Now that the sun is shining, and the temperature is dropping, the best way to celebrate is to take my sweet time in the kitchen. My goal is to use all my ingredients, and make sure my cooking is in line with the season and my personal preferences. I often let the first few days go by and then take them as an important learning experience.
I’ve learned that it’s often best to just start with a few basic dishes. If you’re cooking for a bunch of people, you might end up with a large amount of leftovers. If you cook for yourself, however, you can always throw something together and save the leftovers for later.
I think the most important thing to keep in mind about kitchens is that it truly does matter where you start. Youll most likely end up with more things to get wrong if you start in the kitchen than you will if you start in the pantry. Start with what you have, what you like, and what you have the most control over.
For the record, I don’t start in kitchens. I started in the pantry. You might not have a large amount of leftovers, but you can always throw something together and save the leftovers for later. I think the most important thing to keep in mind about kitchens is that it truly does matter where you start. Youll most likely end up with more things to get wrong if you start in the kitchen than you will if you start in the pantry.
That’s not to say that only kitchens are bad places to start. It’s also true that you start in the kitchen in a different way than you start in the pantry. Once you start in the kitchen you will be more prepared to deal with various mishaps and disasters that can occur there. The kitchen is also an excellent space for you to develop skills, including cooking, baking, and home maintenance.
If you have a bad kitchen, its not the fault of the food. It’s your fault. If the food was prepared poorly, or if you failed to cook it properly, then you will most likely end up with food that is way too spicy, tastes bad, or makes you sick. If you start in the kitchen, it’s a sign that you need to get a better cleaning attitude. In the pantry, its a sign that you need to get a better attention to detail.
The first thing to learn is that the kitchen is not the place to do “clean” things. The kitchen is a place to do “craft.” Whether the craft is cooking, baking, or cleaning, you need to get into the kitchen and get the food ready.
Cooking is a skill. So I suppose you could say that the kitchen is the place to learn cooking. But you can’t learn to cook if you don’t have a kitchen that is well stocked with all the things you need to make the recipe work.
The good news is that the kitchen is actually pretty easy to clean. Just get the food out of the way first. Then you just need to put the right amount of elbow grease in it. You dont need to be a rocket scientist to do this. You just need to be willing to learn how to clean things.
It is a pretty big step from learning to read to learning how to clean. But you don’t have to clean a house to learn how to cook. You dont need to know how to make good food to be a good cook. Good cookery comes without a recipe or a recipe book. You just need to learn the kitchen basics, like how to wash your hands and clean your dishes, and how to organize your work space.