Why don't we cook more?

[ChipButty]

8 minutes ago, Celsius said:

 

I do. As a matter of fact I do eat outside a lot. And I still think food here is garbage, but I have no choice. No thing such as western kitchen in Bangkok condo. Not paying 100k a month for something to resemble western condo and not even get a dishwasher. 

 

And I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings here, but Thai food is one of the worst on the planet. Thais simply do not know how to cook.

 

Pls do not get triggered.....

 

 

one thing i did notice recently a lot not cooked properly like under cooked, have you ever seen Thai's make toast? just like warm bread one night we went to a well known place here in Phuket one of the family ordered a burger it wasn't cooked inside 

[Pink Mist]

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[ChipButty]

8 minutes ago, BenStark said:

Where you got these pictures? ????

my wifes super Samsung note 

[BE88]

I really like Italian cuisine and here where I live there is no one capable of making me those dishes so with a lot of free time I have invented myself as a chef with more or less success, I usually succeed quite well, given the mediocrity of Western food that they sell in this country, it's pretty easy to do better.

[ChipButty]

1 minute ago, BE88 said:

I really like Italian cuisine and here where I live there is no one capable of making me those dishes so with a lot of free time I have invented myself as a chef with more or less success, I usually succeed quite well, given the mediocrity of Western food that they sell in this country, it's pretty easy to do better.

My wife makes me a top Lasagna I think better than any restaurant 

[BE88]

1 minute ago, ChipButty said:

My wife makes me a top Lasagna I think better than any restaurant 

Lucky man but did you marry a chef?

[ChipButty]

3 minutes ago, BE88 said:

Lucky man but did you marry a chef?

555 her mother was, to my wife it's like hobby especially ASIAN Fusion and the photo's cannot touch until she's done

[jerrymahoney]

24 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

555 her mother was, to my wife it's like hobby especially ASIAN Fusion and the photo's cannot touch until she's done

My wife and her family ARE in the food business. Last thing she wants to do after work is cook.

[poppysdad]

I’m in my mid 70’s and can probably count the times I’ve cooked for myself on 2 hands. I am capable but have a no interest in cooking whatsoever. My wives have always done me proud with their culinary efforts and my Thai wife is perfectly happy to cook falang food for me at the same time as she cooks her own. It’s nothing to do with being lazy it’s simply no desire or interest in doing so. 

[sirineou]

2 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

I check out online recipes and youtube cooking a bit but it is annoying that most every one says "This is the best meat loaf recipe ever" or "I made this and the family ate it all up and wanted more."

Yeat that's true, they monetize the vids by the number of click they get.

Also some of them talk too much.

But there are a lot of good ones 

I have a file in my favorites and when I find a recipe that works , I save it there for later use.  

[xylophone]

1 hour ago, BE88 said:

I really like Italian cuisine and here where I live there is no one capable of making me those dishes so with a lot of free time I have invented myself as a chef with more or less success, I usually succeed quite well, given the mediocrity of Western food that they sell in this country, it's pretty easy to do better.

You sound a lot like me although I have been cooking for myself for many decades, before my mother's home cooking killed me (almost serious). Like you, I do like Italian cuisine and often cook Italian dishes and sometimes play around with the recipes to suit my taste.

 

Tonight I will be making a home-made pizza, a small one so that I can watch the waistline, and last night I cooked a Paella which I was a bit concerned about because I hadn't cooked one for 20 odd years, but it turned out fine.

 

Every so often I will cook a beef bourguignon with plenty of red wine and a nice rich source in which to slow cook the beef. I do cook the occasional Thai dish and a Panang curry is tasty and easy to make, similarly with Laab Moo, Pad Krapow and Pad Thai.

 

I used to cook quite a few Indian curries, but it's so easy to pick one up from a takeaway, that's what I do these days as they taste more "Indian" than mine do!

[billd766]

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Yep, I'm lazy ........

Thai street food and restaurants everywhere.

A woman in our homes to cook Thai food for us.

But why don't we make the effort to cook our own cultures food more?

 

Today I did Cottage Pie, 0.5Kg minced pork, an onion, 0.75Kg of potato and some gravy powder.

Brown the mince in a saucepan with a bit of oil, add water to cover + 3 teaspoons of gravy powder (or a couple of stock cubes from 7-11) + 1 chopped onion.

Add in salt, pepper, chopped garlic if you can be bothered and leave to simmer for 10 minutes.

Peel and chop the potatoes into chunks, put in a saucepan an cover with water, boil for 5 mins.

 

Ladle the cooked mince into any style dish that you can put in an oven, not too wet!

Pick out the cooked potato chunks, put in a bowl with a bit of milk, mash with a fork, cover up the mince.

 

Put in an oven (Otto is fine) for around 15 mins at 150c, until the top browns.

Then eat.

 

20mins of work costs about 100bht, enough for 3-4 portions. 

 

 

That looks tasty.

[billd766]

4 hours ago, BenStark said:

Why would someone spend time and effort to go out buy the ingredients, then spend time again preparing and cooking, and lastly washing up cooking pots and clean the kitchen?

 

Hours wasted for a 20 minute meal, when you just can go to a shop and buy it ready-made, or even better go to a restaurant, where you can order it at almost the same price it cost you to do yourself.

How about because you can make it exactly how you want it and not how somebody else wants to make it.

 

More or less spicy as you like it, more of less meat and/or veg, thicker or thinner gravy.

 

You can even make more portions and freeze the rest for later

[billd766]

3 hours ago, bignok said:

Because 2nd rate pies arent good.

Because that is how second rate pies become first rate.

 

If you cook for yourself you can change and improve the recipe as you go along.

 

If you buy it in a restaurant it will be bland for everybody and perhaps second rate too.

[bignok]

1 minute ago, billd766 said:

Because that is how second rate pies become first rate.

 

If you cook for yourself you can change and improve the recipe as you go along.

 

If you buy it in a restaurant it will be bland for everybody and perhaps second rate too.

I suppose if bored. I know a good pie shop.

[bignok]

2 hours ago, Celsius said:

 

I do. As a matter of fact I do eat outside a lot. And I still think food here is garbage, but I have no choice. No thing such as western kitchen in Bangkok condo. Not paying 100k a month for something to resemble western condo and not even get a dishwasher. 

 

And I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings here, but Thai food is one of the worst on the planet. Thais simply do not know how to cook.

 

Pls do not get triggered.....

 

 

Rather clueless. Lanna food is better than most food. I know French chefs, i prefer Lanna food.

 

 

[Kwasaki]

1 minute ago, bignok said:

I suppose if bored. I know a good pie shop.

Pies are not healthy. ????

[bignok]

Just now, Kwasaki said:

Pies are not healthy. ????

Why not?

[Kwasaki]

12 minutes ago, bignok said:

Why not?

Fat.

[billd766]

13 minutes ago, bignok said:

I suppose if bored. I know a good pie shop.

Apart from ordering online the nearest pie shop is at Robinson's Tops, 65 km away.

[bignok]

2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Fat.

Good for you

[billd766]

14 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Pies are not healthy. ????

 

 

4 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Fat.

It depends on how many pies a day you eat and how many days a week you eat them.

 

It also depends whether you make them yourself or buy them in.

 

If you make your own, then you decide how much of what goes into them.

[ChipButty]

Im partial to a few English style pork pies and a bit of mustard if I can get them M&S 

[Farmerslife]

15 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Im partial to a few English style pork pies and a bit of mustard if I can get them M&S 

God, pork pies!

Terrible, terrible, terrible things and I absolutely love them! I would quite cheerfully kill for a pork pie these days.

[Kwasaki]

14 minutes ago, billd766 said:

 

 

It depends on how many pies a day you eat and how many days a week you eat them.

 

It also depends whether you make them yourself or buy them in.

 

If you make your own, then you decide how much of what goes into them.

Yeah Bill understand I'm not a food person so glad to get away from birthday parties, Christmas parties, Easter parties when I came to Thailand.

At one time in my life Branston bake beans eaten out the can was lovely. ????

 

[billd766]

48 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Im partial to a few English style pork pies and a bit of mustard if I can get them M&S 

I used to make them but I have a breathing and a balance problem nowadays.

 

They tasted great but really need Coleman's mustard.

[billd766]

25 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Yeah Bill understand I'm not a food person so glad to get away from birthday parties, Christmas parties, Easter parties when I came to Thailand.

At one time in my life Branston bake beans eaten out the can was lovely. ????

 

When I was in the RAF in the 1960s to the 80s baked beans came in 10 lb tins and they weren't Heinz or Branston.

 

They just got dumped into a 5 gallon bain marie to get heated.

 

I used to prefer cold mushy peas straight from a tin in the fridge.

[ChipButty]

10 hours ago, Farmerslife said:

God, pork pies!

Terrible, terrible, terrible things and I absolutely love them! I would quite cheerfully kill for a pork pie these days.

They have an English brand in tops, they do in Phuket 

[Rumpelstilskin]

Corn bread crust with pesto not on any restaurant menu, DIY and yummy.

[Kwasaki]

13 hours ago, billd766 said:

When I was in the RAF in the 1960s to the 80s baked beans came in 10 lb tins and they weren't Heinz or Branston.

 

They just got dumped into a 5 gallon bain marie to get heated.

 

I used to prefer cold mushy peas straight from a tin in the fridge.

When I was single I rented out 2 rooms in my 3 bedroom flat to 2 girls £5 per week.

I let them have the run of the place.

I had an electric oven only a year old and they decided to cook Sunday roasts and to there amusement found the oven sparkling clean because it had never been used, there was even wrapping on stuff inside.

I only ever used the grill or one of the rings. ????