Originally Posted by
Kijho
I'm pretty basic and learning here (25, Caucasian, live alone). Besides the usual BBQ Steaks / Burgers/ Etc. - I like cooking things from recipes. Lots of stir fries, curries, pastas, etc. I found you need to have like 10 - 15 types of ingredients/ spices/ sauces etc. to make actual home-made sauces. The sauce is pretty much everything for things like that. But, once you have a collection of things you start to find other recipes that use similar ingredients and can expand that.
Pretty basic but last month I found a recipe for this super good ground chicken lettuce wraps. You need literally 10 ingredients alone for the suace (soy, rice vinegar, hoison, sweet sauce, plum sauce, honey, peanut butter, sesame oil, chili sauce, cumin, chili powder, peanut crushed, and garlic...) Like fuck it's so much easier and cheaper to just get take out hahahahaha... But it's worth it when you make something and it tastes delicious.
Crappy thing living alone cooking: Hardly any recipe's are for just 1 person. (Have to do math and split portions then.) Food ends up going bad if you can't finish it all within the days.
Good thing: Leftovers for lunches the next day always.