mana asked Have you ever improvised or put your own sp…

idk how uncommon this is but I've been making a salad of tuna and green onion and spinach.. but I did other veggies too. apparently it goes well for a salad

cheri · 7mo

There was a day where a friend from my girlfriend's high school days wanted to visit and hang out. He works at a pizza place with a 50% employee discount and wanted to treat us to a big old pizza night.

The morning of, he told us he wouldn't be making it that day.

I remember freezer diving for a pack of ground beef and digging into the pantry for canned beans and I went on to make chili in the Instant Pot. I even did another batch in another pot that had tofu instead of beef for the one vegetarian in the house. It was good enough that it washed away all the disappointment of not getting pizza!

Here's the recipe I used!

Serina · 7mo

I think the only time this ever really happened is with peanut butter and herbs de provence, something I definitely haven't been harassing you about recently :P

Most of my cooking really only consists in heating things up, not really trying a recipe or even just considering mixing some ingredients together to see how it goes, because cooking is always a big struggle for me, so making my own interesting meal is an exceptional event lol

~lucidiot · 7mo

Yeah! I sometimes recook leftovers (I dislike steamed veggies, so I pass them on the pan with some oil and seasoning), or mix leftovers into a sandwich, salad, etc. Fun stuff to remix in general

dd🌺 · 7mo

not really. i rarely cook, so...

Jacky · 7mo

I haven't ever really cooked much...

EXCEPT that when I was on keto last year I ended up getting really really powerful cravings for fried rice that I just couldn't resist. So I ended up searching around and finding a keto-friendly recipe that substitutes actual rice for shredded cauliflower and learned how to make that. I'd put in garlic, carrots, onions, broccoli, some egg, a bunch of healthy herb stuff along with some curry powder and pepper and it all came out amazing~! Loved having that stuff around while I was on keto, I'd cook a bunch of it to have throughout the week!!

I later tried some other various proteins with it including chicken, shrimp, and salmon and it worked out pretty well I feel~! It's literally the only time I had done so much culinary exploration and it paid off big for me especially being on keto at the time hehehehe~.

Lian · 7mo

I don't cook often, though I do like putting a little extra vanilla into french toast

the f00fy one · 7mo

Not really, but a few years ago, my local mall had a hot dog place where they would come up with the weirdest hot dogs.. one had spaghetti and mozzarella sticks with pasta sauce on the dog.

Yes, I'm serious.

Dogboy2709 · 7mo

My signature meal is spaghetti with a whole jar of pesto thrown in with the spaghetti sauce. I love it, my family loves it, and one time I made it for my girlfriend and her mom in Norway, and her mom said that it was what spaghetti should really taste like. Sometimes instead of normal pesto I use sundried tomato pesto (I used green pesto in Norway). In both cases I use Classico brand pesto, it's my favorite. I couldn't use Classico in Norway, though, since they didn't have it.

mana · 9 answers · 7mo