I just wanted to thank everyone who emailed and made comments to the previous post. Lots of good ideas and recipes. But a some of them seamed a lot of work. When I said I don’t know now to cook I mean, I REALLY don’t know how to cook or even what some of the instruction mean for me to do.
For example:
Boil: As in boil water before dumping in the mac of mac and cheese. Does that mean just just a single stream of tiny bubbles. Or does that mean lots and lots of bubbles and steam? I’m mean seriously could the instructions BE more vague?
Bake: How is baking different from broiling, or steaming?
And when you start talking about a dash of this, or a pinch of that, I just get all glassy-eyed and you start sounding like you’re taking Japanese. I just don’t know what the hell your taking about.
I know its most of it is trial and error so we’ll see how it goes after the first of the year.
But I’m determined to learn or at least teach myself to cook some basic healthy dinners.
Thanks for all the comments and emails.
I wonder if I could make a casserole last an entire week?
2 responses so far ↓
1 edh // Dec 14, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Ok… you might benefit from a really basic cooking class. It will give you the confidence to make some simple yet great meals. And as a ready reference you’ll want the big red plaid book: http://tinyurl.com/5enqk7 It’s like the cooking encyclopedia.
But to get you started here are some easy answers:
Boil – bubbles. Rolling boil – tons of bubbles!
Bake – Use oven as usual. Broil – use the setting for the heat element at the top of the oven. It’s a very high temp (500 deg.?)
Steaming is when you have a lid on the pot (stovetop); you can get one of those metal basket thingies to let the water heat up and cook veggies, for example, in an indirect way with the steam from the heated water.
If you’re wanting to cook healthy and easy, I LOVE my rice cooker. They have some on sale at Target currently (I’m looking to upgrade from my college model!). You measure the rice & water, dump it in, hit the button, and forget it.
Most of all, don’t give up. I am still learning to cook and occasionally make hideous nasty things but it’s all worth it for the learning process.
2 Chimpo // Dec 14, 2008 at 10:39 pm
We have a cook book where the basic premise is to make a casserole that you can eat part of and freeze the rest to be reheated another night of your leisure. The two of us only get half way through the amount you eat the first time, so I’m sure you could live a week or two off of one of the recipes.
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