How to Cook Good Food (For Those Who Don’t Know Shit about Cooking)
A crash course for the rest of us
If you’re an expert cook, stop reading right now. You will be appalled at this post. You might feel personally insulted. You will call it sacrilege. You’ll demand the return of the Inquisition.
This post is not for the pros. It doesn’t even give precise measurements. This post is for folks like me who were somehow thrust into needing to cook for themselves (or their families) for whatever reason and yet have absolutely no background training in cooking. It is for people with zero time on their hands; for those who refuse to live on fast food, junk food, or low-quality food. It’s for people who don’t have time to read a book about cooking, consult a recipe every time they need to make something quick and which doesn’t taste like cardboard. It’s for people who don’t keep extra stores of “Dragon’s Teeth” or “Banshee Eyelashes” or whatever other obscure ingredients you find on cooking websites purporting “Easy and Quick Meals” only to inform you at the end of the article that you’re a fraud and an impostor because you don’t have the right stuff in your pantry.
I do all the cooking at home. My wife does the cleaning. We each have our fortes. I won’t let her anywhere near the kitchen. She won’t let me anywhere near the cleaning…
