>Can you cook? Yes >How did you learn to cook? By starting with simple recipes and moving on to more complex ones gradually; messing up and trying to do better next time. I began with helping to barbecue things as a kid and then by making my own sandwiches and salads. Salads are a good starting point as the only thing you need to know is how to chop things and maybe mix dressings. Salads are easy to fix in case you "mess up" somehow and usually flexible enough to allows extra ingredients or substitutions. Eggs are a rite of passage. Hard boiled are easy and take very little effort. Sunny side up are a good training ground for learning to cook on a pan >Warm up a pan a bit on medium heat or medium-low >put a little bit of fat in a pan, let it coat the surface >crack an egg in >wait until edges start to crisp a bit and white is set >slide the egg onto a plate, ass salt and pepper to taste This will give you a chance to learn a bit about controlling heat, timing, and watching things for doneness. Scrambled eggs are done the same way with addition of mixing eggs as they cook in the pan. You can go to omlettes and then to french style omlettes next. French omlettes require good grasp on heat control, confidence, and ability to recognize when eggs are about to be done. For protein, baking chicken thighs in an oven is probably among the easiest things to do. You will need a food thermometer but they are cheap and easy to find. If you don't want to get one, you will need to break thighs open to check if the inside is done. >pre-heat the oven at 425F >rub some salt and your favorite spices into the chicken >lay in a baking pan or an oven safe dish, and stick in the oven >you can chop, salt, and toss some vegetables in oil, and stick them in the oven too so you can make a side to go with your chicken at the same time. Broccoli and carrot chunks work well and are tough to mess up >check up in about 15 to 20 minutes, and every 5 to after that >Chicken done once the internal temperature in the thickest parts is 165F per USDA guidelines. That's the temp when all pathogens commonly found in chicken die instantly. Anything over 155F is safe too, as chicken will be at those temps for at least several seconds anyway, and that time will be more than enough to kill any pathogens while providing a juicer chicken. Not that you need to worry much with chicken thighs. They have enough fat to not dry out as easily as chicken breast does. If you roast vegetables at the same time, make sure to not burn them. They might be ready before chicken is. Other easy things to try are: oatmeal, oven-roasted vegetables, pasta with veggies and sauces (especially if you buy pre-made sauces initially), guacamole, whole baked potato, mashed potatoes, yogurt parfaits, and pancakes. Don't be afraid to try making challenging dishes you like. Youtube is good to make things a bit easier. Videos are the best for new cooks as they will usually demonstrate every step of the recipe. That's important for beginners as written recipes tend to assume some knowledge and rarely provide pictures. Chef John is good for reliable recipes. Helen Rennie is good for recipes and for picking up skills. Her videos helped me to learn how to cook fish properly.

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>Can you cook? Yes, I'm competent at preparing most dishes (fish, steak, pasta, veggies, soups) and typically cook almost every day, though that can range from "seared honey-glazed salmon with oven roasted green beans and slivered almonds" to "scrambled eggs and bacon." Not so much at baking, unless it's something out of a box. Although I have made cookies from scratch a number of times, and tried making bread sticks from scratch once or twice. >How did you learn to cook? My parents let me help out with some cooking at a young age, mainly just putting stuff in the oven or helping prepare mixes and combining ingredients, and it's something I always enjoyed doing. As a teenager I started making more of my own meals, mostly simple stuff like pancakes and omelettes for breakfast or pasta for dinner. My mom was always concerned about getting us sick though so she always overcooked meat, and it wasn't until I could buy food and ingredients with my own money that I started practicing cooking steak that actually tasted good, or pan frying salmon and roasting chicken with butter, herbs, and carrots. Mainly I taught myself, or saw something that looked good and decided to look up a recipe or a video on how to make it. >tasty healthy meals A very easy way to get more healthy meals in your diet is making veggies in the oven. Liberal use of olive oil on anything green plus salt and pepper makes for delicious green beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, or even stuff like carrots and potatoes. Those can all be paired easily with pretty much anything else you can put on a plate, be it lasagna, meat, bread, pasta, or more veggies.

>How did you learn to cook? I binge-watched FoodWishes during a bout of depression and it got me inspired too cook. Then my mom taught me