How to Cook: Quick Tips for Cooking Up Nice Tasts

Learning how to cook on the internet is not as difficult as you may think. There are many resources available for quick and easy instructions. However, as with anything new, there are a few pointers to follow when beginning to learn online cooking. Most websites will offer detailed instructions or step-by-step videos for many recipes. Now, when learning how to cook from home, often I was just searching for quick results, and not careful planning. Once taught myself how to cook on the internet, quickly found most recipes were t written for impatient beginners.

Rather than being satisfied by the fact that a recipe called for 2 large onions, I began to look for other ingredients needed to make it work. As it turns out, the onions were fine; the recipe called for ground beef, carrots, celery, potatoes, peas, dried oregano and cumin; I realized that I didn’t have enough ingredients to make it a true stir fry! Cooking skills are best gained from planning ahead of time, particularly when it comes to cooking foods that are already complicated or ingredients that are time-consuming to prepare. Once fully learned, the basic ingredients of any dish can be worked into the mix with relative ease. The more common foods are easily accomplished as long as basic cuts of meat, vegetables, sauces, seasonings and beans are used.

The basic idea is to work with what the recipe calls for, instead of against it. For example, rather than using olive oil, try using vegetable shortening, a tablespoon of herbs, spices and other flavor enhancing agents. A great tip for increasing your versatility while learning how to cook is to try cooking in different cuisines. After learning how to cook Chinese food, for example, I have included recipes for stir-fry as well as stir-frying chicken and vegetables. This allows you to learn new styles of cooking while expanding your culinary repertoire at the same time.