I started cooking not so long ago and I don't really know

>>9266775
Learn to make a decent hot breakfast. Eggs however you like them, bacon, sausage, or ham, toast or biscuits, oatmeal or cream of wheat.

Learn to make a couple pasta sauces. There's plenty of decent marinara sauces on the market, so don't worry about standing around stirring the Sunday gravy for an hour, but at least learn to do a basic alfredo, a basic garlic-wine sauce, and maybe a basic pesto.

Learn to make soups, stews, and chili. They're easy, cheap, nutritious, delicious, and you can make them in bulk, eat for a couple days, and then freeze portioned-out bags for later.

Keep some basic seasoning blends around the house. Italian, taco seasoning, herbs de Provence, Cajun-Creole blackening, and maybe some Montreal steak seasoning will give you some variety.

Learn to cook a steak to temperature.

Learn to make a roux (equal parts flour and fat, whether it be butter or melted animal fat). Once you can make a roux, you can learn your Mother Sauces.

marinating

how long to cook a meat based on its temp / thickness

cooking things in a particular order due to different heat requirements. if you do stir fry im sure you already do this.

Learn to make:

- A loaf of bread
- Noodles from scratch
- Tortillas from scratch
- A chicken roast
- Preserved food (sourkraut, pickled veggies, jam)
- Chili
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