If you like to eat tasty food, you should learn to cook tasty food. There -is- a learning curve if you’re going in completely blind, but you’ll pick it up way quicker than you’d expect.
I remember making a broccoli and cheese casserole. It was simple enough but I done gone and fucked it up.
The broccoli was chopped proper, the cheese was dense (more of a brick/ball than a sauce when I tossed it in the oven) and then I saw a cup of milk in my mise en place still sitting there. no wonder the cheese was… Bricklike?
I was very new to cooking. So I just opened up the oven in a panic and splashed the milk on top of the casserole. It was bad. The broccoli almost cooked, the milk heated up and evaporated a little, and there was this sense clump of cheese and exerting what goes in roux but milk.
It was poverty days, but I had to throw it out it was so bad. I made a bowl of cereal (dry, since the last of my milk was now broccoli) and went to bed. It’s important to know when you’re beaten.
Anyways, if there is a food you like a lot, it’s worth learning to cook. I almost have my gyro recipe finished (the secret ingredient is bacon)
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If you like to eat tasty food, you should learn to cook tasty food. There -is- a learning curve if you’re going in completely blind, but you’ll pick it up way quicker than you’d expect.
Absolutely a skill worth developing!
I remember making a broccoli and cheese casserole. It was simple enough but I done gone and fucked it up.
The broccoli was chopped proper, the cheese was dense (more of a brick/ball than a sauce when I tossed it in the oven) and then I saw a cup of milk in my mise en place still sitting there. no wonder the cheese was… Bricklike?
I was very new to cooking. So I just opened up the oven in a panic and splashed the milk on top of the casserole. It was bad. The broccoli almost cooked, the milk heated up and evaporated a little, and there was this sense clump of cheese and exerting what goes in roux but milk.
It was poverty days, but I had to throw it out it was so bad. I made a bowl of cereal (dry, since the last of my milk was now broccoli) and went to bed. It’s important to know when you’re beaten.
Anyways, if there is a food you like a lot, it’s worth learning to cook. I almost have my gyro recipe finished (the secret ingredient is bacon)
Start with soup. Soup is easy to get good at, and teaches you techniques that are critical for other dishes.
Then do sauces (which are just soups in a top-hat), inc making a roux.
With classical cooking techniquesyou turn boring steamed veg and grilled chicken into grilled veg and steamed chicken with a mushroom sauce.
It really is and has been over the years
I’ve been cooking good food for a long long time, I mostly shared this because one of my friends is quite early in his journey of learning to cook lol