Every day, actually.

2. Do you consider toasting bread, preparing instant noodles, or boiling an egg to be cooking? Why or why not?

A. Yes, I consider that cooking because it involves food preparation.

3. What’s your favorite dish to make?

A. I don't have one. I do not like to cook.

4. Cooking or baking: what’s more fun? What’s more difficult?

A. Baking is fun, although I consider that a subset of "cooking."

 

5. Who did most of the cooking in your house when you were growing up?

A. My mother. My father sometimes made Sunday breakfast and he did the grilling.

6. How have you learned the cooking skills that you have?

A. Trial and error. My mother attempted to teach me to cook, but I find it an uninteresting past time and something I do not especially like to do.

7. Have you ever taken a cooking course? If so, what did you learn? If not, would you like to do one? What would you like to learn?

I have never taken a cooking course. It would probably be a good thing for me to do, but I don't watch the cooking shows on TV so I'm not sure how much interest I actually have in the topic.

8. Have you tried cooking food from another culture? What did you prepare? How was it?

A. I have prepared stir fry, which I suppose could be considered from another culture. It was fine.

9. Is it cost-effective to do your own cooking? Can you save money by cooking?

A. It is more cost-effective to prepare food at home and eat in then it to go to a restaurant. So yes, it saves money. It becomes rather boring, though.

10. Would you rather do the cooking or do the washing up afterwards?

A. I'd rather not do either.

11. Do you use recipes to cook? If so, where do you get the best recipes? Do you get them from friends, family, online, or from cookbooks?

A. I obtain recipes from my Better Crocker cookbook and online.

12. Have you ever tried to prepare some food and just totally ruined it? What happened?

A. Yes, I have, but I don't remember exactly what it was. I probably overcooked it.

13. Do you prefer cooking at home or eating out at a restaurant? Why?

A. I'd prefer to have a live-in cook but I don't see that as an option.

14. Is cooking a social activity for you? Do you like to do it with other people, or do your prefer to do it alone?

A. I prefer not to do it at all.

15. Do you have a lot of cooking equipment? How often do you use it all? Do you have any pieces of equipment that you rarely ever use?

A. I have removed most of the items I never used. I do not have what I would consider "a lot" or even the proper things with which to cook. I have wondered at times if I would like to prepare meals more if I had the appropriate equipment, but since I'm not sure what that is, I don't suppose I will ever know.

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