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5 Ways To Take Your Home Cooking to the Next Level
Enhance the flavor of your meals and truly enjoy your own cooking
What’s the difference between someone who can cook and someone who can cook? Plenty of us can follow a recipe and make things edible. Can you turn your average baked chicken or spaghetti into a symphony of flavors? Can you create meals your loved ones beg for again and again?
Food is one of life’s great pleasures. Rather than preparing dinner like completing a chore, you can treat it as an opportunity to develop your cooking skills and experiment. You can take pride in your food, adapt it to your specific tastes and preferences, and savor what you’ve made. Imagine yourself as the rat from Ratatouille, delighting in the wondrous sensory experience food provides.
It’s possible to take your cooking to this next level of deliciousness. How do I know? My mom stopped by for dinner the other night and said to me, “Wow! Never did I think my Shanna would be able to cook like this. You’ve turned yourself into a gourmet cook!” Although her praise was effusive, I’ve indeed learned to cook delicious food despite hardly venturing in the kitchen for most of my adult life.
In my 20s, I survived on foods you put together — pita with hummus and veggies or oatmeal with nuts and raisins. In my…
