Simple recipes for someone who can't really cook!

can you cook anything at all?

Start small.

Omlette (you can add cooked seafood, bacon, chicken, ham, veggies ANYTHING into this)
Grilled chicken and rice? (You can buy flavoured rice to add interest)
Pasta?

I've got an excellent book called 'How to boil an egg' and it really gives you the basics and easy to follow receipes!

Catt xx

My dad is the best cook in our family.... go to the charity shop buy a few cooks books that you think you could handle then have fun!! Cooking is great fun.... i'm still learning how to 'cook' proper meals, i live in chicken, rice, veg, and fruit but my boyfriend is moving in and he eats proper meals..... so i'm going to make toad in the hole tonight with mash tats and beans

Nothing to be ashamed of, every one has to start sometime, at least you want to learn :beer:

An easy recipe for shepherd pie is

1 chopped onion
2 sliced carrots
2 table spoons tomato puree
worcestershire sauce
1/2 lb mince (either lamb or beef)
1/2 beef stock cube mixed in half pint of boiling water
2 teaspoons of mixed herbs
1 tablespoon cooking oil (I either use groundnut oil or olive oil)

Heat the oil in a saucepan (I sometimes use a wok style frying pan) and when hot add the onion and carrots, fry for a few mins, stirring, until the onions are softened, add the mince and tomato puree and continue cooking and stiring til the mince browns, add the mixed herbs, a few good shakes of worcestershire sauce, add salt and pepper and the beef stock, stir well, bring to the boil then reduce the heat to very low put a lid on and simmer for about 30 mins. Meanwhile cook your mashed potato.

put the mince mixture into a dish, top with mashed pototo and pop into the oven til the top browns (about 20 mins in a 200c oven).

Once you're happy with the basic recipe you can start to experiment, like adding garlic and tinned tomatoes instead of stock or putting cheese in the mash or adding spices like chilli or curry powder to the mince.

Remember once your more confident with your cooking and you see a recipe you fancy but don't like some of the ingredients, leave them out or substitute them, a recipe can just be a rough guide.

Good luck :T

Horace wrote: »

I am a pretty hopeless cook (when I was at school I chose to do Latin over cookery) quote]

Horace, I chose cookery over Latin!!!:D
The Rector (Scottish for headmaster) thought I was mad..........but I still love food, & thxs to having the basics 'drummed' into me I find it all so easy.

Poor Jay-Mi, surely you did cookery at school???- !

Go to the bbc website there are loads on there!