Ask HN: How many hackers (or even tech enthusiasts here) love to cook?

The Barefoot Contessa was making some awesome chicken dish while I was eating lunch in our break room and it made me really want to save a little more time for trying to cook better. I think I have mastered all thinks crockpot - it is time to step up the game! ;)

If you do like to cook, what do you cook?

I love cooking. My favorite dish is braised pork tenderloin. Soak it in a brine with citrus and herbs overnight, sear it in a stainless steel pan on all sides, then put it in the oven (pan and all) to finish it out. Serve with green vegetables, mashed potatoes, and a glass of beaujolais nouveau.

I love cooking. In fact, my most recent app, http://7courses.com was created to solve my problem of having far to recipes to manage.

I am going to try this out. Looks easy and just what I need to store my favorites.

Anything. I enjoy baking more than cooking meals, but I happily do both.

Simple delicious dish: carnitas. Use cheap pork shoulder (incidentally, the cheaper the cut of pork, the tastier!). Cut into 1" cubes and drop into a pot and add enough water to cover. Squeeze half a lime and add some salt to taste. Bring to boil and skim off the yucky stuff floating on top. Partly cover and reduce to SLOW simmer and let all water boil off. You are causing most of the fat to render out of the meat. It should cook for at least an hour. When water's all gone and pork is starting to fry in it's own fat, add chilies, garlic, onion and maybe more lime juice. The meat will be falling-apart tender by this time and now crispy outside since it's been frying.

Eat as is, or add a cup of rice and let the rice partly fry in the oil, then add 2 cups water or veggie broth, achiote (cooked, crushed annato seeds), more onions and peas & carrots and cook until rice is done. Enjoy.

Delicioso one-pot meal! Much easier to do than to read about it. Should not take more than 5 minutes preparation time.

Aside: in my single days, I quickly learned that one of the easiest ways to impress women was to cook for them. Following JWZ's philosophy of doing what gets you laid...