If you dream you are doing cooking dishes and feel the aroma emanating from the pan, you can see clouds of steam and bubbling water, this means that you are expected to actively work on the love front. Perhaps you will have more than one partner at a time, and you will have literally torn to pieces in order to catch the attention paid to each.
Cooking can symbolize creativity. There is a delightful fable which tells how God baked the various ethnic races into being. To be able to move forward in our lives we may need to blend certain parts of our existence in new and original ways in order to succeed. We may need to nurture a new ability. This is often brought to our attention by dreams of cooking. To be cooking in a dream is to be preparing nourishment or to be satisfying a hunger, whether our own or other peoples. This may not simply be a physical hunger, but something more subtle such as a need to make use of the varied opportunities available to us. In a womans dream cooking may suggest work-a-day activities as well as domestic ones, a metaphor for the way she constructs a project. A mans dream may be a way of refocusing on a creative problem. You might like to consult the entries for Bake/Baker/Bakery, Food and Hunger.
To dream of cooking is very lucky, whether it was yourself or someone else doing the cooking. It is a promise of material comforts in the near future. A dream of cooking broth or soup predicts an eventual rise to a position of great power.
To cook a meal, denotes some pleasant duty will devolve on you. Many friends will visit you in the near future. If there is discord or a lack of cheerfulness you may expect harassing and disappointing events to happen.
If in a dream you are engaged in preparation of viands and feel the aroma proceeding from a pan, see puffs of vapor and a swirling of water, it means that you are expected by vigorous activity on the love front. Perhaps, you will have some partners at the same time, and you will be compelled to run around literally like a mad to manage to pay everyone attention.
To cook some food - to help others, to do good things, the success of which will be for you useful and profitable.
Cooking could have many meanings, depending on context:
Preparing or obtaining physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual nourishment or inspiration
Nurturing, motherly love, devotion to family
Creating or creativity
A process or project
The idea of heat, hot, or burning