Can you make a sandwich?

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To be honest, in the right frame of mind I can cook anything. One of my special interests at one point was spices. I tried all spices in everything. It was a lot of fun.

I can cook from scratch, and I can follow recipes (depending on how focused I am). However, my problem is that I'm okay making one huge pot of something and eating it for the whole week. That would drive my partner and kids crazy! Not me...it's just so much simpler that way.

I do that too! It irritates my wife because I always cook enough for at least 3 meals. Her usual comment is "I see you've made enough to feed the entire village again "

I think it makes sense (sort of). A (special) cheese sauce takes as long to make enough for one meal or for three meals - so I make enough for three.

Oo, I couldn't do that! I live alone, and certain recipes can only be reduced to two servings; if so, I leave the uneaten half in the fridge for two days and eat something else in between. It's almost an OC thing with me.

I was quite passionate about cooking a few years ago, but now I've settled on a couple of dozen recipes. Frying up a nice piece of meat and fixing some suitable potatoes and veggies to go with it is my favourite. But even more than 'real' food, I love sandwiches! I'm a bit unimaginative with the sandwiches I fix myself, though; usually just one cold cut and a slice of cheese on top.

I can cook, but i have to focus on one thing at a time. Like if im making a sandwich, i have to take it in steps sort of. As for making dinner, i never do that. Watching and making several things at once isnt really a thing im good at.

frying pan or microwave FTW!

I like to bake :D but not cook.

It varies.sometimes i don't even have the nous to open a can but I like to cook. it just takes an inordinate amount of time. Like the first time I cooked for my friends I prepared a whole day in advance and when i was there I still hardly got to sit down.

This is some of the to food I can cook:
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I also have the same problem of forgetting to eat. You probably have a hard time believing this, but I have a hard time cooking for myself on a day basis. Especially since I have to on the GFCF diet.

I'm pretty much the opposite. I have done some pastry but really have no clue about cakes and stuff.

I do this too because otherwise i would spend most of my time in the kitchen. Generally it makes a lot of sense to make a bit extra.

I'm with DevonB and Tallyman: When I lived alone I ate the same breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. My grocery shopping was very easy.

Now I have to cook and cook and cook so that husband and child have variety. But I still win, in my own way. That beef stew on Sunday becomes beef pie on Wednesday, the meatballs on Thursday make meatball sandwiches on Saturday, and so on. The easiest way to make that work was to get obsessive about it and put together a running 3 week meal plan.

To y'all who haven't learned to cook on a stove yet - start small and use low heat. Soups and stews can be made slowly, using cheap ingredients, and they are very tolerant of "errors" (some errors taste good). To me, knowing the science behind the cooking helped a lot. There are also good books about the chemistry and physics of cooking that helps to demystify food magic:
- The Science of Cooking by Peter Barham
- On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
- What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained by Robert L. Wolke

I like how precise cooking is. :D

Daniel, I'm actually a very good cook. That being said, I have to have a recipe to follow and I have to follow it exactly. I also plan out my meals obsessively and create a grocery list when I shop that only has the ingredients I need for the recipes I'm making for the next two weeks. The grocery list is created by going through each recipe that I'm going to make and writing down the ingredients from each recipe in the place they go on my list. Like if a recipe has a vegetable in it, I'll go through each recipe to write down all the veggies I need first, then move to dairy, then meat, etc.

I like cooking because it's all about a process that needs to be followed.

There's an Aspie in the kitchen topic

I have been a mother for over thrity four years so i must have learned something. I did not learn as a child. I cooked for the first time at age 18 and I was a disaster. I just knew enough from the commune I lived at breifly.

My oldest daughter realized I did not cook much, and I think this is how she developed the need to eat at her friends. Same with the younger two, though this is because they think my cooking is boring. No imagination. I tend to make one pot meals and such and today's young people like fancy different stuff all the time. I cannot compete with a restaurant menu. Here is what i make:

Main course/ Dessert

Beef stew / Pies (frozen crust with filling)

Roast turkey (holidays) / Apple Crisp

Spaghetti and meat balls / Cakes and icing from mixes

Mac and cheese / Puddings and jello

Potato salad and cold cuts / Bars, cookies and squares from recipes

Fish and chips / Fresh fruit

Chili with beans and other veggies. mixed in

Roast beef with gravy

Sheppard's pie

Cooked veggies and raw salads, rice

Baked chicken

I know this looks like a lot but my NT children think it is boring. They are fussy and like take-out and other people's food.

As long as theres a recipe in a language i understand ( ie nothing like pinch or dollop) i can cook. Of course i have to follow the directions exactly. That being said i usually fret when i have to modify the recipe due to not having enough of something. Cant comprehend how my sister can add 90% of a tablespoon of such and such when the recipe calls for 100% of a tablespoon.

exactly. :D

I can sometimes bake. (When I bake, I do it what others consider very well, with no prior experience.) But I have to be careful because I am not supposed to leave anything like an oven on without supervision (I can freeze and then start a fire).

I can sometimes put things in the microwave.

I can sometimes boil water.

I used to be able to make rice or noodles but can't anymore.