Friday, September 25, 2009

Have Fun Cooking Easy Recipes

Is it me or are only certain types of people able to have fun cooking? Are some people just naturally able to follow recipes and get them right every time? I personally think the way to really enjoy cooking is by making easy recipes that taste great.

We have always struggled cooking dinner on a daily basis for our family but when you begin to see the fun in cooking, doing it daily becomes a breeze. Focusing on easy to cook recipes will assist in the fun element of cooking but in order to make the process run smoother we need to break cooking down into it's basic elements, prep, execution and clearing up.

Personally I would say that by preparing well will be the difference between how much you enjoy the execution and the overall cooking experience. Have you got all your ingredients? Do you have the necessary utensils? What needs slicing and dicing? What order do you need to do things and how long are individual elements going to take to cook?

Taking the preparation stage one step further, we always found it to be a good idea to plan our meals in advance. Make a checklist each week before you go for groceries, decide on the meals you are going to cook and make sure you have a list of necessary ingredients for each one.

You don't need to make the ingredients too complex either, start off small, make a nice pasta dinner with your own bolognaise made from fresh products, Grill some chicken and prepare your own marinate.

Once you have learned to enjoy the process try some advances methods, but remember to add you own preferences to what you cook, make it your own and this will add to the fun.

The benefits that you will receive through cooking your own meals will be more than you would have expected. Not only are you saving yourself and your family from the toxins of processed food or take out junk but you are also developing new skills. Encourage the family to become involved in the cooking process, let them give suggestions and let young children help prepare the meals. Getting everybody inv000011E7olved will only enhance the cooking experience and make it easier to do it on a consistent basis.

The important aspect of cooking to remember is the more fluently you can go through the process the more you will enjoy it and the more you enjoy it, the easier it will become.

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