Tag: newbie tips
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Leverage the Information Age to Your Advantage
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Leverage the Information Age to your advantage (whether you’re a Hater or not!) Back in the day, it could take you 5-10 tries to get a pretty basic recipe just the way you like it. Because all you had access to were maybe a few cookbooks, a couple…
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Get in the Mood ?
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Mood enhancers. If you Haters are like me, cooking is no sunny walk in the park: It’s more like being at the dentist… DAILY. So we Haters need to approach cooking differently than typical humans… Which is why I recommend finding ways to put yourself in a good…
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Get to Love Leftovers!
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: If you’re a Hater, Get to Love Leftovers! Ok, typically, I don’t like leftovers. Many meals do NOT reheat well, plus I’d just prefer to have something fresh every night. But HELLO, I hate cooking, and my hate far outweighs my need to have something new every single…
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Semi-Prepared Foods
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: If you’re a Hater, buy semi-prepared foods! Ain’t no shame in my game!! As a follow-up to the menu planning post from a couple days ago, I mentioned picking “easy meals” to make… Easy GOALS, in general, is a solid step in the right direction for any Hater.…
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Menu Planning. Get On It.
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Menu planning. Get on it. Yes, Haters, I’m talking to YOU. It’s not as fancy as it sounds, I swear. It just means deciding what you’re going to eat for dinner for the upcoming week, buying the stuff, and cooking it before it rots in your fridge. Even…
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Blue Apron? Hello Fresh? Plated?
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Blue Apron? Hello Fresh? Plated? What say you? I’m a big fan of this concept, although I haven’t tried any (yet). If these types of companies existed when I was first getting into cooking, I woulda been all over it!! And if you’re just getting into the cooking…
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Spice Packets
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Spice Packets! So maybe you’re a cooking newbie. Or maybe you want to branch out a little, but don’t want to buy $20 worth of various Mexican spices. A rookie mistake is to spend money on spices that you buy for one recipe and never use again. That’s…
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PSA: I Don’t Measure Stuff
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: PSA: I rarely follow recipes exactly. Sometimes I add things, sometimes I omit things (for personal taste as well as allergy reasons). And sometimes the recipe is actually a hybrid of a few recipes for the same dish (and the one I reference on here is simply the…
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Gringo Chicken Enchiladas
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Gringo Chicken Enchiladas. Arriba!! Ok you can certainly make your own enchilada sauce. But for haters, this is just another annoying step you’d rather avoid. (As a reference, “quick” enchilada sauce recipes take 10-15 minutes to make.) You could also buy enchilada sauce, but I’m sharing this “gringo”…
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One Pot Meals
The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: One pot meals! Everyone who likes to cook knows that the main benefit of one pot meals is that you only have to clean one pot at the end of the day. But if you hate cooking, or are just beginning to learn, you might not know this…