Tag: newbie tips
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Make Cooking Goals
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Make some cooking goals and TRACK your progress. I’ve found this strategy particularly helpful as a cooking Hater. If you don’t mind going to the gym, you don’t need to think about it much… you just GO. If you HATE going, but paid for that membership, you might…
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Give a Food Gift
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Give Food as a Gift… Especially to me ? 5 reasons why food makes the best gift: 1. Everyone HAS TO eat, and most people LOVE TO eat. If you give a food gift, chances are it will be consumed. If you give a scarf or…
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For Your Wallet’s Sake…
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: If not for any other reason, learn to cook and menu plan for your wallet’s sake. So you hate cooking. But maybe, just maybe, your LOVE of money slightly outweighs your HATE of cooking. Let’s face it – The majority of us are middle class and will STAY…
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Melt a Piece of American Cheese on Your Eggs
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Melt a piece of American cheese on top of your scrambled eggs. My girl Sarah did this way back in the day, and I’ve been doing it ever since. Sure, I often trow some shredded cheese right into my scramble mix, but there’s something about melting a slice…
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F Side Dishes – Go All-Inclusive
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: F side dishes – Go All-Inclusive. If you’re a Hater or a cooking newbie, cooking is enough of a struggle without trying to get multiple components of a meal to come together at the same time, and all be hot on the plate when served. Plus, side dishes…
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Thanksgiving-Any-Day Casserole
“Sue!” Frank whisper-hissed at me, nudging me with his elbow. “We didn’t say grace yet,” my one-year-younger cousin quietly reminded me out of the corner of his mouth a millisecond before dissolving into giggles. I’m sure my cheeks, full as a chipmunk’s, turned dark red with horrified embarrassment. Meanwhile, Matt caught on just in time…
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Download Your Grocery Store’s App
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Download your grocery store’s app. I primarily shop at one grocery store chain and Costco. Kings has better selection and prices on the types of organic foods I buy than their competitors. Period. So it makes sense for me (and anyone who shops primarily in one grocery store)…
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Take a Gourmet Soup and Make It Your Own
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Take a box (or can) of gourmet soup and make it your own. Don’t get me wrong – I love a good ol’ fashioned can of Campbell’s Chunky Salty-as-Hell Chicken Noodle Soup when I’m sick, and even sometimes when I’m not. And I often keep a can or…
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Clean As You Go
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Clean as you go. Omgosh I’m TERRIBLE at cleaning as I go! I’ll do great 3 days in a row, then it’ll all go to shit and there will be days’ worth of dishes/etc. piled up in the sink because I still haven’t unloaded the dishwasher after running…
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Ask For Help! (Duh.)
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Ask for help! Chances are there are at least a few people in your life who are great cooks. Maybe your mom, maybe some of your aunts or cousins or friends, maybe even a couple of the men in your life. Maybe you know even more than you…