/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18939180]

Can you guys recommend any good resources to take a man from freezer food goyslop to homemade meals? Recipes, what to buy at the store, etc.

[Anonymous No.18939185]

>>18939180
How would an adult say that?

[Anonymous No.18939193]

What’s your budget?

[Anonymous No.18939204]

>>18939193
decent
have a good job just never learned how to cook and parents didn't really know how to cook

[Anonymous No.18939217]

>>18939180
>toast and sausages
for like breakfast or what...

if you eat 3 meals a day, in my opinion, 2 of those meals should just be leftovers or quick prep stuff...

Choose one meal a day and do it up! Maybe your meal is breakfast and you got pancakes and sausage and eggs and shit... maybe your meal is lunch and you pack yourself some sort of elaborate kickass sandwich with fixxxins... or dinner you can do a lot of stuff...

If you're some kind of weird hobbit creature that needs 5 or 6 elaborate meals a day you're gonna spend all day fucking around with that shit and then what? Your parents kick you out of the house and you are entirely unprepared to fend for yourself in the real world?

[Anonymous No.18939243]

>>18939217
I've lived on my own for years just have subsisted from a handful of basic meals and fast food.
I only really eat once a day already

[Anonymous No.18939272]

>>18939204
Excellent, here are some of my go to dinners-
Chorizo tacos
>put stainless pan on med/low heat
>add about a pound of bulk chorizo (not in sausage casing)
>break up with spatula and stir frequently
>it should cook down a bit, break a piece or two with spatula to check if pink (underdone)
>heat some corn tortillas in microwave or oven
>put chorizo on tacos and top with chopped white onion, cilantro, green salsa, queso fresca, canned beans, or any combo of those that you want

[Anonymous No.18939274]

>>18939180
start by doing easy stuff. Braised beef, pork, etc are all very low effort, hands off ways of creating great food. The following video goes over everything (and much more than you would need) to get this done. My recommendation is to get a large chuck roast, cut it into chunks, and then watch a gordon ramsay tutorial and follow along. Good luck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44cKM_SNLbQ

[Anonymous No.18939284]

A real chef is inspired
Pick something you are in the mood for and go from there

[Anonymous No.18939299]

>>18939272
Chili
>brown a pound of ground beef in big pot with about a spoonful of oil on medium/low heat, break up with spatula as soon as it hits the pot
>add a chopped white or yellow onion as beef cooks
>add a little oregano, chili powder, and garlic powder
>add 32oz or so of chicken or beef stock, a big can of diced tomatoes (don’t drain), a couple cans of kidney/pinto beans, a big spoonful of tomato paste, a spoonful of worcestershire sauce, and some hot sauce
>cook on low heat so it bubbles just a little bit for at least 30-45 minutes
>goes well with lots of carbs, could do bread, baked potatoes, etc. I like to make cornbread to go with chili, a box mix is a fine place to start

[Anonymous No.18939325]

>>18939284
we're talking about soulless anons here
gotta help them survive and thrive

[Anonymous No.18939359]

>>18939272
>>18939299
thanks for the recipes anon

[Anonymous No.18939654]

>>18939180
Realistically, you are a cooklet. So we need to wean you off the goyslop and ease you into cooking from scratch.

First, you need to go to the isle that has premixes OP. You are going to pickup various packets of dry mixes with rice/risotto/pasta. These are going to be your practice material. Get some milk and butter to go with them, and maybe some meatballs from the freezer section. These packets are 1 pot meals, so get a pot from the store while you are there, and a wooden spoon/spatula.

Now, at home, fire up your range, medium burner, and put the pot on. Or zippy zap the coil to warm it up, whatever. Butter pat, in. Follow the meal instructions and put in water and milk in the ratio prescribed. Wait for it to boil. Add mix packet. Reduce heat, and stir for X minutes (7 - 10 depending on what it says). Put in bowl when done.

Congratulations, you are now a level 1 cook. You can follow basic directions and make a "meal".

Next time, you add the frozen meatballs at the start to the dish. Now instead of just noodles and sauce, you have a strogenoff. Or whatever you want. Start learning creativity here. This is basic meal assembly skills here.

For level 2: start swapping ingredients. Learn what using alcohol does to the dish. Add things and seasonings to the mix; use the whole spice rack. This will give you a standard to keep so you can experience the effect ingredients have on a dish. Swap sherry for some of the water. Add broccoli. Add different meats. Add cheese at the end. Learn how ingredients change the process. Once you have experimented and learned all sorts of things, it is time for level 3.

Level 3: do it all from scratch. Your goal here is to recreate these packet meals from scratch: that means getting the rice, the onions, the garlic, the broccoli, the pasta, etc. from the market and doing all the processing yourself. From here you will need to learn knife work and start learning ingredient qualities.

[Anonymous No.18939682]

>>18939654
This is going to be the quickest and most effective way to learn a lot of shit fast. The meals are super fast, like done in 15-20 min, and they are standardized & satisfying, so they will taste the same every time and be worth doing. This lets you practice with individual components and learn shit: is oil better than butter, what is my preferred salt level, what combination of things do I like, what seasonings are good, how do cream and cheese work, how does a sauce come together. And if you fuck up you literally only lose like 2 dollars. Start over and do it again, no tears shed.

Once you are familiar with food, its prep and what things actually do, you can move on to real recipes from scratch. This way you won't waste expensive cuts of meat and fish.

Oh, and curry is a great way to move off of packet based meals into near from scratch cooking. You will need to brown meat for that, and it involves basic chopping and veggie prep. The curry brick lets you avoid the seasoning process and roux production.

Once you get your training wheels off, you then move into all the from-scratch recipes and work your way up the complexity tree: start simple with stews, pasta, basic meals. Then get into things that take hours to make. Then fall down the rabbit hole that is baking. Or fall down the BBQ rabbit hole. All of this is plenty well documented in cooking youtube and food channels.

[Anonymous No.18939860]

>>18939180
The key with learning how to cook is to learn the hows and whys.
If you like reading, read Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat.
The hot pocket eaters will tell you that's a meme. But learning food theory will do you much better than years of trial and error of following recipes.

[Anonymous No.18940001]

>>18939299
thanks anon
it's bomb af