Can you cook (well)? Do you have any signature dishes? Do you like to experiment or do you usually cook by the recipes?

Truth is, I pride myself on being a pretty good cook. I cannot bake at all, I don't do deserts in general, but any savory dishes, I'm in.

When I moved out of home and got my own apartment, I couldn't cook shit. Like zero. Making half-decent scrambled eggs was the height of my cooking prowess. After about six months of eating out or buying frozen foods, I was quite sick of it, so I decided that something must change. Of course I was cooking by recipes at first, but quickly I discovered a sense of what works well with what and over the past 3-4 years I almost never use recipes, unless trying something very exotic, but make up my own stuff. Also, a particular quirk, I almost never taste the food I make until the moment it is on my plate, trying to adjust the right spices while cooking, just by having a sense of how much is right. Usually works out well too. When it comes to deserts, I seem to lack that innate sense, so I mostly gave up on that.

A few weeks ago, I flambéed for the first time in my life - ostrich steaks, flambéed with cognac in a sauce of creme fraîche and green peppers. Almost blew myself up and burned down my kitchen, lol. But it tasted good. Tomorrow I am going to cook pigeon for the first time...anyone had any experiences with that?

I cook, usually nothing fancy. A lot of chicken dishes. Have a family spaghetti sauce recipe. A few crock pot recipes. Don't get to cook any seafood or steaks.

But I cook a mean cast iron skillet hamburger. Which is actually what's for dinner tonight.

Also, my wife does the baking. She's incredible.

I don't cook fish or seafood, because I don't like them. But all kinds of meat - sign me up. If I had to go for one signature dish that I excel it, it would probably be different styles of omelettes. I used to host omelette nights at my place.

Also - different chilis.

I LOVE cooking omelettes. As far as eggs go, most of the time I just cook them scrambled. But the best way I've done it is took cook it on a lower heat for about 20 minutes. The eggs don't get super fluffy, but they're so creamy and delicious.

Thing is - a personal quirk - I can only eat eggs for breakfast. It feels weird to eat eggs at any other time of the day for me.

I like baking. I recently tried a Nutella peanut butter marble blondie. First batch came out amazing, second was undercooked because I used a deeper pan.