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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with much of what’s said here. Ina does have many simple recipes that yield great results. If you’re going to cook anything or many things of hers I also recommend checking out Storeboughtisfine - there is both a blog and an Instagram account. He cooked his way through all of Ina’s 1300+ recipes over the course of about eight years (and documented it) in an effort to teach himself to cook. So if there is anything confusing or complicated in an Ina recipe, Trent will almost always explain it or break it down for you in layman’s terms.

Agree with watching Food Network shows (even if they’re just on in the background) —you will pick up things even if they’re just concepts that will help you later.

I’m quite a good cook and I wish my knife skills were better so I see the point of those suggesting knife skills courses and good knives but I feel that if you’re just starting out that maybe isn’t as important.

As someone else suggested, start with things that don’t require a ton of precision — recipes that use sausage or meat that has already been cooked or smoked (pasta with rotisseries chicken). Things with ground meat like meatloaf and meatballs, and Bolognese sauces - less intimidating than say, a rack of lamb.

And find someone or several people who resonate with you. If you find someone whose videos either on Food Network or YouTube or wherever hard to follow or their personality is annoying to you or they just make things that you don’t think sound good you’re not going to want to cook the recipes no matter how good they might be. For example, I enjoy Bobby Flay. I watch his shows. I have his cookbooks and use them, I’ve been to his restaurants. I know a lot of people can’t stand him. [/quote]

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