{"id":149,"date":"2011-02-02T21:11:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T01:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2011-02-02T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T01:11:55","slug":"tips-to-start-cooking-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/college-fun\/tips-to-start-cooking-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips To Start Cooking In College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/learning_to_cook.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the novice in the kitchen, making your first full dish can be a very daunting task.  Do you have all of the right ingredients? What&#8217;s in your pantry?  What&#8217;s the difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon?  Can I substitute baking soda with baking powder?<\/p>\n<p>The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Our recommendations?<br \/>\nA) Start easy.  Start with a simple dish, grab the recipe online and make it.  Once you&#8217;ve made it, try again, but this time only skimming the recipe.  By the 3rd time you make this hopefully it&#8217;ll feel a little more &#8220;second nature.&#8221;  I still remember the first dish I ever made, spicy salsa!<\/p>\n<p>B) Print out your recipes on some old computer paper and save it!  A printed version is much easier to reference then sliding back and forth between your laptop.<\/p>\n<p>C) Automate the clean-up.  If you have a dishwashing machine, load it up after!  A lot of people hate cooking because of the clean-up.  Make this step easier for you.<\/p>\n<p>D) Cook with friends.  Someone prepare on the main dish, someone prepare on the side dish!  In no time you&#8217;ll have a feast and at 1\/2 the cost it would have costed to go out!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll become the next Bobby Flay in no time!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some great resources to find free and easy to follow recipes at.  Personally I like FoodNetwork.com the most as it provides the most fun to read and interesting reader comments on how to &#8220;hack&#8221; the recipe to add a kick or spice to it!<\/p>\n<p>CooksIllustrated.com<br \/>\nFoodNetwork.com<br \/>\nAllRecipes.com<br \/>\nEpicurious.com<br \/>\nCooks.com<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: xkcd.com.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the novice in the kitchen, making your first full dish can be a very daunting task. Do you have all of the right ingredients?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[109,162],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-fun","tag-college","tag-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}