I want to learn to cook....
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I want to learn to cook....
I feel really useless, not being able to cook for myself. I'm always going to subway or grabbing sushi for myself cuz I can't cook. Besides making eggs, sandwiches, steak, and top ramen, I'd like to be able to make something different. Eating out gets expensive . For those of you that can cook, how should I start learning? Random cook books?
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I dont know that theres a lot to it. Obviously being a chef is one thing, but throwing ingredients you like into a pan and cooking them is relatively hard to mess up. Start with simple things like Hamburger helper or what not and go from there. Just follow the instructions and keep a close eye on it. You should be fine.
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Start with the basics... Spaghetti bolognese is a good one, cos it's hard to get tired of, and the ingredients are cheap.
Chicken curry is awesome and awesomely easy...
You will need...
1 large chicken fillet
1 jar of Uncle Ben's Medium curry sauce
1 bag of rice.
Cook the rice according to the sintructions on the packet.
Take your chicken fillet, cut it into curry size chunks
Throw it in a LARGE frying pan in 2mm of water (make sure frying pan has a lid, but don't put it on yet.
Set the heat to somewhere in the middle, you don't want it to cook too fast at this point. Turn it regularly til it's all white (awight?
)
When chicken is all white on the outside, throw in HALF the jar of Uncle Bens Curry Sauce. Stir it around a bit.
Whack the lid on, come back in 25 minutes.
Pour Curry over a bed of rice (microwave the rice if it cooled down in the meantime, rice microwaves great, when you cook rice, cook lots and stick it in the fridge).
The main trick to cooking is if you're cooking multiple ingredients in different pots etc, to get them all done at the same time. This is only learned with experience and trial and error, but satisfying when you get it sussed. In the meantime, think about what you can microwave. The chicken curry for example, doesn't microwave very well, cos of the chicken, but rice microwaves great, so cook that first. Get it?
Chicken curry is awesome and awesomely easy...
You will need...
1 large chicken fillet
1 jar of Uncle Ben's Medium curry sauce
1 bag of rice.
Cook the rice according to the sintructions on the packet.
Take your chicken fillet, cut it into curry size chunks
Throw it in a LARGE frying pan in 2mm of water (make sure frying pan has a lid, but don't put it on yet.
Set the heat to somewhere in the middle, you don't want it to cook too fast at this point. Turn it regularly til it's all white (awight?
)When chicken is all white on the outside, throw in HALF the jar of Uncle Bens Curry Sauce. Stir it around a bit.
Whack the lid on, come back in 25 minutes.
Pour Curry over a bed of rice (microwave the rice if it cooled down in the meantime, rice microwaves great, when you cook rice, cook lots and stick it in the fridge).
The main trick to cooking is if you're cooking multiple ingredients in different pots etc, to get them all done at the same time. This is only learned with experience and trial and error, but satisfying when you get it sussed. In the meantime, think about what you can microwave. The chicken curry for example, doesn't microwave very well, cos of the chicken, but rice microwaves great, so cook that first. Get it?
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Look to your local community college's Continuing Education program. The classes are not for credit so they're pretty inexpensive and you'll receive good training.
Also, check out these recipe websites:
meals.com
cooks.com
lastnightsdinner.net
Also, check out these recipe websites:
meals.com
cooks.com
lastnightsdinner.net
