Learn How to Cook - for Starters

[lesnar]

I'm looking for some good cook sites for people like myself who just started in this whole cooking thing. Please post some sites/books/etc...(all kinds of food are welcomed - preferably healthy food)

Thanks in advance.

[edit:]
List of sites provided by helpful members:

http://allrecipes.com/

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ea

Simply Recipes Food and Cooking Blog
http://www.elise.com/recipes/

RecipeSource
http://www.recipesource.com/

Science of Cooking
http://www.exploratorium.com/cooking/

Top Secret Recipes
http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/home.asp

Cooking By Numbers
http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/frames.html

101 Cookbooks
http://www.101cookbooks.com/

FoodieView
http://www.foodieview.com/

World Hearth Recipe Collection
http://recipes.wuzzle.org/

[bpopd]

Bump.

I wanna learn how to cook healthy yet tasty meals.

[ike]

bump, also

[Dr Butcher]

I like this site:

http://allrecipes.com/

The thing I like best is the reviews people can leave for each recipe. Many people make comments like adding or removing portions of an ingredient or two to tweak the recipe a little.

Plus it helps you to find the 5 star recipes right away without making a dud recipe for your family/friends.

[Stepmiller]

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ea
Good Eats
It's on FoodTV, Thursday nights at 9:30PM. Find them online and download them all. It's not just recipes, but cooking techniques. From there you can make your own recipes, or at least read a recipe and know what it means.

His books are available at Chapters. If you're a tech geek, you'll really take to the style and subjects.

[SLOGAN]

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ea
Good Eats
It's on FoodTV, Thursday nights at 9:30PM. Find them online and download them all. It's not just recipes, but cooking techniques. From there you can make your own recipes, or at least read a recipe and know what it means.

His books are available at Chapters. If you're a tech geek, you'll really take to the style and subjects.

Great show, he's a good host.
Explains why you should do things a certain way, which I find is more helpful in learning that just showing you.

[vinciman1215]

I know many of you guys will object, but I find www.kraftfoods.ca to be of VERY good use, especially catered to beginners who want to cook easy yet satisfying and delicious meals.

However, if your looking for something a bit more fancy, I would definitely recommend going to the foodnetwork online and just checking out some of the recipes.

My favorite is License to Grill by Rob Rainford, and 30-minute meals by Rachel Ray (a show which is by the way, hosted by an absolute beauty).

For me, its License to Grill during the hot summer months (love grilling) and the rest would be a combination of recipes from 30-minute meals and Kraftfoods.

[louieann34]

Hi Lesnar,:) :) :)

I also wanna know how to cook healthy foods just like you...And aside from that I really really wanna know to bake...I've been thinking to enter some school that would offer this, but I guest I don't have that much of a time..

But anyway if I found some good cook sites or books.... I would surely post it here for you.

Good Luck!

Ann

[guyarchangel]

It's a lot of trial and error, follow recipes as best you can (but I've screwed up there too!), and try your best to learn what each ingredient taste like and what it adds to the foods you cook.

Eventually you'll find out what foods/spices go well together and then you can explore different ingredient mixes with/without a recipe.

I mean my gf started cooking just when we started dating and I've tasted everything really good and really bad lol. I luv her cooking now:cheesygri


Here's some cooking recipe-type websites that i have favorite/frequent:


Simply Recipes Food and Cooking Blog
http://www.elise.com/recipes/

RecipeSource
http://www.recipesource.com/

Science of Cooking
http://www.exploratorium.com/cooking/

Top Secret Recipes
http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/home.asp

Cooking By Numbers
http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/frames.html

101 Cookbooks
http://www.101cookbooks.com/

FoodieView
http://www.foodieview.com/

World Hearth Recipe Collection
http://recipes.wuzzle.org/

[Steeve Urkel]

Get this book, it tells you how to do EVERYTHING! and has pictures of all the steps and tells you exectly how to do it!

Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cook Technique

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/item/books-978068815206/0688152066/Le-Cordon-Bleu-Compl-Cook-Technique?ref=Search+Books%3a+'cordon+bleu

All successful cooking - from the simplest to the most complex - depends on the careful selection and correct preparation of ingredients. Now, for the first time, the home cook and the culinary professional alike have at their fingertips over seven hundred illustrated cooking techniques in a clear and easy-to-follow format. Essential preparation and cooking skills, professional secrets, expert tricks of the trade, favorite recipes, and stunning finished dishes are shown in over two thousand original full-color photographs and explained in concise, informative text.

[monty613]

I like this site:

http://allrecipes.com/

The thing I like best is the reviews people can leave for each recipe. Many people make comments like adding or removing portions of an ingredient or two to tweak the recipe a little.

Plus it helps you to find the 5 star recipes right away without making a dud recipe for your family/friends.

I'll second this. Allrecipes.com is a great tool. Easy to navigate and find specific types of dishes, and the user feedback is helpful.

[AzN_RiverdaleCI]

cool, thanks for the links every 1 who contributed.

[batman321123]

I need to learn how to turn on my oven...

[thegazelle]

I like this site:

http://allrecipes.com/

The thing I like best is the reviews people can leave for each recipe. Many people make comments like adding or removing portions of an ingredient or two to tweak the recipe a little.

Plus it helps you to find the 5 star recipes right away without making a dud recipe for your family/friends.

I totally agree. My wife and I go to that site all the time for recipe ideas...and you can customize the ingredients depending on your desired servings...and you can choose more healthy alternatives. The site is easy to navigate and yes, having others review the recipes is great. We have had much success in finding delicious recipe ideas as well as learning the ins and outs of cooking. Great recommendation for allrecipes.com

[gordholio]

I can cook, but tend to make things that are simple.
I find a lot of cooking shows nowadays tend to use ingredients that are sort of exotic and expensive.

[sdm242]

My suggestion would be to borrow some cooking basics books from your local library.

I've got an old cookbook that mom gave me that Chatelaine magazine published MANY years ago (it's a rather entertaining read as it's really old-fahioned ie. the party planning section gives on advice on how many ashtrays to put out for guests). I've used many other cookbooks but I always seem to return to this one if I need some basic info or recipe. It's called Chatelaine's Adventures in Cooking. I'm not sure that you'll find it at the library, but there would be many similar ones there.