18 Dishes Every Home Cook Should Know How to Make, According to Chefs

[bbqboy]

18 Dishes Every Home Cook Should Know How to Make, According to Chefs

Another list…

[Harters (John Hartley - a culinary patriot, cooking and eating in northwest England)]

@bbqboy

Another list…

And, as ever, it’s another one where it’s, erm, in the eye of the beholder.

There are dishes there that I have absolutely no interest in making - not least because I can easily buy an acceptable product at the supermarket. Pasta, for example.

Then there’s the dishes that didnt make the list that are, in this house, pretty much essential cooking - like a good stew or casserole.

[bbqboy]

As always, you are the voice of reason. And common sense to boot.

[Respectfully_Declined (Respectfully)]

@Harters

There are dishes there that I have absolutely no interest in making - not least because I can easily buy an acceptable product at the supermarket. Pasta, for example.

You can buy pasta at the market that’s as good as homemade? I’m moving to your neighborhood.

[pilgrim]

Pad Thai? Duck? Both interesting but hardly
necessities of (my) life…

[eleeper (Evelyn C. Leeper)]

Same here, as well as the pasta, mayonnaise, and (for us) the red meat dishes. Now, chili (both red and green, using soy protein instead of meat) is an essential in our house. YMMV.

[Harters (John Hartley - a culinary patriot, cooking and eating in northwest England)]

@Respectfully_Declined

You can buy pasta at the market that’s as good as homemade?

I have absolutely no idea. Never having made it at home I have nothing to compare it against. What I wrote is that I can buy an “acceptable” product.

[Respectfully_Declined (Respectfully)]

@Harters

@Respectfully_Declined

You can buy pasta at the market that’s as good as homemade?

I have absolutely no idea. Never having made it at home I have nothing to compare it against.

Lol. In that case I’ll cancel the movers.

[bbqboy]

I’m with you. Black bean dip and sushi rice?
Really?
I was wondering how far removed from reality these chefs are.
Quite a ways, it appears.

[naf]

Sushi rice? I thought the Japanese apprentice need 5 years to learn from a sushi master: first few years just to learn to cook rice, and after 3 years one is allowed to touch the fish.

Don’t make French fries at home. No mayonnaise and black bean dip as well.

[pilgrim]

While I’ve been cooking for a lot longer that the author and associated chefs have been alive, there are many foods/dishes I’ve never cooked, have no idea how to cook, but should the yen arise, I can get help from Mr. Google and muddle my way to a presentable dish.

[DavidPF]

Roast chicken AND spatchcocked chicken, both on a list of essentials: has been reported to the Department of Redundancy Department’s Division of Oven-Roasting In Ovens Division.

[DavidPF]

@Harters

Then there’s the dishes that didnt make the list that are, in this house, pretty much essential cooking - like a good stew or casserole.

If I was trying to make a list of “only essentials”, I might be persuaded to include only one or the other of those, but “both” seems better to me, and “neither” wouldn’t suit me very well.