Basic Cooking Lessons

These basic cooking lessons stem from the fact that so many moms and dads have told me they have learned a long with their kids in our kids cooking lessons. These  cooking lessons plans are geared toward learning how to cook natural, healthy meals to feed your family. I've narrowed them down to 10 lessons, albiet it will take much more to learn how to cook everything! These 10 online cooking lessons will help you get started with some basic knowledge such as cooking grains, eggs or meat. We'll also learn how to season your food and bake your own bread.

Free Online Cooking Lessons

I rarely use canned, processed foods such as cream soups in my cooking so you won't see those recipes here. However, I will teach you how to make your own cream soups and homemade sauces. It is important to know the basics of cooking to help feed your family.


Each of these 10 cooking lessons have recipes to practice and try at home.

1.   How to make stock and soups.
   
   



2. Learn how to make the 5 mother sauces to enhance your cooking.
   
   


3. Working with yeast and baking breads.
   
   
   



4. Cooking with herbs and spices.
   
   
   


5. Cooking vegetables
   
   
   


6. Cooking dry beans
   
   
   


7. How to cook grains
   
   


8. How to cook eggs
   
   
   


9. Different cooking methods
   
   
   


10. Grow your own herb garden and how to use fresh herbs
    
    
    

Putting your meals together will hopefully be easier after going through this lesson section. Next you can learn about meal planning and dive into our recipe meal index. If you have a  specific cooking question you'd like to learn about visit our how to cook Q&A forum.

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