Chefs of G@G, how does your cooking compare to restaurants?

[BCRanger10]

Do you ever go to a restaurant and order a dish that you often make at home? How does it compare?

I make great eggs benedict (or at least I think it's good). I've tried it at two different places so far though and... at the risk of sounding conceited...

...I really honestly think mine is better...here's my question about it...

[DishLady]

I'm by no means a chef, but at home I'm used to cooking for a pile of people. We always have visitors who stay over so there's always still an active setting for 5-7. Sometimes neighbors as well. There are some thing I'll never order from anyone bc I love the way I was taught to make it. Mostly ethnic stuff. And I'm hard-pressed to order pasta anywhere unless it's literally freshly cranked out on site fresh daily.

[BCRanger10]

I'm sure you're in fact quite the chef 👨‍🍳

[DishLady]

Meh. There's stuff I like to make and stuff (casseroles, stir fry, etc.) I find too challenging in my little kitchen (e. g., octopus) so I'll have it when I go out.

[BCRanger10]

What's your best casserole?

[DishLady]

There’s one traditional one called pastitsio everyone tends to love (like a Greek baked ziti). I make one with meat during regular days and a vegan one during fasting periods. Very easy. My tuna and chicken casseroles are also popular among my kids’ friends. Thanksgiving I have to make all of them bc they all pile into the house for a home cooked meal.

[BCRanger10]

Ooohhh, I'm planning to make a baked sausage ziti this week! Here's a question I posted last year...

Baked ziti with sausage for dinner! How does it look? ↗

[DishLady]

Nice!

[FreyaRed]

I order dishes I don't cook at home if I go to restaurants. My homemade soups outperform restaurant soups in every category. Generally I use always stock as base, use always fresh veggies not those from stock and lot of meat. I have father and brother to feed so there must be lot of meat and such a soup has to make full.
In restaurants are soups rather appetizer.

[molonski2]

I have no doubt your eggs are far better BC , a favorite dish of mine also.

Here , eating out is pretty cheap , I often instruct them on simple things ( just my wants ) bcoz I'm very careful with diet.

[BCRanger10]

Thank you very kindly 🙏 *hat tip*

[worldscolide]

I make most restaurants look like fast food or frozen dinner..

[BCRanger10]

What's your specialty?

[worldscolide]

It use to be italian food, But its expanded a hell of a lot, to include almost anything but Asian, Im still learning that.

[midnightmoon05]

I am terrible! Get me out of the kitchen before I burn it down 😕🥲

so far I burned 3 pots. Hubby doesn’t allow me in there anymore because he doesn’t want the house to be burned down.
so… that’s my answer.

[BCRanger10]

Aigh... is he the chef of the house then?

[midnightmoon05]

Hehehe sorta … just basic stuff like salad and burgers… we don’t eat much. Kids are out of the house
When they come home, they cook for us 😊 chicken, pasta… still simple stuff.
Other than that… we just order or eat out.

[BCRanger10]

I could teach the both of ya. I am, to put it as humbly as possible...🤭🤭🤭😆😆😆😆... because I'm totally NOT... a culinary captain 🫡

[midnightmoon05]

So kind of you.!!
I’ll let hubby know. @lightbulb27

Does that mean I have to work in the kitchen? 😂

[BCRanger10]

You said it, not me.
https://youtu.be/TFdvfrWS7XQ?is=43W1jR9h-AlBYI1w

[lightbulb27]

The answer is it depends on the cuisine. My salads are better, her miso and oatmeal is good and her secret health drink is awsome. We used to make all kinda of great stuff like fried rice and pasta. can't eat that no more. I make decent fish and burgers are good enough. When want to diversify, we order out.
In general, we can control the salt and sugar and spice, which is nice:)

[BCRanger10]

@lightbulb27 wait... hold up, @midnightmoon05 is your wife?

[midnightmoon05]

Heheheeh - honey, I never made fried rice… did I? You made them I think… I forget. Yes you made yummy pasta!! Too bad can’t eat … high in sodium.

Oatmeal is easy… just boil the oat… I can’t call that cooking. Miso soup? That’s not real cooking.
Shiso drinks? That’s not cooking…
Cooking is like real cheffing … chopping and dicing.

Ranger is a good cook. 🧑‍🍳 I’ll watch.
I love men cheffing in the kitchen. What are you going to make?

[midnightmoon05]

Yes. And we went down to Florida and met older and wiser and his wife Helen. 😊

[lightbulb27]

The secret is out...

[BCRanger10]

"Ranger is a good cook. I’ll watch.
I love men cheffing in the kitchen. What are you going to make?"

Why, thank you, my dear 🍻 What am I teaching you first then? And I'm totally serious.

[midnightmoon05]

What are your specialties?

[BCRanger10]

I make really great eggs benedict. My daughters (they're almost 3) love it... or at least the hollandaise sauce. Whenever I make it, they'll come up to me after I sit down and say "bite of ho'dai' sauce, daddy?" And then they'll stand their with their mouths open in anticipation 😆

Let's see... my baked sausage ziti was a hit last week.

I may give lasagna another try in the coming week.

And to commemorate the liberation of Vienna in 1683 (next Saturday is the anniversary), I'll probably grill steaks.

[MrChinaski]

I'm a tough customer because I cook well. Honestly, I either go out to restaurants for the social experience and don't care about the food, or very occasionally go somewhere seriously top end that I can't possibly even think to emulate at home.

[thegreenyogi]

No comparison whatsoever... what I cook myself is way much better because it's the whole experience of cooling something myself and enjoying the fruits of my labour.

[Iron_Man]

I’m not a good inside cook and I have no experience except for grilled cheese sandwiches. But I can really cook some very nice steaks out on the grill outside. Along with hamburgers. And I was taught by my older brother how to smoke barbecue ribs and I really got that down quickly and I think it’s top of the line 😊

[Kassandra1994]

Well at home I eat salads and water to stay young but ok once in a while I do reward myself I order dinero that are very hard to cook at home to it is worth to spoiled yourself once in a while😃

[Massageman]

Depends on the dish. I make great omelettes- I've only been to one restaurant that made them better. Oriental and Hispanic specialties I can fake fairly well, but I wouldn't consider them authentic at all.

[TrueConfection]

My husband and I both prefer my cooking over restaurants. When we do go out though, we usually order food that I don’t make at home like French fries or some specialty.

[queenofcardio]

I like my salmon better.

[BCRanger10]

My sister makes really good salmon.

How many other places have you compared yours to?

[exitseven]

I cannot say that everything I cook is a culinary delight but nobody ever got dysentery from something I cooked.

[NathanDavis]

if I ever go to a place... it better be a few times better than what I can make myself

[AviatorTom]

My cooking is below average, good enough to eat but it much more.

[jamesgoldman]

I generally order stuff I can't cook myself or things they can't mass prepare

[Pterodon]

My Tex-Mex recipes are very much restaurant quality

[loveyouoak]

Unfortunately not good.

[Eiram5]

I can cook basic stuff. But fancy stuff no.