I cook very rarely. I've been spoiled for quite some time... I lived with Lauren for a couple of years, and she's a fantastic cook and she enjoys it, and then I moved in with another friend who's the same way. When I do cook I enjoy it and I'm good at it, but I very rarely put in the time and energy. It was nice to set some time aside and make a party out of it, and cook things that had fun ingredients that we'd never done before.
Cooking's... easier than most people think, but it does take practice. I'm just getting to the point where I can be creative, come up with good ideas, know what tastes good, know what kind of alterations I can make to recipes, know how much of something to use without measuring carefully. I find what works best for me on an ordinary night is doing a quick survey of what's already in the kitchen, picking out a couple of ingredients as a central concept, Googling recipes with those ingredients, then picking one and modifying it as needed based on what it asks for and what I actually have.
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Date: 2011-01-16 10:29 am (UTC)Cooking's... easier than most people think, but it does take practice. I'm just getting to the point where I can be creative, come up with good ideas, know what tastes good, know what kind of alterations I can make to recipes, know how much of something to use without measuring carefully. I find what works best for me on an ordinary night is doing a quick survey of what's already in the kitchen, picking out a couple of ingredients as a central concept, Googling recipes with those ingredients, then picking one and modifying it as needed based on what it asks for and what I actually have.