Can you cook?

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Yes

If it's simple I'm ok. The more complicated it is the more I struggle.

Yes. It's one of my favorite things to do. Many years ago I lived in apartments that had natural gas stoves. I learned to cook on them. They are superior to electric stoves and I hope before I did that I can live somewhere with a gas stove again.

Today I've been making:

Slow cooker: pork spare ribs with sauerkraut.
Warm German potato salad
Braised Swiss chard.
I mixed up some coarse ground mustard, but that won't technically be ready for two weeks.
I baked chocolate chip cookies last night which will be dessert.

There will be six of us dining in an hour.

I adapt/modify recipes all the time, but I also like to follow recipes to a letter if I'm unfamiliar with the dish. Following a recipe is following a list of rules with a positive outcome and reward at the end of the process. That's one of the things I like about cooking.

I’ve been comfortable in the kitchen since I was tall enough to see over the counter. I can even cook meat reasonably well, despite being vegetarian and trying to go vegan.

Cooking is one of the areas in which my executive functioning problems come into play. I have trouble with the level of uncertainty involved in cooking most things. Example: When I'm helping my mom cook dinner, and she asks me to check to see if something in the oven is done, this is the conversation repeated verbatim:
"How do I know if they're done?"
"They'll be brown."
"But they started out brown."
"They'll be browner."
"How brown?"
"...Well, if they're firm, they're done."
"How firm?"
"Can you bend them easily?"
"How easily?"
And then my mom will just check them herself (this is why I'm delegated to chopping and washing exclusively). If the steps involved are black and white (cereal, sandwiches, etc.) then I'm fine, but if it's more complex I'm pretty much useless. I don't know how to function if I'm expected to make judgments based on unclear criteria. I just can't proceed if I'm uncertain about how to do something, and I can't figure it out on my own without very clear-cut rules.

I have been enjoying it a lot more and am getting more comfortable in the kitchen.

If my VR agent determines I am eligible to move into a group home, I will learn how to improve my culinary skills.

When I was 18, I baked bread, scones, pancakes, taro root

Easy s**t

Have not touched the stove for a long time

Almost everything eaten raw or microwave

Waste a couple of dollars a day on food

I think I can probably cook most things if given a detailed recipe, except for super fancy/complex dishes where I don't know what half the directions mean. If left without a recipe, I don't think I could manage much more than macaroni and cheese, although I do at least know how to make the kind that doesn't come from a box.

i can boil water which goes a long way towards making something on the stovetop.

I wish I could cook. I can boil water so.....PASTA
Honestly, microwaving works for me. Im too lazy to cook

Not really, but my slow-cooker lets me pretend.

Simple things. I often get startled by the loud pops

I only cook occasionally for two reasons, I don't have the patience to do the necessary prep, and I really dislike the cleanup. I'll cook simple dishes like grilled cheese, eggs and stuff like that. If I do a more ambitious meal, I usually cook something that can be parsed into portions that can be frozen. But meals are mostly prepared foods.

I can cook.

When I cook for others, I tend to follow instructions, measure out ingredients exactly, mix properly, hover over the cooking process, remove from heat to the exact minute, and plate up in the neatest way possible.

When I cook just for myself, the meal doesn't look as pretty, but it does taste better.