I love to eat, but I can't cook! Can you?

Hi! Before I also don't know how to cook. Just the basic ones, like you do. But now, I'm trying to cook dishes for main meals. I'm now trying to cook dishes which has chicken as my main ingredient, since chicken is relatively easy to cook. Literally, you'll just have to wait till the flesh turns white, and the chicken's almost done. Since I'm just starting to learn how to cook, I decided to master first on how to cook chicken dishes. And when I'm confident enough, I'll try pork dishes. I usually get my recipes online or in cookbooks. I just follow what's stated and eventually I play around with the flavors and spices.

I love to eat too! I can cook a little but I'm more confident if my mom is there for me to answer my questions while cooking.

Oh, you're not alone. Cooking is also my weakness. I can cook vegies but I can't cook chicken, pork and beef recipes. LOL. I'm not confident in cooking. I'm glad that my husband can cook. I guess I have to learn cooking, too. I don't cook when I stay in our boarding house. I just prefer buying cooked food. They say I can save if I'll cook but vegies, meat, seasonings are getting more expensive nowadays. I guess buying cooked food is better. Cooking takes me time, too. I hope we'll learn how to cook someday.

Well, I deeply love eating. I like almost everything (I don't like fish that much). But when it comes to cook... hm... I like cooking to be honest. But I don't really want to do it, and then to wash the dishes. I love cooking pizza and pasta. I also love doing bbq (here in Argentina we call them Asado).

ye, i do cook good, but I am more than lazy to cook things! I just love eating and would rather sit and eat whole stomach than to cook food. I would love to cook for others specially if the person I am cooking to are food lovers. It gives us immense pleasure to see people loving the food that we have prepared!

Before I got married, I was like that too. I cook now, but I am not as good as my mom. Thank God my boys are easy eater, they eat anything I cook. There are many simple and easy recipe now. You can just mix and match just like clothing. As long as you have the key ingredients such as soy sauce, worchester sauce, garlic, salt, pepper, brown sugar, vinegar, broth then you are good to go. When I want sweet stuffs, I just add brown sugar, or BBQ sauce. There are a lot of simple recipe. You can even use soup cans, salsa, or can tomatoes as part of the sauce. I usually go to Campbell to get easy recipe using their soup cans. So try it, you get the hang of it easily. After all a home cooking meal is much healthier and cheaper than eating out.

I love to eat too :) I love food and it shows on my weight..hehe! but just like you, I can't cook and I don't enjoy cooking as well but as a wife I have to learn to cook even simple dishes. Now I know few simple pork and chicken recipes (I hate those complicated recipes) and my husband appreciate it very much whenever I cook which is very seldom though.

Please don't say you can cook.You can and you will.As this is the start so don't be too positive.Learn the skills.Read the recipes and follow it perfectly.Don't take any step for granted.Cooking is a science which has to be learned especially the basics and then you can and will be able to move on to complex cooking.I tell you this because this is how i did too.Earlier most things i tried to cook turned bad or not so good,It happens even now but only if i don't follow it properly.One has to think properly before attempting it.I also read a lot of cooking books techniques shows and either write down the tips or try to remember it.All the best.If i could you can too.

It's easy for me to cook when I have the recipe and instructions on how to go about it. But somehow it isn't quite the same when I compare the same dish with that of my Dad's, and he didn't even use a cookbook or anything. I guess there are really people who are gifted at this.

I also love to eat and only learn to cook when I got married. Thanks that my husband is a good cook and he taught me a lot when it comes to cooking. So I suggest that you must learn how to cook at an early age. Now I am teaching my kids to cook simple dishes so they can cook something for themselves when I am not around.

i think cooking is a good hobby for us women,since in the near future we are about to be married and must learn how to cook,it is a responsibility i guess for moms to know how to cook,well speaking of me,,i know how to cook a little but not that much.. simple dishes i guess and the common dishes.. at least i know a little hahah..

I too have tried to cook but was unable to make something tasty.I dont know why it is not possible for me to make it nicely!!!!

If you are willing to do some trial and error, you will improve. I learn best by trying it myself, other people learn best from watching others and copying them. Sometimes I learn from sites like allrecipe.com...and make sure to read the reviews of the recipe before I try it! They are very helpful. I also learn when I don't have all the ingredients and I have to make substitutions. I look up substitutions I can use and then become more confident adapting recipes on my own and cooking without recipes. Just keep at it and don't give up when you make a mistakes. Instead, investigate what went wrong and you will surely improve it next time!

I can cook but cooking is not my forte. I don't like cooking. I never cook at home so I thought I don't know how to cook too but when I live with my boyfriend in AU during my holiday I discover that I know the wife thing in the kitchen. He told me I am a good cook. Since I am not cooking at home I didn't know that I already knows how even without a recipe. I just imagine the taste and how they cook it and gotcha I did it well. Maybe you have to try with simple cooking first and small serve that way you learn slowly and they said cooking must be in your heart not just you are force to cook.

I rather eat out than cook.I have no time to go to the market and cook

That's my dilemma and a blessing. It's hard that I don't get to cook all my favorite food but I'm also glad because if I did, then I would weigh very, very heavily. I know how to cook one dish though and that is crab in coconut milk. I really enjoy eating this with plenty of rice. Have not cook this for a while since I'm trying to trim my rice consumption to once a week.

Ohhh then you should search the video in youtube because in youtube explain very well with ingredients and making recipe. I know how to make regular meals like chapati, sabji, curry etc. but not know special dishes but learn to read books or youtube.

Me too! Me too! lol I really want to learn how to cook, but every time I help my mom in the kitchen, I always run away when the hot oil is jumping out of the frying pan. hahaha.. I think I have to deal with it first before I decide to learn how to cook. hihihi.. PS: what a lovely dog you have!!! =3

You will learn how to cook if you really wanted to. Plenty of cooking schools out there that can teach the proper technique. However, I agree with you, some are they're born with it. Well, I learn cooking when I was in high school, one of our subject is homemaking which includes cooking. It was just basic but it develops when I am away from my parents and having my own family. I just don't have any choice rather than, to cook. My first big event was when my son's firstday birthday, and so on. I also search some recipes from online and watch video tutorials in cooking and fruits arrangement.

Same here dear i love eating and cooking aswell, see cooking is not a rocket science its all about interests, generally it has been seen that people with keen interst can cook faster and better, i'll wont go far lets take my example i like cooking and i cook yummy undoubtdly but when i am in mood only then but when i am not in mood no matter how hard i try i cant cook, so its all about dedication and in the begining no doubt mc donalds too would have faced problems making yummy food but a consistency makes everythng perfect one day dont try keep trying i am sure in the coming days you defintily gonna beat KFC, bestiez for life ahead