You gotta do the cooking by the book!
Do you often use recipe books to cook up cakes and stuff. like Stephanie from Lazy Town?
I'm bored this summer, on the days that I don't work, so I think I'm going to try to become a decent baker and bake lots of cakes in lots of colors! I would greatly appreciate it if you were to suggest any baking cake recipe books for cooking noobs like me. :]
Sometimes I do sometimes I don't! It depends on what I'm cooking! :rolleyes2 But my recipe book is a notebook my mom made with time ^^" we have pretty common cakes: yogurt cake, chocolate, pudins, bavaroise...
Cookbooks are a starting point. If you are confident enough in your abilities to create meals, you should try and add your own certain twists on things. Makes things more fun.
I'm far too robotic to do things by myself. Unless it's something that requires no thinking (like green eggs and ham), I follow the recipe.
Which is not to say my cooking sucks. I can cook most anything from shrimp to steaks to creme brulee.
:D
ashley uses recipes and uses measuring cups ande. i never use measuring cups; my cooking is always a little more organic, but i do take ideas from recipes.
I'll add in some ingredients but keep the rest for me;
I'm not being disobedient,
I'm careful can't you see?!
If I cook, I need to know how to do it. Usually it's my dad telling me 'knead that dough longer' but whatev.
Why are you watching Lazytown Rye? xD
Nah, I can't say that I wasn't, my neice was watching it I swear. > >
I normally cook from the book once or twice until I know how to exactly do it, and then after that I'll just try to remember how to do it and/or experiment.
Stiiingy <3Originally Posted by rubah
And I love Lazy Town. :[ It's one of my favorite shows.
Cooking by the book is wrong. You should get ideas on how to make things from cookbooks, but real cooking is done by taste testing and adjusting how much of what ingredient is used by taste and the need of the food.
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
I can make some kickass muffins!
That's about it really
Muffins are winI can make some kickass muffins!
That's about it really
I get a lot of recipes from Foodnetwork and Chowhound. Also, since my new ambition for the summer is to be a cupcake baker extraordinaire, I've been reading a lot of cup cake blogs.
I think it helps to find recipes that other people have already tried so that you can get tips from those people and find out if the recipe is any good. Foodnetwork has a review section on each recipe so you can see what other people thought of the recipe. Chowhound is nothing BUT opinions about recipes. And blogs give personal and individual accounts of recipes. I never ever cook straight out of a cookbook unless I'm somehow assured that the end product is going to be yummy.
But... The cake could end up crazy.
Depends what I am making. Desserts and such I follow recipes, mostly my mom's from wherever she got her recipes.
For meals I tend not to follow a recipe, especially when I am making spaghetti sauce, which my dad taught me. I have made it enough times to know what I should put in it and to vary it from time to time or try something new. Since I am lazy and like to keep things simple, I usually do not do anything complicated for my meals anyways. (Especially since I work in a kitchen, dishwashing, so when I am working I get a free meal anyways).
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