Okay, my first post on Veeky Forums.
So basically how should I start making meals on my own? I am a uni youngster and I have pretty much lived on my mother's cooking and some noodles and shit.
Now that I have gf material too, I am really looking forward to making dishes on my own.
Where should I start and how should I start? My current experiences involve cutting the balony and making pancakes.
Thank you all in advance!
Try making Chili
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Get a steamer insert, a halfway decent knife and a cutting board. And a peeler. Peel and dice some carrots and potatoes, put those in the steamer insert, put the insert in a saucepan with some water, put all that over heat, covered.
Chop up some broccoli and onion and mushroom and saute it in half olive oil and half butter (SMALL amounts). When the carrots and potatoes and cooked, mix it all together. Dinner!
Buy a salad spinner. Everything goes in a salad, find three kinds of non-iceberg lettuce, add some smoked salmon or kidney beans or whatever you have. Chicks love salads.
You have real maple syrup for the pancakes, yes? Worth the money.
That's enough to keep you from starving.
Fruit salad is simple and delicious.
Sandwiches are easy... extra points if you can get a mandoline and make sandwiches with super thin slices of onion and super thin sliced lettuce (iceberg is ok in this case) Add deli cheese and turkey on a decent sandwich roll.
Soup and a sandwich makes a nice lunch on a cold day.
You own a charcoal grill? Paradise awaits.
Do you have a dish you'd like to learn? Start learning how to do that.
Make sure you study a few recipes for the same thing and compare the differences, try to figure out why things are done a certain way, try again and again until you get a result you'd be proud of. Don't be put off by any mistakes as they are part of the learning experience, analyze what went wrong, why it went wrong and what you want to do next time.
Just by treating food and eating as something more than mere sustenance you'll be miles ahead of half this board in a couple of tries.
The best way to start learning to cook is dishes where you prepare ingredients and then throw them in the oven in a big dish. Something like pasta bakes (mac and cheeses with meat in them, etc.) or casseroles. Plenty of fundamentals in there with the noodles and sauces, then you can add in variety with meats and other ingredients, bread crumbs, seasonings, spices. It’ll also teach you how to experiment and how to monitor your food as it cooks in the over. Have an idea? Throw it in the tray and watch it cook.
Get comfortable with preparing single ingredients then putting hem together to be cooked.
watch food wishes on youtube
JUST commit to eating only food that you've prepared yourself for a certain period. Like at least a month. That means no take-away food or anything from a restaurant, etc, and especially no pre-prepared microwave meals.
Then you'll either figure stuff out or starve.
what kind of foods do you like and what utensils, pots/pans, and cooking surfaces do you have?