Well shits to expensive and I’m finally home enough so I’m learning to cook. Turns out when your not being constantly criticized for existing, cooking isn’t nearly as terrible! (Trauma made me hate cooking).

So far I’ve been keeping it very simple. Store bought pasta, store bought sauce, put them together, that kind of thing. I think I’m getting ready to branch out and learn more.

I’d love to hear some things from those of you who know your way around the kitchen. If you have a recipe you love or, a story to tell or, a warning you learned the hard way or, a great website/cookbook/youtube channel or, anything else you feel like sharing.

I’m just here to learn some stuff, hear some stories and get some ideas to try. Thanks for having a fun cooking convo with me!

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    For cooking, the best advice I can give is to just follow the recipe exactly the first time through. Once you have a baseline, then start making personal adjustments.

    Once you have experience you can make adjustments before the first try, I wouldn’t do that until you have a few years under your belt and have a good feel how various ingredients react to heat.

    For example, a lot of veggies can make a dish soggy due to releasing water as they cook, with other ingredients like rice and pasta absorb it. And this changes with cooking time and temperature. Also some ingredients like tomatoes get sour/acidic the more you cook them, changing the flavor. And eggs continue cooking after you take them off the pan, so they can easily end up more dry than you’re planning

    For now it’s easier to just take your time and take small steps towards adjusting recipes. You’ll get the hang of it with practice.