Learn To Cook DVD
I want to learn to cook so I can stop eating fast foods. I’ve quit eating fast foods so much lately that I’m having to settle for chips and snacks because I don’t know how to cook, and don’t want to spend money on pizza.
I also want to cook some times for my family. My parents work so hard and I see by the time they get home they’re always so tired from work. So I want to prepare some good food for them. Also maybe I’d like to cook for my brother and sisters so they don’t have to always eat fast food as well. What’s a good book to pick up cooking skills or maybe an instructional DVD. Is there any websites? Any feedback is welcomed, thanks!
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Practice is the best way to learn.
Try allrecipes.com for free stuff, they’re great for that. Check out cookbooks from the library – you can flip through them first to see if you’re up for it. Personally, I reccommend the Joy of Cooking. It’ll give you recipes for just about anything, and also has tips on preparation and techniques.
Start simple – try baking or a one-pot dish, they’re hard to mess up.
I SAW A VERY USEFUL SLOW COOKER IN WALMART.IT COSTS ONLY 10$…………..CHOP SOME POTATOES,CORNKERNELS ANDTOMATOES AND THERE .U HAVE A DELICIOUS SOUP SIMMERING FOR THE WHOLE DAY!
allrecipes.com!!!!
I learned how to cook Thanksgiving dinner using this website. It not only has articles to search through, but recipe ratings and recipe reviews that help a lot!
Good luck!
you’ll have to start by reading some easy recipes. What have you wanted to learn how to cook? google it!!! the only way you will learn is by practise.
Good luck.
P.S. Pizza is fast food
If you can get your hands on a Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, you will find a ton of useful tips and pictured illustrations that go with the recipes. I actually learned how to bake using this cookbook when I was a little girl. Between that and practice anyway. To learn to cook takes overall practice. You have to have ingredients on hand, be able to follow a recipe, and be willing to make some mistakes. But it really isn’t all that difficult. If you have someone who’s willing to teach you, it’s even better. I would start with some simple recipes, just so you can learn the terminology of a recipe. Once you feel comfortable, move on the bigger and better things. Just start small and be patient with yourself. It can be done!
Simple Go to Culinary School Take a Cooking Class Get a Cookbook and Teach Yourself how to cook, I’m learning this from Myself Mom and My Brother.
Ask someone in Family like your Mom or Sister who cooks or your Friends ask them If you work in a Restaurant as a Executive Chef or Sous Chef Maybe they can Help you, If they say Yes let them Teach You If NO If Nobody in Family Can Cook, Nobody you know works in Restaurant, then I’ll give you a Website for someplace and Somebody who can Teach you this, You have to start somewhere.
I found a web-site that taught me how to make my first Lasagna…. and it turned out FABULOUS! The site i’m going to direct you to has delicious recipes, pictured instructions, and she tries to keep the ingredients as simple as possible. You can’t go wrong with this one! I have since made several other recipe’s from her pages, and they were all wonderful. She even gives step-by-step instructions on how to cook a steak!
Thepioneerwomancooks.com
Enjoy!
there are a lot of easy dinner makes like hamburger helper is an example. when makeing these though, don’t do what i did and forget about them. Trust me, the best meal you parents would like you to make is one that tastes ok even if it is simple. After a long days work, i’d love any good tasting meal my son or daughter made for me to have instead of fast food, a way to show that you care. after this, if they know how to cook you can ask if they would help teach you here and their on their days off. That is what i am doing right now. Good luck!
Written recipes won’t teach you to cook any more than having sheet music will teach you to play piano.
The biggest frustration for the home cook isn’t cooking, it’s following the written recipe. Recipes have inherent flaws and variables that make them impossible to duplicate and always let you down.
When a recipe calls for “one onion, chopped”, how big is this onion? When a recipe says “cook under medium heat”, how do you define medium? And, worst of all is cooking by time. “Saute for 3-5 minutes” can mean raw or burned depending on the stove, pan, ingredient, etc…
Why is cooking the only art form that has a strict set of instructions? You’d never tell a painter to “paint with 1.7 ounces of green paint for 22 minutes, and you’ll have a landscape”. No, he’ll use as much green paint for as long as he wants until the landscape is complete. This is how people should cook.
I’ve taught thousands of people to “Burn Your Recipes” and cook like a chef at home, with basic cooking methods and the ingredients you desire.
Concentrate on the basic cooking methods of saute, steaming, braising, roasting, grilling, poaching, simmering and you can create an infinate amount of recipes that a book will never tell you.
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If your Mom or Grandma didn’t teach you to cook, you’re unfortunately left to recipe books and celebrity chefs on TV. The problem is neither of these actually teach you HOW to cook.
The Food Network is the MTV of Food. MTV used to play music, now they’re entertainment ABOUT music. The Food Network is entertainment ABOUT food, they don’t teach anyone to cook.
Neither will you learn how to cook from a book. Written recipes won’t teach you to cook any more than having sheet music will teach you to play piano. There are too many variables in recipes that always lead to frustration.
The best way to free yourself from recipes and cook like a chef at home is to examine the basic cooking methods. When you learn HOW to saute, broil, grill, roast, then you can create your own recipes from what you have on hand.
Knowing HOW to cook anything is a skill that will save you time, money at the grocery store, improve your health, reunite your family over dinner, eat a greater variety of foods, and have this skill for the rest of your life.
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