Well shits to expensive and I’m finally home enough so I’m learning to cook. Turns out when your not being constantly criticized for existing, cooking isn’t nearly as terrible! (Trauma made me hate cooking).
So far I’ve been keeping it very simple. Store bought pasta, store bought sauce, put them together, that kind of thing. I think I’m getting ready to branch out and learn more.
I’d love to hear some things from those of you who know your way around the kitchen. If you have a recipe you love or, a story to tell or, a warning you learned the hard way or, a great website/cookbook/youtube channel or, anything else you feel like sharing.
I’m just here to learn some stuff, hear some stories and get some ideas to try. Thanks for having a fun cooking convo with me!
A few suggestions. My first is to keep what you are doing about fancying up store bought items. It’s so easy to elevate a store bought sauce with some herbs, spices or a few cooked items like sausage or mushrooms. Go crazy with whatever you think will taste good. Add way more herbs and spices then a recipe suggests to see what it tastes like. From here you can spend more time to find what is “worth it” to cook “from scratch”. Unless you are a professional kitchen there’s always items you will make and those you buy.
Second if you want to learn the science and technique of cooking (which you might not want to) there’s one cookbook you need. Salt, Fat, Acid Heat will talk about what you need in each dish. There’s also a netflix series about it if you want a preview. Have fun and eat!!!
Adding that to the list! Thank you.
It’s great for a beginner because it also has recipes that gives you options to trade in and out depending on flavor profiles and type of cuisine. It’s great
Fantastic. I bookmarked it
Samin Nosrat is one of my personal favorites, although it’s always been a good idea to brush up on the classics. If you’re not familiar with a lot of techniques then I second this with Julia Child’s The French Chef as a potential follow-up.
I haven’t done anything Julia Child. It might be worth considering it
I think it’s great reference material because it pulls a lot from older sources, and less is lost in context compared to more historical guides like Escoffier wrote, and even a mild sense of humor that makes the read through feel more personal than other works.