/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10707402]

>I have never cooked in my entire life
>I'm sick of ordering pizza and making instant ramen

What are your suggestions for easy to cook meals that someone as inexpirienced as me can pull off?

[Anonymous No.10707472]

>>10707402
I started out making quesdadillas and pizzas using naan bread because its cheap and kinda pizza shaped. Perfect size for personal pizzas. I started wanting to get fancier and started making my own sauce, making chicken to put on top instead of roni, and you'll slowly find things thaf you want to cook and you begin to learn. You're gonna make a lot of mediocre food as a noob but as long as you use ingredients that you like it's almost impossible to make a bad dish.
Pro-tip for chickeand any meat: after you cook it and have a crust that makes you happy, remove the meat from the pan/grill and put it on a plate, then cover and seal with tin foil for 5 or 10 minutes. This allows the meat to cook all the way through without burning the outside, and makes it juicier.

[Anonymous No.10707481]

>>10707402
>>10707472
I also add last night's left overs to ramen for lunch. Here's a fun ramen recipe you can easily do if you make quesadillas often.
While your ramen is boiling, add cumin, salt, pepper, onion powder and cilantro to the water. I use some chicken broth concentrate so I add a dibble to the water, but this is optional. Add some cut up chicken with thr same spices on it to the pot. Now cut up a tortilla into small strips and now you have ez "dumplings".

Also ground beef and the spices above make taco meat. Or you could buy the spice pack from walmart for 60 cents

[Anonymous No.10707507]

first get into eggs, then branch out from there

[Anonymous No.10707517]

>>10707402
Practically anything. It's just heating up organic matter.

[Anonymous No.10707523]

>>10707402
Fried rice, various types of pasta/sauces and go from there.
It's actually not hard.

[Anonymous No.10707544]

>>10707402
Learn to make chili. From there you can do anything. A lot of cooking as about the prep work. You'll need to learn to chop onions, peel and crush garlic, brown ground beef, and you'll learn about spices and salt.

[Anonymous No.10707703]

if this is the life you want to commit to celebrate your freedom by buying a nice ribeye and searing the shit out of it on your heaviest bottom pan

there's a million searing steak videos on the internet and some creative techniques it can teach you like pan sauces which will come in hand as you branch out.

[Anonymous No.10707725]

>>10707402
watch a bunch of good eats, america's test kitchen, and all of basics with babish
watch other people make a bunch of food to get you inspired
you should be watching and thinking "I can do that"

[Anonymous No.10707728]

>>10707402
steak, probably one of the easiest possible meal.
you just heat up the pan as hot as possible, add a little oil, salt the steak, throw the steak in when the oil starts to smoke, flip it once it stops sticking to the pan, pepper, and than put it in the oven for a few minutes with some butter, garlic and rosemary

[Anonymous No.10707735]

>>10707402
Simple pasta dishes, or just whatever you feel like eating.

[Anonymous No.10707814]

>>10707402
>>10707402
>inexpirienced
Who is «inexpirienced»? What did you mean by this?

[Anonymous No.10707828]

>>10707472
>as long as you use ingredients that you like it's almost impossible to make a bad dish.

That actually makes sence, and it's a very reassuring thing to read.
I looked around my kitchen and I think I have the necessary ingredients to make some chilaquiles. I will post the results when they are ready. Wish me luck.

[Anonymous No.10707868]

This is why I'm glad I was raised by my grandparents. GenX can't do shit. Let me guess, you can't shave either?

Are you good at following instructions, instructions that have pictures? If knowing that just paying attention and being diligent could make you happier and save you a ton of money would you do it? If so, just grab on older Gisslen. It covers all the basics. If you want to learn baking grab an older baking book too. Don't let the "Professional" name spook you, it breaks shit down from the basics to professional level in the easiest way possibly and older versions are dirt cheap because culinary schools and colleges no longer use them even if they're pretty much the same.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/professional-cooking-college-version-with-cd-rom-wayne-gisslen/1101208788/2679423641640?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_New+Marketplace+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP164998&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlc-VqZG82wIVjsDACh1ZaA3_EAQYAiABEgKkYfD_BwE

I really don't know what level of idiot you're at so I don't want to recommend you doing something nutty. I hope you meet someone nice enough to show you how to do things right, because 99% of shit you see online is trash. Even the celebrities on TV are fucking trolls.

[Anonymous No.10707884]

>>10707868
You sound really jaded. I am not OP and I can cook, it isn't even remotely as difficult as you are making it seem

[Anonymous No.10707904]

>>10707884
I'm not trying to make it seem difficult. It's quite easily. Other people have made it difficult by teaching people incorrectly or making them afraid of cooking, or just not teaching them at all.

Sorry if I sound jaded. Cooking is not difficult but you can make anything a struggle. People who have gone into adulthood without learning how to cook probably need to learn to do it themselves without shill just because of the sheer retardation that's out there right now. Most people seem to think sauté means fill the pan and cook gently over moderate heat stirring occasionally. I just want to help him.

[Anonymous No.10707916]

>>10707828
Here it is

[Anonymous No.10707922]

>>10707904
Honestly you don't have to make a roast the first time you cook. I moved in with my current roommate 3ish years ago and he didn't even know how to turn on the stove. I showed him how to make a couple of really easy starter dishes like chicken with rice. At first he was really unsure of himself in the kitchen and kept asking me if he could do things that he wanted to do to his food like "should I turn this over now?" and "should this have garlic powder on it?" but after reassuring him for about two weeks on everything he made that cooking isn't rocket science and you can literally do whatever you want as long as you find it edible he got a lot more confident. Now he cooks every day and saves a ton of money.

>>10707916
Looks like food, is it edible?

[Anonymous No.10707945]

Who else here /has never cooked any meat rhats not frozen and microwaveable/
I'm only visiting from /v/ because damn i love /ck/ memes but fucks sake everytime I'm here it reminds me I dont even know what the fuck a chicken uncooked is or what to do with ir what parts or what etc.

[Anonymous No.10707952]

>>10707945
>buy chicken breast
>cut it into cubes
>put salt and pepper on it
>put it in a skillet with a bit of oil, stirring until done
WA-LA

[Anonymous No.10707955]

>>10707402
Burgers are basic, easy and delicious.
Fried rice is fun to make and is very tasty assuming you aren't afraid of soy sauce.
Taco's, quesadillas.
Any kind of chicken is pretty simple to make. Especially fried.
Be sure to look up recipes and then modify them to improve them to your specific tastes.

[Anonymous No.10707957]

>>10707952
>mfw i have to google what a fucking skillet is
FUCK YOU DAD FOR ONLY EVER EATING JUNK FOOD AND FAST FOOD
FUCK YOU MOM FOR ONLY EATING THE SAME DAMN FEW THINGS THAT REQUIRE LITTLE TO NO EFFORT COOKING

[Anonymous No.10707961]

>>10707957
>doesn't know what a skillet is
Well. At least you're trying anon.

[Anonymous No.10707963]

>>10707961
>its just a frying pan
Huh. Always pictured it as like a pan but with grills or something.
I guess I'm more a victim of English than food.

[Anonymous No.10707967]

>>10707963
Well to be fair grill pans are a thing. So it's not like you were way off.

[Anonymous No.10707972]

>>10707967
Now I'm going to figure out how to cook rice to eat with the chicken, because that is the GOAT combo.
Not sure what to use to counter the starchiness of the rice though. What do people usually do for that? Cause white rice on it's own is lackluster and I've tried gravy with it which was a fucking mistake. Soy sauce just makes it really salty, without really fixing up the texture.

[Anonymous No.10708032]

>>10707972
just do shit and find what works for you

the very worst case scenario is that you fuck it up irredeemably and have to throw out $2 worth of food

[Anonymous No.10708199]

>>10707402
tomato sandwich
cucumber sandwich
toast sandwich
peanut butter sandwich
bagel with cream cheese

[Anonymous No.10708228]

>>10707402
hotdogs and fried rice

[Anonymous No.10708242]

Buy a chicken, salt it, and throw it in an oven.

[Anonymous No.10708288]

>>10707972
Make fried rice and add a little hot sauce to spice it up a bit if that's your thing. I also sometimes add oyster sauce when I'm frying rice but that's pretty unorthodox and not something I've ever seen anyone else do.

[Anonymous No.10708295]

>>10708242
that was easy

[Anonymous No.10708296]

>>10707922
But making a roast is one of the easiest things to do when you're starting out.

[Anonymous No.10708299]

Test

[Anonymous No.10708369]

>>10708295
kek

[Anonymous No.10708470]

>>10707402

[Anonymous No.10708477]

>>10707402
>>10708470
No need to cook I don't

[Anonymous No.10710422]

I'd say go for something like an generic Italian red sauce.

So long as you don't burn things when you're first frying it, such as having the heat too high, you don't need to worry too much.

just throw in some water first before adding the passata if you're using that, helps prevent it build up those big steam bubbles that throw chunks of liquid at your face.

Just add oil, brown meat, brown onions, brown garlic, tomato paste, other vegetables like grated carrot, and then add your choice of mulched up tomatoes that isn't tomato paste, and bubble until cooked and throw over some spaghetti or whatever kind of pasta you want to eat it off.

[Anonymous No.10710491]

>>10710422
He's going from ordering pizza and ramen. Maybe start with some chopped veggies and ground beef in some oil, boil some noodles (since he already knows that), and then heat up some pre made pasta sauce and combine.


>Get pot of water boiling

>add noodles

>heat oil medium high and add chopped onion, red pepper, and mushrooms... cook until onions are slightly browned

>heat pasta sauce over medium

>after cooking noodles according to instructions on packet, strain and plate

>add veggies to noodles

>poor heated pasta sauce over noodles and veggies on plate

>add some Parmesan cheese, preferably grated parmesiano reggiano,

but the powdered shit is pretty good on a quick pasta dish like this too.

[Anonymous No.10710535]

>>10707402
To cook decent at home, all you literally need to know how to do is follow directions from a recipe, that's it. I don't understand why this is so difficult

If you can make Kraft Mac cheese without fucking it up, you can easily make 80% of recipes in allRecipes

[Anonymous No.10710572]

You have the fucking internet for infinite sources of this kind of shit. Nobody here can actually cook, look elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.10710614]

>>10707402
>sick of ordering pizza
>rich people problems

[Anonymous No.10712555]

>>10707402
A good starting point, omelettes, these ones are relatively quick but take alot of butter for a smaller pan, I often make the food wishes one myself but my eggs tend to break apart easier, these will help with your basic skills in timing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10etP1p2bU&t=8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXPhVYpQLPA
Italian foods are easier to learn than some other foods due to their philosophy of few ingredients done well, I'd recommend looking at Italian recipes on youtube but occasionally asking about it back here to see the discussion about weather or not the guy's boomer tier.

[Anonymous No.10712559]

>>10707402

[Anonymous No.10712572]

>>10707972

Get a rice cooker. Wash rice beforehand to get all that starchy shit off. Throw in rice cooker with water covering the top. Takes like 20 min to cook. I don't make rice any other way due to laziness lol

[Anonymous No.10712757]

>>10707402
Impossible, what are Home Ec classes from grade 5 to 9
Oh, wait, you live in a shithole. Nevermind.

[Anonymous No.10712891]

Easy as fuck red sauce:
I can barely cook myself, but this is one of the things I know damn well how to make because two different people have taught me.

Amounts aren't exact, look around online, also it depends on how much you want to make.

2 cans crushed tomatoes
2 cans tomato puree
2-4 small cans of tomato paste

Put it all into a crock pot on medium heat and stir till it's all combined. Add oregano, basil, garlic powder, and a few grinds of pepper to taste.
If you're vegan/vegetarian, or don't want any meat, skip this next part and just simmer on medium for 40-45 minutes and follow the directions on a box of whatever pasta you want with it.

While your sauce is cooking, grab a pound of whatever meat and cut it into little pieces. Not too small, but small enough to cook quickly and easily. Toss it into an oiled sautee pan and cook until fully cooked. Uncover the sauce and stir that shit in and let the sauce finish cooking.