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COOKING LESSONS

Cooking is easy if you can follow instructions. Start with easy recipes and progress slowly. Go to allreceipts.com
or epicurious.com or bettycrocker.com for ideas.

Good for you for learning to cook-so few people bother these days! Remember, we are ALL beginners at some point-even Rachel Ray and Martha had to start at the beginning. Keep an open mind about it, don't complicate it with trying to duplicate recipes exactly, and most of all, have fun with it. You might go to the library, check out some basic cookbooks, then try a couple of easy recipes. Then, work up to something more involved, and take it from there. I cook every meal from scratch, even grinding my own flour, milking my own cow, and growing my veggies-it gives me pleasure to make my own food. My 13 year old daughter has been cooking with me since she was old enough to stand on a stool next to me. Its great fun to be able to throw a meal together. I can't really give you any tips, since I don't know what you like, but it sounds like you are off to a good start. Just stick with it, and if you mess something up, just try again. Some of my best recipes have come about by trying to create something else. Just look as it more as a challenge than a science, and you should have it licked. Good luck!

Check with your local colleges/ universities. They will have beginner cooking classes for you to take. They will teach you a lot about cooking.

Easy Fried Rice

Ingredients:
2 cups cooked Jasmine Rice
2 Tbsp. Vegetable Oil
1 Tsp. Sesame Oil
1/2 cup sliced green onions or scallions
2 eggs, scrambled and cooked
1/4 cup soy sauce

Directions:

Cook Rice according to package directions, then let cool
Heat oils in wok or large skillet.
Add rice and stir fry for 4 minutes.
Add green onion and scrambled egg. Stir fry 2 minutes.
Add soy sauce, stir fry an additonal 2 minutes. Serve

The easiest thing ever are crockpot/slow cooker recipes, if you have one. You just put everything inside, turn it on, and let it sit all day. When you come home from school or work, it'll be ready for you! Here is my all time, easy, favorite delicious recipe!

1.5 pounds (or 6 boneless) pork loin chops
4 medium Golden/Yellow delicious apples
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt

1. Place pork in slow cooker and cover with apples.
2. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt in small bowl. Sprinkle over apples and cover. Cook on Low 6-8 hours.

Makes 6 servings.

fantastic! good for you!

well, there are tons of stuff you could try to make, but considering that you're a beginner try and make one thing using one technique first, for e.g., poach a salmon, grill a chicken, make a sautee dish, stir fry veggies asian style, steam something, use the oven to make french fries, roast beef, make a stew, make something in a pressure cooker, etc……..a different thing everyday….this way, not only do you learn the recipes and remember them but also techniques so you don't have to reach for the recipe books everytime….

I suggest you get a copy of the better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. It has a red and white checked cover. It's been around for ages, yet they update the recipes every so often. If you can read, and follow directions you will soon be able to cook many things. It also has a substitutions list, a conversion chart, and other useful things.

I suggest some simple but satisfying pasta dishes.

Things that take longer to cook, it'll teach you to manage your time.

ok. i have some suggestions on sites. but before that, i have some idol chefs with their specialties.

homecook chef nigella lawson = fast, easy and delicious recipe
chef anna olson = desserts and pastry chef
chef donna dooher = creative, unique, professional recipes (but easy)
chef dyann = desserts chef
chef diana = desserts chef

try this first from nigella lawson:
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Chocohotopots Recipe courtesy Nigella Lawson
Show: Nigella Feasts
Episode: Solitary Sensations

1 stick plus 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
4 ounces semisweet chocolate, with 60 percent cocoa solids
2 eggs
3/4 cup superfine sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Special equipment: 4 (2/3 to 1-cup capacity) ramekins

Place a baking sheet in the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F.
Butter the ramekins with 1 tablespoon butter.

Either in a microwave or in a bowl suspended over a pan over simmering water, melt the dark chocolate and 1 stick butter, then set aside to cool a little.

In another bowl, mix the eggs with the sugar and flour with a hand whisk and beat in the cooled butter and chocolate mixture. Divide the mixture between the 4 buttered ramekins. Bake for about 20 minutes, by which time the tops will be cooked and cracked and the chocolate gooey underneath.

Place each ramekin on a small plate with a teaspoon and serve. Make sure to warn people that these desserts will be HOT!

others:

Here are a few E-Z recipes you might want to try. Good Luck & enjoy.

CHILLI DOG CASSEROLE

1 pkg. (8) hot dog buns
1 pkg. (8) hot dogs (use more if you like)
1 can Chilli (15 oz. without beans, use more if you want)
1 small onion (chopped)
2 cups shredded cheese
mustard

DIRECTIONS: Pre-heat oven 350 degrees
In a 9" x 13" baking pan, break up hot dog buns (bite size) and spread in pan.
Cut up hot dogs (about 1/2" size) spread over buns.
Spoon/spred chilli over hot dog/buns.
Sprinkle onions over all.
Squirt mustard over entire mixture (don't spread…just make a few lines both ways across mixture)
Cover with shredded cheese.
Bake until cheese is melted and bubbly.
(Hint: If using extra hot dogs & chilli, don't add extra buns.)

OLD SETTLER’S BEANS
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 lb. ground beef
1/2 lb. bacon
1 chopped onion
Brown in skillet and drain excess grease.

ADD:
16 oz. can Red Kidney Beans (drained)
24 oz. can Pork & Beans (drained)
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 cup Catsup
2 TBLS. Molasses
1/2 tsp. dry mustard

Mix Thoroughly !
Cook in a crock pot until…hot…hot…hot!

POOR MAN’S SWISS STEAK
Mix: 1 lb. hamburger
1 cup cornflakes
salt & pepper to taste
small amount dices onion
Spread in a square baking pan.
Pour: 1 can mushroom soup
1 can water
(combine together, first)
Pour over meat mixture.
Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees.

MARINATED VEGGIE SALAD
1 lb. can French style green beans
1 lb. can small peas
1 lb. can white corn
1 - 4oz. jar pimento (chopped)
1 cup shopped onion
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped green pepper
1 cup sugar (I used artificial sweetener)
2/3 cup vinegar (I used red wine vinegar)
1/2 cup cooking oil
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper

1.)Pour green beans, peas, corn & pimento in a colander to drain over a
large bowl. Discard 1 1/2 cups of liquid.
2.)Put veggies in a large bowl and fold in onions, celery and green
peppers.
3.)Mix together thoroughly the remaining ingredients and toss with
veggies.
$.)Cover and let sit over night in refrigerator. (The longer it marinates the better.)

POT ROAST
Your choice of beef (to fit crock-pot)
1 pkg. dry Ranch dressing mix
1 pkg. dry Italian dressing mix
1 pkg. dry Brown Gravy mix
1 cup water
Put beef in pot.
Mix together all the dry mixes….then add water …pour over meat and cover & cook on high 4-6 hours.
Until meat is tender.
The first time I mad it I didn’t have the Italian Dressing mix….so I added a pkg. of Onion Soup Mix….I have to say I liked that better.
If you use more water you might want to add more Brown Gravy mix….to make a thicker sauce. Was gonna add potatoes and carrots…but never got around to it.

POUND CAKE

Combine:
2 sticks butter
1 2/3 cup sugar

Beat in:
5 eggs (1 at a time)

Add:
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon rum extract

Mix thoroughly and bake 1 hour at 325 degrees.

E-Z Candy
(All recipes are mixed the same.)

Melt ingredients, seperately in microwave until runny.
Mix together and pour into serving dish.
Chill until firm, cut & serve.

Chocolate Fudge:
16 oz. container of Fudge Frosting
1 bag of Chocolate Chips (any flavor you like)

Peanut Butter Fudge #1:
1 small jar Peanut Butter (18 oz.)
2 bags of Peanut Butter Chips

Peanut Butter Fudge #2:
1 small jar Peanut Butter (18oz.)
16 oz. container of White Frosting

Marshmallow Nougat:
1 small jr Marshmallow Creme
1 bag White Chocolate Chips
1 tsp. Almond Flavoring
1 small bag Chopped Nuts

(I've made this without the flavoring & nuts….I want to try
rolling
into balls and dipping in a chocolate coating….sounds good to
me.)

I've doubled all the above recipes. The Marshmallow Nougat
recipe…doubled and added a container of white frosting (had an
extra one….so thought….why not!)

I use a double boiler..(prefer the double
boiler)…add chips in first …then rest of
ingredients…..saving
nuts and flavorings for last.

Kreamy Kool-Aid Pie

1-(6 g) package un sweetened Kool-Aid powdered drink mix
1-(14 oz.)can sweetened condensed milk
1-(8 oz)container Cool Whip frozen whipped topping, thawed.
1-(9 inch) Graham Cracker Pie Crust (or Cookie crust)
Cool Whip for top (optional)

1. In a medium bowl mix Kool-Aid and condensed milk, thoroughly.
2. Fold in Cool Whip.
4. If desired, spread more Cool Whip on top.
5. Chill for a minumum of 4 hours.