Of course I can. My parents have had me helping with meals for a long time, and it has paid off. I can make all the generic breakfast things: eggs, bacon, sausages, pancakes, waffles; as well as lots of things for supper.
None of the supper stuff is done without a recipe (and none is super fancy), but I can still make it just fine. Hamburger Helper (if somebody can't make this, that is sad), hamburgers, steaks, pork chops, spaghetti + homemade spaghetti sauce, some potato things...hmm, I've made some quite good spaghetti carbonara, fettuccine alfredo, as well as some other cool recipes, including my favorite: Pizza Hotdish, which is actually a really simple recipe involving just hamburger, pizza sauce, cheese, and whatever spices you want to use, and then some dough on top and bottom.
I also can make a decent amount of desserts, but nothing fancy when it comes to this...just poppyseed cake, a bunch of different bars that I can't think of, some really good cookies.
I'm probably missing some stuff, but if I ever want to cook something that I've never done before, and Betty Crocker cookbook isn't descriptive enough, I just look it up on the internet. You can make a LOT of good things if you are just relatively experienced when it comes to cooking. For some of the more complicated dessert things, I have to depend on my mom making them, though, more so because I'm scared to wreak my first batch than for sure not being able to do it.
Quite honestly, I don't get how people always have to go out to eat, I actually prefer a good homemade meal to a meal you get at a restaurant.
Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.
