Learning to Cook as an Adult
Learning to cook as an adult is a much different experience than what your family taught you growing up. The possibilities are endless and yet too often we take the easy way out choosing to purchase pre-cooked or pre-packaged foods.
This episode examines how you can discover a love for cooking with tips for getting started in self exploration with food.
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Selected Links from the Episode
- Having More Time
- Doing Something Creative Every Week
- Broke Ass Gourmet
- Nom Nom Paleo
- 4-Hour Chef
- Cooking spices with Tim Ferriss
- The Kitchn
- Apartment Therapy
Show Notes
- The difference of learning to cook as an adult [03:15]
- Making food and cooking a passion [06:08]
- Viewing food as an experience versus viewing food as a necessity [06:58]
- The journey with food that Jean Dahlquist took [09:48]
- The difference between fresh personally bought and created food instead of store bought [14:03]
- Jesse Liebman and his journey with food [14:57]
- Leveraging the library and their cook books to open your world to cooking [23:09]
- Learning to use the bulk section of the grocery store [25:36]
- Wait for verification, see if things come up multiple times [23:56]
- Have alternatives to your original decision [26:26]
- GTS = Google that shit [27:17]
- Using the Nom Nom Paleo cookbook [28:25]
- The concepts from the 4-Hour Chef [30:18]
- Seasoning you food [33:39]
- The utilization of salt and pepper [34:02]
- Using the spices that start with ‘C’ [35:47]
- Learning cooking techniques with The Kitchn [37:32]
- Define your goals of what you what to create as a newfound cook [41:54]
- Explore as many things as you can that you create yourself instead of getting the pre-packed version [43:30]
- Find a friend that you can share the experience of cooking with [49:36]
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