I need cooking advice please [I Need Advice]

@BloviatingBuffoon done that too, but ill write it down so i remember for next time

@JestAJester with a rice cooker you can make so many variations of rice. I made a rice dish with rice, onions, garlic, cooked chicken, green beans & green dill the other night. But you can add what you like.

@cherokeepatti since you're the most eager to help, got any advice for fish? i use to grill it up, toss in rice and soy sauce but man oh man im so sick of that but still love fish over chicken and beef

@JestAJester You can bread it and fry it. I like to use coriander spice with salt and pepper in the flour to coat it with. Coriander is the seeds from the cilantro plant and it adds a wonderful lemony flavor to the fish. You can also bake it with coriander spice, salt, pepper and a bit of ginger, & olive oil. Really good that way. If you don’t have coriander to bake it then use lemon juice instead.

@cherokeepatti making these lifestyle changes is so freaking hard. especially when you got cravings. Trying to give up eating out and trying to give up soda which is so damn difficult

@cherokeepatti I order mine from penzeys spices

@JestAJester Yes it is difficult in the beginning. It’s a gradual process. Giving up soda drinks is one of the healthiest things you can do. I like to drink ice tea and some types of herb teas instead of soda. Anything with corn syrup can feed intestinal cancer and causes a host of other health problems. I have learned to cook different types of dishes I used to have in restaurants, partly due to the price of restaurant food or getting a bad meal at a restaurant. You can save a lot of money cooking at home. Stir-fries are pretty easy to make if you have the ingredients. Fried rice is also easy and you can add whatever meat you have cooked to it. I learned to make homemade versions of soup like cream of mushroom soup or cream of broccoli soup in order to avoid mono sodium glutamate, they taste so much better. If I had a bit of canned soup after a few years of avoiding it then it tasted too nasty compared to homemade. I also learned to make homemade pizza, there are so many ways of making pizza crust. The easiest recipe for me is the Greek-yogurt Plus Self-rising pizza crust (you can substitute sour cream which is less expensive instead of buying Greek yogurt). This recipe is one of my favorite ones now and I can also make a gluten-free version… the recipe is on Pinterest and it’s for a thin-crust pizza.

@cherokeepatti actually a damn good idea, lots of cool stuff there. googling recipes gets me nowhere. They require all this seasoning and special instructions. like jeez i just wanna stick it in the oven or on a skillet and not have to think too hard

@Jimthere4fun sometimes Ill boil it and use it for chicken salad for sandwhiches but ive gotten bored of it lol

@Jimthere4fun but quesadillas sound good

@JestAJester try baking the chicken, tastes a lot better than boiled. Also flatten any chicken breasts so they cook evenly

@Nayla sounds more like a snack to me, I work overnights so I need something else in there to last me the night

@JestAJester you could add anything you want to it. Sausage, chicken, tofu, anything.

I had no idea how to cook when I moved out. My husband taught me a few things he knew but the rest was up to me to figure out on my own. You can follow recipes but you can always improvise them to suit your own taste. I have so many recipes in my head, not on paper. I'll think about what else I can share that you might be interested in

@DeWayfarer yup definately have that issue. I was doing overtime before I said 'enough' but even still working overnights is zapping my energy

@JestAJester freezing what you have made is your friend! 😊

So load up on containers that are both freezable and microwavable.

Quart size is the best for one meal.