Reply to: Rate your Cooking Expertise

[bogeyman]

Then you'd have a place where your gangster mates can congregate and all pretend you're in the Sopranos or Goodfellas.

[translation courtesy of your local council's minority integration task force (good value for money I say)]

Den you'd haz a place where your gangsta bluds and bros can chill an $hit like youz in teh Sopranos an all doze Goodfellas bluds - wikked init. Luvin it.

[realityhack]

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What a muppet.

[Jog On]

I have actually considered a career in cooking as I clearly have a lot of talent in this arena. I once cooked for a few girls I know and they told me honestly that the meal I cooked (steak and chips) was the best they had ever eaten and one had eaten at the fat duck on many occasions. If I could simply open my own restaurant straight away and not have to work my way up in crappy kitchens for 10 years working awful hours Im pretty confident I would have a restaurant of michelan star standard.

Surely you can ask one of your Sunday Times rich list mates for a bunk up no?

Then you'd have a place where your gangster mates can congregate and all pretend you're in the Sopranos or Goodfellas.

Beats the hell out of contracting

[Andy2]

I can boil water

does that count ?

[bogeyman]

michelin

Fleetwood would have had a field day with you

Ah Fleety bless him.

Never one English word where three or four French ones would do.

I miss the old pedant.

[bogeyman]

I have actually considered a career in cooking as I clearly have a lot of talent in this arena. I once cooked for a few girls I know and they told me honestly that the meal I cooked (steak and chips) was the best they had ever eaten and one had eaten at the fat duck on many occasions. If I could simply open my own restaurant straight away and not have to work my way up in crappy kitchens for 10 years working awful hours Im pretty confident I would have a restaurant of michelan star standard.

This is not bad trolling as it goes, but definitely not top-drawer trolling.

[chef]

I have actually considered a career in cooking as I clearly have a lot of talent in this arena. I once cooked for a few girls I know and they told me honestly that the meal I cooked (steak and chips) was the best they had ever eaten and one had eaten at the fat duck on many occasions. If I could simply open my own restaurant straight away and not have to work my way up in crappy kitchens for 10 years working awful hours Im pretty confident I would have a restaurant of michelan star standard.

michelin

Fleetwood would have had a field day with you

[chef]

I have actually considered a career in cooking as I clearly have a lot of talent in this arena. I once cooked for a few girls I know and they told me honestly that the meal I cooked (steak and chips) was the best they had ever eaten and one had eaten at the fat duck on many occasions. If I could simply open my own restaurant straight away and not have to work my way up in crappy kitchens for 10 years working awful hours Im pretty confident I would have a restaurant of michelan star standard.

you mean you did the ramsay cookalong evening and no one threw up

[DiscoStu]

Little Chef

noddy

[Pondlife]

I have actually considered a career in cooking as I clearly have a lot of talent in this arena. I once cooked for a few girls I know and they told me honestly that the meal I cooked (steak and chips) was the best they had ever eaten and one had eaten at the fat duck on many occasions. If I could simply open my own restaurant straight away and not have to work my way up in crappy kitchens for 10 years working awful hours Im pretty confident I would have a restaurant of michelan star standard.

Little Chef

[DiscoStu]

I have actually considered a career in cooking as I clearly have a lot of talent in this arena. I once cooked for a few girls I know and they told me honestly that the meal I cooked (steak and chips) was the best they had ever eaten and one had eaten at the fat duck on many occasions. If I could simply open my own restaurant straight away and not have to work my way up in crappy kitchens for 10 years working awful hours Im pretty confident I would have a restaurant of michelan star standard.

You're so full of tulip, it does amuse me...

[HRH]

I have actually considered a career in cooking as I clearly have a lot of talent in this arena. I once cooked for a few girls I know and they told me honestly that the meal I cooked (steak and chips) was the best they had ever eaten and one had eaten at the fat duck on many occasions. If I could simply open my own restaurant straight away and not have to work my way up in crappy kitchens for 10 years working awful hours Im pretty confident I would have a restaurant of michelan star standard.

[bogeyman]

I remember seeing a program once where people would wrap a meal up in tin foil, stick it under the bonnet of the car then drive round to a mates house and eat it (Americans....).

Yes I've heard of that too.

I don't suppose you'd want to put fish under the bonnet though.

Would pretty much ruin the car for pulling - unless you were a le.... (oh never mind).

[bogeyman]

Sounds like one of those tourists who believes he masters italian after being there for a weekend. It's easio, righto?

How do you make carbonara? No bacon but pancetta. No cream (arg, what a killing). No onion. Simply garlic, good oil, only the red of the eggs. Make sure you don't make egg fried pasta so stir well when it's hot but take it out of the cooker a little before. And no parmisan, pecorino only!!!!!

Hope it helps.

Agree Franko. It's skill, simplicity and quality of ingredients that make a good Italian dish. And it's not easy to pull off, unlike a lot of poncy French 'Haut Cuisine' where you can cover your mistakes with rich sauces somebody else made earlier.

[Jog On]

It was a tip given to me by a pro chef and he swore by it, but I was never confident enough to try it. You had to wrap the fish foil obviously.

I remember seeing a program once where people would wrap a meal up in tin foil, stick it under the bonnet of the car then drive round to a mates house and eat it (Americans....).