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shockplague0
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Learning to Cook?
#27322703 - 05/25/21 02:27 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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How should I begin with no prior experience? Recommended resources, books, etc?
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yoosername
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Just look up some recipes and get cooking! Start with french toast, then fry up some diced chicken breasts with salt and pepper, then try making some boneless chicken wings with a BBQ sauce recipe of your choice. Once you master the boneless wings you can set your sights on making a pizza.
Tacos, fried rice, BLT's, and hamburgers are also easy. Steaks take a bit of experience to get cooked just right, but maple marinated steaks are worth the effort.
I'd also recommend starting an herb garden, and getting as close as you can to the source of your food.
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shockplague0
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Will do, thanks. I actually tried a pizza once but it came out bready and all the toppings slid to the center cause I made it in a pan. Still tasty, though. Seems simpler to make than chicken wings, no? An herb garden might be a ways off but I'm very much looking forward to knowing what's in my food. Gonna enjoy eating it too.
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When I make wings I bread the chicken with gluten free breading and bake it on a sheet in the oven. If you're using regular flour you can make crispy deep fried boneless wings pretty easily. I'd look up BWW copycat recipes for your favorite sauce. The honey BBQ chicken goes great with jasmine rice.
Pizza for me is a bit more involved. My pizzas are gluten free, and use goat cheese instead of regular cheese. I load them up with mushrooms, peppers, onions, and either cudighi or chicken sausage for the toppings.
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yoosername
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Oh, something to look into down the road, for a while I was going through copious amounts of garlic turkey sausage. I found out that I could get my local food coop to make custom turkey sausages, so I gave them the recipe and got a bunch made. It wasn't much more expensive than buying the ingredients and putting it together yourself, so totally worth it from a labor saving standpoint.
I ate it with some breaded chicken and a side of butternut squash, with a sauce consisting of honey, apple cider vinegar, garlic, and coconut cream.
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YOUTUBE.
Write a list of 5 of your favorite things to eat, watch a few videos of people making them and then dive right in.
You'll amaze yourself in no time.
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Re: Learning to Cook? [Re: GabbaDj]
#27323223 - 05/25/21 10:13 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yoosername cooking isn’t difficult unless you go at it with incorrect technique and then it really only matters to the degree that you are trying to cook at. I did the culinary school route a very long time ago and have been professionally cooking since. If you are trying to learn to cook a specific dish then just get a recipe for what you want and follow it to a T the first time you make it. Don’t make changes until you learn the things you like and don’t like. If you want to learn to be a chef then I would recommend getting at least 1 culinary text book to learn correct technique. Spice mixtures and things like that will develop with time. Remember if you can smell the ingredient then you already know what that tastes like so combine the things you like and you can’t go wrong. Get older editions of the texts and you can get them very cheap. The information hasn’t really changed since the French developed it a long ass time ago so don’t worry about getting the up to date editions. The Professional Chef is a good one by The Culinary Institute of America.
Biggest thing honestly is to learn proper sanitary procedures so you don’t go giving people the shits, or worse.
Have fun and enjoy
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shockplague0 said: How should I begin with no prior experience? Recommended resources, books, etc?
AllRecipies.com has some great stuff. Also, get any books that have "Simple Recipes" or "Simple Cooking" in them. The easiest thing to make probably is sandwiches since u are only toasting bread as the cooking part. U could start there.
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First step is being hungry, nessecity is the mother of invention.
From there identify some dishes you like and try to recreate them using some recipes.
Also understand that learning to cook is a process and your probably going to poorly make/ruin some meals in the process and even when you cook a lot you can still really fuck some things up. Don't sweat it.
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