{"id":17612,"date":"2016-01-07T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/?p=17612"},"modified":"2016-02-02T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T06:17:55","slug":"how-to-cook-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/how-to-cook-more\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Cook More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! Happy 2016! I hope this year finds you happy and healthy into 2016. A couple of new things will be going on in 2016 here on GMS, and I am open to whatever needs\/wants you guys have, so don&#8217;t forget to comment &#8211; I&#8217;m always around to help you cook more, cook better, cook different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cooking-Class.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16003\" src=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cooking-Class.jpg\" alt=\"Cooking Class | Garlic, My Soul\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cooking-Class.jpg 640w, https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cooking-Class-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cooking-Class-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s a picture from our 2015 cooking classes&#8230;a chance for me to get everyone involved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons\u00a0I started the\u00a0blog was to help friends and family learn how to cook more, and I hope that with this blog, whether this is your first visit or your 100th, helps you do that. I try to cook most nights a week, and I do it by building a wheelhouse of recipes I know, trust, and can make in about 30 minutes or less.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you cook more? How do you find time in your schedule? One tiny step at a time, like anything else. Here&#8217;s five steps to cooking at home more often this month!<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<strong>Pick a night of the week to cook, and stick to it.\u00a0<\/strong>I work better with a plan, and I bet most of you do, too. So pick a night to be the one you&#8217;ll spend just a\u00a0<em>few\u00a0<\/em>extra minutes in the kitchen. Be it Fridays with your significant other or kids, or Sunday to get ready for the week, or Wednesday as a mid-week pick-me-up, find a day that you can reasonably cook. After this becomes part of your schedule, try to add in another night&#8230;and another. You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Grocery shop with a plan.\u00a0<\/strong>I meal plan on weekends, working through weekly commitments\u00a0for Jeff and I, then figure out what nights we&#8217;re home. I aim to purchase food for one\u00a0<em>less\u00a0<\/em>meal than we need, because inevitably someone works late, or I make a dinner that&#8217;s too big for just two people, and leftovers come around later in the week. Then I add in breakfasts, lunches, and snacks. I always try to grocery shop when I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>not<\/em> hungry either, so that I can stop impulse plans.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<strong>Build your wheelhouse from what you like.\u00a0<\/strong>This might seem obvious, but cook what you eat! For example, if you&#8217;re constantly getting take-out tacos, or eating frozen stir fry, go ahead and just look at what you&#8217;re eating\u00a0and make a note of it. Then, find a recipe online that&#8217;s close to that perfect fish taco. I always try to cook recipes by the book the first time around, then adjust for Jeff and my tastes. Find a recipe you love? Make yourself a Pinterest board, a recipe book, whatever works for you, a repertoire of your tried and true!<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Read the recipe. Go back, read it again.<\/strong>\u00a0I was talking to friends about this last weekend, but a big pet peeve of mine is poorly written recipes. They&#8217;ll claim to be 30 minutes but 45 minutes in you&#8217;re looking longingly\u00a0at the freezer hoping that pizza will make itself. Read recipes before you attempt them. A lot of things you can do in advance, or do in an order that makes more sense than what the recipe suggests. Never let the time you&#8217;re first reading a recipe be 7:30 pm on Tuesday night as you start dinner!<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Make cooking time family time.<\/strong>\u00a0This is a big thing in our house. It&#8217;s one of the only times of the day that Jeff and I are both able to relax and talk about our days and spend together. We both do a lot of work outside our 9 to 5s, and\u00a0we also try to find time in the evenings to exercise, so usually this hour or so is spent together cooking. It&#8217;s also more fun that way! So go ahead and get your SO, or your kids involved. Find ways they can be included and be proud of what they&#8217;re creating &#8211; what a great lesson (plus, who wants to chop all those carrots themselves?!)<\/p>\n<p>In other random news: I&#8217;m on Snapchat now (@garlicmysoul), and will try to do some behind-the-scenes of cooking days as they come, if you&#8217;re into that sort of thing!<\/p>\n<p>If addition, <strong>if you live in LA<\/strong>, I am going to be doing some cooking classes in my kitchen, so if you&#8217;re interested shoot me an email at jennie@garlicmysoul.com!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! Happy 2016! 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