How to get a Victoria´s Secret model type body?

[trex74]

thank you! I think cooking will be more fun once I get some positive experiences from it, meaning I cook something that actually tastes good. Once I live with my husband I can hopefully adapt some of his cooking skills

You'll be great. Everyone starts somewhere.
I am a pretty good cook now, but I have subjected my family to some AWFUL stuff.
I was making spaghetti sauce, I was about 13 or so, and I put whole cumin seeds in, trying to be exotic and sophisticated or something.
Well, while ground cumin wouldn't have made it too bad, the whole seeds sprinkled throughout the sauce made it so gritty, really strong tasting, and it was almost inedible.
I was so devastated, and I had made so much sauce that i felt guilty about tossing it out. My sister still loves to remind me about it, and I just laugh and laugh because it was absolutely hilarious...
Watching them eat it was torture, because I knew it was disgusting. They tried to be polite for a while....LOL

 

[shirlene29]

meh...I dont mean low carb.....pumpernickle or rye is healthier than wheat

 

[Austrian_Babe]

You'll be great. Everyone starts somewhere.
I am a pretty good cook now, but I have subjected my family to some AWFUL stuff.
I was making spaghetti sauce, I was about 13 or so, and I put whole cumin seeds in, trying to be exotic and sophisticated or something.
Well, while ground cumin wouldn't have made it too bad, the whole seeds sprinkled throughout the sauce made it so gritty, really strong tasting, and it was almost inedible.
I was so devastated, and I had made so much sauce that i felt guilty about tossing it out. My sister still loves to remind me about it, and I just laugh and laugh because it was absolutely hilarious...
Watching them eat it was torture, because I knew it was disgusting. They tried to be polite for a while....LOL

LOL that sounds yummy. I can cook two things at the moment (tomato soup and shrimp pasta) and I´m so proud of myself cause both actually taste good. My family loves those dishes, but when my husband tasted them I was totally pissed when he said he doesn´t like either

 

[Austrian_Babe]

meh...I dont mean low carb.....pumpernickle or rye is healthier than wheat

I actually like rye bread a lot!

 

[trex74]

LOL that sounds yummy. I can cook two things at the moment (tomato soup and shrimp pasta) and I´m so proud of myself cause both actually taste good. My family loves those dishes, but when my husband tasted them I was totally pissed when he said he doesn´t like either

Oh if you can make tomato soup and shrimp pasta, you can definitely cook other stuff too

 

[musclemom]

LOL that sounds yummy. I can cook two things at the moment (tomato soup and shrimp pasta) and I´m so proud of myself cause both actually taste good. My family loves those dishes, but when my husband tasted them I was totally pissed when he said he doesn´t like either

I didn't know how to cook much when I first got married, either. I knew how to roast a chicken and make biscuits, that was pretty much it.

One of the really traditional wedding gifts in America is a crock pot (also called a slow cooker). They always come with their own little cook book. That's where I learned quite a few things (what flavors go well together, and how foods react to cooking). And a really good SIMPLE basic cookbook, with classic recipes that aren't too outrageously long and solid explanations of how to select ingredients and various cooking techniques, is a must.

IMO, the trick with cooking isn't the cooking so much as learning how to treat the ingredients properly and what goes with what (Trex gave some good rules of thumb up there). Less is more. Once upon a time, I would overcook meats and vegetables, try to put in too many herbs, over season, make every pot in the house dirty, spend hours prepping and it would taste blech and I'd be heartsick. Now, 25+ years later, I know if I'm spending much more than 20 minutes prepping then I'm probably doing something wrong.