# What's the best meal(s) you've ever cooked? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-meal-s-youve-ever-cooked/747159 "2016-02-26T02:22:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-meal-s-youve-ever-cooked/747159/21 "2016-02-28T03:34:47Z")
I don’t make anything very complicated, but I’ve got my favorites: Grilled chicken and vegetable pasta, baked walleye and perch, city chicken, fried corn with peppers and bacon and ginger jasmine rice. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-meal-s-youve-ever-cooked/747159/22 "2016-02-28T23:37:49Z")
At a place I used to work, a bunch of us went to an Italian place for lunch. One of my co-workers and I got the same thing, chicken in white sauce over pasta. We both agreed that it was fantastic. A day or two later I decided that I was going to replicate it at home. I have almost no talent for cooking and no idea what the heck I was doing. I went to the store and bought a bunch of stuff I guessed they might have used. The only two things I knew they used were wine and green onion. I grabbed a random bottle of cooking wine, some green onions and went home and had at it. It turned out great! It is probably the best thing I’ve ever cooked. I took what little was left over to work and gave it to the co-worker. She agreed that I nailed it. I should have kept making it but I never attempted it again. My other thing is I make a pretty mean Asian-ish spicy kabob. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-meal-s-youve-ever-cooked/747159/23 "2016-02-29T18:26:35Z")
Once I had some corned beef left over from St Paddy’s Day, and I made corned beef hash with it. It was the best corned beef hash I’ve ever had in my life. Many times since I’ve tried to replicate it, and I always fall a little short. But hope springs eternal… The best dish I can cook consistently is pot roast in foil. Using three-foot-wide aluminum foil, make up a packet with a pot roast, some carrots, some chunked onion, and some potatoes. Cover that with a couple packets of onion soup mix; add perhaps a quarter-cup of water and seal the foil packet. Bake at 350F for two or three hours. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-meal-s-youve-ever-cooked/747159/24 "2016-02-29T18:39:08Z")
I have a spaghetti sauce recipe that I have been working on since I was a teenager. It evolves over time and some ingredients make the permanent list and some don’t. It is always a good time spending a day in the kitchen making spaghetti [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-meal-s-youve-ever-cooked/747159.md?page=1)