Cooking Without Recipes Overview and Links

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SIX GOOD REASONS TO BREAK FREE OF RECIPES

Recipes are prison for your inner chef. Following recipes does not encourage you to trust your Chef Sense. When you follow a recipe and the outcome is good, the recipe gets all the credit. If it’s bad, you take all the blame. And in neither instance do you learn anything but how to follow recipes better.

Recipes are nothing but long to-do lists. Do this, then this, then this… blah blah blah. Recipes reduce cooking to a big fat chore. When you cook without recipes it’s a creative and fun experience.

Recipes force you to shop inefficiently. You hunt and peck all over the store for items on your “list”, rather than making a quick clean sweep.

Recipes don’t account for what’s fresh in your market. While you are ping-ponging around the store trying to check off items on your list, you skip all the best, freshest and in-season items simply because they don’t conform to your recipe.

Recipes don’t account for your particular taste or portion sizes. Searching for recipes that conform to your diet is limiting to begin with, and a recipe does not consider your particular serving size or the nuances of your palate.

Cooking without recipes is surprisingly easy and infinitely more fun and rewarding. Over the next few days I will teach you everything you need to know to break free of recipes for life.

BUT I LOVE RECIPES!

I’m a recovering recipe-follower myself. I understand the allure. Recipes inspire you to do things you wouldn’t think to do on your own. They allow you to get something “just right”. And they are a great way to communicate and share ideas about cooking.

All that said, consider that there is a time and a place for recipes in your life. Think of using recipes to create SPECIAL meals rather than everyday meals.

When you need to throw together a quick, healthy, delicious meal you should be able to look at what ingredients you have available and spring to action.

COOKING IS A LIFE SKILL

Unfortunately in this day and age fewer and fewer people know how to actually cook.

Memorizing recipes or developing the ability to follow complicated recipes is not the same thing as knowing how to cook.

If your cooking ability is limited to following recipes, whether written or memorized, two things will happen:

You will eat the same old things over and over.
You will go out to eat more often than your wallet or waistline can afford.

YOUR FREEDOM FROM RECIPES STARTS NOW

Try our free course available on teachable.com. If you like it, we offer an intermediate and advanced course that can take your cooking to the next level.

If you are still unsure if cooking without recipes is right for you, we have linked to a few great websites that promote a recipe free lifestyle.

Check out the links below:

https://tasty.co/article/jesseszewczyk/how-to-cook-without-a-recipe

How To Rely Less On Recipes And Become A Better Cook

https://www.gourmandize.com/article-9116-how-to-get-comfortable-cooking-without-a-recipe.htm

How to Get Comfortable Cooking without a Recipe

https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/how-to-cook-without-a-recipe-no-recipe-required-package

No recipe needed. Master these techniques and make your favorite meals by heart

https://www.bonappetit.com/tag/cooking-without-recipes

Cooking without recipes from Bon Appetit

https://ediblephoenix.ediblecommunities.com/cook/step-away-recipe-try-your-hand-intuitive-cooking

Step Away From the Recipe: Try Your Hand at Intuitive Cooking