Cooking ideas..

NGlady

I currently live at home, and have never really had much opportunity to learn to cook. However I am going to have the house to myself for 2 weeks soon, and would like to learn how to cook
I wont really have loads of money to be buying too expensive things, but I would like to make something at least once a day from scratch myself
any ideas what I could make? Remembering at the moment, I dont know the difference between a desert and a table spoon Maybe budget of £4 for each receipe?

tessie_bear

could u go to a library and have a look at the cook books....find something u fancy and take it from there....i like delias complete cookery course...a cook book aimed at students might have basic recipes in...also supermarkets like sainsburys do cards with recipes on...easy things u could try;
spag bol
chilli
shepherds pie
crumble
fairy cakes
roast chicken
pancakes
flapjacks
good luck

ifonlyitwaseasier

have a look on the grocery challenge thread, the first page has loads of recipes and i'm sure they could be scaled down easily enough

Rikki

There are plenty of recipes on-line and on here plenty of people to help you too.

List the foods you like to eat and fancy cooking and we will point you in the direction of a recipe and the best way to cook it cheaply.


Money Saving Old Style - Indexed Collections

BBC Good Food Recipes

lynzpower

If you do better with learning from visuals: try videojug which has hundreds of brief videos on how to cook EVERYTHING!!

MrsBartolozzi

You could also have a look at MrBadExample's cooking threads. He uses lots of pics, and is quite amusing too.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=237294
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=287884
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=148531


Just a few examples, but if you do a search of Oldstyle, go to advanced search and look for threads started by mrbadexample, you'll see lots of threads showing his adventures in learning to cook. Also I agree with videojug, even if they are not using the exact same ingredients as your recipe sometimes help with technique is all you need. Good luck, and come back here for any tips you may need.

Rikki

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

You could also have a look at MrBadExample's cooking threads. He uses lots of pics, and is quite amusing too.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=237294
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=287884
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=148531


Just a few examples, but if you do a search of Oldstyle, go to advanced search and look for threads started by mrbadexample, you'll see lots of threads showing his adventures in learning to cook. Also I agree with videojug, even if they are not using the exact same ingredients as your recipe sometimes help with technique is all you need. Good luck, and come back here for any tips you may need.

Mr Badexamples Cooking Index

MrsBartolozzi

Aha, I thought there was one, but couldn't find it - thanks Rikki!!

Counting_Pennies_2

You could pop to the library and look for a Delia Smith cook book for 1 that has a good reputation, and hopefully set you on the right road without cooking too much, and spending too much

babyshoes

I agree that you should let us know what sort of things you like to eat, and what you fancy, then we can let you know how to cook it and what ingredients you will need to buy...

I remember trying to explain to my brother (on the phone to Canada) what to cook for a vegan friend who was visiting him. The first problem is that he didn't have a clue what a butternut squash looked like - needless to say I can't repeat the description I gave him on here, being a family friendly forum... :eek:
Then there were the comments like "So I need to buy a pot for that, right? I only have a frying pan" and "I don't have a cheesegrater - do I need to buy one of those too?" and "I'm not buying that vegan cheese s***t, that stuff is expensive!" I gave up after that. As far as I know his friend got a bag of carrots, which was his original plan! :rotfl:

NGlady

Ooo thanks for your help - will look into the links

I have been brought up to enjoy normal traditional foods.. your shepherds pie, meat pies etc. I guess I would like to make simple things to start with that I can make small quantities of. Perhaps some sausage rolls that type of thing.

Also cake wise.. anything that i shouldnt be eating haha. I would love to perhaps start by making some basic cookies

I will need to buy cookery equipment as we threw most out when we moved :S i think my mums refusing to cook anymore haha. Wheres the cheapest place for that type of thing?

My target is to by the end of the two weeks be able to do a full roast dinner not using packet anything :O (yeah right lol)