Simple Recipes to Get You Started

Do you know how to cook? Do you want to? Well, maybe you think you don’t have what it takes. But consider this. You may already have some cooking skills and you just don’t realize it. If you can operate the microwave, boil water, and make toast you may already be further along than you think. Granted, these are just simple things to do in the kitchen. But they form the basis of more complex dishes.

With a microwave you can warm up microwave meals. If you can boil water, you can make pasta. If you can make toast you can also make things like English muffin pizzas and bruschetta. You can cook these simple foods to help give you confidence and to help you learn that cooking is nothing more than a series of steps. Make it a point to learn one new simple skill or recipe at a time. Before long, you will have an arsenal of recipes you are good at.

So, what is for dinner? Do you know? Sometimes it’s fun to shake things up a bit. If you find yourself cooking the same things all the time, it could be that you need try something new, you just don’t realize it.

But just as you may be in a rut with the things you could be cooking, you may be looking in the same places to find your recipes. Is your favourite cookbook getting a little stale? Try searching online instead. Sometimes you can find inspiration just by employing new kitchenware. Top-Rated Kitchenware from “American’s Test Kitchen” Avilable Now at Cooking.com

Or, you may want to try cooking in a different cuisine; do a search for that cuisine. For example, if you want to find easy Thai food recipes, type in the search phrase “easy Thai food recipes” and you should be directed to a website that will help you out. This is a good way to shake things up.

My favorite cookbook is “The Complete Meat Cookbook”..
Here are my reasons:

1. It contains not only delectable recipes, but also colorful cooking stories
2. The recipes are delicious – I have tried half a dozen ..such as carnitas and pork arista — mmm good
3. Focus on dry rubs and marinades is extensive
4. It has many facets; it covers broiling, stir-frying, pan-broiling, sauteing, panfrying, grilling, barbecuing, oven roasting, braising and stewing, wet basting, poaching, steaming, and pressure cooking.

Written by Bruce Aidells, who is an excellent chef it may be found here –> The Complete Meat Cookbook

Note: This author and chef has a second book called “The Complete Book of Pork” –> The Complete Book of Pork, a guide on buying, storing and cooking Pork.