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OP—sounds like you learned how to follow some recipes, but haven’t really necessarily learned how to cook yet if you really want to learn how to cook, you should focus on basic technique with staple flavoring ingredients. like, just learn how to cook mirepoix, or soffritto, or trinity or whatever the common base is for the sort of food you like and learn how to build meals on top of that don’t keep a ton of spices and flavor building ingredients around, just the basics. some onions and/or garlic and peppers or whatever. just salt and pepper, or just some soy sauce, or whatever basic seasoning. figure out the basic-rear end-bitch setup for one style of food that you like and stick with that until you understand the ingredients limit yourself to just a couple basic starches for a few months, such as potatoes and rice. cook them by the simplest recipe you can find until you can succeed without thinking about it. i’m talking stuff like plain white rice and boiled or roasted potatoes. keep it up and really pay attention. take in all of the smells, the noises, the feelings, the flavors. you’ll get really good at it before you know it similarly, limit yourself to a few basic veggies. learn some super simple recipes for stuff like stir-fry cabbage or roasted brussels sprouts where all you’re adding is a bit of oil, salt, pepper, and heat same again for proteins. don’t go crazy, limit your choices and stick with recipes that are basically meat or a meat-like-cruelty-free-product + your basic-rear end flavor enhancers then start cooking lots of the same basic stuff over and over again. stick with the paradigm of starch/veggie/protein for your meals for now. might be frustrating at first, but keep on pushing. eventually you should have a breakthrough moment where you start to get it. the lights will turn on and you’ll understand flavors kind of how you understand language and you’ll have the skills you need to communicate those flavors through the medium of a home cooked meal
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