Daban, Iraq
When i was in uneversity i was cooking for my friends and now i became a famous cook in my country . when i come back home i share my wife in preparing a dinner.
Simply, Vietnam
I'd love to cook and I think cooking is one of many way to show your love, special in my country. My parents have daughters, I'm going to get married in a next year. So then, I learn how to cook and practise in whenever I can. I can make a lot of dish but I'm looking my best order.
Ginger, Taipei
I enjoy cooking. I think it is a creative work. Every morning I cook breakfast for my dad and me then go to work. He had got pancreatitis three times last year. He likes nature food instead nutrition supplement. Sometime he complained my food. I need some cooking advice for eldly pancreatitis patient. Thanks!!
Mingshu, China
Hello,guys!I'm a girl from Chengdu City of Sichuan Province of China.Sichuan cuisine which is famous for hot pot and spicy food is the traditional food here.I live here since I was born and not only love to eat the spicy food a lot but also enjoy to cook. In the winter season, when chilly temperatures and frigid winds prevail over the land, Chengdu people like to eat food that instantly warms their bodies and lifts their spirits. For that, the hot pot is a delicious and hearty choice. Families or groups of friends sit around a table and eat from a steaming pot in the middle, cooking and drinking and chatting. Eating hot pot is not a passive activity: diners must select morsels of prepared raw food from plates scattered around the table, place them in the pot, wait for them to cook, fish them out of the soup, dip them in the preferred sauce, and then eat them hot, fresh, and tender. They can also ladle up the broth from the pot and drink it.
Helen, Iran
i like cooking a lot and i think it 's a kind of art,my favouire diah is pizza and i am a profsional cook in making pizza .
Ewelina, Poland
I am not a good cook but I like cooking. I just cook when I have time.My favourite dish it's bigos. It is specialy dish from Poland. For a make this food you need so many time thats why i don't cooking regularly.
Rocha, Brazil
For me cooking is a relex time, I'love cooking during the weekends for my family and friends. In Brazil we have a lot of good and differents kide of meals and great recipe like: feijoada, bobo de camarão, churraco (barbecue). The secret is but love to prepare a recipe it is the best ingredient.
Yoko, Japan
I am a good cook,I think.I have been cook for about five years.I like and enjoy cooking everytime I cook.I cook three or four days a week.I often make Nimono in japanese.(Nimono is food boiled and mainly seasoned with soy sause.)Eating out is fun but homemade foods have naturall good tastes.So I like to eat homemade foods,too!
Martin, Czech Republic
I can say I am quite a good cook (other people say that too), but I neet somebody to coof for, I don't like preparing of food just for myself. My "best cooking times" were during my studies in Austria - it was the floor, full of international students, so every evening one of us has prepared dinner for other guys - it was just amazing. Pakistanian, Indian, Lithuanian food.. really interesting.
Simon, Poland
I've become peckish after this programme and I'm going to prepare boiled eggs with mayonnaise for a while.
Divonzir, Brazil
Most of people say I am a good cook when they taste dishes I do. My favourite dish to make is "Parmeggiana steak".I like to cook but I'm always busy doing lots of things.
Tokhy
I am not a cook and I always want to eat prepared food, my favourite dish is steak and qabili palaw and afghan dish that is very delicious.
Rainki, Hong Kong
I love baking cake very much.But of course,I don't bake everyday.I just do it when there is some special occasion.Another favourite dish is chicken wings with honey or garlic.I am not so sure I am a good cook, but I enjoy it.
Byungtaek, Korea
I`m not a good cook. but in these days, i just try to be a good cook. If you live alone, it`s needless to say. You have to prepare all the meals you eat. So if you have any nice methods of cooking by yourself, please let me know what it is. and how to cook.
Camilo, Colombia
My favourite dish to make is the "ajiaco", that is some kind of soup. it is delicious!. and that is one of the most importan typical colombian dish.
Ivy, Taiwan
I am not a good cook but i am a food lover. In fact, i can cook some fantastic food such as one of famous food in my country is stinky tofu. The food is so magnificent. if you have a chance to come to my country, you must try it.
Rafael, Mexico
I´m not considering my self a cook, but I can do it very well. My favorite dish is "Chile relleno" is a kind of pepper but a little bit more spicy; really is very ardous to prepare this dish but at the end it worth it. The bad thing of cooking is do the dishes, I really hate that.
Elaine, Brazil
I dont' like to cook, but I love to eat.
Alex Wang, Canada
I'm just a fledgling home cook. I prepare and cook together with my wife every one or two days. My personal favorite dishes have turned out to be two kinds: One is the dishes I like personally, for example, Fried green pepper with pork; the other is the dished I got praises for, for example, Fried eggplants.I actually like cooking since I started. Maybe that's because there's some element of creativity in cooking and I'm a discriminating eater myself.
Tienueh, Vietnam
I'm studying as a restaurant manager. So cooking skill is one of courses i have to learn. I like to cook very much. When i was a child i usually wish to become a famous chef. And now i'm learning so hard to make my dream becoming true.
Doger, Mauritius
Yes of course I am a good cook. And I really love cooking. My favourite dish is seafood (Fruits de mer). The dish of seafood consists fish, prawn, crabs and so on. Also you always eat the seafood with a fresh salad and it is very good for health.It is an excellent source of proteins, a good source of minerals and some vitamins and it is low in fats. And I have 2 years experiences in cooking. I think that cooking is vital in our life. If you do not know how to cook, please buy a cookbook with basic recipes to get you started. Bon appetit.
Sergio, Brazil
I really enjoy cooking and I cook almost every weekend. My favourite dish is "sukiyaki", a traditional Japanese dish. It is light, uses fresh ingredients, tastes exquisitly and is also very healthy. I advise anyone who hasn't tried it to do so. Japanese cuisine is really special. I like barbecue to, it is a wonderful way to join friends
Obied, Kurdistan
I am good cooker becaus i like to cook.I cook for myself every day,my favourit food is pizza but i cook the popular food in my country they are mostly rice, vegitables,meat,chiken and there are many diffirent foods which i can't cook because want time. However i can cook italian foods like spagety,pasty,ect.i believe when you cook by yourself it's more tasty then already cooked food.
Aleksandra, Poland
Hello! Although I am not a good cook, I think that there is one thing I am good at, namely - baking cakes. I just love it:-)If you want I might share two recipes with you. The first is carrot cake and the second cake is called 'drunk' as you need to add some rum. Both are delicious and easy to prapare, but the result is amazing. Best regards.
Carlos, Portugal
I´m not a good cook, because since i was born i have been living with my parents, and my mother solve that probleme. Now after more than thyrt years e ususaly stay in wekend´s out, and i´m in the begining to learn about cook, i start with laid egg´s, anda continued improving with rice a seatk
Tran, Vietnam
I am not a good cook but i like cooking. I just cook when i have to and my favorite dish is Vietnamese salad, it is an easy food to cook and good for heath. I hope i can become i good cook for myself and many people.
Goiano, Brazil
I'm very good cook, I can make an omelette and a rice with bean. Sorry I1m joking, I don't cook. It's not my favorite hoby
Abdisamad, Somalia
Hello every one.I've been cooking for 5 years , you see iam really good at cooking. however , i live in a foreign country , so my favourite room is the kitchen. My roommates cook , too . I wish i could cook someday for you all. If not possible for only the bbc webcast team . Bye
Fulvio, Italy
I can't say wheter I'm a good cook or not, but I enjoy cooking a lot. I've been living with my mum since I was born, but she is always away, so I had to learn how to cook when I was a child! We (the Italians) have a great passion for delicious and tasty food, and for us it's important to have a good meal every day, and to share it with our families.My favourite dish is "Pasta alla puttanesca", which is typical from Naples (my home-city). To prepare it just follow these simple steps:1. Put in a saucepan a spoon of olive oil, a handful of black olives (without their stones), a handful of capers, some tiny pieces of garlic and some salt.2. When the oil begins to fry, put in the saucepan some big diced tomatoes to make the sauce.3. Cook spaghetti al dente and put them in a large bowl.4. Pour the "capers and olives sauce" (that's how we call it) over spaghetti and serve hot.5. Enjoy it!
Maja, Vietnam
I am a beginer in cooking so I sometimes cook dinner for my family. I have lunch at school so I do not have to cook it. My favourite cuisine is vietnamese( of course cause I am vietnamese) even Czech ( I live in CZ), Italian...that mean dumplings, pizza ... Fast food are delicious but really not so healthy so food by my mum are the best;)
Jacqueline, Brazil
I´m not a good cook, i love to eat, but i hate to cook and i think that to cook well is a gift!!!!!
Tiby
I know to cook, but I don`t like to do this thing!
Mauro, Italy
As a typical Italian man I prefer to eat food cooked by my wife or by my mothers (natural and mother in law). At any rate, when my wife has a flu (fortunatelly once a year in the average) I prepared meals both for her and my doughter. In that case my best is making simple dish such as boiled rice (with olive oil) and fried eggs.
Daniel, Vietnam
I like delicious food, my eating taste is good. My mother cooks very well so i want to be liked her. I plant to study cooking in Australia and become a chef but i am hesitating that is it a right choice. However i have to study English now and improve my vocabulary about food, cooking and the ways to cook. This is a good topic for me to study English.
Wisarut, Thailand
I afraid so. In my point of view relating to how often you cook and what's your favourite dishes to make . I can't imagine how I can do it all. But I am able to cook in some recipts. I bet I can do. e.g. omelette,papaya salad. It is easy to cook .No complicated method and especially everybody can cook except newborn. Just kidding!!!! I cook in several time when my parent go for a work.Anyway in spite of nobody at home, I usually cook in my favourite dishes as I tell. On ocassion I am tedious with those recipts but I have to eat. It does not fair ,doesn't it? If I would like to eat special dish including Tom-yum-kung :Prawn soup,Pad-thai : noodle fried and so on. My mother will go to the kitchen and cook all favourite dises that I can't cook. Yummy!!!! < It make my mount-watering indeed. See you around!!!
Zy, China
i've no idea about cooking,but i think cooking is remarkable,it's a kind of art.Frankly speaking,i prefer nutrition rather than the food itself.
Jesus, Brazil
I guess I´m a good cook. My friends and relations like very much the foods made myself. my favourite dish are barbacue, italian foods, cakes, brazilian foods than bean stew,etc.
Eva, Germany
Unfortunately, I am not good at cooking. I think, I am just too impatient. While doing the cooking one often has to wait for half an hour or longer until the next preparing - step is required. I find it very boring to wait and that´s why I often start to do other things like reading a book, talking to someone over the phone or watching TV in the meantime. While doing that I often forget completely about the cooking and the result of that is a spoilt meal. Fortunately, my boyfriend is a very good cook and so we don´t have to die of starvation. :)
Waheedah, Oman
I like to it Samusa, Pilau and rice bread, my mum she is a good cook I think I am lucky to have mum like that. My self I can bake cakes and biscuits. Thanks
Charles, Poland
I am not much of specialist in cooking, but my "Hungarian Letcho" every time cooked according to prescription from cookery book may be of the good taste not only in Poland. I'm not modest, am I?
Nhan, Vietnam
I can cook but don't well. Somthing, I Join with my mother. Myselt is woman, I think cooking is important for every in my family. I don't have much free time so I only take advantage at the weekends. Vietnam have much eating and drinking, I hope will save up for cooing.
Zahida, Pakistan
I can cook if i have to cook something. I do cooking on off but not on regular basis. I can cook every pakistani food but how much delicious that things can tell the only suffering people (those who have to eaten my dish). Just jocking I am sure people like my cooking. Hope I can offer all of u, so that u can judge better. Thanks.
Mario, France
Good morning everybody,as far as my experience is concerned J am pleased to inform that in French school already exists a food programme.For example , yesterday my daughter Rebecca met with a fellow in order to prepare home-made bread.She went to her friend's home and together prepared some kind of bread.J strongly believe that this kind of experiences are very important ,not only for developing cooking skills but also better understand how the food are made of.Thank you for your attention.Mario Strasbourg
Lixia, China
My boyfriend loves my cooking, although I don't think I'm proficient at it. We almost have dinner at home everyday. I like cooking different dishes each dinner such as dumplings, steamed fish, hot pot, fried noodles etc. In fact, Chinese food is profound just as its culture, which is definitely worth of thinking and reaching.
Ryu, S.Korea
I'm not good cook. I don't have enough time to cook. but I like cooking very much. My favourite food is a curry that is easy to make, but taste is good, ane I like this because curry has its own smell. We(korean) have a traditinal side dish 'kim-chi'which korean eat everyday with meal. We think kim-chi is essential when we eat something even if that's a steak, pizza, sphagetti...
Miguel Angel, Chile
i think i´m a good cook. Afortunately, i had a good teacher, my grandma, learning to cook when i was living with her, and now i´ve been cooking by myself three years ago. One of my favourite dishes is "charquicán", easy to prepare. you have to mix on a saucepan different vegetables cutting in small pices: potatoes, green pepper, onion, carrots, squash, some corn, beans and meat with salt and seasoning. Then you boiled them with a cup of water and that´s all.
Leonardo, Argentina
Actually, I hated cooking but since a year ago I started cooking special dishes to my girlfriend and now I really love it!!!! I use to make "cururuni" which is a kind of pasta with potatoes, eggs,a lot a spices, specially pepper filling. In order to cook it well I strongly recommend you to bake it in an oven for almost forty minutes
Blanka, Czech Republic
I am a good cook, whenever I enjoy cooking. When I cook something just to fill my family members´ stomachs, the dish is not always that good. I prefer home-made food, therefore I cook almost every day. During the week, I cook easy-to-make meals, but at weekends I cook my family favourites - mostly traditional local dishes. I also like experimenting in the kitchen, trying new recipes and ingredients. Jamie Oliver´s TV programme is very inspiring. I love cooking lasagne and blueberry cake - my kids favourite. I enjoy salads a lot in summer. I can´t wait for this webcast. Cheers!
Ana Paula, Brazil
Well, I don´t know if I´m a good cook. However, the dishes that I cook are eatable, and the most of the time are tasty.Anyway, I love bake cakes, so I always like to make some "experiences" such as changing some ingredients in order to reduce fat and trans fat in a recipe and adding some whole flour or oats in order to make the cake more nutritious. Although I enjoy cooking, I think it´s only a pleasure experience when it isn´t something mandatory, that you have to do everyday. It´s really nice call friends for a cup of tea afternoon, and offer a piece of cake made by yourself. Best wishes, Ana Paula.
Khadidja, Algeria
thank you for this topic i find it very interesting and will gie me the opportunity to discover other's cookings. In my country the famous dish is couscous . It is light and very delicious and present in all occasions. I advise you to try it if you meet it ."good appetit in advance".
Hassan, India Callum says:
I love cooking but unfortunatly i cook very often.I would like to cook indian foods expecialy Kerala food. My friends says my cooking is yummy.
Thanks for your comment Hassan. 'Yummy' is a great word. For those who don't know it is a way of saying something is delicious, it tastes very good, it's yummy!
Hmed, Sudan
I am loving cook, so i have good ability for cooking. I usualy cook own meal by self and its very tasty. So my mum like to eat my cooking, and of course my favourite dish is porridge.
Hilal Turkey Callum says:
I love cooking çerkez kebabi. Its ingredients are a few potatoes, 3 tomatoes, 3 eggplants, 5 2 garlics, 1/3 steak,. First I sliced all of the ingredients afterwards, I should cut everthing that I prepared like a cube. I fried by one by after that I mixed all the ingredient together. At the another pan that I cooked 3 of tomatoes and 2 of garlics. And then all of them should to be overwhelmed.Have a good appetite.Actually, My English is not so good I hope that you can understand my writing. Hilal
Yes Hilal, I can understand your writing. It's a very clear description. You might like to know that the verb for cutting something like a cube is 'to dice'. So you would say you 'dice the ingredients'.
Pilar, Spain
I love cooking although I aren't very good at it. My favourite is a Spanish dish called "omelette of potatoes". It is made of potatoes, eggs, oil and onion.(Onion is an optional ingredient) There are one way of doing it, but the result can be very different depends on the time you frie the potatoes or the quantity of eggs. And of course is importat that you add the essential ingredient "LOVE".
Laure, France
Hello, I don't know if I am a good cook, but my daughter eats all I do, It will be ok. I love cooking some salads with some different things like cheese, eggs, tomatoes, peas, rice...I think the best way to being a good cook is loving what you cook.
Kimia, Iran
no i am not a good cook.i love making desserts and ireally can make delicious one. i love spagetti but i have not cooked t yet.also i love making salad because when i look at it it is colorfull and you are eager to eat it at once.ain addition when i pour amount of souce on it, oh i cannot say howmuch i love it.especially lettuce salad with different colors such as green, yellow,red,white,orange an so on.
Dararat, Thailand
I am not really a good cook, unfortunately. but I like to cook even sometime I mess it up. Anyhow I cook quite often for my family and friends. I like spicy food and my favorite dish is one of a typical thai food " green curry chicken with eggplants", I love it especially when it was cooked by my Mom, she is the best in cooking. I do remember the first time I cooked, it was just a simple omelette nobody wanted to taste it.
Tatiana, Brazil
Unfortunately I'm not a good cook.I rarely do something,but my favorite dish to make is salad: it's easy and I do need to be thin!:)
Nancy, China
My best food is potato, and one of my favouriate dish is potatoes cooked togather with pork. In this dish, I prefer that the amount of potatoes is a little bit more than pork, moreover, it's better for the pork to have some fat with it. I am not sure if I can be well understood, but anyway, I like potato very much, no matter how to cook it.
Yanko, Brazil Callum says:
My favorite dish is carbonara pasta. I'm not a great cook, but I can prepare a carbonara pasta, it's easy. The first time it was a disaster, now it's ok. My wife was my master.This is a recipe for carbonara pasta:1. In frying pan put olive oil and fry bacon. 2. In large bowl mix eggs, Parmesan cheese and pepper.3. Cook pasta al dente. Drain and pour egg mixture over pasta immediately, cooking egg etc.4. Add bacon sauce and mix. Serves 4.
Hi Yanko, carbonara is also one of my favourite dishes to cook. I like your recipe, mine is a little different. With the egg and cheese mixture I also add some double cream and a touch of mustard. Not good for the waistline but delicious!
Rawisuth, Thailand
I am not sure I am a good cook but I always fix it when I have a time like holiday. My favourite dish is the Southern dish. It is Thai Curry, Keng Som. It consists of fish or shrimp. The ingredients are 30 chillis, 9 onions, 9 garlics and 2 tamaurics. Then mix them together by blending. After that put Thai shrimp paste and blend again. Take it into pot with water. Heat it until boiling. Put fish or shrimp into the pot. Then put Thai fish saurce and 5 lemonades. Heat it til boiling. Then, Taste it. It is wonderful with Thai Jasmin Rice and eat with fresh vegetables.
Miguel Andrés, Peru
I'm not a cook but I've cooked each day of this latest two years to my family. To be honest I cook really well.Cooking esperiences? well nothing terrible I'd say, maybe rice without sald for example. My favorite dish is "Causa" is delicious . It isn't difficult to cook but is a little bit arduous, it is a very fresh dish, you should try this.