OT: I'm Learning To Cook

[Hell Puppy]

Originally posted by Hooper@Nov 8 2003, 09:42 PM
I'm talkin gourmet here, not eggs, bbq, etc.

I'm making 2-3 gourmet meals a week, suffice it to say my wife is happy to get out of the kitchen and i've been getting a lot more sex

However the primary thing i'm learning here is that it's very anti-climactic.

For example, i just made a Pan-roasted striped bass with wild shitake mushrooms, potato gnocchi, and tarragon-reggiano cream sauce out of Emeril's book with a fine pino gris.

It took me 3 hours and 10 minutes from start to finish. It took my wife and i 15 minutes to eat it. It will take at least an hour to clean up.

The *ACT* of cooking is the fun part for me, severe mutli-tasking, learning something new, creating at the same time, it's so much fun!!

I guess what i'm asking is, is anybody else here learning/learned to cook gourmet cuisine, do you do it often? do you have books that you like a lot? What do you do to extend the pleasure after the meal?

All that and 12-18 hours later it's nothing but a big ole stinking turd...