Can you just throw anything together out of anything in the kitchen?

so you are having a nice time with pomegranates!! yes extra of anything makes you use it more in your cooking especially if it is perishable. i once had excessive bananas. however i ended up gifting it to friends and relatives. you can also dry pomegranates and powder it. then just sprinkle it onto any dish....gives a distinct flavor.

Wow, you can improvise with anything in the kitchen, but I can't. I nearly make the dishes as per the referring to a recipe. Because I worry that I will put wrong component to mix, so I always don't improvise something.

I do try to improise and use what I have. Hubby does too, but what is bad is to decide we have to have one more thing so we can make this or that, and then it just gets out of hand.

hi thea pomegranites oh they should be coming in the stores here soon. Pomegranite cakes that should be good I would ' think. I have read you can eat the seeds,but as I have diverticulitis which means little pouches along the intestines, my doctor told me I must not eat anything with seeds, or nuts, or corn, and the one time I disobeyed that ended me up in the hospital with bleeding diverticulitis so cannot have even pomgranite seeds. well anyway I seldom' used recipes in making most dishes as I had to use what I had most of the time so I did a lot of experimenting and some of my experiments were really good; sometimes I invented a new recipe to use up some produce someone had 'given me like the ton of zucchini that some one insisted' I take. so zucchini went into just about everything. he he he

Hi ya thea09 I can honestly say that I am a useless cook and can't throw anything together, I so wish I could. My kids are fussy eaters to a degree and one especially doesn't like change. If every I say use peas in a pie instead of brocolli he refuses to eat it. Sometimes it is nice to have a change of things as it gets boring eating the same thing but he makes it so difficult for me to do that. Most of the time I just tell him that if he doesn't eat it then he will go hungry and have no dessert. I refuse to cook somthing else for him!

I try to improvise a dish out of a different array of foods. But I am not that good at it. I admire people that can make something good with a bunch of different food ingredients. My food is just edible and not that tasty. lol.

I can. There was this one time when my mom was away for the day, and I came back so hungry. Was too lazy to buy food outside and I did not want to order takeouts, so I decided to whip up my own butter fried rice. Just basically added everything up, some salt, some pepper, some scrambled eggs and there it was; my dinner, LOL... Sounds like cakes are good options; sounds delicious enough for me. Yum2x..

When I shop I plan out my left overs! So when I cook something up I'll all ready have a plan for the leftovers! I'm pretty good at coming up with something that's laying around or as you said if a friend brings me something that I don't have plans for! I normally don't need a recipe but baking times sometimes throw me off! tdemex

I tend to do that make anything out of what I have got in the kitchen cupboards and freezer if you can make a sponge cake you can use any fruit or jam coconut ect ,or pastry fat and flour make a pie with meat or eggs and bacon ham.eep the basics in your cupboard and use your imagination.My son said once that was lovely cake mum can you make it again and I forgot what I put in it,so the next batch of thrown together tasted completely different.Great fun.

When i cook i like just putting things together. That makes it like your not eating the same things all the time. Im sure your pomegranate cakes are going to turn out real good. Pomegranate's are one of my favorite fruits.

I'm no good in the kitchen to be honest so I would probably panic if I just had basics! I always panic when it comes to the kitchen because half the time I never know what I'm doing

Yes, absolutely! In my efforts to cut expenses, I try to see to it that nothing goes to waste. Over-ripe fruit makes wonderful muffins or breads. And any kind of veggie at all can go into a pasta or rice casserole, or into an omelet. I hope your cakes turn out really well :) Karen

Hi thea! I guess I can say yes to that :) But not with cakes coz we don't have an oven :D I've tried baking before but that was only during our cooking class in high school :) But when it comes to viands, yes, as long as I have the basics around I can pretty much cook anything delicious enough. I've tried that several times when I get tired of cooking the same kind of meal for weeks. I pretty much just mix the ingredients and make sure that they complement, that's the most important thing I guess. I love experimenting with cooking and I also don't really follow the recipe, usually, I like making my own, LOL :D

Yes, I suppose I am pretty good at using what I have in the kitchen. Ia m the sort of cook that doesn't follow a recipe anyway so I can throw things together. I am finding I have to do this at the moment as I am unemployed and we have to make everything stretch as far as possible so I am really trying to use up what we have in the cupboard before buying a load of other stuff. Hope the cakes turn out good!

I have never (to my knowledge) eaten a pomegranate, though I do have a dim recollection of them growing in our backyard in England. I remember eating the blackcurrants and gooseberries, but I can't remember pomegranates. So please, could I have a taste of your cake, when cooked? I know it will be a good one. I haven't used recipes for many years. When I bought an electric slow cooker, I thought I'd better buy a recipe book so I knew what I was doing with it. I did read a few recipes, but it has never been used as such and never opened since. I must confess I do a few strange things with my cooking. If I have fruit which is over-ripe I fry it with the steak, which my family finds unusual, but they enjoy it. When cooking most things, I just open the cupboard and the fridge and throw in anything that looks feasible. I don't care about what goes with what: it all mixes well. I don't think I cook anything the same way twice.

I can start with one or 2 ingredients and an idea of where to start,whether it be a soup or a main course,and make it up as I go along..the process works for Me!

I do....sometimes with much success other times I find a direct path to the garbage can with it.....but that's what we all need to do.....experiment! LOL...

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Pomegranate cake, that sounds interesting thea. I havent heard about that flavoured cake. how was it to taste? You make a cheese/mayo dip and throw in some pomegranates. It looks good and definitely tastes good. I love experimenting though many times the outcome is disastrous. hi hi, but I never back off hi hi. I never stick to a recipe as I wont be satisfied unless I add something of my own hi hi. It so happens that when you add something not mentioned, the taste improves and definitely tase diffrnet from the stereotyped one. I recently added pasta seasoning to sweet corn egg soup and it tasted good.

Hello thea what an interesting question. Yes I often just make up recipes as I go along based on what is in the cupboard that day. Keeps things from getting too dull. You can also stumble onto some new family favorites - and some not so favorite. So what did you do with the rest of the pomegranates. I might would try a jelly or jam?