A bit embarrasing!

Originally Posted by sv_rory

unfortunatly not, I will have to try again tomorrow, blow her away with some minging spag bol, surely its the thought that counts tho

Careful how much you feed her, last thing you want is her woofing her cookies as you get down to the co-joined epileptic impressions

This thread has made me laugh since it started. Very brave to out on a forum.....

If you do want to learn the basics, Delia's how to cook is pretty good. Another great cookbook for you would be Jamies ministry of food. Takes you through basic recipes step by step and again goes through simple kitchen skills.

Google is good though for recipes but tbh if you think a jacket potato is boiled then I would start from the really basic skills and go from there. Good luck!

Rich

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I hate cooking but I can do it.

Basic cooking is very easy, most stuff cooks in a saucepan, oven or grill.

For baked potatos, best results...
Whack in microwave for 10 mins
Take out and wrap in foil
Put in middle of oven on high for about 30 mins,

Take out, cut in half, add plenty of butter and salt, add filling if required, EAT IT

[widepants]

Originally Posted by specialone

For baked potatos, best results...
Whack in microwave for 10 mins
Take out and wrap in foil
Put in middle of oven on high for about 30 mins,

dont forget to ***** the skins

Originally Posted by Spank86

Wash, wrap in kitchen roll
got a meal.

Just to check 'kitchen roll' is not to be confused with 'kitchen foil'. Foil in a microwave is a VERY bad thing

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Originally Posted by Spank86

I dont suppose you have a slow pot cooker?

Originally Posted by sv_rory

It's a big range cooker with 4 ovens???

Originally Posted by widepants

dont forget to ***** the skins

I'm no peasant, we buy 'washed' spuds

Originally Posted by specialone

For baked potatos, best results...
Whack in microwave for 10 mins
Take out and wrap in foil
Put in middle of oven on high for about 30 mins,

Take out, cut in half, add plenty of butter and salt, add filling if required, EAT IT

I would argue for best results place in the embers of bbq/ open fire et. Yum! However probably not ideal for everyday cooking!

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i can one up all this, my cooking is so appauling that i invited my girlfriend round for dinner (was ages ago) and cooked so bad that she then had food poisoning :/ definate bad times, haven't cooked since

if u want a piece of advice about cooking pasta and italian food (risotto, tortellini, ravioli etc) (not to be the "i know everything" but as i'm italian and i love cooking i can still stand out from the mass... hehe): be simple. we don't use loads of onions and spices as i keep seeing my brits housemates doing. A good recipe? well: take an egg, keep the egg yolk and just little of the egg white (let's say from 1/3 to 1/2), whisk it a little in a bowl till it's uniform and u can't see anymore between egg yolk and the egg white, add some black pepper and grated parmesan (i hate so much calling it permesan instead of parmigiano, because "parmesan" is the way italian rednecks use to call it in dialect after they moved to USA in the early 20s..... hehe). ok till this point? absolutely easy..
then take a frypan and quickly cook some smoked lardons (the one from sainsbury's is perfect), if u want to do it better cut them in cubes (they come in kind of stripes..you just want to have many even shaped pieces), then cook the pasta: don't put just a tiny bit of water as i always see non italians doing, put a good amount, make it boiling than add some rock salt (for 1 person and a 22cm pot filled for 3/4 i'd say 1 and 1/3 tablespoons max, remember it's rocksalt not ground table salt). add the pasta that u prefer and remember to stir it every couple of minutes (yes: every couple of minutes!), when you're close to the right cooking time take one piece of pasta and bite it in half: if u can see that inside is still "whit-ish" it needs a couple of minutes more, that's the trick to know when it's ready.
when even inside it's cooked (don't overcook it) drain it and put it in the fry pan together with the lardons and light up the fire again cooking it for a minute or two max, u just want to mix them properly.
then pour the pasta and lardons mix in the "egg bowl" and mix.
Mate u prepared an original Pasta alla carbonara!!(well u should use some pecorino romano instead of the parmesan but the one u can find in uk it's crap.... sigh..)
If u have issues about "raw" (they're not raw as they cook with the heat coming from the pasta) egg yolk (many american and anglosaxons in general are literally paranoid about that...and then eat a lot of junk food and fried things...lol) prepare the same thing (pasta, lardons, black pepper and parmesan) without the egg and, look: u made a white amatriciana pasta! sweet!
any comment or thing that could be taken as offensive is not meant to be like that... sometime i'm just shocked about the differences between italian and english way of cooking and thinking about food....