Russell's Brief, Opinionated Guide to Home Cooking

About two years ago, I decided to learn how to cook. After much experimentation and reference to The Food Lab , here is what I learned about decent home cooking. Assembling a Recipe Before you cook, you have to decide what to cook. You can just pick a recipe, but it helps to understand why a recipe works the way it does. My framework is that every recipe can be broken down into three fundamental…