🇬🇧 Tips for people starting to cook

Good Morning! It is not my focus to talk about cooking, for two reasons. One is that sometimes I think my audience doesn't cook. Perhaps I am mistaken, because whoever leaves home to study is, in a sense, a nomad. Especially if you don't want to go back to your hometown. And many students cook at home. Tell me in the comments if you cook, if you have a maid or cook at home or if you always eat restaurant food. The other reason I tell you before the end of the text. But today I decided to share my answer to a question about what tips I would give to those who have no experience in the kitchen. Trust me. They work!

• Making normal pasta (buying only ready-made pasta, dry or fresh) is almost as easy as making instant pasta and is much more tasty and nutritious. In addition, in the end it is cheaper, depending on the sauces you make. Italian readers will freak out when they read this. I still don't know how to make pasta (except gnocchi and pizza. I mean, the pasta itself, not the recipe with sauce and everything). You can teach me in the comments!!!
• Making lasagna, rondelli or cannelloni is almost as easy and possibly faster than buying them frozen (I make it in the pan with fresh pasta and it gets ready quickly. In the microwave to make the frozen ones it takes much longer). I accept tips from Italian readers on how to prepare these pastas at home too.
• If you follow family recipes correctly, chances are good that the food will be good. So, adopt your grandmother's recipe book. Website recipes always risk that the author's taste is very different from yours. Speaking of recipes, a long time ago I shared a super simple recipe for ambrosia here on the blog. If you have tested or test yourself, comment what you think. It was one of the first recipes I prepared in my life.
• Start by making simple recipes, without many steps in preparation.
• Making recipes, over time you build up courage and give your personal touch to them and create different things (if you are a creative person).
• Never open the oven a thousand times when you are baking cake. Do not open it at all before the dough appears to be ready (very golden on top). You may make mistakes sometimes, but the chances of making mistakes by not following these tips are worse. Nothing that a cover does not help to disguise the damage a little, but better to avoid, right?
• Making your seasoning with salt, garlic, onion and other ingredients is challenging, but when you get it right the point is very good. (I'm not going to tell you to start like this. I've used lots of seasoning I bought already mixed at the supermarket, but if you have the courage to start, take a chance, it's worth it).
• Making desserts is excellent to find such courage. I started with them and the only time I remember to miss a hand on a candy was because I weighed my hand on the pepper when making a hot chocolate. 🤣🤣#everybodycries

I hate cooking out of obligation. This is my second reason for saying little about cooking here. I accept sponsorships of brands that make the experience in the kitchen much more practical, to see if I lose my tantrum. And good restaurants for the first reason, which I mentioned at the beginning of the text. When I decide to do something well in any field, I hardly fail. These tips are the result of those moments of inspiration. As I've always worked with creativity, the kitchen is sometimes an extension of that. And I learned a few things about it throughout my life.

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Nycka, the Nomad