Reddit reviews Clueless in the Kitchen: A Cookbook for Teens (The Clueless series)

Get the cookbook "Clueless in the Kitchen and have them make something out of it for some other people.
I was a cook for 7 years and I still find myself going to that book when I need an idea for something quick and easy to cook.

I suppose that all hinges on them having access to a kitchen though.

This book is written for teenagers, but I'm in my thirties and still use it all the time. It's got a section on how to do basic stuff - chop anything, shop for groceries, clean your garbage disposal - as well as a ton of recipes, some of them even sorta classy. It's perfect.

Clueless in the Kitchen is a great resource if you're just starting out. It's very basic and written for teenagers/college kids who are just starting on their own and don't have a whole bunch of fancy shit or money to just go out and buy stuff. The first section explains basic techniques, tells you what staples you should have lying around, what's cheaper to make yourself or buy in bulk, and the recipes are all very budget friendly and several of them are just guidelines for using leftovers to make something new.

this one really got me started as a kid. Lots of good, basic recipes, and they explain things really well, and make it fun.

Teaching your child to cook is a wonderful gift to give him! Take it from the woman who just taught her husband how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. :/

This is a great beginners book. It was out of print for a few years and it might go out of print again soon unfortunately.

http://www.amazon.com/Clueless-Kitchen-Cookbook-Teens/dp/1554078245/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464879138&sr=1-1&keywords=clueless+in+the+kitchen

If you want to pick up a cook book, Clueless in the Kitchen turned out to be a good cookbook for a newbie like me. The name is a little cheesy but it had great tips and instructions.

Also, youtube has most (maybe all) of Alton Brown's Good Eats. Super informative, easy to understand and I learned a lot from those shows.

pasta/rice hodgepodge sounds delicious.

I also got recommended this book recently.

I started off with this book.

Clueless in the Kitchen

Clueless in the Kitchen: A Cookbook for Teens (The Clueless series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1554078245/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_kjf5BbQD1PD00

I highly recommend this book for people with no skills. There's also a baking companion. Step by step, substitutions, humor.

Hi! Sorry this took a while, I am forgetful!!

Blogs:

www.budgetbytes.com (hands down my favourite, this one has the step by step photos)

www.eatingwell.com

http://www.skinnytaste.com/

www.chocolatecoveredkatie.com (lightened up desserts!)

http://therecipecritic.com/

http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/ (not always as healthy/light but there are some truly delicious recipes on this blog!)


Cookbooks:

Clueless in the Kitchen
This book, and the other books in the Clueless cooking series (there's a vegetarian one and a baking one also) are geared towards late teens/early twenties very novice cooks. I was given this one and the baking one by my mom when I was about 15 I think, and honestly I still regularly use some of the recipes in them! There aren't pictures but there are thorough instructions on all sorts of things (for example, beside the Basic Roast Chicken recipe there is a sidebar of how to prepare a whole chicken for roasting and how to cut it apart for serving), and a little humour tossed in there as well.

Crazy Plates/Looneyspoons
The link takes you to a compilation of the author's best recipes across 2 or 3 different cookbooks - these books are admittedly from the low fat days, but they also focused on total calorie counts (and give you an estimated count per serving at the end of each recipe!) so what I do is just skip low fat versions of anything they suggest and otherwise follow the recipes. There's a lot of tasty stuff in there!

Other stuff:

Jamie Oliver's Home Cooking Skills I've only poked around this site a little bit but it seems like a great resource for people who are newer to cooking. There are videos that show particular cooking techniques, along with recipes that give you practice with those techniques so you can learn as you go. Jamie Oliver's been pretty focused on healthy eating for quite a while so I would assume most of the recipes should be fairly healthy, but I haven't looked the site over fully to be sure.

Also, seriously, crock pots are the best. A little bit of effort at the beginning of your day and then by the time you've worked all day and come home exhausted you have something delicious just waiting for you to get home and eat it. (If you are home all day when you use it you have to suffer through smelling delicious slowly cooking food all damned day without being able to pick at it lol.) Apparently Instant Pots are the new thing, those are combination crock pots and pressure cookers (for when you want things to be speedier). I don't have one yet but they sound even more handy than crock pots!

I hope some of this is helpful to you!

This book is awesome. It teaches you how to do everything form how to stock your kitchen, cut different things, meal plan and much more. I would also recommend budgetbytes.com

Clueless in the Kitchen (The Clueless series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1554078245/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_x4KHyb4SPE1P1