Seconding all of this, and adding one more piece of advice: SALT. It is a flavor enhancer, so instead of tasting salty, it will just taste more like itself (assuming you don’t add it by the fistful). They always joke on America’s Test Kitchen that they are the “sultans of salt”, but really: as a country, we’re so used to highly processed foods that already have a ton of salt in them that it’s easy to forget, when making food from scratch, that salt makes a hell of a difference.