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[Harin]

i am just curious....but how often do you cook?

[SuperFly]

I cooked macedonian shrimp pasta last week. Before that I cooked once in 1999. My wife is just better at it than I am.



Oh I forgot, does BBQ ing count?


Arso, I rike eating Korean resrant.

[Harin]

my issue with cooking is that it takes up good 30 minutes or MORE. some lucky people on daves may work only 2 or 3 hours a day, but i work 8 hours from 8-5 mon through fri. when i get home, it is around.......5:30.

cooking is the last thing in my mind. i usually fix myself simple salad or soup and rest 30 minutes before heading to gym.

gawd....i really miss cheap take-outs in korea.

[Metsuke]

I cook all the time. Some days its a form of leisure, some days its out of necessity. Regardless... I enjoy it most days as I find its a positive thing in my life.

[HamuHamu]

5 or 6 nights a week. I find that although it takes a long time, and sometimes your'e reeeeally hungry and don't want to wait , it's something to do.

I always loved cooking, but that was before coming to Korea. Having a kitchen counter that is barely big enough to put a small cutting board on makes it really difficult to prepare food. That, and lack of cupboard space for keeping bowls, or other kitcheny-type stuff.

So, now I don't really enjoy it that much, but as long as I'm not eating alone, I love to feed people -- if it's only going to be me eating, then I usually dont' "cook" but "heat-up" something simple.

[phaedrus]

[tzechuk]

I cook everyday... but then again, I am a stay-at-home-mum and a housewife.... so I don't really have anything else worth doing except domestic chores.

[Son Deureo!]

I'm trying to cook more often these days. I like Korean food, but I've gotten sick of eating at the same restaurants and the same 10 or so dishes every single day. Unfortunately, I also work pretty long/odd hours, the downside of an adult hogwon.

My solution is to make a big pot of soup or stew on the weekend to eat for the beginning of the week. Chili, ratatouille, clam chowder, lentil soup, split pea soup.... I'm trying to experiment with new and different things. I also have an electric rice cooker, so there's always rice to go with it.

I don't have time to cook all the time, but this has been saving money and eating better has done wonders for my frame of mind. Then once I get sick of my pot of soup it's back to bibimbap and sundubu for a little while.

[VanIslander]

Yesterday I'd a tuna casserole with lots of cheese; today... hmmm... swiss steak with heaps of tomato sauce.
I cook dinner three or four times a week, just to have something different.
Korean restaurants are so cheap I frequent them often.

[desultude]

Almost every day. I've tried to adapt some Korean style stuff to my western cooking skills.

I love cooking, and I like eating at home, most of the time.

[Badmojo]

Every night.

I wouldn't say what I make is complicated, but it pleases the room.

[PolyChronic Time Girl]

Cooking to me is throwing something in the microwave or boiling water. If I get real fancy, I might put ramyeon into the boiling water.

[Randall Flagg]

I have been in Korea for nearly 2 years and never cooked a single meal. I eat out every day, every meal. Its not that I can't cook or even that I don't like to, its just that restaraunts are easy. I like not having to clean up after I'm done eating.

[eamo]

Supermarkets are expensive here. Meat and vegetables are so pricy. A couple of carrier bags of shopping, enough for about 3 days eating can cost over 50,000 won. Often much more.

I have to admit when there's cooking to be done my g/f does because she's so much better than me at it.....

I would eat at restaurants every night if I could.

[tzechuk]