General Cooking Must-Knows

• Before you start cooking, choose recipes that are not too complicated. Too difficult recipe steps can be overwhelming. Be aware of how much resources you can acquire and how much time you can invest on the cooking process.
  
  
• Assemble all your ingredients in one place before you cook to avoid stressing out over lost ingredients in the middle of the cooking process. Arrange also the utensils and other things you're going to need for a more organized cooking.
  
  
• Never ever put cooked or ready-to-serve foods on plates, cutting boards, or other surfaces where you have placed raw meat, fish, poultry, or other foul smelling food. Wash these surfaces first with hot, soapy water to remove all unwanted smell.
  
  
• Experiment with different colors and textures in meals and bring out that creative side. You can also learn variations of one specific dish. You can try recipes from other cultures and make it your own. Or you can completely invent a dish out of the blue. All it takes is imagination and good taste buds and you're sure to conjure delectable dishes with your own twist.