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"Share your culinary masterplans"

I'm going to Uni in about 3 months, so should probably learn to cook. Yesterday I threatened to make scrambled eggs and this morning, I successfully oversaw the satisfactionary completion of a bowl of piping hot tomato soup complete with side order of cheese sandwich. Tell me how to cook better stuff, otherwise I'll stuff my newly-educated face with grilled cheese and Big Macs until I get Czech neck.

And also, I discovered how to spread butter properly. The secret is to keep the butter on the knife and distribute it equally, not to spread the butter from the bread. I'm a genius!

Lil Ginge wrote:
> Choose from the following and I will try and explain to you -
>
> Spag Bol
> Macaroni Cheese
> Lasagne
> Chinese stir fry's/recipes like chow mein with chicken in black bean
> sauce
> Roast dinners
>
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I just LOVE how you say you can cook then follow that statement with a list of THE easiest things to cook in the world like ever.

One advantage of home Uni - I get all my meals made for me

Hoho, although three nights a week I starve as I'm working.

Buy a microwavable meal. You can tell what food you are buying by looking at the picture on the front of the packaging. Get someone to read the numbers on the back to you and pick one at random. Use the dial or stab the buttons on the microwave until the food starts going round. Then remove the packaging.

Wait until a noise indicates that the packaging is setting off the fire alarm and serve on a plate, preferably someone elses or perhaps in a bowl, in a cup or even simply tip onto the eating surface.

Steal some cutlery from the canteen at uni and enjoy.

Fair enough.

Allred wrote:
> Flockhart wrote:
>
> Get a big pan of boiling water and add some salt to it before you
> put
> the noodles in, i'd go with sharwoods egg noodles.
> You need to boil them for at least 5 minutes, after that you have to
> test them every couple of minutes until theyre cooked how you like.
>
> I seem to remeber Ken Hom on The Saturday Kitchen saying you should
> put some water to boil, and then take it off the heat and add the
> noodles, and when the water has cooled the noodles are cooked.

That will only work if youre using freshly made noodles, for the starched ones you buy from the supermarket, they need to be cooked or you can just leave them in a cold bowl of water to soften and then fry them breifly to heat, but it's only advisable if you know what youre doing.
If you want rice and you cant cook, i really wouldnt try to do it yourself, it can be an utter ba**ard, best use microwavable uncles bens.

Snuggly

when I've got a bit more time I'll teach you how to make Stew.

It's the cheapest thing you can eat and it feeds you for days.!

Flockhart wrote:

> Get a big pan of boiling water and add some salt to it before you put
> the noodles in, i'd go with sharwoods egg noodles.
> You need to boil them for at least 5 minutes, after that you have to
> test them every couple of minutes until theyre cooked how you like.

I seem to remeber Ken Hom on The Saturday Kitchen saying you should put some water to boil, and then take it off the heat and add the noodles, and when the water has cooled the noodles are cooked. Also, never break/cut noodles, as they are supposed to represent your lifeline, and so if you shorten them you die quicker. Apparently.

My advice to you MR Snuggy is to watch the Saturday Kitchen, which is on Saturdays on BBC2 at 10am till 11:30am.

This is just the basic chinese noodles on there own recipe, you can add most things to it, just buy the pre-made sauces and and the meat of your choice, anyway the noodles.......

Get a big pan of boiling water and add some salt to it before you put the noodles in, i'd go with sharwoods egg noodles.
You need to boil them for at least 5 minutes, after that you have to test them every couple of minutes until theyre cooked how you like.
While theyre cooking you need to make the coating for them, get a big glass bowl and put in some soy sauce, putting in enough is just a guess but it has to be enough for them to absorb evenly.
When the noodles are cooked you need to strain them so they dont have any water in them, and throw them into the soy sauce(dark or light, it doesnt matter) when they are coated, you need to add some sesame oil and mix it in and that is it.
Everything else can be stirfryed and added on top, i suggest chicken or duck in plum sauce, with any vegetables you want to add( peppers, beansprouts etc.....)
As you can probably tell i love cooking.

Two minute microwave rice and a tin of tuna is your friend. Use it.

Fosco wrote:
> It worries me that he kept this place running for so long. What does
> that say about the rest of us? ( :

He's only got a mental age of 7 too.