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Learn to Cook Like A Chef

If you want to learn to cook, you're in the right place. That's kind of what we do around here. ;) I'm a classically trained chef who worked in restaurants and went to culinary school twice — once for pastry, and once for savory. If there's one thing I do well, it's teach people to cook in a way that's approachable. I teach in a way you can understand and make happen at home.

Why learn to cook?

If you learn to cook, you'll find it's a really important life skill, for a few reasons:

  • You'll get healthier when you know how to cook for yourself
  • You save a lot of money when by cooking at home
  • When you learn to cook, you become a more savvy adult
  • Cooking is a rewarding hobby... even if it's not second nature to you.

Cooking is something everyone used to know how to do... but these days that's just not the case. I get it, everyone loves convenience food. (Hey, I do, too!)

But when I was in my 20s, I got super suck. I was living off of burritos, frozen enchiladas, and Chinese takeout. I had to cook if I wanted to save my life.

And guess what? It worked! I went from a ton of time in the hospital for autoimmune complications to living a great life with optimal health.

This happened because I learned to cook. That's pretty awesome.

I want to teach you to cook because it's good for you, but when you learn to cook, it becomes SUPER fun as well. The best part is that you can make food exactly how you want it — even things like vegetables can become amazing with a little technique.

Check out these particularly awesome posts on how to cook:

  • Learn to sharpen your sense of taste
  • How to build kitchen confidence
  • The 2 most important things you need to know about flavor
  • 4 epic tricks for dinner salads
  • The best way to learn how to cook online
Guide to Roasting A Perfect Turkey Cover

How to Roast A Turkey In the Oven — How long and how to prepare it

Can You Cook Quinoa in A Rice Cooker

Can You Cook Quinoa in A Rice Cooker?

Organized Kitchen

Feeling Overwhelmed?

How to Cook Spaghetti Squash in the Microwave

How to Cook Spaghetti Squash in the Microwave

clotted cream

10 Most Popular Recipes and Tutorials on Fearless Fresh

Berry Pie Emo

Why Frozen Fruit Can Be Better Than Fresh Fruit

Moody Mandarin Oranges

Seven More 5-minute Cooking Lessons

How to Make Vegetables Delicious

How to Make Vegetables Taste Good

Seared Lemons

Why you’re NOT doing the best you can with what you’ve got

Eleven 5-minute Cooking Lessons to Up Your Cooking Game

Apple Spice Cake

This is why most of your sweets fail

Fearless Cooking Club Mockup

The Fearless Cooking Club Is Here!

Moody Mandarin Oranges

The Last Few Weeks of Winter

Pizza Margherita

Flavor Factors: Time as an Ingredient

Steph Melt Book Shoot

Cooking as Ephemeral Art

Bao Taco

Flavor Factors: Pickled Vegetables

Red-Cooked Pork Belly Recipe

Flavor Factors: The Two Most Important Things

Hummus Veggie Dip

It Doesn’t Need to Be Complicated

Roasted Vegetables

Flavor Factors: All You Need Is Salt

Don’t tell me there are no winter vegetables

Hands chopping green onions

Cooking Is Like Any Other Practice

Panettone Muffins - Holiday Bread in 5

Easy Panettone Bread from Holiday & Celebration Bread in 5 Minutes A Day

Gluten-free linzer cookies

Crumbly Cookies and Other Cookie Tips

Oxtail Soup

What happens when you use too much?

Melt: the Art of Macaroni and Cheese, on FearlessFresh.com

Cheesy heartbreak

Kitchen Window

Her cookbooks totally failed her

cooking tools and implements

When cooking measurements go SO bad

Colorful Salad

Salad Sucks

4 Ways Cooking Can Increase Your Confidence

4 Ways Cooking Can Increase Your Confidence

How to Cut a Recipe in Half

How to Cut a Recipe in Half, the Easy Way

How to Roast Vegetables, Perfectly

How to Roast Vegetables, Perfectly

5 Tips for How to Cook A Perfect Steak

How to Cook A Perfect Steak – 5 Pro Tips

4 Tricks for Epic Dinner Salads

How to Sharpen Your Sense of Taste and Broaden Your Palate

How to Sharpen Your Sense of Taste and Broaden Your Palate

How to Make Perfect Eggs, 4 Ways

How to Make Perfect Eggs, 4 Ways

How to Have Every Part of Your Meal Ready to Eat at Once

It’s All in the Plan: How to Have Every Part of Your Meal Ready to Eat at Once

How to Cut Onions Without Crying

How to Cut Onions Without Crying

Common Spices and How to Experiment with Them

Perfect Pancakes with Fruit and Nuts

Perfect Pancakes from Scratch: 7 Tips for How to Master Them

Woman chopping an onion

Cooking Knives: Knife Skills — The Bare Basics

Man tying a beef roast with twice

Sous Vide Safety — Is Sous Vide Cooking Safe?

Moist Chicken Breast

Perfectly Moist Chicken Breast: Upping Your Chicken Game

Cake Fails to Avoid: Three Common Cake-Baking Fails

Salted bread on table with herbs

How Much Salt to Use When Salting Your Food

Mirepoix - Onions on Green Background

Mirepoix Recipe: Foundations of Flavor

Woman reading a cookbook

Cooking Terms and Definitions – Volume 1 – Beginner Words

Kitchen Zones Primer

Kitchen Zone System + Checklist — Get Organized

Christmas Table Settings -- Homespun Holidays

Fearless Fresh 2017 Holiday Gift Guide

Introducing Fearless Fresh Cooking Cheat Sheets!

The Ultimate Orange Juice with Orange Blossom Water Recipe

Flavor Secrets: Orange Blossom Water = the Ultimate Orange Juice

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