learning to cook for the first time

eurotrotter

hey gang
hope yyer all well

im over in germany, and have found myself eating out thewhole time, simply cos i cant cook.

i have never really needed to cos i used always live at home, and never needed to cook for myself

so now im in the deep end, and simply cannot afford eating out or eating unhealthy food the whole time!

so im hoping that there is a website that u guys might know of that will go through few simple recipes.
a video to accompany to the recipe would be great, if there is such a website.

thanks for reading this thread

all the best

ed

loismustdie

dont know any offhand but do a google search

thorbarry

youtube is the best, just type in "simple recipe" or something and you get loads of videos

MagicMarker

Cook what exactly? Do you know how to boil an egg? Toast? Pasta?

olaola

Here is a video site that might be of use:

http://www.videojug.com/tag/food-recipes

ya-what-now?

http://www.lookandtaste.com/

Got re-directed to this from what was formally www.ifoods.tv - twas on Dragons Den.

Got some nice recepies off it - and they're really straightforward - hope it helps!

getz

eurotrotter wrote: »

hey gang
hope yyer all well

im over in germany, and have found myself eating out thewhole time, simply cos i cant cook.

i have never really needed to cos i used always live at home, and never needed to cook for myself

so now im in the deep end, and simply cannot afford eating out or eating unhealthy food the whole time!

so im hoping that there is a website that u guys might know of that will go through few simple recipes.
a video to accompany to the recipe would be great, if there is such a website.

thanks for reading this thread

all the best

ed

go into ,ask.com, then type in quick cooking, and you will find a lot of easy cooking menus ,even one that you can ask questions on

barbiegirl

Try www.cookitsimply.com www.cooks.com or simply google which is what I do the whole time.
On the book front, Delia Smith How to Cook there's a combined books 1 - 3 deals with all the basics and guides you to harder recipes, also The Ultimate 30 Minute Cookbook published by Ted Smart is excellent and Fast Food published by Murdoch Books. Good luck and enjoy :-)

finalfantasist

There is also allrecipes.

LimeFruitGum

Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food is targeted at people who don't know how to cook. THere's also a free video podcast version of recipes from that show on itunes. By the way, the Ministry of Food book has been translated to German :-) so no excuse!

Just start off small with basic pasta dishes, or meat&2 veg until you're feeling ready to branch out into sthg more ambitious

Latchy

Well for a start off for a small meal you could have simple beans on toast , you'll get some protien form the beans . Then for breakfasts / snacking /sandwitches you could top up with jams , peanut butter and cereals .

The Black Oil

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054856196

Some fairly straight forward stuff here.