When cooking recipes discourage you

If you have no experience in the kitchen, or you’re a beginner, it’s probably best that you start your adventure with a cookbook or two. But don’ let that discourage you. It’s not to follow every step and to measure every ingredient to the last drop, but to use as a guide. When you’re traveling to a place you don’t know, you take a map knowing very well that you can take different routes to get to a certain point, and the same is with cooking. You need to know which direction to take and approximately what steps to take, and that’s what all those soup, fish or BBQ recipes are for, to give you a general idea. With those recipes you’ll figure out what the best order of preparing ingredients is, what tricks save time and what herbs and spices are recommended to use with different dishes, and that will give you the base knowledge you can build on.

After you’ve practiced with ready made casseroles, meats and BBQ recipes, you’ll be able to move on to culinary improvisation. You’ll know enough about cooking to try new ways of mixing flavors, preparing dishes, you’ll experiment with new uses for old favorites like adding BBQ sauce to your casserole or giving your chicken a pesto rub. What you need to know is that many of your experiments will taste great, but there will be plenty of those that will be mediocre, even some that will be terrible. Instead of letting that get you down and vowing to never cook anything again, though, use that as a cooking lesson. Make not of what didn’t work out, if it was the combination of specific flavor or the way you tried to prepare a certain ingredient, and simply don’t make that mistake again. At the same time keep experimenting with those ingredients and methods using them in a different dish, and you’re bound to come up with some delicious meals.

When you’re off work, the last thing you want to do is anything reminding you of work. With a bit of creativity, an adventurous approach and basic cooking skills, though, you can have lots of fun in the kitchen. So don’t let the long lists of ingredients or extremely detailed preparation descriptions discourage you, and get wild in the kitchen with no rules.

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Torri Myler is a web designer and a passionate writer. Interested in travelling and foreign languages, she writes articles about people and lifestyles.

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