Cooking for Men

Cooking for Men is a book for men who have no idea how to cook but want to learn quick and easy ways to succeed in the kitchen and for women who need to teach them how. It's dedicated to anyone who lost the cook in their lives. You can download each chapter below or the whole of the book so far.

THE BOOK SO FAR...

Introduction

Getting to Grips with the Kitchen

The Kitchen Essentials

Preparing for Action

Introduction
Cooking for Men is about learning to cook by acquiring knowledge of ingredients, flavours, heat, using knives and how to shop. This manual of food and cooking starts that journey towards becoming a kitchen god, making up your own recipes from the things you like to eat most. Soon you'll overcome your fear of the kitchen through a sensible but careless approach to shopping with no need for special skills or equipment. Just enthusiasm.

Getting to Grips with the Kitchen
We begin with the essential kit for a kitchen; what you need in the way of pots and pans, knives and other tools - just the right implements and vessels to make life easy. It shows how we can create anything from the most lavish feast to beans on toast with a really top saucepan, a killer knife, a spoon and a chopping board. And, of course, a glass. For wine.

The Kitchen Essentials
Here we look at stocking the staples that will ensure you can always knock something up from the ingredients you like. Seasonings, oils, pasta and wine form the basis of many dishes and having the right ones handy at a moment’s notice can make life easy. What sort of things we want to have in all the time so that we can throw together that spontaneous supper for a colleague from work or an impulse date, from nothing but fresh air and a squeeze of lemon.

Preparing for Action
By now, you should have a kitchen stocked with some great ingredients and you should have the right tools at hand. It's time to go it alone. Beginning with some basic dos and don’ts, this chapter will set you on course. You just need learn some simple rules about preparing and cooking. Then, as your confidence grows you can become as creative as you like. You’ll find the energy and enthusiasm to take risks, try new things and cook them in different ways.

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