Learning to cook?

http://www.zergnet.com/ -> Lots of no skill american derp recipes too though

foodtv.com, gourmet, saveur have great sites for getting basic recipes which you can draw from and alter to your taste/availability.

NY times magazine site is also very good.

http://visualrecipes.com/

Enjoy :)

I worked my way up from dishwasher but i'm a painter now.

For your final question, not really but I was born to make food. NOM :)

i know how to not burn my food, thats about it. Everything is self thought.
It is decent enough if I have to cook for among friends, but i wouldnt do a fancy diner or so XD

http://imgur.com/gallery/0waey
http://imgur.com/gallery/pHUdq
http://imgur.com/gallery/JYBV6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249k2WymdFc&list=PL4sylQahxyepBiKD1V7VPkahHoEVig_4C - playlist

Easy to search from google:
recipe websites

I was never able to cook anything, and never will. Also I hate cooking.

I more like making cakes and muffins and cookies.

personal cooking agenda (from time to time):

0. what do you wanna do with those ingredients anyway?
1. google what you're about to cook
2. either remember or print out/write down (checking the phone while cooking > derp)
3. realize how much time it takes, therefore only roughly follow the recipe > and fuck up the whole thing :D
4. self-"maede" omonom-profits > flawed victory

cooking is a piece of work for beginners ... but gets easier and better with every try
(unless one can't read or never follows the recipe)

Wow so many helpful answers, thanks guys. Gonna have a look at those, you know, I already can cook pasta fine but I would like to add some extra flavour and work on it.

I watch TV Paprika from time to time and search for repices online.

Until you get the hang of cooking creatively, you are completely dependent on your recipes. For basic food done well (somewhere between extravagant gourmet and toast) I recommend America's Test Kitchen. They do a TV show and magazines, plus their website. Here's a description:
"America's Test Kitchen is a real 2,500 square foot test kitchen located just outside of Boston that is home to more than three dozen full-time cooks and product testers. Our mission is simple: to develop the absolute best recipes for all of your favorite foods. To do this, we test each recipe 30, 40, sometimes as many as 70 times, until we arrive at the combination of ingredients, technique, temperature, cooking time, and equipment that yields the best, most-foolproof recipe."

My family is Italian. I didn't inherent their cooking mojo, but I try. I've been having fun with copy cat recipes. When I go out to eat and I like something I try to find out how it's made. My favorite recipe is the apple pancake recipe from the pancake house. I'm sure I don't have the exact recipe but it tastes pretty close. It's easy to make with cheap common ingredients (which is nice because it costs around $15 dollars in a restaurant) and it tastes like making it was elaborate. It requires a handled frying pan that can go in the stove. (I don't even know what these things are called, but they can commonly be found at thrift stores :) My pan is the circumstance of a small/med dinner plate, doesn't need to be exact...

Baked Apple Pancake

1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
3 eggs beaten and room temp
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup milk room temp
7 tablespoons of butter
1-2 green tart apples

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a small bowl combine sugar and cinnamon, set aside.
In a large bowl combines eggs, salt, flour and milk, beat until batter is smooth. (I add some sugar to taste here, I like it extra sweet)

In a large ovenproof frying pan or skillet over medium heat , melt butter Turning pan to coat sides, add apples
and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon mixture. stir and let cook for 5 minutes.

Pour batter over apples and bake 25 minutes or until puffed above sides of the pan and lightly browned. Remove by flipping
upside down onto a serving platter.

As far as websites go I don't have too many I use regularly. I often end up on Allrecipes which is pretty generic.
I use different ones all the time, but I do like this one. Supercook It's good for someone on a budget. You enter the ingredients you have on hand or in your house and it directs you to the recipes you can make with what you have. If you are close to being able to make something it lets you know what you are missing. It's not perfect but it comes in handy and I think the recipes are rated so you can tell how much other people liked them.

http://www.cocktailbuilder.com/

A great thing about being a spaniard and everybody here is obsessed with food is that you always learn to cook.
There are a lot of cooking shows for learning from the most basic level of day to day recipes to great and difficult recipes.

I would recommend some, but they are all in spanish, mostly Karlos Arguiñano and Robin Food for the most basic level and traditional food.

Other than just following recipes I'd also recommend you to start of by learning basics. Because you may have all the ingredients and will still often screw up, because due to lack of experience you will for example break your sauce, overcook your rice, undercook your pasta, screw up your meet temperature, overheat your deep oil and so on and on.

So before going to al these fancy recipes, make a decent amount of basic food just using different techniques to learn your cooking essentials ;) When you will get at least decent amount of these, start following more complex recipes and later on start adding your own stuff to them. Then start creative cooking, as that's where the real fun begins :D:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cooking+for+dummies
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cooking+for+students
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cooking+for+starters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x7mVaEQ2q0&list=PLS4m1z0gdMzg8HFt335Opj1F1V3HuTTs-
jamie olvier 30min meals

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cooking+for+men
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cooking+for+women

Hope u find what ur looking for :P

P.s. if u are into xtreme than u could check https://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime :D

If you're looking to practice basic technique:
Learn how to grill or pan-fry a good medium-rare to medium steak (somewhere between "it only just stopped bleeding" and "still nice and pink on the inside").

The theory is really simple: Sear it at high temperature, then gently cook it at lower temperature. Finally, let it rest before serving.
But it's surprisingly easy to mess up if you don't have the feel and timing right, which makes it effective practice material.

My mother taught me to cook...and I rarely cook to recipe anymore...I don't follow amounts or anything like that, just the basic ingredients, I use amounts by taste, flavouring by taste, all that...I don't know any recipe sites or apps but I can give you 2 simple recipes off the top of my head if you want them...

If you have an ipad, you should check the appstore, there's tons of interactive cookbooks and cooking apps there.

https://www.youtube.com/user/foodwishes

Chef John has some very helpful tricks up his sleeve and he really teaches you how to cook, rather than just showing off some recipes.

I second AllRecipes.com; they have a lot of manageable recipes, a search engine that factors in your available ingredients, and innumerable user reviews and modifications.