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Hey all =D Haven't put a blog up in a while (not that anyone cares or remembers :p).
I'll be living alone for the next 3 months so I've decided to take up cooking! Going to be focusing mostly on Italian cuisine, and maybe French after that. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas please feel free to let me know~ (keep in mind that I am a complete noob with no culinary education/experience).
Anyway, this is Week 1 and 2
My first try at an antipasto: Garlic butter mushrooms
Went pretty well for my first ever real dish.
![[image loading]](http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab171/_fOrQQ/P1000003.jpg)
First pasta: a simple Shrimp Marinara with Penne pasta and a 2-cheese sauce (Parmagiano and Marscapone)
This was actually really good, though the cheese sauce was quite thick and maybe too filling :p Kinda melted the cheeses into a pot and let it reduce too much I think.
![[image loading]](http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab171/_fOrQQ/P1000012.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab171/_fOrQQ/P1000013.jpg)
Thats all for now, stay tuned for more of fOrQQ's food adventures XD
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Those look really delicious! I would eat them xD
Lol @ fOrQQ.
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I'd eat the shit out of the pasta dish. (don't like mushrooms so :<)
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MMM did you say shrimp 
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DO WANT
man i'm hungry -_-
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You made me hungry at 12h30am :<
Wow only mushrooms for a meal? hmmmmmmmmm still good :3
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om nom nom. Looks super delicious. Post more pics you get 'em, looking at food never gets old. :D
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great presentation, i hope they tasted as good as they looked 
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Thanks guys :D
@krndandaman: wewt :p wish i was good enough to have a restaurant haha...maybe in 10 years QQ
@firebound12: i had a side of rice and cooked some ham too but i didn't plate it nicely so i left them out of the picture =P
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fuck now i have to go all the way downstairs to the fridge -_-
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just finished working out and this is what i see T_T my fridge has nothing as delicious as that in it atm, need more groceries arrgg
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that looks fuking amazing, dragon you don't eat anything anyways
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As someone who actually really likes cooking and follows chef culture somewhat, this is really impressive to see if its as you say and you have no previous experience with this stuff. As an only child of the youngest in the family I had to learn to cook early on and I've been very grateful. Cooking even decently is incredibly empowering and impressive. I think its a skill every man should have so good luck! You're off to a great start!
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Cool stuff.
When you say garlic butter mushrooms, do you mean that you put garlic and butter on the mushrooms? Or you made your own garlic butter?
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@Ack1027: thanks, it means a lot to me for a vet chef to say that :D i really don't have any true cooking experience other than survival skills (boiling water, defrosting frozen veggies, making ramyun and mac&cheese). never even diced an onion or sauteed garlic before XD my family left me with a bunch of packaged foods but i find it really unhealthy to eat it which is what started me on cooking lol
@Kainzero: well I melted butter and sauteed the garlic and then put mushrooms in. based the mushrooms with a bit more butter after they finished sauteing.
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I just made dinner, but that pasta dish made me hungry all over again.
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Grats on a nice first go at cooking dude. As someone who does it professionally, and has loved cooking for years, I am happy to see another member of TL starting it.
Your mushrooms are a very good start as is the pasta. You mentioned having too thick of a cheese sauce, so next time you can add in a touch of milk or cream to add a liquid base to it.
Very nice first steps though, I hope you keep it up.
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On July 05 2010 14:28 BloodyC0bbler wrote:
Grats on a nice first go at cooking dude. As someone who does it professionally, and has loved cooking for years, I am happy to see another member of TL starting it.
Your mushrooms are a very good start as is the pasta. You mentioned having too thick of a cheese sauce, so next time you can add in a touch of milk or cream to add a liquid base to it.
Very nice first steps though, I hope you keep it up.
Wew another pro :DD thanks a lot~ I'll try that next time I do the sauce. Are there any dish recommendations that you have for amateurs like me? As I mentioned, I'm mostly interested in Italian and French cuisine (Western European I guess, but not exclusive obviously).
By the way, where do you work and what type of cuisine do you cook?
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