Calling all men who can cook!

When I got my first apartment, my parents bought me a set of pots and pans, a kitchen knife, and a cookbook of easy meals. After that, it was trial and error, but mostly sticking to stir fry type dishes. When I was married, I mostly worked from home so I was responsible for most meals. I pick up ideas of what to do from watching Food Network or the Cooking Channel.

Mom taught me to cook... guess I asked too many times what's for dinner? :ohwell: My brothers and I each cooked one meal a week for the family to give Mom a few nights off a week.

Eventually I learned to like to cook and started working in restaurants when I was 15. Worked thru a few, learned some of the chef's secrets at each and now can cook pretty much anything ranging from Italian, Chinese, Indian to plain old steaks, ribs and chicken.

I've won awards for my Chili in cookoff's and am told my BBQ sauce is to die for (what diet pepsi in BBQ sauce? ... you're kidding right ).

BTW -> the kitchen is far from the female's domain... my exwife really did start a fire in the kitchen while boiling water! She could make the finest and freshest ingredients taste horrible without trying. :embarassed:

If he likes science/chemistry, you can get him interested by having him watch Good Eats. It's like Mr. Wizard (or Bill Nye for you younger people) for food.

Alternatively just hold out on him unless he makes at least one attempt a week. By attempt, I mean a full meal, not grilling some meat, throwing a bun on it and calling burgers a meal.

Personally both my parents liked to cook, so I spent a lot of time in the kitchen growing up. We were always trying new recipes. Eventually I just started making up stuff to see if it would work. Good Eats helped me further understand the why behind cooking, which has allowed me to come up with more combinations that work than I originally had done.

Poor kid from a single parent household where mom went out or worked or whatever she did at night from me being about the age of 8 forward. I started cooking the basics (hot dogs and mac and cheese) and expanded. I realized that women like a guy who could cook so I got better at it. I also did some specialty catering in Chicago for a while all desserts. Mostly cheesecakes. Yes I can bake, quite well actually. Either from a box or from scratch. And I can cook damn near anything you put in front of me. If I have a recipe or just a list of ingredients. And yes, I am single. lol