Recipes

• There are hundreds of cookbooks in shops and local libraries that contain thousands of recipes

• Many books take it for granted that the reader can cook and knows what the terms used in professional kitchens mean - this website starts at the very beginning so you can build up an understanding of terms like boiling, simmering and shredding

• Put simply, a recipe is a list of ingredients and a method of putting them together to make a certain dish

• In a way, cooking is a science, but not an exact science: a few grams added or left out, or an ingredient that is not suitable (e.g. nuts) could be left out or exchanged for another

• Adding your own ingredients to recipes to make something totally different is one of the fun sides of cooking – you may come up with something classic

• Cooking needs a little commonsense, as everyone uses different size dishes to cook in, ovens are all different (temperature varies a little from oven to oven), etc. so timings given in recipes are only approximate. If you make sure your food is hot and well cooked, you won’t go far wrong

• Once you have found a recipe that you hope to try, read it over a few times, look at any pictures and try to understand what you are hoping to achieve. Make a list of the ingredients and go shopping. Don’t forget other ingredients that you are going to cook to accompany your dish, such as potatoes and vegetables

Click here to access a wide range of recipes with easy-to-follow videos and step-by-step instructions.