I am not confident in the kitchen at all & don't enjoy it. Mostly I make American crap (box mac n cheese w/ salmon & a veg for example) with one Italian & one Mexican mixed in a week. We'll eat Pho or Thai or Pizza for take out. It's pathetic really.
Italian is probably #1. Greek/Mediterranean is probably a close #2.
I also like to cook Mexican, Chinese, Thai, Indian.
We rarely cook "American" unless we're being lazy and throw a hamburger on the grill. I do make things like meatloaf and mac n cheese on occasion but since I'm trying to lose weight, I stopped. I find more "ethnic" foods are healthier. At least the dishes I cook.
The quickest curry I make requires soaking lentils for 30 minutes, making a paste of garlic, ginger, cilantro roots, onion and chiles, frying mustard seeds, then frying the paste with the mustard seeds, then adding a bunch of dried spices and then finally adding the lentils and water and some tomatoes, cooking that for 30+ minutes and then adding ghee and lime juice.
My Indian mother, who is an amazing cook, uses her slow cooker a lot for dal and other lentil/chick pea/kidney bean dishes etc. She usually puts the dry beans in the slow cooker before she goes to sleep with water, salt and turmeric. The next day she uses one extra pot to fry the garlic/ginger etc and then adds it to the slow cooker. She has a huge slow cooker, so once it is all done, she freezes in smaller containers for future meals (and usually sends one for me too :-) )
Hmmm, I feel like we're pretty mixed on this. This week I have 2 Asian dishes (Thai & Japanese), 2 African (Morocco & Kenya), 1 American. Last week, I did 4 American, 1 Italian, 1 Asian (Chinese).
I guess American probably rules with the things we rotate most often, but I honestly cook multiple brand new dishes every week, so it's never very consistent.
Post by elizabethann on Aug 27, 2012 19:17:47 GMT -5
Love making lasagna, spaghetti and pizza (not made completely from scratch thats for sure). Italian followed by American. I would love to branch out and learn to cook some other types of food but I'm really just not that great of a cook, I stick to the simple stuff.