Who else likes to cook?

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I checked out cookbooks for children at the library when I was young and my Mom let me make a bit of a mess in the kitchen. She was a dietician and cooked a wide variety of foods forcing us to expand our palate. I caught the "cooking bug" at a young age as a result.

I like to cook for fun.

If you like to cook, what do you like to make?

I like to cook although I tend to make the same things with some variation. Yesterday I prepared WW Rotini pasta with roma tomatoes, green pepper, spinach, black olives, onion, garlic, olive oil, oregeno & salt.

I am grilling some chicken for lunch that I slow cooked last night.

I cook most meals most days. Love to cook from scratch and try to feed myself and my family whole foods. I cook everything from Southern to Chinese to Central American to some Indian. But our basic diet is Southern (US) based. I cook anything anytime. It is a form of independence and self-care to me, to be able to cater to my own tastes and sensory preferences.

I enjoy cooking, but I'm not very good at it, the results tend to be rather hit and miss.
My family often complain.
But I think my kids are a lot healthier eating freshly cooked meals than they would be if I bought more takeaways.

I mainly do ordinary sort of meals like spagetti bolognese, chicken curry, beef or lamb stew, cauliflower cheese.

That how I feel about it too. I like thinking about making the food, the steps I'll need to take, the timing of it all and following those steps. The process of cooking is therapeutic and a great mental exercise.

I also love the fact that when I cook, I know how the food has been prepared. I'm very particular about clean utensils, avoiding cross-contamination, etc.

Hey your story sounds much like mine. What do you like to make yourself?

I used to read the cookbooks my grandmother had and cook with her, we would bake cookies and I even told her from memory how my mom made white sauce for cauliflower at 6 years old.
I´ve always had a vivid memory of flavors and fragrances, so cooking soon became a pretty pleasant obsession. I own too many cookbooks to count and always cook for myself even though I am single.

My favorite food is Indian, and I love to cook curries. Their cuisine has such intense flavors and colors, which draws me to it. But really any country has food that interests me, I am very open to new culinary experiences.

Today I'm making something I've never tried before: Stuffed Peppers

I'm using a slow cooker aka "Crock Pot".

I grew the bell peppers many of which are much l larger than my fist.
Brown rice
Diced tomatoes (I also grew those)
Pork (I ground it myself from a large fresh pork shoulder)
Tomato sauce (canned by my Dad from tomatoes he grew last season)
Onions
Garlic (we grew this too!)
Spices

I hope it's good.

In the last two days my wife and I canned 14 pints of pickled white beets. I grew the beets with many more of them still growing and not yet picked. They are the size of softballs.

I cut the beet greens off the beets and separated the stalks from the leafy greens. I juiced the stalks along with a few cucumbers we grew. The juice is bitter but healthy. I took the leftover pulp from the juiced beet stalks and cucumber and dried it. I'm going to powder the dried pulp and add it to water for fiber when desired.

I wilted the beet greens and froze them in portions for eating as a side or for soups.

I take cooking and the steps to an absurd degree. It's one of my special interests!

Harvest time is a busy time but fun too.