Now that we found love what are we gonna do? The Winter 2011-12 Gay Thread

buying a rice cooker with a timer legitimately changed my life

i think i maybe would care about these things if i was rolling in cash because i don't like the DIY aesthetic enough to, um, do it. i'd rather just buy expensive shit that looks nice. but i can live without it.

if i cooked rice i'd have to think about cooking sauce which...no. pasta you can eat with frozen peas and pesto and no hassle whatsoever unless i burn it all.

It would be a plus to find some 30-year-old culinary whiz who's into me.

I make spaghetti with Ragu Light sauce once a week.

hi cad! damn, you never know what topic's going to bring the nice straight boys into the thread.

Easiest meal ever (learned from ILX's Jenny): throw rice in rice cooker, put Trader Joe's tuna curry packet on steam basket, press Cook. Pet cat, check ILX, exfoliate T-zone, listen for rice cooker to sound all-clear. Combine rice + tuna, chow down.

It would be a plus to find some 30-year-old culinary whiz who's into me.

indeed, at this rate i think it's more likely that i stumble into money and hire a full-time chef though

i am lucky to have Ryan's cooking in my life, he is like my very own mama celeste !

the banginest snack for me is crackers + almond butter + apple slices. mmmm. easy enough for both lex and i.

otherwise i'm stuck with frozen pasta dinners (trader joe's has some that aren't gross) or turkey burgers or some kind of pitiful sandwich. over and over and over. at some point i'm going to have to focus some energy on finding something new. preferably less carbs!

the best is when my dad brings me a bunch of stuff he's made that i can freeze and treat myself to on special occasions.

guys you should all come over tonight, i'm making veggie burritos

You never know what paprika's gonna perk up the gay thread's cock.

would do! xp

i'm such a vulture when people offer to cook for me. YES PLEASE

i eat a lot of soups like http://www.newcoventgardensoup.com/ and similar ranges - healthy, light but filling, really tasty, varied, just pop in the microwave and accompany with a bit of bread or toast

guys you should all come over tonight, i'm making veggie burritos

beer or red or white wine?

make some cuba libres, Soto

My pa is the mojito expoit. I can't stand there and crush mint leaves and sugar three minutes per drink.

i host an annual port & stilton evening so i'd just bring something along those lines

beer plz

please let's stop talking about Stilton, mojitos, burritos, and rice thirty minutes till lunch.

micheladas, maybe

wow some of you guys are INSANE

and by some of you guys i guess i just mean lex

cooking rice is pretty easy, also insanely cheap and pretty filling

idk how y'all profess to eat out all the time, aside from the expense it can be more time consuming/tiring than just baking some chicken and making some rice

- i am hardline w/r/t being controlled: my attitude is always "this is how i live my life, if you don't like it the door is that way". fuck a compromise!

ALSO THIS IS NUTS

lol jordan i love that u cook

love some baked chicken

how is that nuts!

i have never professed to eat out all the time, once a week at most and often not even that. i have professed to scavenge on bread and cheese and crackers and fruit and yoghurt all the time

one of my absolute favorite things to do w/ my bf is cook. shit is super fun, also it's really cool to just have nice meals at home, idk.

i've no idea how one even begins to bake chicken or indeed do anything with raw meat.

love some baked chicken

― surm, Tuesday, March 13, 2012

After elmo's party I'll put some chicken thighs in the oven.

i have professed to scavenge on bread and cheese and crackers and fruit and yoghurt all the time

― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:56 AM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

i think this is actually more crazy than eating out all the time, but i guess if you can live that way, more power to you. personally i would end up murdering someone.

there is absolutely no connection between (my) cooking and nice meals. it has never even nearly happened

lex, it's not calculus. I was only taught to cook the most basic of items years ago when I lived at home; the rest I acquired on the internet and having conversations.

Brooklyn has some cheap takeout, albeit not as cheap as it used to be.

I have cooked rice. It tastes better when others do it. Also I am doing things after work 3 or 4 nights a week -- it's why I live here -- so I can't eat dinner at home.

I'm pretty sure that the next man I seriously date I will drag into the chicken and force him to watch me boil water and butter muffins.

dang you guys are giving lex a hard time. if i lived alone i would live like a total bachelor too. not that crayzy y'all

tbth i have a lot of stuff i need to do in the evening time before i can even think about cooking

cooking chicken/fish/steak/pork is really easy!

The trick with pork and chicken is to leave it marinating the night before -- a step that takes literally two minutes. That way you just pop it in the oven or on the stove when you return from work the next evening.

i say i didn't try very hard but i tried hard enough to learn that 100% of the time something unexpected will go badly wrong and 100% of the time i will hate the whole process even when that thing hasn't happened yet. i feel about it like i feel about public speaking - ie total terror - except i can actually visualise myself overcoming it with public speaking. in the kitchen i go to pieces and it's just not gonna be any other way ever

i live with 3 housemates, 2 of whom cook regularly and the other of whom burns porridge because she feels too much pressure while it's on the stove

oh no doubt you will burn the rice or undercook the chicken your first time. That's normal.

i don't even know what marinating is

i'm lolling so hard at the idea of cracking under pressure while making porridge

lex!

you haven't even talked about cleaning up. I have newspapers on the floor from 3 years ago.

i don't even know what marinating is

it's similar to what some of us do when we're dateless on a Friday night.

i mean the worst that happens (if you're cooking for yourself) is you screw up and have to eat something that's slightly not right and/or just toss everything and learn from your mistakes

You guys are in fine form today. Congrats!

i'm lolling so hard at the idea of cracking under pressure while making porridge

the funny thing is she never actually stopped looking at the porridge because she was so terrified of burning it, and it burned anyway

i mean the worst that happens (if you're cooking for yourself) is you screw up and have to eat something that's slightly not right and/or just toss everything and learn from your mistakes

no the worst that can happen is full-on mental breakdown and tears of frustration, it has sent me to the EDGE OF SANITY

Sotosyn, in his own juices

you can always do this with the milk

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i tried to steam some broccoli the other week and it just...i have no idea why it didn't work. i thought i knew how to do it. i've done it before. but nothing happened. i ended up having to gnaw sadly on semi-raw florets.