When I decided it was time for my teens to learn how to cook, I was fortunate enough to find a cookbook that teaches fundamental cooking techniques.
It has an introductory section with pictures and instructions for setting up your kitchen, for flavoring food, preparing food, and using various cooking techniques.
Then it has over 400 pages of recipes with more instructions and valuable information.
The recipe categories included:
- breakfast,
- appetizers and snacks,
- salads,
- soups and stews,
- pasta and grains,
- vegetables and beans,
- meat,
- poultry,
- seafood,
- breads,
- and desserts.
Each of these recipe categories have teaching sections covering topics like egg basics, salad greens, pasta basics, chicken basics, bread basics, and preparing fruit.
On top of all this, the recipes in this cookbook are delicious!
One of our favorites is the Chicken Stew with Softened Garlic which isn’t really a stew but more af a flavorful way to cook cut-up chicken.
This amazing cookbook is called How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food–With 1,000 Photos (paid link) and it’s written by Mark Bittman.
He has another cookbook out that we have also picked up that is called How to Cook Everything (paid link) and it is also amazing!
If you’re looking for books that will help your teens learn how to cook that use lots of photos and aren’t too wordy, these will work well for you.
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Many blessings,
My son at 9 is just starting to want to cook dinner and other meals for himself and our family. I hesitate because of the stove, oven etc even tho I’m close by. I get alot of “I want to do it, I can do it” and I don’t want to discourage or frustrate. This book looks like it might be helpful!!
The pictures in it are wonderful! And I love the added tips he gives for each recipe. They are really helpful for beginning cooks.