Comments on: Are you a Cook or a Baker?

By: TMTTYRR

TMTTYRR — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:34:07 +0000

No, I’m not at all behind on reading your blog. Not a bit.

As for cook or bake, I do both. It depends on what’s going on. Just ask BFF Liz. If I’m cooking, she’s there for dinner.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:18:20 +0000

I love to cook, and am ok at it.

I do love to bake. I love to make up recipes. Good thing since I do it for a job. I bake everyday type stuff like brownies and then I have to do speciality type stuff when we have important people come through. I like to have a color or a theme and make up an image in my head. I know some cake decorating and have been enjoying learning more. Right now I am working on gum paste flowers and such.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:45:41 +0000

Cook here! Love to experiment with ingredients. If I bake, it’s usually due to birthdays or holidays. I can, but like cooking best. Packaged cookies are usually present in this house. I like to save time on that and spend time on other things — like knitting!!! ;D
~Anne

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:00:24 +0000

Instead of amok or amuck, how about asock?

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:52:40 +0000

I am a cook – baking is too exact an art for me to be very successful- I do it evey once in a while when the Chocolate muse hits. My nest is so empty now that my twins are off to college. It’s just me and the cats. I even offer to cook for the neighbors so that I have people to eat the meals I prepare.

By: marnie

marnie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:18:13 +0000

I am definitely a cook. Queen of the one pot wonder. I love making stews and other slow cooked savoury meals.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:41:34 +0000

I kind of think I’m both. As a cook, I rarely follow a recipe. I sort of concoct (sp??) a dish up based on what I have on hand and what I think will taste good together. Occasionally, I follow recipes. However, I become a baker around the holidays or special occasions, following a recipe to a T (well, sometimes I may throw in some chopped nuts or chocolate chips) because of the chemistry involved. That said, I plan to cook a nice dinner this weekend for my friend’s birthday and I will follow a new recipe to cook salmon. I also plan to bake a bread pudding, using Panera Bread’s Cinnamon Bread — they had a recipe card out during the holidays.

BTW – I tried your Mexican Calzones back in January using ground chicken instead of beef and they were delicious!!!!!!! That recipe is a keeper, for sure. Last year, I made your Italian Beef in the crockpot — also very good. I need to make that again!!

By: Theresa in Italy

Theresa in Italy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:06:19 +0000

I’d rather bake, but baking is more of a special occasion thing, and right now all the family birthdays are behind us. Cooking, unfortunately, is every day. And I’m with you on the shopping. Because I live in this small town (village, really), I end up having to go to one shop for this and another shop for that, old world style. If you’ve got all morning, it’s a lovely custom: walking around the square. running into people you haven’t seen for a while and catching up, ducking into the nearest bar for a quick espresso. But it really does take all morning!

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:02:58 +0000

I am most definitely a baker! I can cook, in fact I do cook, and cook very well. However, my sister has the creative touch with cooking, and does marvelous things with a pork loin and fruit. I, on the other hand, like having both the strict regulations of measurement of baking, while having the option to decorate to my own taste. I love nothing more than a nice big cupcake, but also enjoy putting together fancy restaurant-style desserts. And bread…better yet, beer bread. YUM!!

By: jaci

jaci — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:03:02 +0000

I’d rather bake than cook. My family isn’t starving, so I guess the cooking is okay.